OskarS

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by OskarS 8y ago
Sometimes using this abomination is the only way to go "up" in the filesystem. Yes! So annoying that finder doesn't just have button for "go up in hierarchy" at least somewhere on every screen (whether it's r
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by OskarS 8y ago
I never use this view in Finder. I get the idea, to show multiple levels of the hierarchy at once, but I always liked the "collapsable list" view more. The horizontal space is better used as a table for further file attributes (fi
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by OskarS 8y ago
> These are very real, very concrete negative effects of GDPR Your annoyance is misplaced. Don't be annoyed at GDPR: be annoyed at all the companies who have spent the last decades building an entire web-infrastructure with zero res
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by OskarS 8y ago
You're 100% wrong about Getting Over It. The graphics of that game are extremely intentional, as are the controls. Bennett Foddy is a veteran who knows exactly what he's doing, and it's no accident that that game hit.
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by OskarS 8y ago
Yep. It's certainly true that indie gaming is a harsh place to be in right now, but there's no mystery or deeper reason as to why the writer's game failed.
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by OskarS 8y ago
The realtime support for the GC is really fucking cool. In many game-dev situations, you would happily give up a millisecond per frame for GC deterministically instead of the GC occassionally taking 20-40 milliseconds.
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by OskarS 8y ago
This is a fork bomb: while (1) { fork(); } This will fork forever, creating children that fork forever, exhausting the system's resources. The example in the article only ever has at most 2 processes, and they don&#
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by OskarS 8y ago
That's fascinating! Yeah, digital publishing tools really screwed with some classic designs there for a while. Great comment!
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by OskarS 8y ago
That is just terrible policy. Password reuse is probably the biggest security problem there is, and until we can convince every human on the planet to use a password manager, every person that has to store a password needs to do so in a sec
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by OskarS 8y ago
You know, good design principles weren't invented in 2006. There was plenty of good design in the 90s in other industries (publishing, newspapers, magazines, advertising, academia, ...), but apparently fucking nothing of that filtered
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by OskarS 8y ago
I don't think that it's "memorization" that's the key: I think it's repetition. Learning anything, but especially mathematics, requires you to just sit down and solve problems over and over again. That is what
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by OskarS 8y ago
Clever, but it sounds expensive! Re-rendering the entire scene (especially with that many objects) instead of a single raycast? I'm guessing you had no acceleration structure for any kind of raycasts, and if this was the only thing you
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by OskarS 8y ago
Yeah, it's very clever, but it only works if the surface is unshaded.
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by OskarS 8y ago
> CPU and data intensive heavy lifting is rarely done in such programs That's absurd. They aren't as high-performance as C or C++, but Java and C# both have screamingly fast JIT compilers and plenty of high-performance code is
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by OskarS 8y ago
Try it for yourself! Create an array with a million random bytes from 0 to 255, then count (in a for loop) with an "if" statement how many of them are less than 128. This branch will be essentially impossible to predict, and the b
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by OskarS 8y ago
I mean, yeah. You probably should. But it's entirely reasonable of a game developer to say "I'm not an expert in random numbers, but Microsoft has lots of smart engineers, I'm sure they did their research and provided a
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by OskarS 8y ago
It does make some sense. Lets say you're making a game with a procedural world (e.g. something like Minecraft) which the player explores and makes changes to. Instead of storing the entire (potentially infinite) world, you just store t
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by OskarS 8y ago
"Library Library of Congress"
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by OskarS 8y ago
I love the section on the name "dynamic programming" (arguably the worst term in all of computer science): The 1950s were not good years for mathematical research. We had a very interesting gentleman in Washington named Wilson. H
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by OskarS 8y ago
Yeah, it's an absurd claim. Ever hear of Vladimir Nabokov? It is certainly true that most people who are bilingual aren't idiomatically fluent in both languages, but it's silly to say that it's impossible. Of course it&#
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by OskarS 8y ago
In a similar vein, I rarely (if ever) seen a library that handles dynamic memory allocation more robustly than SQLite. This page is a glory to behold: https://www.sqlite.org/malloc.html
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by OskarS 8y ago
I think her personal friendship with the Ronell is blinding her to the realities of the case. I think it's unfair to say that she "doesn't understand" these kinds of power dynamics. She's just human like everyone an
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by OskarS 8y ago
This is from the letter signed by her colleagues: We write as long-term colleagues of Professor Avital Ronell who has been under investigation by the Title IX offices at New York University. Although we have no access to the confidential
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by OskarS 8y ago
You can't really "dry" water balloons. The water in them don't really evaporate.
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by OskarS 8y ago
> ...spend a whole summer on the PC playing SimCity, Doom (I am old), and later Rainbow Six (I loved that game)... You're really not THAT old :) On your main point: I disagree. Even if they don't have "real world results&q
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by OskarS 8y ago
Dropbox for Business is unlimited, isn't it?
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by OskarS 8y ago
Back in the day, it was pretty slick!
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by OskarS 8y ago
I think the pleasure of doing something like this is in the pure tinkering. Setting up the system just like you want it is kind-of fun. There's some value in that.
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by OskarS 8y ago
Your comparison is a little unfair. If you just want to use it as a text editor, Emacs is easier to use than Vim. You can move around with the arrow keys, typing letters inserts them into the document, there are the standard menus, toolbars
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by OskarS 8y ago
Having some experience with both languages (though not professionally), I personally much prefer Prolog to Haskell. There's an initial hurdle with Prolog because it uses such an unfamiliar paradigm, but once you get good with it, prog

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