That’s right. The art of correctly handling savedInstanceState is unfortunately not exactly well understood

Your phone is trying to keep your battery alive. The lower the specs of the phone, then the more aggressive the OS is.

No, apps closing between switches is not a matter of battery, it’s a core feature of Android related to the management of RAM. Whenever the OS needs more available RAM, the OS will close a backgrounded app to make those resources available. This is why it happens more frequently on low-end devices - these generally ship with less RAM.

Some misguided vendors will limit background execution in incorrect ways in the name of saving battery, but the general thing with apps living in background is a story of RAM.

Interestingly enough, apps are supposed to be built to cope with being closed down due to lack of RAM and then be restored seamlessly, but this is an art that is uncommonly done correctly in the Android development space. The OS support is there, though.

I mean, putting in a bit of thinking before you actually hit the keyboard can be an incredibly effective form of optimization, if you can get for example an O(n^2) down to an O(log n). You’ll even save time on not having to rework the thing later, and if you build on poor foundations, chances are you’ll stumble upon fundamental architectural challenges down the road, which can be extremely costly in terms of development time.

Ngl got some goosebumps, and I was only ever mildly into the show. That opening theme is strong

Hey, I’m not saying I don’t stand with the gooners, take that back

Union of concerned gooners rising up

one of

Yes, iirc Valve popularized the concept in the west with TF2, Dota 2 and CS:GO.

Fantastic games. If you liked Portal, you will probably like them both

Idk how that’s going to go.

This was a hilariously toxic game by the way, coming from someone who played and enjoyed it as a teen. Seriously, even the developers were completely insane

It would be so hilarious if he actually did something so fucking dumb as put tariffs on Taiwan. Please self-destruct already and please do it quickly, you fucking loser

What a joke. Who would ever choose having their shit taken away after a year?

Guy bought the U.S government, I’m sure he can figure something out

I don’t really know what you think LLMs has to do with this case, but just for reference - Google have been notorious in automated moderation on the Play Store since long before LLMs were a thing in general use, and they are also really bad when it comes to managing these processes once an automated moderation action has been made. Lots of devs get screwed this way.

Push those feelings aside and try it for a while.

KDE Connect doesn’t require the use of KDE otherwise. Check it out, it might be worth your while.

Compared to any browsing experience without uBlock, Firefox wins by a very large margin.

For tech, check out Hard Fork.

It’s hard work to maintain and develop your own engine.

Couldn’t you just start a recording on your regular video camera, do the training, stop the recording and then play it back?

I’m not sure this warrants a different application, to be honest.

lmfao what

For someone who’s never played EVE, what does a safe spot do? Are you unable to be attacked in it, or just less likely to be detected?

Gotcha!

Well, I’m not in a Balatro-period right now, but when the itch comes back I’ll probably buy it for mobile as well.

Are you aware of any platform affordances that have been made for mobile in this release, or is it basically the same as the unofficial ports you can DIY?

Doesn’t quite seem to be out on Android yet, at least not in my market. I could pre-register and have it download automatically when it’s out, though.

It didn’t list a price and said there was an in-app purchase, anyone know what that’s about? Will I be able to use the copy I bought for PC or what?

Anyway, this is great. Granted, I’ve been playing Balatro on mobile for many months already, but an officially supported version is even better.

Possibly. I’ll have to add it to the mix when comparing. Thanks for the suggestion.

I was mostly against having the amount of ads that it blasted on me. They had a setting to turn off the recommendations, but that made it nigh-unusable.

You can do a lot of things! I’ve replaced the launcher and installed an altstore on it, giving me access to plenty of good stuff.

It’s running Android under the hood, so any APK is theoretically installable, but most won’t run well unless they are optimized for the use-case.

Balatro University has some good guides if you’re looking to improve.

Looks dope! I played a lot of Descenders, and I suspect it might be at least partially responsible for getting me back on a bike again.

It was never a strong combat game imo. It’s a fantastic game despite the combat, not because of the combat.

Consider the following:

One day we manage to reach the pinnacle of invention - we create the replicator from Star Trek. We can suddenly bring immense amounts of anything we want for everyone in the world, for very little energy (caveat: I don’t know enough about Star Trek lore to know this to be true).

Now, this machine would certainly make a whole lot of business models redundant - farming, factory work, you name it - they would all no longer be able to make a living doing what they did before this invention existed.

Now for the moral question - should the fact that this invention will harm certain groups’ way of life be considered enough of a motivation to prohibit the use of this invention? Despite the immense wealth we could bring upon the world?

Take a pause to form an opinion on the subject.

Now that you’ve formed an opinion on the replicator - consider that we already have replicators for all types of digital media. It can be infinitely replicated for trivial amounts of energy. Access to the library of all cataloged information in the world is merely a matter of bandwidth.

Now, should the fact that groups relying on copyright protection for their way of life be considered reason enough to prohibit the use of the information replicator?

To me, the answer is clear. The problem of artists, authors, actors, programmers and so on not being able to make money as easily without copyright protection does not warrant depriving the people of the world from access to the information replicator. What we should focus on is to find another model under which someone creating information can sustain themselves.

It’s crazy good on mobile as well. Given that you have to create an unofficial port to play it on mobile it’s not strictly speaking well optimized - it drains your battery like mad - but it’s the best thing I’ve played on my phone since Slay the Spire.

No tip, huh? Guess I know whose favourite character is getting nerfed in the next patch.

Ten whole percent of global revenues in fines. Let’s go

It’s a really bad idea to try to hire at this point to try to remedy a scaling issue. They are likely already low on resources dealing with the problems, having to try to onboard someone at this point will make the problem worse - see Brooks’ Law from The Mythical Man-Month.

Meh. You can literally just use Copilot as an enhanced autocomplete, not using it in place of your creativity and design, but merely letting it finish your sentences the way you were planning to write them anyway. This is basically how I use it, and it’s a pretty good tool for that purpose.

Sorry to hear you had a bad experience with Spelunky! I guess it takes a special kind of masochist to enjoy it, but Spelunky 1 and 2 are two of my all-time favorite games, having put several hundred hours into both.

The difficulty makes the wins feel extremely satisfying to me.

Google Tasks can also be good if you are willing to use a Google account. I’ve set up a bunch of recurring ones at regular intervals to stay on top of tasks that need to be completed throughout the day/week/month. I also like to be able to put a time on tasks, such that I get a notification at that time to be reminded of it.

A certified banger.

A BNPL-company from Sweden with a global presence.