LarsDu88

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by LarsDu88 2y ago
I don't think I quite understood what you are trying to accomplish that is distinct from what 90s BSP engines like Unreal 1, Quake 2, and Source were doing? Are you trying to do convex spatial partitions for 3d pathfinding in the air?
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
How is it that you are running into cpu limitations for raycasts in a bullet hell game with UE5 to the extent you built this? I wrote a VR game that has hundreds of bullets running at 72 fps on Quest 2. Never went multithreaded and never ac
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
Isn't this kind of like simply putting the data structures from the first Unreal Engine (which I believe used BSP), into the latest one? For the game you appear to be building, this appears to be rather unnecessary, even for authoring
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
The answer is no. She pushed out the first board, but the second hand-picked board still wasn't having it with these lowball offers. This is a shitshow
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
This was a handpicked board too. She could've veered harder into picking cronies.
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
Damn, on Friday, the California DoJ Attorney General issued a warning to consumers about their data: https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bont... This should've been a giveaway that the com
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
This is interesting. Although a bit overkill nowadays with just about every computing device supporting 4k textured skyboxes easily
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
TT did all this crazy stuff in the 90s with limited hardware, but their biggest success was making licensed LEGO games. Making games is hard, but getting IP that people _love_ to begin with is harder. Might I plug my VR game Rogue Stargun (
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
I wanted to throw out that one of the founders of Traveler's Tales, actually has a Youtube Channel (GameHut) where he goes over a lot of early videogame programming techniques for (mostly) the Sega Genesis and Sega Saturn. It's qu
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
Rumors of some sort of Russian sonic weapon being behind the "Havana Syndrome" have been going around for years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COWTBEl1rRc Serbia has been Russia's closest ally for decades,
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
The 10x trope was something Steve Jobs really learned from his days at Atari. If you look at virtually all the games programmed from 1975 to around 1995, the programming "teams" were incredibly small. Until the Sony Playstation ca
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
Apparently 3dfx had a contract with Sega for making the Dreamcast GPU, but IPO'd in 1997. As part of the IPO they disclosed the terms of the contract, and the next gen console at Sega was a closely guarded secret at the time to avoid c
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
It kind of boggles my mind how short the lifespan of these companies were during periods of great technological advancement. 3dfx is founded in August 1994. The Sony Playstation came out in Japan in December of 1994. It's heyday is rou
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
Ah to be tall, well connected, and rich. And also talented, intelligent, and witty. Read all his damn books as a kid.
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
Yeah, but his kid died of measles, and his other kid got hit by a car (something that is actually also solvable with technology). Literally every problem discussed in the article was solvable or mitigatable with science or technology, excep
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
I was shocked to learn that he was not only a fighter pilot, but also married an academy award winning actress and coinvented a valve used to help brain damage patients recover
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
I think your confusing providence with medical science in the form of vaccinations, blood thinners, and Mr. Dahl's contributions to hydrocephalus relief
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
George Hotz thinks silicon valley companies are all scams... in comparison to... Chinese companies???? I think this guy may need to travel the world a bit more. A lot of companies here are shiite, but you really need to understand what the
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
I sometimes wonder whether the sudden rise of "gender politics"... is all part of some sort of conrolled oppopsition narrative. "Gender politics" is used heavily within Russia to provide a contrast to "masculine tra
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
I wonder if anyone at old school Nvidia remembers if the NV1 card did quads to try to win a contract with Sega, or if the designers at Sega overtly wanted a card that would do quads. My suspicion is that this must've been shitty influe
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
There's technology and then there's the sociopaths, and unfortunately the two are becoming increasingly conflated. Yes the oligarchs will use this technology against the masses. On the flipside, the masses can also use the technol
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
As someone who works in the AI/ML field, but somewhat in a biomedical space, this is promising to hear. The core technology is becoming commoditized. The ability to scale is also becoming more and more commoditized by the day. Now we h
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
I don't think luddites have a tendency of getting chosen to be CEOs of successful companies, nor do they have the tendency of creating successful companies.
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
This is a terrible conundrum. The nations that sink resources into improving aggregate economic measures are the most competitive and quite possibly even the most likely to triumph in armed conflicts. The average per capita GDP will be enor
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
Shit, accidentally double copied the URL: https://sequencing.roche.com/us/en/article-listing/sequencin... This is what happens when I post on HN whilst having the flu
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Roche announces new SBX Xpandomer DNA sequencing technology(sequencing.roche.com)
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
Illumina has held a virtual monopoly over high throughput sequencing over the past 15 years, basically cancelling what many expected to be a drastic decrease in the cost of DNA sequencing. Now a company called Stratos (acquired by Roche in
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
Beating face verification is quite honestly a far easier thing to break than encryption my friend.
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
If it's going to take another 10 years to turn this into a usable product... Better spew out some marketing BS to move the needle on MSFT stock price...
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
If you can break bitcoin, you can also break all the encryption we use for banking and other transactions, so might as well stock up on SPAM and ammo.

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