axilmar

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by axilmar 7y ago
Nah, the Amiga's Outrun was a silly Atari ST port. It didn't even come close to what the Amiga could do (e.g. Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge). > In effect the Amiga was the closest the market would bear Not at all. Commodore was
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by axilmar 7y ago
Here is a funny story: I live in Athens, Greece. In 1987 (or it was later?), I read on the ACE magazine about the Sharp X68000...with magazine at hand, I went down to the local Sharp dealer to see if they will import the machine...they didn
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by axilmar 7y ago
How would it be possible for 8-bit machines to successfully emulate a game that used twin 68000 cpus and custom sprite scaling hardware? these conversions were just a marketing gimmick, targeting the wallets of the poor consumers. It was am
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by axilmar 7y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E82pl8rEOoY Not really on par with Outrun though.
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by axilmar 7y ago
It's all about emotions (as the article explains). If the music brings back the emotions of youth, then it is more accepted than the music that creates no/less strong emotions.
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To play the devil's advocate here: no post speaks about any serious disadvantages of Haskell. So, for a programming language that has so much to offer, why isn't it adopted more? Could it be that it doesn't actually increase
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by axilmar 7y ago
Here in Greece Souvlaki is the most common form of fast food. Its creation can be completely automated very easily. Lots of Greek people work in the fast food industry in Greece; they are in for a big surprise in the near future.
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by axilmar 7y ago
I'd say (out of experience) that people do not recognize objects by visualizing their skeletons, but they recognize objects by a generalization of their shape. In case of recognizing other animals, the generalization takes the form of
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by axilmar 7y ago
In C++, we usually copy the resources that we want to share, so as that accidental modification of a resource doesn't take place. However, the copying becomes impractical from a performance point of view if the resources are big, so im
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by axilmar 7y ago
I think you've hit the nail in the head. I recently had a similar thought that the 'expansion' of the cosmos may simply be "the same distances divided into more chunks". I.e. initially, at the big bang, the analogy
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by axilmar 7y ago
That's because PCs were at the heart of the business world. The Amiga was mostly a machine for entertainment and hobby use. Due to this fact, piracy on the Amiga had a much larger impact on the platform than on the PC. The final nail i
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by axilmar 7y ago
Wouldn't you like to reach your destination in a much shorter time than usual? I certainly would.
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It's too bad that the state of roads in most countries is aweful and can't support anything approaching high speeds, let alone this insane 490 km/h.
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by axilmar 7y ago
Well, I had the same epiphany 5 years ago, and I implemented it in a C++ library here: https://github.com/axilmar/parserlib It's nice to be able to handle left-recursive grammars in a PEG parser. It feels liberati
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by axilmar 7y ago
Since it's not possible for a Standard Library to have everything a programmer needs, programming languages shouldn't have Standard Libraries but Standard Repositories.
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by axilmar 7y ago
So many messages against piracy...and there are some people online saying piracy didn't kill the Amiga...
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by axilmar 7y ago
multiple knock - offs = more adds for google, it's that simple.
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by axilmar 7y ago
While the article is obviously US-Centric, a lot of the things mentioned in it are applicable to other countries as well, including mine (Greece). As a child, I was used to going out each evening in the neighbourhood to play with other kids
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by axilmar 7y ago
The initial proposition of the article, that software is bad because it follows the lifecycle "gather requirements - write software - deliver it" is simply wrong. There are huge projects in specialized domains that are delivered o
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by axilmar 7y ago
...if Anaxagoras knew that some people today would consider the earth flat and the moon made of literally cheese, he would have commited suicide himself.
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by axilmar 7y ago
We could have our cake and eat it too in this case. All an IDE should do is not allow freeform editing of text but rather only editing of text that relates to the AST - in other words, creating an AST by carefully selected text. This would
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by axilmar 7y ago
I wanted to do something similar to Darkfall, i.e. players would only be able to chat with those in their vicinity. I'd also add a voice volume so as that in order to whisper, you'd have to come real close to someone and keep your
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by axilmar 7y ago
I have setup my reddit account to use the old reddit, because for the desktop, the old one is much better than the new one. However, on my phone, the new one is better.
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by axilmar 7y ago
Why is this named 'paradox' since it doesn't express a paradox?
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by axilmar 7y ago
Holywood is certainly not dying economically, but it certainly died a long time ago when it comes to actual entertainment and art. And it's not a matter of age. I like films older than me, there are genuine diamonds amongst them. Today
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by axilmar 7y ago
> You get a sophomore that can do a 360-degree dunk whereas 20 years ago you never saw that Well, not true of course. I've been playing basketball my whole life, and I've seen 15 year olds jumping from the free throw line, doin
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by axilmar 7y ago
"At each decision point, it compares the state of the game with its blueprint and searches a few moves ahead to see how the action played out. It then decides whether it can improve on it." That's exactly how the brain operat
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by axilmar 7y ago
Spreadsheets are great tools, but they are not suitable for every kind of problem. I use Excel daily too, but I also use a lot of other programming languages as well. Most of the time, complex calculations are easier to do in a programming
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by axilmar 7y ago
In my humble opinion, in a nutshell: There is no such thing as consciousness, i.e. a mechanism that defines consiousness. There is only a simulation process inside organisms that tries to mimic reality in order to predict the outcome of the
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by axilmar 7y ago
I agree with youtube in this case. Any video that gives an opportunity to malevolent people to do harm must be banned from youtube. But it must be banned from general purpose video viewing sites only, not from the internet. Specialized site

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