EA is notorious for throwing games out there and abandoning them as soon as they don't turn out to be massive hits. That is a company that has plenty of resources to support the games and fix the bugs.

Not gonna protect EA the company here, but lots and lots of other games also flop on release because money.

Support for arrays without having to mess with pointers is pretty attractive for number crunchers too.

That was probably The Game Awards[0], which is a big deal. I guess whoever is behind Indie Game Awards sees the name confusion as a feature rather than a bug.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_Awards_2025

I'm not trying to defend "The Indie Game Awards", which I also have never heard of, but The Game Awards are universally acknowledged to be a joke, and always have been. By runtime, it's 80% soulless, samey trailers for AAA games, 10% Imagine Dragons, 5% rooting for that coked-up clarinet player on the edge of the orchestra, and 5% Jeff Keighley rapid-firing off the winners of made-up award categories in under five seconds each.

There was no judgement in his comment.

He just pointed out (correctly) that the game awards that were being spoken of everywhere for the last few weeks were not the one related to this article.

I on the other hand will add a judgement to this discussion: if you consider the game awards a joke, which is the by far most watched event in gaming, eclipsing (by viewer count) other entertainment events in sports such as the NBA finals... You've certainly got "interesting" opinions.

Re: Judgement:

I think it's exactly their popularity that lead people to call the big awards shows "a joke." Pretty common with stuff like the Emmys and Grammys.

The Game Awards 2025 had more viewers than the Superbowl with a total of 171 million global livestreams vs The Indie Game Awards (7.1k Youtube views and 433 Twitch views).

Sure, I know all of these things because me and all my friends make a tradition to watch it... to laugh at it. It's a hilarious farce. Which advertisers are fine with, naturally, but don't mistake someone admiring the spectacle of a catastrophic trainwreck for someone admiring the engineering of the railway. The actual awards given are a meaningless afterthought.

This years was pretty good on trailer side, barely anything from AAA studios like Activision, ea, etc. They're not winning any awards either.

Indeed I was confused. I am an idiot and sorry!

I don’t think the name confusion can really be blamed on “The Indie Game Awards”, it has to be on “The Game Awards” for choosing the most generic possible name.

He's an anti-vaxxer.

On the other hand, if you write a substantial amount of code in a niche languages, the LLMs will pick up your coding style as it's in a sizable chunk of the training corpus.

If anything is shocking it is how modern readers have to be spoon fed bullet points and can't handle the slightest complexity of composition.

It might be that modern readers have other things they can read/do with their time. In pre internet times it wasn't so much the case - you'd buy a mag or book and then read it but now there are many alternatives a click away.

Pros and cons but often in the old days it was spun out to fill some volume the the printing press was set for like 400 pages in a book. I did Great Expectations at school which had about ten chapters with the main story and then about 60 chapters of irrelevant stuff because Dickens was paid weekly by the chapter.

But in a typical FOSS scenario, your decision to open source the code and Tyson Foods decision to use it are decoupled. You don't know who all the potential users are when you open source it, so you can't consider all the concrete cases and make sure that the license reflects them. In the same way Tyson Foods isn't going to contact all the creators of libraries they want to use and ask if their concrete use case is in line with the creator's ethics.

Agreed. This would be a logistical nightmare on both ends. Especially if the licenses can be revoked if and when Tyson Foods decides to change some of their policies and/or the author decides to change their political views.

I believe that this would effectively make sure that nobody uses these licenses.

> I have never seen a case where it mattered which vendor my JVM was coming from

As I understand it, Oracle's JVMs only get free updates for a limited time. If you keep using them after that you risk getting caught in a license audit.

It’s okay to use them for development and testing, just not in production. But yes, you don’t get LTS updates.

But that is an unanswerable question which depends on how the data structure is used. The reasonable thing is to calculate the cost for the operations separately and let whoever uses the algorithms figure out what that means for their use case.

Math isn't concerned with what exists or not, circles doesn't exist in reality either. And infinity is useful, if we didn't have it we would need to reinvent it in a clumsier form, like "the limit if x goes to a very, very big number, bigger than anything you could name".