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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
I mean, it's neat that you can build everything out of cons, in the sense that it's neat that Turing machines and the lambda calculus can perform any computation, but that doesn't mean it's a good idea to so in your co
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Slightly misleading, they don't actually run Racket on the PS3. IIRC, they created a DSL for game logic in Racket and wrote a special compiler for that DSL. That's still a good example of a "real" program written in Rack
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
My question is, given the cons pair is not a meaningful primitive datatype to modern CPUs (can't fit in a register unless you're using 32 bit atoms on a 64 bit CPU, the individual cells cannot be meaningfully manipulated while pac
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
A 24-bit sample depth is not completely useless and silly in the way that gold plated HDMI cables are. You can get a real improvement in dynamic range with 24-bit samples, allowing a song to have quiet parts and loud parts with no loss in
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Is Super Mario Bros. a kernel? Every NES, Game Boy, Sega Genesis, etc... game ran on the "bare metal" without anything resembling an OS (or even a BIOS, really).
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Count me out against most Americans. How on earth is cleaning your butt with water gross, but smearing shit all over it with paper sanitary?
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Possibly a play on "Violence Jack"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_Jack
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
No, no, don't spoil the best part!
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
If I came across as downplaying the adoption of H.264, it wasn't my intent. Pretty sure Firefox doesn't support H.264 out of the box on Linux, though. I couldn't wrangle the gstreamer plugin into displaying it either.
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
H.264 Baseline Profile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC#Profiles
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
That would require either replacing malloc as well, or programming to the hairy details of your system's libc (ie knowing how and where it lays out the buffer metadata). The point is not that either are impossible, but that you can&#x2
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
I'm pretty sure h264 is the superior codec in all regards except for that pesky license issue. It encodes faster and creates smaller files that look better. From (lead x264 developer and HN user) DarkShikari[1]: "Overall, VP8 appe
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Yeah, expanding WebMs inline is probably not the smartest idea. Someone made a video of them browsing a WebM thread in Firefox with the task manager, and Firefox swiftly growing in the gigabytes of memory usage until it ran out of address s
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
That may or may not make sense, but I was just cracking a joke.
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
"Disruptive change" is a funny euphemism for theft. I'll have to remember that one.
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
If you go back to what is arguably the earliest hardware that at all resembled the modern 3D pipeline (it predates DirectX, and the DirectX pipeline was greatly inspired by it, according to some article I read on here a while back by one of
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Traditionally, lighting was calculated per vertex, not per pixel, and the results of those calculations were simply interpolated across the surface of the triangle. A "shader" is not the most general term they could have used for
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
It also could have used a way to "soft-tap" to change your direction without moving the character. Pretty cool though.
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
How do you virtualize an FPGA? A GPU can be virtualized and shared between several processes. It takes waaay too long to flash an FPGA to implement time-division multiplexing on it. All you can do is "slice up" the FPGA and give d
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
>The OS reserves 32MB for itself, which leaves you with a bigger working set than a bottom-shelf Android phone. =) I get what you're saying, but I don't think anybody's going back to the halcyon days of fewer megabytes tha
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
AngelScript seems relevant to my interests, I'll have to check it out. I'm sure Lua is "good enough" for a lot of tasks in most games on most hardware, I was just trying to hint at scenarios where the GC overhead could b
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Angry Birds is not a terribly involved or demanding game, and the hard part, 2D physics simulation, is handled in C by the Box2D library anyway. It requires no real-time control, you just aim the bird and watch the reaction. You could half
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
You saw them a lot in old games (the kind likely to be written in assembly), because not even C, let alone a general-purpose scripting language, was acceptable for performance reasons for quite some time, yet there has always been a need fo
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
I also kept Flash around mainly for this reason. It doesn't help people that want to make streaming video sites, but you don't need Flash to watch live video streams from sites like twitch.tv. You just need a media player capable
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
I think that's because they used poor art assets. Most games look far more pleasing and realistic than those examples while using traditional rasterization pipelines, mostly on the strength of the artists and an offline prebaking stage
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
>I believe a standardised syntax to define compound data structures (aka defstruct)... would make Scheme language usable. Isn't this what SFRI 9 is? http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-9/srfi-9.html
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
I prefer comics and cartoons to live-action movies. It's ironic, but somehow, a primitive smile or frown on a cartoon character's face feels more genuine and "real" to me than a professional actor pretending to be happy
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
I think there is a connection; "AAA" games suck for a lot of the same reasons that Hollywood films suck: * The "average joe" gamer/moviegoer expects incredibly lavish productions with photorealism, explosions, over-
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
People forget that modern 3D games take up huge amounts of storage space. Meshes, textures, maps, and sound recordings aren't cheap. You could mitigate this by asynchronously loading certain files, or outright designing a game to be qu
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Nethack dates back to 1987 (as the article says, predating ANSI C) and the same codebase is still in development today. You need to keep that in mind when reading the article. Nowadays, yeah, just using a garbage collected language would so

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