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   by ambyra 4y ago

   Reminds me of a passage in Jesse Schell's game design book. Playtesters were confused seeing flags of pirate ships blow forward, toward the front of the ship. They were told that sailing ships have the wind at their backs, so everythin
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   by ambyra 4y ago

   I use vectors for everything in game programming. If I want to rotate something, Unity has this: transform.rotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(directionVector); I never touch sin, cos, pi. When I see a sin function in someone's code, my
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   by ambyra 4y ago

   They’re great for hashtag vanlife stuff, like bolting cabinets to the frame.
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   by ambyra 4y ago

   I think so too. I wonder if they are considering editing more genes to make the heart more human. I bet 100 years from now, there will genetically modified pigs running around with human hearts, and other modifications to support that heart
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   by ambyra 4y ago

   Batteries should only be used to get the car to and from the the charged roads. This tech will allow for cars to be produced with sub 100 mile ranges, making them lighter and cheaper. I always thought this was the next step in EVs. Plugging
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   Fiat kitted out a 500 EV to charge wirelessly while driving(thenextweb.com)

   2 points by ambyra 4y ago|1 comments
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   by ambyra 5y ago

   I think the title bars are pretty outdated too. They take up a lot of monitor real estate. The hide expand maximize buttons along can be hidden in the right click menu. Going all the way to the top of a window for those items is a waste of
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   by ambyra 5y ago

   I always found windows (not the os) to be pretty annoying. Having a full screen app, or two full screen apps side by side is way more usable than a window on top of another that keeps getting lost, or you have to move it around all the tim
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   by ambyra 5y ago

   There’s a great radiolab episode about this. They found the older generations of signers didn’t just sign more primitively, but they couldn’t comprehend more complex ideas bc they weren’t build into the language yet. https://www.
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    by ambyra 5y ago

    I always thought electric cars “filling up” at “electrical gas stations” was bizarre. If the major roads were electrified, electric cars wouldn’t need as much range, would be cheaper, lighter, better on the environment, wouldn’t need to sit
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    by ambyra 5y ago

    I can confirm it is terrible on both. What a great article though.
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    by ambyra 5y ago

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/judeclemente/2016/04/03/califor... California imports 33% of its electricity from other states, which is mostly generated by coal and gas.
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    by ambyra 5y ago

    Excel as a code editor would be cool. Each cell could be a function or variable, watch them update in real-time, highlight which functions are being called, which variables are being used.
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    by ambyra 5y ago

    The Simpsons Tomacco episode comes to mind: “ugh, this is terrible... I want more!!”
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    by ambyra 5y ago

    I never thought of this. Everything annoying about rental scooters applies to cars x1000. Not to mention the energy cost of moving a 2500lb vehicle and one passenger, vs a 60lb scooter and a passenger.
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    by ambyra 6y ago

    I think real world examples are always good. Germany went all solar, France all nuclear. Seems like France is winning (cheap clean energy).
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    by ambyra 6y ago

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/02/05...
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    by ambyra 6y ago

    France is becoming my favorite country for reasons like this. 75% nuclear, no cars in the streets. Parking in large cities is always a nightmare anyway.
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    by ambyra 6y ago

    There is a bulge at the back that gives it a bit of an angle on a desk.
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    by ambyra 6y ago

    They say covid hit production :/
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    MSX style micro PC from clockworkpi(clockworkpi.com)

    19 points by ambyra 6y ago|7 comments
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    by ambyra 6y ago

    Austria already has unlimited unemployment insurance, and is rated as one of the happiest countries. Why is UBI any better?
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    by ambyra 6y ago

    Preliminary Mac support. Woo!
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    by ambyra 6y ago

    So put the Touch Bar on the MacBook Air for non pro users, and the function keys for pro users. They put the training wheels on the Ferrari.
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    by ambyra 6y ago

    Yeah! If they were to have a Touch Bar, put it at the bottom of the screen. You are already looking at the screen. Keyboard is for keying, screen is for looking. It would have been cheaper to make, instead of having two screens. They were r
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    by ambyra 6y ago

    I used to love this as a kid. The language is horrible though. A python version would be nice :)
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    by ambyra 7y ago

    The patents involved in the case are United States Patent Nos. 7,072,849 (the ‘849 patent), 6,778,193 (the ‘193 patent), 7,631,346 (the ‘346 patent), and 6,966,038 (the ‘038 patent). The ‘849 patent was used in IBM’s development of Prodigy,
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    by ambyra 7y ago

    Arduino controlled real live squid with water backpack. That’s the future. I wonder if some sort of jelly would work to do the same thing, like a snail. Or a dynamic cup surface that conforms to the wall better.
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    by ambyra 7y ago

    Hello, “Not Sure”
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    by ambyra 7y ago

    Hello, Not Sure