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Every year I try and build an MMO and inevitably give up, but this year I'm serious

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We are for a few projects. We've been using them for over a year and have been impressed. We have 10s millions of items in there with lots of daily inserts/deletions etc. There's been a couple of gotchas but generally it is quite predictable and scalable.

We use 768 dimensional vectors for our items with several other payload filters (e.g. language). Performance has been good and I think the qdrant team focus on the right features without creeping into other areas.

Qdrant 1.7.0 3 years ago

We've been using qdrant in production for over a year. It's excellent and the team are very responsive to the few issues we've had. Qdrant does one job and scales well.

Yes I appreciate that there's portion of the population in dire need of food or who have little option but to fish - I doubt any would begrudge them doing whatever they can to survive.

The rest of the world (where we have choice when walking down a supermarket or picking where to eat) should be looking to more ethically and environmentally friendly foods.

There is easily enough land on earth to support us all. https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

Your diet of dead animals is killing the planet.

I also strongly agree. Members of HN like to silence views like this, but it's a valid point that is growing in support.

You may not see it now, but views like yours are part of the problem. We can't keep destroying the planet. Change comes at multiple levels, whether it be from the individuals with their purchasing power or governments forcing reform.

You seem to think everyone lives the same life as you.

Many people don't have a roof, or don't have permission to put solar on them.

Many people drive very little per day on average, for them in makes absolute sense to have a vehicle which will trickle charge directly from the sun and cover most (if not all) their driving.

This car obviously isn't for you if you have a suitable roof and driveway, and drive many miles at one time.

have you (or the child comments) considered going plant based? It's shown to lower inflammation and improve the gut microbiome, which also improves immune response and lung function.

Several members of my family have improved their asthma symptoms by cleaning up their diet, allowing them to get off medication.

I know many issues people have are genetic, but the amount caused by a poor or incompatible diet are incredible.

It's a cool idea but the combat looks very slow paced and boring from the kickstarter video.

If you have some games which require faster reactions and speed of punching then it could become more interesting.

Are you planning to allow modding of the games?

What about having bands in other positions to enable using the biceps and shoulders?

Remember when segregation was normal? Remember when slavery was normal? Remember when women had no rights? A growing and large amount of people believe abuse against animals and the environment follows on perfectly. You can be part of the change or blindly ignore it because it doesn't suit how you were brought up.

You are spreading misinformation.

Everyone needs Omega 3/6/9. You can get it from nuts and algae. IF you want to be inefficient and introduce a middleman, you can get it from fish.

B12 is needed by everyone. The meat you eat has it supplemented. Again, you can cut out the middleman and get it directly as a supplement rather than having a cow killed.

He isn't saying he can't imagine it, I believe he's saying there is no way that one can say they are living a moral lifestyle while still consciously contributing to the destruction of the planet and abuse of animals when it can so easily be avoided by eating different foods.

I understand some people can be naive of the issues or not be in a position to choose their diet.

Anecdotally I'm the opposite. I personally know dozens of meat eaters who have had major health problems because of their diet.

A varied diet is often promoted because it gives you the most chance of getting the nutrients your body needs, but it fails abysmally when it comes to excluding things your body doesn't need.

If you also start to consider the environmental impact and animal abuse that comes from 'just eat everything', then it becomes very compelling to put a small amount of effort into reducing meat/dairy consumption and aiming towards a whole food plant based lifestyle. Small steps aren't difficult for most people.

Junk vegan food is seen by most as a transition food to allow those that eat crap food to keep eating crap food, but without the animal abuse and environmental impact that meat/dairy cause.

Many people have struggled to jump from a traditional western diet straight into a whole grain plant based diet.

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Interestingly he is vegan. Many people I know that follow a plant based diet look suspiciously younger than the norm (I get the same comments often too). Causation or correlation - who knows.

You are almost certainly not eating animals to survive, you are doing it because you think it's normal and are either not aware that there is another way, or have chosen to ignore it. It is absolutely unnecessary for most people in first world countries to consume meat, there are easy to access alternatives that are better for the environment, animals, and quite possibly your health.

If you look at the screenshots it is clearly referencing dead animal flesh with the IDE icons.

As other have mentioned, it's a massive blocker asking for people to sign up just to try it and see if they like the game.

You can uniquely identify users using their session/cookie, then if they want to sign up later you can create an account and associate this with them.

The home page is really quite confusing, you could do with splitting apart the login/signup area and the introduction text/images. The way it's combined now makes it looks like I can interact with some of the info images.

Ahh nice, sounds like a good setup. Did you use an open source library for the server side part of WebRTC? I'm super interested in having a play with a good implementation if you have any tips..

Sorry when I said scale, I mean.. scale to real world usage. Websockets run over TCP so if you're on a bad connection, packets have to be re-sent, meaning real time gaming becomes very very difficult to implement.

TCP/websockets are good for slower paced games like point and clicks but they don't normally work well for fasted paced games with physics.

WebRTC data channels don't have to re-send lost packets (unlike WebSockets), so if you do WebRTC between client and server it will unlock a new genre of games for the web!

Are you using webrtc for client to server communication? or just for client to client? if the former, what library did you use on the server?

I've made lots of small browser games but haven't tried in the last few years. Websockets have never scaled well for the obvious reason that over bad connections data gets blocked up!

I don't understand what to do on your game, and the UI needs work. You're obviously very good at the physics/networking side of things, but maybe get some help on the UI :D I played for 10 seconds then had to close it

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