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The path to migrate to Zig is, or would be, the most straightforward, except that that language is not ready. But in design terms it's definitely got the things the OP is championing C++ for, and a better story for actually addressing
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I've gathered that the situation in every country revolves around the available facilities/venues for sport, which is downstream of budgets and financing: in the US the majority of the divergence starts around high school level, w
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This kind of pitfall has happened a lot to new game engine developers(myself included) - the scripting language shouldn't be the engine, but at the outset, exposing all the internals 1:1 so that "anything is possible" is the
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I'm interested in "new architecture, retro capability" myself, so devices like MiSTer or Agon Light have interested me lately, although I haven't jumped over to getting one. Along the same lines, I decided that I would j
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Modern computing is a line of middlemen, each one in turn saying "let me help you with that" in a patronizing tone. At the end of the line you are handed an iPad and told what you are allowed to consume.
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I've just avoided engaging with the LLM "race" and stick with free ChatGPT 3.5 when I want to tinker. The technology is not on my critical path right now, so I'll probably engage when it settles into more defined product
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I think the phenomenon of "underpowered host commands OP support" is somewhat inevitable in this "retro remake" space. Uzebox, one of the first projects of this type, found a path with the ATMega that really does it all-
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Next, you can learn about paper sizing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sizing And paper weight: https://www.strathmoreartist.com/faq-full/paper-weight-what-... And then you may feel inspired to a
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Markers are powerful, and defacto the most practical art pens since they give immediate gratification, reasonably controlled lines and dark permanent inks with low risk of leakage, fraying or drying out. But the ballpoints are slightly bett
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For the same reasons that a lot of people associate Pascal with either Borland's older Pascal implementations or a limited, academic Pascal, a lot of people today think of BASIC in terms of the BASIC that they had access to, and the ma
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Ask what a "game mechanic" is and you'll get three different answers. Not even the authors of the "MDA" paper, which got everyone using that term, were consistent in their definition. I sometimes find myself using i
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I concur. Digital game design lends itself to working "UI down" instead of "data model up" because most of the feel of the game derives from the interface. This is even true if you look at something like Civilization .
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Ease of retraining/refinement is something I'm really hoping for. There are an endless number projects to make a "cleaner, revised X", where the coding itself is rote and has already been done at some point, it's ju
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A lot of sound can be absorbed by just introducing mass, e.g. a full bookshelf. Shelves need bracing for earthquakes, but if you think of "library quiet", a lot of that is created by how the space is filled, not because people act
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The decline of consumer goods theft is actually a strong signal that the project of consumerism has run its course - part of "making it" in the late 20th century was having the toys, but the toys are now prolific, and that's
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"Technology" isn't in the processes or inventions, it's in the societal dependencies that enable their deployment and maintenance. Some of these come "bottom-up," others "top-down". If you step into a
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In truth, the Atari 8-bits I used from that era had trouble keeping up with fast typing and would drop characters, which is worse than just a delay. The nature of the development process then was necessarily centered on hardware development
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At the time, while there was a lot of developing theory around string parsing and tokenization, a lot of the formal theory being crafted led to impractical implementations. At the same time, interactive coding was relatively new: a lot of s
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A problem that often comes up with extensible formats is that whomever comes along and implements them assumes exactly the test cases they came up with, which can often mean "just the files I have for this project" or "just t
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I believe it's actually quite a bit harder to apply the "principle of least power" in practice than it is to recapitulate Fortran in some fashion. Programming languages boil down to type system + syntax + runtime + libraries,
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Learning some ability to draw and paint takes roughly the same amount of persistence as learning to write. That is, you have to recall what a struggle it was to hold the pencil and make a steady mark from the wrist...and then apply that to
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When it's an input event in Linux, and you want direct control over what it does, it ultimately ends in writing a daemon with libevdev to get the device event. At least, that is what happened to me last time.
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This argument rests on your views of labor theory of property, which suggests that you "own something" by "putting labor into" that thing. We loosely apply this as a premise for intellectual property rights, but it'
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The three-ring binder is vastly underused as a personal organizational tool. It folds up and shelves nicely, and when you stuff it with accessories, it will hold every small gadget, manual, extra screw and receipt. I have a whole stack of t
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UCSC EIS was doing some work on this kind of thing over the past decade: https://eis.ucsc.edu/ Everything procedural in nature essentially reflects the design philosophy of the creator: that's a fundamental restriction
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The players deploying robotaxi right now are entering a market that resembles shared micromobility(scooter, e-bike) - what they need is not just vehicles, but to get on the side of the appropriate regulatory bodies and to get eyeballs on th
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The likes of itch.io, Roblox, and the App Store already exist, each with more games than anyone can reasonably curate. The games market has been in the same place as the rest of the arts for some time now: if you want to be noticed, you hav
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They can only do this if they're starting from a decent financing scenario, which they hardly ever are. Most of the companies founded this way have to do work-for-hire projects, and that relies on a "Goldilocks" work pipeline
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Airing this anime season, "16bit Sensation: Another Layer" goes in some depth discussing this era of computing. The anime adapts the manga source by adding a time travel story, which is one of the cornerstone tropes of visual nove
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My little spot of nuance on this reply would be that the point of starting in software would not be to aim for a fast or feature-rich implementation. That seems to be the sticking point of the replies in favor of going hardware-first - that

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