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by astrobe_ 2y ago
About "family and friends", a couple of times by fixing minor and a priori unrelated side issues, it revealed the bug I was after.
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
I've once heard from an RTS game caster (IIRC it was Day9 about Starcraft) "Assuming... Is killing you".
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
Also sometimes: the bug is not in the code, its in the data. A few times I looked for a bug like "something is not happening when it should" or "This is not the expected result", when the issue was with some config file,
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
Perhaps the core source of inspiration are the roman gladiator arenas, themselves probably inspired from olympic games.
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
Naval versions of fighters can use "jump strut" [1]. For instance the Rafale M [2] [3]. I dislike weapons, but those planes are amazing. [1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257410805_Effect_Of... [2]
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
> As a result, there could be empty regions of space in which billions of years more have elapsed If they are empty, those billion years didn't happen. But nothing is really empty, right?
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
Veloren [1] is also an actual game. [1] https://veloren.net/
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
> Yeah, which he did in 1970. Yes, and Forth has been maintaining somehow its ties with aerospace for over 50 years: https://www.forth.com/resources/forth-apps > That this design paradigm holds up pretty well in
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
> Have you ever looked at how useless Chuck Moore's stuff is? I've seen someone well known in the Forth community say something like that to Chuck. I think he said "what can I do with that?" If GA144 is useless, it&#x
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
All right, light is an abstraction, contracts are abstractions, 10 is an abstraction, time is an abstraction, and I am an abstraction too. The notion is so fuzzy that everything can be an abstraction in a certain way. The word "abstrac
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
You are confusing too many things. "10" is the representation of a data; "0xA" is another representation of the same data. Not being able to touch something doesn't make it an abstraction. Light is not an abstractio
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
Yes, abstraction and generalization are properties you'd rather look for the second time around . Someone was already warning about this 25 years ago [1]: You have a boring problem and hiding behind it is a much more interesting prob
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
For a language apparently inspired from Wirth, one would have expected <> (greater-or-lesser-than). But the real horror, to me, is Windows not letting one disable the so~called "dead keys" easily.
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
A historical thing: > Traditionally, most virtual machines intended for actual execution are stack based, a trend that started with Pascal’s P-machine and continues today with Java’s JVM and Microsoft’s .Net environment. Currently, howev
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
Tell them they can just call it "Luanti" now ;-) [1] It's also becoming more and more "not just Minecraft". For instance this entry from the latest GameJam, which is a nice little shooter [2] [1] https://
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
I think the pandemic had nothing to do with that except maybe that it served as a trigger for you or others. Plenty of people got hooked on programming in normal and peaceful times, with plenty of addictive distractions around - be it chess
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
INT 21 was for DOS what INT 80 was for Linux: the gateway to the OS kernel. Overriding software interrupt handlers was a common mechanism, applied to BIOS interrupts as well (e.g. there was a BIOS timer interrupt that was there just for tha
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
"Modern" means "we fixed the deficiencies of the old project and introduced our own". When I read "modern" I understand it's likely to be a variation of the second system effect [1]. When it's not jus
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
Oolite [1] is implemented in Objective-C and scripted in Javascript. The "strict mode" base game has the look'n'feel of the original - there's even an option for wireframe display somewhere - but its vast ecosystem
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
> Would Rousseau want us "being forced to be free"? Probably. The French revolution actors were inspired by his work, and the French revolution led to the declaration of the human rights, which states that all people are born f
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
Our own bodies are ships of Theseus. I've read once that every atom in our bodies are replaced in 40 years. In 40 years, our bodies change a lot and so are our minds. What make Theseus' ship the ship of Theseus, is that Theseus is
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
Do you think that a LLM/"AI" can reliably solve the merging problem?
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
true, false, unknown is something you need sometimes.
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
On a side note, I was expecting "bicameral" as in [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameral_mentality
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
Reasoning means "inference" or "deduction" to me, or at least some process related to first order logic.
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
Not convincing to me. The world of UI design is too agitated with copycat and fads to be a solid reference.
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
Old 8 bits "family/home computers" were designed with teens and kids in mind - perhaps an influence of Alan Kay? BASIC means "Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code", so it was a good fit. The Amstrad
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
Luanti [1] (Minetest) has a fractal map generator ("mapgen"). You can test it for yourself. It's funny at first but becomes eventually boring. Its other mapgens massively some kind of Perlin noise in various ways, so that you
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
> Wouldn't a working approach be to just create a really low resolution 3D world in the traditional "3D game world" sense to get the spatial consistency. Then this crude map with attributes is fed into frame generation to
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by astrobe_ 2y ago
I remember that before the Shoemaker-Jupiter collision [1] of '95 there were rumors that it could "ignite" Jupiter giving birth to a star. It was probably on the same level as the rumors that the CERN accelerator could create

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