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by MattRix 5y ago
Yup, Pixi is the most popular javascript 2D game engine/renderer, with over 34k stars on github. It’s used all over the place.
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Looks like a great library, though the name is going to cause some people to think it’s related to pixi.js
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Even if that were true, it wouldn’t be a good thing.
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Yup, Apple just said this to The Verge: “As we’ve said all along, we would welcome Epic’s return to the App Store if they agree to play by the same rules as everyone else”. https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/10/2
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by MattRix 5y ago
Yes, but that isn’t the context of this thread. This thread is about what Apple could claim they have a right to collect, if they wanted to.
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Where do you draw the line then… if I use an app from my bank, should Apple get 30% from any interest I earn the bank? If I use a real estate app to find and buy a house, should they get 30% of the seller’s commission? Or even further, if I
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by MattRix 5y ago
Apple has said that they will reinstate Epic’s account if they agree to follow the rules, so Epic can earn future revenue on iOS if they want to… but so far they’ve said they don’t plan to change their stance.
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The graphic quality isn’t “poor”, it’s just simple and minimal.
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It’s worth noting that Panic collaborated with Teenage Engineering when designing the hardware of the Playdate.
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I don’t know if the title was already changed since you wrote this comment, but the current title of “Crystal arrangement results in 1,000x more power from ferroelectric solar cells” is accurate.
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They said it has been used for over 50 million miles so far, and that there are over 100k minutes of driving being done with it per day.
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This ignores how Blizzard works. They operate on glacial time scales. They released, Overwatch five years ago, which was fantastic. They haven’t released any new games since then.
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People clearly care deeply about about both these things. It’s possible for the left to fight over gender politics AND working conditions.
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The parent post stated “you can have a brilliant system without brilliant actors”. I don’t believe that’s true. There are many examples of brilliant stand-out products that make a huge difference in their field, and the iPhone is one of the
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Is this always true? The iPhone seems like a pretty clear argument to the contrary. As far as cars go, Tesla is a clear outlier pushing innovation. I mean sure you can argue that eventually the rest of the field will catch up, but there are
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I should have clarified that it is how dates are pronounced in American English. British people will say “it’s the 21st of July, 2021”. I don’t think the US resisting things is so mysterious. The US is a large country that largely defines
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It has flaws but it’s not “insane” or entirely illogical, it’s very clearly based on the way dates are spoken and written in English, ex. “Today is July 23rd, 2021”.
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The purpose of the first paragraph is not to present the credentials of the leader. The purpose is to make a parallel between the current state of the robotics industry and the creative & commercial expansion of the web once the technol
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Suburbia is made of families. People want big houses with big yards for their kids. They’re often not bringing their kids on those same vacations. And on top of that, where people vacation is very different from where they’d want to live lo
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Yeah seems like that should be possible, since at the end of the day WFC is a system of constraints, so you can add any other arbitrary constraints you want on top of it. With the examples I posted above, since they wrap/loop in the ti
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He mentions that early in his discussion with Sasha Grey at around 9:45. He also later talks about how therapy is different than what he does on Twitch anyway (at 13:00) https://youtube.com/watch?t=777&v=DMw8G3RPWrQ&
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by MattRix 5y ago
One cool property that I haven’t seen anyone else use is that you can use time itself as another tiling dimension. I did some experiments with creating looped animations a few years ago: https://twitter.com/MattRix/stat
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???
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Why is it my responsibility to provide references when the parent comment provided none? Everyone knows that Deepmind hires experts in deep learning, as well as subject matter experts. The idea that their success is just because of compute
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It’s quite naive to assume compute power is the main reason for deepmind’s success. Any bit of research into this (and most of their successes in other fields) will show otherwise.
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The claim is not only about video games. And it makes more sense to be proactive about protecting their brand, rather than only reacting once an issue arises. Also how would you even prove such a connection? What combatant is ever going to
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Are they supposed to wait until videogames cause an issue, and not be proactive? And how would you ever prove such a thing?
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Gotta love how you misread their comment and then accused them of not reading what they wrote.
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The aesthetic is intentionally low-fi. They’re rendered using a retro technique called sprite stacking, where you take 2D image slices and stack them vertically in pseudo-3D space. An explanation is here: https://medium.com/
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That’s mostly Minecraft, not Roblox. Lego is still super popular… and yes kids still do go outside and build forts. Also if you’ve never played Minecraft, it is amazing, especially as a social experience, and it is very much not just for ki

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