Arwill

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by Arwill 1y ago
The problem with GUI settings is that the result is not apparent, and there might be side effects. I do not find spending half day on trying out setting combinations as productive work. I have looked into SRP and i do still consider that as
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by Arwill 1y ago
>On the other hand, if you want to make a hyper-realistic, open-world RPG, then rolling your own is probably not a good idea. I would say its the exact opposite to that. For that genre, its best to roll your own engine, or pick something
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by Arwill 1y ago
Its not about transparency, it about what the interviewer assumes about you, first hand. Just like you assuming that whoever is looking up things must be doing it in secret, with the intention of cheating.
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by Arwill 1y ago
Interviewing has also become harder too. You try to search the net during the interview, because you forgot the name of a thing, and the interviewer will assume you are running with an AI chat, and are cheating the interview.
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by Arwill 2y ago
Project managers and consultants do actually write those documents/specifications justifying the work before the programmers get to do it.
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by Arwill 2y ago
Using UTF8 internally and converting strings for W API calls is a way to gain some performance.
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by Arwill 2y ago
No, those domains are completely fine, they are just marked as untrustworthy on some obscure google list.
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by Arwill 2y ago
Stigmatised would be when it commonly/publicly has a bad rep.
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by Arwill 2y ago
I remember transferring all my dads files from his Spectrum to a new PC with a serial cable, and then getting to have the Spectrum for myself. The serial cable worked surprisingly well, on the first try.
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by Arwill 2y ago
Light/material calculation in shaders requires exponentiation, which is a costly operation. If a clever lookup table can get around that, it sure can be faster.
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by Arwill 2y ago
If anything, then events like this makes decision makers rethink if they really should run Windows everywhere. Why does a flight schedule display has to run Windows, for example? It might not be their fuckup, but they will lose users too, f
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by Arwill 3y ago
Sometimes this kind of error handling is the cause of program slowdowns. So the API fails, but the program retries anyway, and so fails again endlessly. The user doesn't see anything from this happening, only that "the app is slow
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by Arwill 3y ago
Each level of abstraction has its own caching and buffering routines because the underlying layers are slow, and without the ability to make them better, you can only put your own cache on top of it. This helps initially, but in the end, th
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by Arwill 4y ago
The hypothesis is that these black holes were not created from stars, but exists from right after the big bang. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primordial_black_hole
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by Arwill 4y ago
The principle is that you should be using the underlying API if something is already solved on a lower level, and not replicate the functionality on a higher level, because it will perform poorly. There was a reason why the lower level API
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by Arwill 4y ago
The way i understood it, they wanted to track their competitors users.
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by Arwill 4y ago
Its not called "hooking into", building your own UI's is the expected and proper way of working with SAP now. SAP even provides the tools for building your own HTML based (simplified functionality) GUIs. There will always be
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by Arwill 4y ago
I don't think photons are absorbed and re-emitted by electrons. At least that argument does not hold when discussing light slowing down in glass or water. Light is affected by the electromagnetic field of the material it is going troug
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by Arwill 4y ago
The geometric description of the universe is a high-level description of the universe, but its just a description, its not what fundamentally is. The large-scale universe emerges from the low-level behaviours of its smallest parts, the part
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by Arwill 4y ago
Its technically not a single header, but almost. I was thinking about litehtml. Specifically this recipe: https://twitter.com/ocornut/status/890210588600565762 I am already using ImGUI, and its a bonus if i don&#x
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by Arwill 4y ago
I am a big fan of single header libraries. And libraries that i not just link to, but which i am allowed to reuse and compile myself. Then i gut that library and remove everything i don't need. Less code, less space, less runtime and l
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by Arwill 4y ago
SIMD vectorization is like quantum mechanics, it becomes classical if you look.
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by Arwill 4y ago
I am actually excited when seeing a historical movie without epic exaggeration. Recently this TV series was my favorite: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10405220/ It presents a primitive material reality, but also th
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by Arwill 4y ago
A serious time travel game. Think of MS Flight Simulator or Google Street View as documenting the current world. Then take the same approach to thoroughly document the past. The locations, the events, all in 3D VR with realistic graphics, a
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by Arwill 4y ago
Its not trivial, but it is widely understood that fonts baked into GPU texture is the way to go for fast text rendering. The decision, if they care about performance, should have been trivial, their listed excuses are not valid. Dear ImGUI
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by Arwill 4y ago
Search for Quake 3 Arena networking, it is what defined how multiplayer networking is done. The source is on github, and there are explanations on the net. With a quick google i found these: https://fabiensanglard.net/quake3
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by Arwill 5y ago
I agree, someone speaking multiple languages will not suddenly become good at programming. But there is a study that showed, that talent for languages matters more for programming skills than talent for mathematics.
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by Arwill 5y ago
Read somewhere that neutrino particles are interesting in this regard, as they travel straight trough the earth.
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by Arwill 5y ago
>if they picked an off-the-shelf engine I would add an anti-pattern in contrary to that: engine duct-taping. There might be a specific solution in the engine for a problem, or in the underlying library/graphics API, which a develope
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by Arwill 5y ago
>Each of those two sets of atoms were split into superpositions, with one path traveling closer to the mass than the other, separated by about 25 centimeters One path of the particle in superposition was closer to the 1.25Kg mass than th

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