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by clarry 7y ago
Why not both? The data you receive from a server is discontinuous. You interpolate (and potentially extrapolate) to fill in missing data to eliminate discontinuity.
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by clarry 7y ago
No, seriously, how does that differ from red? If you're in stopping distance and the light changes to STOP, then you STOP, no matter whether stop is encoded as red or yellow or both. So you don't need yellow for that, you can jus
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by clarry 7y ago
> it's been a decade since the article so I wonder how it's working out? What article? The actor model dates back to 70s much has been written about its various implementations and incarnations since then. If you don't tr
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by clarry 7y ago
> If all inputs were handled by the server then everyone would agree on what they see You can already have that; no need for streaming. For example, original Quake handles all input on the server and movement feels kinda like skating on
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by clarry 7y ago
I really just want a head mounted display, which should give much more virtual workspace than a 24" monitor. But it seems like the VR craze killed the market and HMD products with it.
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by clarry 7y ago
If someone's got a nice actor library written in and for C, I'm all hears.
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by clarry 7y ago
> Decoupling concurrently running software components via message passing avoids race conditions by design. How am I supposed to read this? It's obviously not "message passing eliminates race conditions", so perhaps it&#x
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by clarry 7y ago
> The proofs he cites are not applicable to his since he has a fixed permutation. This is something I'm concerned about (hence https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22451307 ), but I lack the know-how to demonstrate t
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by clarry 7y ago
Also: * Do you have sufficiently large batches that you can efficiently assign to one thread? If not, then you're just wasting a lot of time waking up to receive inputs, assigning them to threads (-> put them on a work queue or simi
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by clarry 7y ago
I want books written like this. I've had too many books where I die of boredom over and over again in the first 150 pages and then I never read them again. It's like there's some rule saying books must be super wordy.
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by clarry 7y ago
I think that works only if n-by-n can vary to infinity. Otherwise I'll just have a lut for every possible board size. By the same method, you can sort any finite sequence in O(1).. but then you don't really sort infinite sequence
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by clarry 7y ago
> This thing passes Big Crush and PractRand ... for the seeds that were tested. In theory, you can get unlucky and end up in a short cycle, and it will not pass these tests. That's why I'm not comfortable with it, when there ar
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by clarry 7y ago
I doubt there's ever going to be consensus. That's because requirements are generally ambiguous, and you make tradeoffs based on them.
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by clarry 7y ago
> What the hell does "infinitely fast" even MEAN in this context? It's nonsense, but their argument seems to be that instruction level parallelism allows the RNG's user to keep executing simultaneously while the RNG p
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by clarry 7y ago
Interesting, but I can't think of any situations where I'd take chances with probabilistic periods in exchange for a slight speed boost over something with a known period and good output (e.g. a large enough mcg/lcg where you
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by clarry 7y ago
All these intros to asynchronous programming fail to address the most interesting (and arguably most important yet also most difficult) case, which is asynchronicity on a modern multi-core server. Instead, threads and event loops are prese
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by clarry 7y ago
I suspect the differences in our experiences are more regional. I imagine that Germany, having 15x the population and significantly more capital than Finland, would have a much more vibrant tech scene. Being closer to other EU countries p
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by clarry 7y ago
Not recommending it in this situation but know that there are things like The Open University ( http://www.open.ac.uk/ ) which can get you a tuition without the prerequisite secondary degree. Also idk about the Netherlands bu
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by clarry 7y ago
> It feels like you could easily pick up any entry level dev job? HN would always surprise me. Don't underestimate the extreme prejudice in tech hiring. Everyone's looking out for "red flags" and excuses to turn down
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by clarry 7y ago
It's funny that city living is described as economical, ecological, and scalable compared to suburban & rural living because of infrastructure & transport costs. And here you're arguing the exact opposite. So how is it?
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by clarry 7y ago
You always needed those. So why is it that you could build the first homes and roads and sewers and power plants and hospitals and schools, but not more of the same?
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by clarry 7y ago
> Why have authors? Because someone needs something written, and they hire you to do it. Or because you want to write, and then others discover that they like what you write, and they want to help you write more. None of this requires
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by clarry 7y ago
Given all the cheating videos I've seen, evidently they haven't been able to come up with any automated system that does better. It should work the way it works anywhere else: people report users that are obviously cheating or sus
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by clarry 7y ago
> 1. They want anti-cheat stripped out of games so they can play games via Steam Proton, conveniently ignoring the fact that any multiplayer game that does that will be flooded and destroyed by hackers Yes, I want them stripped out or ma
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by clarry 7y ago
Why do I need to interact with another store before I can say my experience with GOG has been bad? But yes, I have been in direct contact with a publisher (who also has their own storefront) after GOG support, expectedly (based on prior exp
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by clarry 7y ago
I don't think so, because they reserved the right to reject refunds on a case by case basis. They can reject a few bad actors. Admittedly I'm a bit concerned about botting new accounts, buying one game, downloading it, and then a
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by clarry 7y ago
Nice, poor support and lack of refunds really discouraged me from buying from GOG.. maybe I'll consider browsing their catalog again some day.
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by clarry 7y ago
> Searching for them was also hard, since I could only describe them (ie: loop within square brackets) and not name them. I hope one day someone invents an interactive machine, the user of which can point at a thing and ask "what is
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by clarry 7y ago
> Whether that convenience is worthwhile is up for debate, but I think it would be surprising to type a+b and get some kind of parse error that can be rectified just by typing a + b instead. I kinda prefer that a+b lexes as one identifie
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by clarry 7y ago
I guess the underlying source of confusion is that they're both measures of severity, but priority is severity from business viewpoint while severity is severity from the affected user's viewpoint. A high priority bug that isn&#x2

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