BorisTheBrave

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by BorisTheBrave 6y ago
+1 datapoint: I've decompiled several to find out how they work, and found most use mono. Maybe it depends how indie your game is? My dcompilation writeups can be found here: https://www.boristhebrave.com/category/
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by BorisTheBrave 6y ago
No, in the UK, your marginal rate at that income would be 42% (40% income + 2% National Insurance).
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Compressed Sparse Fibers Explained(boristhebrave.com)
2 points by BorisTheBrave 6y ago|0 comments
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by BorisTheBrave 6y ago
So, this does nothing to actually combat space junk in the sense of debris in orbit. The actual goal is: > We are very concerned with the fact that all the satellites which re-enter the Earth's atmosphere burn and create tiny alumin
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by BorisTheBrave 6y ago
Strictly speaking, yes, there are risks associated. But there's still a wide difference between those risks, and speculating on the (not-immediate) future.
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by BorisTheBrave 6y ago
No, arbitrage is a combination of trades that essentially risk free as they offset each other. This is just regular trading. Every time he swaps a card, he takes the risk that he won't be able to offload the new card.
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by BorisTheBrave 6y ago
The length of a game varies according to what the players do. If your opponent plays a slow strategy, and you a quick one, not only will your deck become useless to do anything with, but you will lose your power to control game length (as i
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by BorisTheBrave 6y ago
While you are right that Musk favors engineering/cost improvements on existing ideas. I don't think there's a clear dividing line between science and engineering. SpaceX has numberous "firsts", including reusable ro
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by BorisTheBrave 6y ago
So the key difference is that columns are not compressed, and can be in smaller batches. Can those not just be options to the Parquet file rather than having a whole new format?
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by BorisTheBrave 6y ago
I've been looking for an OBS plugin that does greenscreen-less masking. Any suggestions?
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by BorisTheBrave 6y ago
The biggest deal for me is type safety (I use C#'s EntityFramework). While composing the ORM queries, I get the benefit of static verification, autocompletion, and can avoid the common boilerplate of joins. When reading code, find-refe
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by BorisTheBrave 6y ago
Incredible work. What's most impressive is they've separated the rendering algorithm (Mitsuba 2) from the retargeting framework (Enoki). Enoki look amazingfrom their paper. It supports vectorized CPUs, JITTed GPUs, forward/ba
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by BorisTheBrave 6y ago
Surprised to discover that the Ono-Sendai of Neuromancer fame was an actual cyberspace company.
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by BorisTheBrave 6y ago
> which sound much more in-line with DMCA Really? DMCA has no "three srikes" that I'm aware of.
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by BorisTheBrave 6y ago
Parquet is intended as a file storage format primarily. When streaming, I think you are recommended to use Arrow, which is basically an in-memory Parquet. It supports putting the schema first and streaming a undefined number of rows. https
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by BorisTheBrave 6y ago
While gene drives are scary powerful tech (note, the featured article is not a gene drive), I don't think it would really be a problem humanity wise. We breed a lot slower, so we'd have decades to notice and deal with a problem. A
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by BorisTheBrave 6y ago
I liked the Deponia series, which has a similar look and comedy tone to Monkey Island 3. However, I wouldn't recommend it for a 7yo. The puzzles are a bit tough, and the protagonist is a complete asshole (for comic effect, of course).
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by BorisTheBrave 6y ago
Yes, it's a high risk strategy. Most people are more risk averse than that and don't follow this sort of strategy. Thus, they do not become bankrupt, or rich, in the same way as this man.
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by BorisTheBrave 6y ago
Before commenting about the implications of life on Venus by using the Drake equations, please read https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/03/ssc-journal-club-disso... which explains why it's not the correct
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by BorisTheBrave 6y ago
So even after equalizing, all the top components are similar variants of kick drums. I think this is a problem - PCA should really identify maximally different things for the top components. If they're not perceptually different, then
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by BorisTheBrave 6y ago
It's almost certainly a shader, and using little of Unreal directly. Inside a shader, you can do ray marching for volumetric clouds, and curve space by curving the rays. Some skill is need to make it look good and not show artifacts. H
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by BorisTheBrave 6y ago
> If you’re not producing enough output to match your inputs then it can get clogged up in your brain. You end up with too many strands of thought. Too many lines of enquiry. My life hack here is just to write things down in a notebook.
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by BorisTheBrave 6y ago
Papers Please has a bit of the "crushed by bureaucracy" feel of The Trial. And the Stanley Parable has some similar feelings of helplessness, buried under the humor. But I can't think of any games that have nailed the feeling
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by BorisTheBrave 6y ago
What is Java's support for "stackful coroutines"?
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by BorisTheBrave 6y ago
> Each request also isn't sent as soon as it's generated. A number of these records are created and stored locally, then uploaded (note the sequence_number field). Even if a person is offline while reading, this data is stored
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Writing a SIGGRAPH paper (for fun)(mattkeeter.com)
3 points by BorisTheBrave 6y ago|0 comments
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by BorisTheBrave 6y ago
Imho it holds up quite well. Here's an article I wrote about it when flash was still a thing: https://www.boristhebrave.com/2010/05/04/x-gems-of-as3-langu...
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by BorisTheBrave 6y ago
Classifiers are just one example of output, one where the final layer of output is interpreted to be probabilities of different items. Using a different loss function (or reward function), you can train for the output to be different things
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by BorisTheBrave 6y ago
Good point. That approach was in fact used for "Sploosh Kaboom", a RNG minigame in the Windwaker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hs451PfFzQ
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by BorisTheBrave 6y ago
Curious that the author no longer credits the paper that a lot of the ideas are based on: InteractiveProceduralStreetModeling, Chen et Al 2008 http://www.sci.utah.edu/~chengu/street_sig08/street_sig08.pd... . One s

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