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by Jasper_ 5y ago
As a professional graphics programmer at a well-known game studio, who has taught and mentored a lot of people: Direct3D 11 is quite good. D3D12 is a bit more like Vulkan, but not too far in that direction. In order of recommendation for le
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> Learning mailinglists is an obstacle compared to learning discord?? I still don't know how to reply to an old discussion started before I joined the mailing list, and I've been using them for 15 years.
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Valve is funding a separate effort for an x86-on-ARM emulator: https://github.com/FEX-Emu/FEX
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i do not give a shit if the developers who make houses people do not live in do not build here again. neither should the politicians. our lives will improve if they go away forever. we already have all the houses we need, we just need to st
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
The housing market example is bizarre, because if you go look at San Francisco, the entire area of SOMA is dominated by skyscrapers and luxury condos that are 90% vacant. Office buildings are going vacant at an accelerated rate. Salesforce
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what part of this is a game?
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> Whomever is responsible for hiring can instantly and independently verify the authenticity of the resume without the friction of communicating with the applicant. How does whoever is responsible for hiring know to look for it on the bl
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Most compression codecs these days have stopped using ANS because the benefits aren't worth the tradeoffs. Turns out a good arith coder is much faster.
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It wasn't silly to order Pizza over the internet. In fact, it was maybe the first example of a web order form on the world wide web [0]. And this is after the existing 20-year widespread success of pizza delivery by phone. I don&#x27
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A big complaint I have is that the built-in scheduling for workers assumes a very specific scenario. You can send messages to a single worker, but the message loop has to be operated by the browser. You also don't know the length of th
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> Use cases like storing the history of a car on chain, transparent supply chains, public voting... What you'll tend to find is that adding computers and cryptography can't solve this problem. Because it still relies on someo
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A good chunk of the money from SoftBank is coming from loans to SoftBank employees [0], who are just typical salarymen under extreme pressure by their employer. The house always wins. [0] https://techcrunch.com/2019/08&
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You're forgetting the other half of SoftBank's strategy: that with a billion dollar cash injection, SoftBank could play kingmaker and decide the winners in any given market. SoftBank didn't just invest a billion dollars bec
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What a weird take. Have you written a deflate/inflate implementation? Deflate really isn't just LZSS (I assume you mean something like Haruhiko Okumura's LZSS?), followed by Huffman, it's a very intertwined and sophistic
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
I don't see why we would -- I don't think Unity has any individual credits listed for their engine developers. That's standard for software development, AFAIK Adobe is really the only mainstream software company that still ha
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It's determined on a per-contract basis. Expect to spend quite a few months making a deal, and having it come with a bunch of strings attached. The company I worked for had Unity source access, but we were required to submit any source
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
They faked the bots. They require human physical presence, and a remote controller. > The Kiwibots do not figure out their own routes. Instead, people in Colombia, the home country of Chavez and his two co-founders, plot “waypoints” fo
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
The last in-person meeting I attended, I drew on a whiteboard, made exaggerated gestures with my hands to point to different parts of it, and established spatial metaphors by establishing one side of the room as the backend, and the other a
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
> To be fair, after motion pictures was initially invented, audiences are legitimately frightened by things that were happening on-screen. For what it's worth, there's no record of that ever happening. There's been no acco
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Funny, I heard the same thing from someone trying to sell me shares of WebVan.
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The author of that post didn't really give me a central argument or thesis to discuss. It was more of an extended diatribe on the possibilities of the future, and my only response is "These are not new ideas, please read up on his
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
That's fair. People with needs outside of the current financial system, like paying for drugs or murderers or illegal pornography might enjoy using cryptocurrency. Let's keep just one cryptocurrency for that and stop talking about
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That is not a practical application. That is hype. And we have never been low on hype.
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You keep changing your set of links by editing the comment (mutability sure is convenient, huh!), so I can't easily respond to all of them, but I just read that first link, the "Blockchains never forget" one, and hoo boy, I r
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The magic of torrents is that you download music or movies or whatever. And they did that the first year the Bittorrent protocol was released. Note that at the time, all peer coordination was centralized through trackers, the DHT wouldn&#x2
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Maybe that nobody seems to have interesting conversations about it is a clue that it just isn't that interesting, actually.
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> I’m interested in the tech/practical applications I've studied this for about ten years, and came to the conclusion there is none, other than crazy financial structures and mechanisms that make the 2008 subprime mortgage scan
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I have absolutely written a diffing algorithm like this faster much than it would take to find an appropriate version on npm. Every so often I try to reach for an npm library, only to find out that it's suboptimal, doesn't handle
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It's worth noting that Haswell only ever supported Tier1 resource binding on DX12, so none of the new bindless stuff would even be to blame. I suspect this won't affect any projects too harshly, because anything DX12 exclusive pro
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Even mathematical formulas come with them a wide variety of assumptions on shared, uncommunicated base axioms. Nobody explicitly points out "assuming we're not modulo 2" after stating "1 + 1 = 2". Context and interp

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