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by dakom 3y ago
Illuvium is just a trading game with 3d graphics. This is not what I meant at all Their videos which tease advanced game mechanics look like pure hype to raise money from the gullible. Their white paper says nothing about how this works and
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by dakom 3y ago
I may have misunderstood your point of gaming. If your point was that games do not need to be on-chain, then it _really_ begs the question of what utility NFTs provide. Rephrased, in a game that depends on proprietary centralized servers, w
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by dakom 3y ago
NFTs are only spec for smart contracts that dictate mappings between "owners" and "token ids". That's it. End of story. There isn't even a universal requirement that maps from token id to metadata like OpenSea&
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by dakom 3y ago
I haven't played a ton of titles, only own a Quest 1, but I found Superhot and Beat Saber to be distinctly unique and more enjoyable than non-VR counterparts in some ways. On the other hand, I tried out some VR titles that just weren&#
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by dakom 3y ago
NFTs are essentially bearer tokens, very much like literal Bearer tokens in HTTP. To take one of your examples- gating auth to a community.. the community is usually an off-chain centralized thing like Discord. Due to that, the auth logic s
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by dakom 3y ago
Let's take airplanes as an example. 1. Do we start calling travel agents "aviation engineers" because they use airplanes to solve problems? 2. I sure hope the engineers who build planes aren't just winging it (ba doom ps
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by dakom 3y ago
I've never heard of non-deterministic programming languages. Is that really a thing? (I mean - cue the JS jokes and all, but, really?) Fwiw, to me, writing prompts feels most similar to management, directing, maybe psychotherapy (thoug
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by dakom 3y ago
That's extremely broad. I know how to push the buttons on my washing machine. So now I'm a laundering engineer? Maybe the answer is "yes", but I think it's a bit silly, and detracts from the engineering work that go
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by dakom 3y ago
Why are we calling this "engineering"? Isn't engineering the application of science to solve problems? (math, definitive logic, etc.) Maybe one day we'll have instruments that let us reason about the connections between
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by dakom 4y ago
Yes, sorry if that wasn't clear, but the transitions here are also typically restricted. For example, business logic may dictate that you can't go from waiting to success, you must go through loading and fetch fresh data. This pre
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by dakom 4y ago
Don't let the turkeys get you down. We need pranksters and, more importantly, the humility to shrug off having been pranked when no harm is done. Some people just take everything a bit too seriously imho. Insightful points in the artic
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by dakom 4y ago
The ubiquitous waiting/loading/error(msg)/success(data) Lots of frameworks and state management libraries already lean towards helpful design, in languages with async and ADTs as first-class citizens you've got a real le
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by dakom 4y ago
I think that's part of it, but the other part is load times. People are fine waiting the 10-30 minutes for a game to download on Steam or console. But they don't want to wait more than a few seconds for webpages. Also, techies und
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by dakom 4y ago
The carefree fun of youth is kinda the difference though :) I also built a lot of stuff in Flash/AS back in the day, and even rode the wave into AIR for a while. The OOP system, event handling with spaghetti code, and high level graphi
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by dakom 4y ago
Code review often takes me longer than writing code. More generally, reading other people's code is more difficult for me than writing (or reading) my own.
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by dakom 4y ago
Years ago, a camera gimbal. One of those DIY kits at less than a quarter of the price of name brands. Spent hours messing around with the physical rig and software settings, but the balance was never quite right. I'd imagine that the k
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by dakom 4y ago
Plot twist: it's $250M worth of Eth and the bracelet is hooked up to a smart contract that transfers funds if he violates the constraints
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by dakom 4y ago
How close are emulators to the real thing? I mean for someone who spent years in their youth developing muscle memory and would be irritated by slight differences
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by dakom 4y ago
Gotta agree with this. I eat plenty of indestructible processed foods and whatnot, but had a friend who would harvest olives and have them pressed into oil. It's truly a different taste. Another Middle-Eastern staple that fits this tre
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by dakom 4y ago
The Cloudflare Workers version sounds great. I've been noodling around with this idea a bit too, it's a pleasant surprise to see something out of the box :)
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by dakom 4y ago
Fair point.. and the response is also right on. I'd edit my original comment to say "...creating full interactive scenes of geometry and textures..." if I could :)
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by dakom 4y ago
The problem imho is bandwidth. Unless you are iq or similar, creating geometry and textures from thin-air with pure math is just not possible, so you need to load 3d models, which are much heavier than their html/png counterparts. Fo
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by dakom 4y ago
"Sometimes duplicating things, either code or data, can significantly simplifies a system. DRY isn't absolute." - John Carmack ref: https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/753745532619665408
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by dakom 5y ago
I know it's uncool to take the contrary view on this, but I've had enough bad trips from ludicrous fleeting thoughts... Actually dying seems like the worst possible "set and setting" if it goes bad I don't think w
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by dakom 5y ago
Fair enough :)
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by dakom 5y ago
Responding to all your points would require repeating things I have already said above, and I feel like you are deliberately trying to pick an argument at this point, which is clouding your judgement. I guess that's not a super nice th
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by dakom 5y ago
Erm... you've told me twice about the amen break.. I saw Aphrodite, dieselboy, and a bunch of other jungle artists live, sometimes in small hole in the wall places before they got big.. hung around the goa/psytrance scene a bunch
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by dakom 5y ago
Right, yeah, that's why I said _copyrightable_ samples.. e.g. sampling a sound from just about anywhere and slotting it into a tracker or drum machine is probably fine. I do agree the waters get muddy once it's multiple seconds lo
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by dakom 5y ago
Small nitpick- I'd say one of the hallmarks of electronic music was that it wasn't built from copyrightable samples. It was trackers and analog-then-digital synths and all sorts of microtonal weirdness which had never been heard
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by dakom 5y ago
I remember buying cassettes and then CDs, either from a known distributor or litte hole-in-the-wall shops. When digital music was getting big, it was mostly experienced through DJs at parties. They got their records from distributors and th

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