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by buzzybee 9y ago
You might like this talk on historical computer viruses and the shift from hobby to business in the 2000's. [0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yswPIwDFYDY
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by buzzybee 9y ago
I can second this notion, having worked on a Python server for a Minecraft-style game(Ace of Spades): it ran well with little optimization work. There are a few key algorithms that demanded fast computation, and the load got a little bit hi
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by buzzybee 9y ago
I agree with Mike that conceptually, dataflow is a lot of what digital programming "does". And I've investigated how to apply dataflow to some depth and found that there are three thorny issues: 1. Digital logic is special: y
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by buzzybee 9y ago
I think the main thing to focus on isn't that there's a direct correlation between economic growth and political liberalization, but rather a "genie out of the bottle" effect where societies will consistently mobilize to
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by buzzybee 9y ago
AFAIK MAME's accuracy leaves a lot to be desired with respect to anything involving analog signal paths. For example, the sound system used in the Sente SAC-1 hardware is based on the CEM3394 chip, also seen in several pro synths of th
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by buzzybee 9y ago
If you go and do something like that, why have the car at all? Edit: To be a little less snarky, multi-modal transport of this form has been considered; it's one of the ways in which PRT systems have been proposed. But those systems do
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by buzzybee 9y ago
I believe Red[0] is closest along to practically realizing this concept by focusing on compositions of small languages, a premise Alan Kay also worked on with the STEPS project at VPRI[1]. The main thing that stops people from beelining dow
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by buzzybee 9y ago
Garbage collection is troublesome for real-time processing(including game engines) because it doesn't allow you to plan around hitting a latency deadline. When the collector triggers, it consumes a lot of time, which can add up to miss
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by buzzybee 9y ago
Remedy Entertainment has a talk - actually two talks, one from 2013 and one from 2016 [0], about how they added D to their game engine, replacing a major subsystem, and then shipped a AAA title(Quantum Break) with it. The GC did not present
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by buzzybee 9y ago
CRPG for "computer" was the dominant term in the 80's. Later on, the distinction of "Western" style from "Japanese" led to WRPG sometimes being used, although it's just as common to continue referring
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by buzzybee 9y ago
Investors are seeking high ROI and low risk too, though. This creates challenges for "putting money to work". If risk is ignored and the money is thrown down a pit through ineffectual business, it's pushing on a string, veloc
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by buzzybee 9y ago
Yep. There was a definite feeling of "elitist tastemaking" that permeated SA as it hit its peak and post-peak years. The forum regulars were consciously engaging in the performance of a forum post, rather than a forum post, which,
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by buzzybee 9y ago
If one believes Ray Kurzweil(among others), this is just a phase shift where the focus of change moves away from this technology towards a new one. But then the question is: which one? We do have some options floating around.
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by buzzybee 9y ago
The corollary to this, which took me a few more years to shake off, was that building a code edifice may not effect any useful change to the world or produce anything worthy of reuse. It's all very sensitive to the context you wrote it
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by buzzybee 9y ago
On the other hand, this is the era where machine learning is supposed to solve every problem, and it has always been applied towards fighting bad actors.
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by buzzybee 9y ago
I thought I wanted one of these e-ink based devices for sketching or notes, but it turned out that I actually wanted a Boogie Board. [0] The eInk-based notepaper has been a long time in coming and you don't even get good latency, while
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by buzzybee 9y ago
I just heard a "machine learning is taking over everything" lament earlier this evening - not from ad tech specifically, even. Although I can't comment on my personal experience(being younger myself) one pathway to longer ter
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by buzzybee 10y ago
My recollection from the last time I worked with D was that pure could be more complicated and strict than expected when using standard libraries functions, e.g. using trigonometry sets hardware global state, thus impure. I don't reme
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by buzzybee 10y ago
It's definitely a different taste in what folks want out of their RPG. Being able to bake bread and stack crates is exciting as a "world of possibilities" sort of deal, but it's also narratively dissonant from going on a
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by buzzybee 10y ago
Those are the integration methods I was talking about. An analytic method without error is one which can describe the curve at any moment in time, not "constant acceleration per frame".
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by buzzybee 10y ago
The reason why you don't see an issue while using Box2D is because its integration methods are low-error. A simple platform game using Euler style integration of the type each step, add forces from input and gravity. add the resul
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by buzzybee 10y ago
To add to this statement: Input latency is a much broader issue than collision latency - a large scale of collision latency is produced simply by being an online game, regardless of how you're trying to represent the events. So the col
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by buzzybee 10y ago
I already feel burdened by electronic gadgets, so there's little hope in me caring about having a car or yacht. I'm not exactly a minimalist, but I have discovered that the "experiences not possessions" news trope does a
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by buzzybee 10y ago
AI is like rendering in that the programmers doing that tend to cluster together at conferences, so they aren't completely siloed. The subfields that don't have that clustering effect are the ones not established enough that it&#x
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by buzzybee 10y ago
Besides "milk men", there were "ice men" who would deliver ice to homes. [0] Demand for ice delivery turned into a major exterior feature of early 20th century homes, and you can still find small ice doors mysteriously a
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by buzzybee 10y ago
I liked the part about the parser not benefitting from memory safety(parsers are a classic source of CVEs).
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by buzzybee 10y ago
The main challenge in abstracting for flexibility is that you are competing against your text editor. If copy-paste-modify introduces fewer new sources of error than any abstraction that is near-to-hand, then you end up in a scenario where
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by buzzybee 10y ago
Decoupling isn't the same as statelessness. The state machine pattern used by OpenGL is a logical decoupling to the physical state of GPU hardware. State machines, buffers, protocols and the like - abstractions that we tend to think of
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by buzzybee 10y ago
This equation starts with 0 users and grows pretty slowly at first. It only flips once you have a critical mass of users, and by then it's "too late" to preventatively fix the architecture to bias to performance. There are al
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by buzzybee 10y ago
Every time I see stories about runaway climate catastrophe, I stop and consider the scenarios and how it might affect how I lead my life, and none of them really change how I plan to do things. I'm working and training in ways I believ

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