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by Jasper_ 5y ago
> Couldn't we consider a nation-state "illegally leaving its sovereign territory" if it started policing a globally distributed project in cyberspace? Oh my god it's the 90s peer-to-peer information super highway argu
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
Keep in mind that DWM explicitly does not obey the ICCCM [0] (because they don't like it), meaning that large groups of applications might function erratically on it. This is not an idle concern -- I've had several bugs reported t
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
The X server on a modern Linux system hasn't run as root since around 2013 or so.
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
You know, I wonder if you could buy a new computer, return it for a refund, and then buy the same configuration back from the refurbished store a month later at a discount.
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
I'd actually be very surprised if Firefox uses librsvg, considering that librsvg doesn't support much of the interactivity and animations that Firefox supports in SVGs. Looking roughly at the source code [0], it seems it has its o
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
Yeah, they don't. They don't care about SDL or MonoGame either, but you can still ship a game using those libraries. It's entirely possible that wgpu or Dawn could implement backends for those platforms.
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
When Facebook went public, everyone thought it was doomed, because they made no money. It took the addition of the personalized newsfeed, aka the part of Facebook that is the least social, for it to become a billionaire firm. Nobody posts o
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
That sounds incoherent. Why are we all drinking OJ/beer? Can we taste it? If so, I can't mention how this beer tastes to my random group of 20 worldwide strangers (that all understand English and American culture enough for me to
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
Steve Jobs said cities would be designed for it... Jeff Bezos said everybody would have one...
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
Yeah, not sure what the author is talking about. Once he tries the Segway, he'll know it's the future of transportation. Anything else is FOMO FUD.
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
Have you heard of Facebook Gaming? It's a streaming platform, like Twitch. Launched in 2007. Nobody uses it. Did you buy an HTC First, the infamous "Facebook Phone" that was so universally panned, they couldn't even ship
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
I'm not going to be alive in 2140 but I'd bet we won't have broken the laws of thermodynamics by either 2040 or 2140.
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
I don't know, that just sounds like pitching a TV show without writers. Even a reality TV show or a cooking show needs writers to keep things entertaining. Otherwise, you sort of just have nothing to look at. > You can code your own
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
You might not know this, but Second Life was not, uh, a wide success. And Second Life is the one we remember from that era. There are dozens of these metaverse things from the mid-90s through the 2000s, none of which achieved the notori
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
who would win: company burning $10,000,000,000 trying to create a brand new capitalist techno-utopia, or 1 GitHub repo boi
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
You're just describing multiplayer video games. We've already had those for more than 20 years.
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
If everybody is making cars that handle much better than they do in the real world, wouldn't this result in an arms race of upping the "cheese" of the mechanics to heighten the intensity? And this only works until people reco
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
If the metaverse is truly a decentralized, collaborative space, how can we add these limitations without others breaking them? If all that's stopping them is code, why wouldn't everyone have all the most powerful items, all the ti
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
I'd say a sizable majority play Gran Turismo because it's a fun test of skill -- learning the controls of an intricate machine, the layout of the game's tracks, and achieving some form of mastery over it. And I'm also su
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
> In a September 2021 Washington Post interview, Tim Sweeney imagined the future of advertising. "A carmaker who wants to make a presence in the metaverse isn't going to run ads," he said. "They're going to drop
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
> Say you’re driving a car in a straight line Pretty much every real game map is going to have hills or elevation changes. You're really never driving in a straight line.
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
I took a very different approach for porting my WebGPU shaders over: I have far too many shaders to port (sometimes pretty massive ones! [0]), so I used Naga [1] at to runtime-translate my GLSL shaders to WGSL. I had to get involved a bit u
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
Sure, but often do you do 4x4 matrix times vector? In most cases I imagine, you're going to be using a 3x4 matrix times a vec3 with implicit w=1, or a 3x3 matrix times a vec3 with implicit w=0, making the wins a lot less clear. If you
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
Yes, you really don't want SIMD types for your vec4, that's a classic mistake, you want to chop vegetables. https://deplinenoise.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/gdc2015_afr...
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
I wouldn't strictly say that. Even with quadratic curves, you still have a serial process of parsing a shape to determine interior vs. exterior. This is true of any non-convex polygon, not just those with curves. You have to solve that
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
But the web wasn't about listening to music at the start! It started with organizing documents on a network, at CERN. And it took over existing document platforms by adding a simple point-and-click browser user interface to them, inspi
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
Some might argue they fail to do the "thingy matching SKU" effectively these days.
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
What happens when the servers then fail to provide that promise? Isn't the data lost?
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
> They won't cache your stuff forever, but they'll cache it as long as someone requests the content again before the content gets removed from cache. "It stays in the cache as long as it stays in the cache" ??? What o
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
How do you convert if nobody wants to buy your USDT?

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