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by bennysonething 4y ago
Hi, can you link to John carmack article. I've tried googling and can't find it :)
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by bennysonething 4y ago
I know nothing about grapgics programming, but this is on my list of things to work through: https://gabrielgambetta.com/computer-graphics-from-scratch/0...
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by bennysonething 4y ago
This wasn't my experience. I bought a voodoo 3 , playing quake 1 and quake 2 was just disappointing, at the time it just felt like Goldeneye was next gen compared to those flagship pc games. I desperately wanted it to be a step up. It
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by bennysonething 4y ago
And who gets to say what these good practices are? Until recently everyone thought Clean Code was a wonderful book full of great coding advice, now we see that it's full of really crap examples. Does all public code on GitHub need to b
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by bennysonething 4y ago
How would this compare to a pixel 6a?
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by bennysonething 4y ago
https://www.retrogamedev.com/ This guy's book on c64 game Dev is good. I bought it, but I never gave it the time required. I think he is/was going to do a nes one too.
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by bennysonething 4y ago
I still don't understand why we're still doing bio fuels. We've known for decades that they are a disaster. Am I missing something, is there evidence to the contrary? For now I can't see how we can just stop fossil fuels
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by bennysonething 4y ago
Happened to me in 2007, they took 750 GBP from my back account. I complained, it was never explained what happened. They paid the money back to me over a period of about 4 months. It was utterly ridiculous.
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by bennysonething 4y ago
But surely the point of essay writing is to learn how to structure your thoughts into a coherent argument? If students aren't doing this, how will they learn this skill?
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by bennysonething 4y ago
Thanks
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by bennysonething 4y ago
One other question, if a dos game used TCP/ip, would the developer have to write their own ip stack? Presumably dos didn't provide any of this?
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by bennysonething 4y ago
Great response, thank you :) Googled tsr, terminate and stay resident if anyone else is reading this.
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by bennysonething 4y ago
I came here to say the same thing. It's sort of survival horror by capcom, so same lineage as resident evil in a way. Only seven years before it, the jump in technology is mind boggling to me.
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by bennysonething 4y ago
Why wasn't the networking in doom just done as TCP/ip (or UDP/IP)?
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by bennysonething 4y ago
True. However on the TV I spent about 300 percent higher than I originally set out to! Probably the only very high end thing I've ever bought though.
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by bennysonething 4y ago
Last time I bought speakers before this was 2007! Last TV was 2013. Previously I'd managed to run a pc made of second hand parts from 2008 to 2017 with no upgrades. I think you are correct in a way. I do like the TV and sound bar. But
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by bennysonething 4y ago
You've just described what has been happening to me since becoming a parent. Suddenly consumer electronics matter to me because I'm stuck in the house a lot more. I regret my purchases. But if you can only watch movies in the hous
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by bennysonething 4y ago
This is exactly what happened to me last year. I used to be pretty frugal. Rarely replaced computers or other consumer electronics. Then I ended up buying a mid range sound bar. A very good oled TV. And a graphics card. Really stupid. It co
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by bennysonething 4y ago
I remember buying a voodoo 3 for 130 GBP. That was pretty high end at the time. Who's the target market for 1k+ cards?! At one point you could get a decent gaming pc for about 500 or 600 GBP. I doubt that's possible now. And madne
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by bennysonething 4y ago
"The default today may be a distributed mess of spaghetti, but that is a choice." I'd like to hear more of his thoughts on this. The distributed and service orientated the stuff I work in gets, the less we ship. It's gla
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by bennysonething 4y ago
I want my career path as a developer to never be anything but individual contributor. I like teaching newer Devs but I don't want to manage them. Maybe I'm being naive?
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by bennysonething 4y ago
"won't release it fearing risks". Much further down they explain why: because it can end up reusing samples from sources it was trained on.
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by bennysonething 4y ago
I tried switching to ltsc, all was fine for a few months, then I hit an issue with a game (actually I think it was several games). After a long time googling I discovered it wasn't fixable in ltsc. I can't recall exactly what it w
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by bennysonething 4y ago
The book A philosophy of software design https://www.amazon.co.uk/Philosophy-Software-Design-John-Ous... Points out that TDD can inadvertently lead to tactical design rather than strategic design. In my experience, this ca
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by bennysonething 4y ago
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Soviet-Passport-History-Internal-Ru... I haven't read it yet, but what you are saying made me think of this. I don't think the travel restrictions within the soviet union are that well kno
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by bennysonething 4y ago
Would boycotting bananas help or make it worse for people in those countries?
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by bennysonething 4y ago
You think Americans buying bananas from poorer countries makes those countries poorer?
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by bennysonething 4y ago
After the first time trying it all I could think about was doing it again. I remember walking home with my friend who was doing it for first time and both of us agreed it was the best thing we'd ever done. We did it again shortly after
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by bennysonething 4y ago
David nutt is brilliant. I loved his book drink. However I think that horse riding Vs mdma point is a bit limited. I think there are dangers worth facing as the overall experience probably helps you grow as person, so horse riding has the d
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by bennysonething 4y ago
Thankfully that effect has been temporary. Yes I remember 5 htp. I used to take it

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