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by animal531 1y ago
I love games and once back in the day had the idea of using some form of genetic algorithm to combine game elements to make new games (Today we'd probably replace the genetic part with some form of NN). I spent a lot of time collecting
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by animal531 1y ago
You're not even close to the facts. - Googling for water outages gives a lot of results in just the last few days. In the NorthWest for example there are a lot of failing municipalities which are relying on government assistance to jus
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by animal531 1y ago
Yeah, doing some googling it seems that if you for example glue two together in a NS-SN type fashion that they would either turn into a single magnet as you are describing, or if its unstable then the two fields will demagnetize each other
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by animal531 1y ago
Visual Studio is irritatingly doing the opposite. If it detects unused methods/variables it will make them darker (which in general is quite useful), but it also does so when you're still busy creating new methods and just haven&#
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by animal531 1y ago
Have you tried prefix-sum? In my game code I used the Nvidia key/offset sort for a long time, but I've since replaced that for all of my physics and spatial queries. There are cases where even though the sort executes more instruc
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by animal531 1y ago
Someone shared a screenshot of their app that controls all of their electronic devices, and its ridiculous how widely they've spread their reach.
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by animal531 1y ago
I quickly tried it (having only ever played the PC version when I was a kid). They really upped the level and detailing on the art and the audio/music is quite good as well. Design-wise they added a button to perform a forward jump whi
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by animal531 1y ago
I invented the single use finger toy. For only $162 you get: "The Single Use Finger Toy consists of a singular rubber appendage attached to a retractable wire harness designed specifically for individual fingers. This ergonomic accesso
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by animal531 1y ago
I have bigger questions about their long-johns than the hats. - Why long pants instead of shorts? It does make them look more dignified, I suppose. - Why white, you know that's just going to stain the feet something terrible.
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by animal531 1y ago
I'm going to somewhat disagree based on my recent attempts. Firstly, if we don't remove the Google AI summary then as you rightly say, it makes the experience 10x worse. They try to still give an answer quickly, but the AI takes u
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by animal531 1y ago
I only recently learned that I have a severe case of ADD. It has helped me with a lot of work related things such as the need to fix problems. As a result of that if there's a problem I work on it until its resolved, which has benefite
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by animal531 1y ago
This idea is extremely prevalent in the games industry and I'm really not a fan of it. It doesn't matter how good of a developer you are, what complicated projects you're working on or have shipped, if you don't have a p
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by animal531 1y ago
I'm working on a game that has a lot of units and I used to use the old Sebastian Lague + NVidia approach where you use 2d binning -> cells/keys -> sort -> being able to search for neighbours efficiently (along with some
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by animal531 1y ago
>During its beta period, Tailwind v4 tried shifting from sRGB to Oklch for gradient interpolation; by release, they’d decided Oklab was a safer default. I recently implemented both, first I started with OKLab which turned out really well
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by animal531 1y ago
I've had great success with this with pseudo-code from research papers. I don't always understand the syntax but the LLM has no such problems.
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by animal531 1y ago
There's a big design problem with the 2nd title that only really becomes apparent when you engage in multiplayer versus people. You can essentially rush to the ultimate Reaper character by just having everyone pray, which is both a gam
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by animal531 1y ago
I've seen videos where adults try to act like children and even there where they're trying really hard they'll get it hilariously wrong. A great example is that little children have no protocol, they won't walk up to som
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by animal531 1y ago
We play Uno like this. Start with the basic (agreed upon house rules), then every time someone wins a hand they get to add or remove any rule they want, as long as it doesn't outright break the gameplay.
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by animal531 1y ago
I use GPT about daily now and have noticed a funny thing, which is to be expected really. I can ask it to help me code for example a physics engine, so we're talking really hard and intricate code and it'll come up with some amazi
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by animal531 1y ago
I quite like the show, even though it feels a bit more like a young adult series.
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by animal531 1y ago
I love good finger toys at my desk to keep my ADD busy while I'm working. They need to be: - Light: If they make a clanking noise every 5 seconds when you pick them up and put them down its just distracting. - Plastic: There are other
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by animal531 1y ago
Following the links, they presented at High Performance Graphics (which has a lot of other great technical presentations and videos as well). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md6SXpbHbZE&t=3353s
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by animal531 1y ago
For my first attempt I plugged in text and a description of a small new Unity package I'm working on, and it matched the intent/text extremely well. There were a few small text mistakes and the image isn't quite as good as I&
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by animal531 1y ago
I hate when you have code that you can't simply read to understand what it does. I'd like to say that probably 99% of the code that I write embodies that, I refuse to use complicated language constructs wherever I can, even if tha
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by animal531 1y ago
Ah, back in university I wrote a paper comparing Perl, Python and Tcl/Tk. Tcl was by far the easiest to use, while Perl sat on the other end of the spectrum for both skill needed to write it as well as to just be able to read it. As th
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by animal531 1y ago
Definitely. To be honest I don't think LLM's are any different from googling and copying code off the Internet. Its still up to the developer to take the code, go over it, make sure its doing what its supposed to be doing (and onl
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by animal531 1y ago
Yeah, for example Unity uses C#, so you can used a managed CUDA library. If you're using a C engine like Unreal etc. its even easier since you can just include the code. But having said that, a giant drawback to using CUDA in gaming is
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by animal531 1y ago
Very cool! Quite some time ago I attempted to make a helicopter sim for a gamejam, but I didn't have nearly enough time to get anything decent out of it. Ah, the quest for more time...
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by animal531 1y ago
That's to stop children from accessing it while this stops anyone from doing so. The two aren't equivalent.
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by animal531 1y ago
When I went to see Terminator 3 I was the only person in the theater, as a result of that I really got that end of the world and being stuck in a bunker atmosphere from the end of the movie.

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