dbandstra

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by dbandstra 6y ago
I wouldn't call that careless. So far, proposals to extend the for-loop have not passed the cost/benefit test. I think supporting iterators would require something like magic-methods, which so far are not a thing in Zig (language
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by dbandstra 6y ago
Zig is a lot more complex than C, but I think most of the language complexity came from filling in gaps rather than tacking things on. For example I think they have settled on having no dynamic dispatch feature (interface, trait, virtual me
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by dbandstra 6y ago
It's good to see the project soldier forward! Some things I am excited about for the future: - Continued progress on the new "stage2" compiler, which is written in Zig itself (long promised, work started in earnest I think ab
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by dbandstra 6y ago
It's pretty amazing to see this project still going. I remember Sauerbraten more because of its unique engine. Maps are basically a big octree with something like marching-cubes applied, and can be edited in realtime (and in multiplaye
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by dbandstra 6y ago
The Quake 1 and 2 model formats were very similar, the interpolation was a rendering feature. After the Quake 1 engine source was released in late 1999 the interpolation was quickly added by fans (although it wasn't as easy as it sound
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Patients of a Vermont hospital are left 'in the dark' after cyberattack(nytimes.com)
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by dbandstra 6y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23240800
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by dbandstra 6y ago
Cool, I missed that :) The temperature setting does seem to make it stop picking puffy jackets, although it's still coming up with some pretty heavy outfits. I'm sure that's just a matter of simple tweaking. Will keep an eye
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by dbandstra 6y ago
This is fun to mess around with. It would be nice if you could select "climate" (like daily weather or even season) as an additional input. It keeps adding puffy vests and jackets over an already warm shirt. Maybe loosen up the to
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by dbandstra 6y ago
This is a really nice system. Quake used it back in 1996 to fit the game in 8MB. They called it a "hunk"[0] and it worked pretty much exactly as you said. The main drawback I find is that you can't use some generic data struc
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by dbandstra 7y ago
I keep getting surreal hells. First: I see my pregnant sister nearby, I go back to work and then go to sleep. I wake up, and she is standing over my bed. I ask her about the baby, and she says that it's a boy, six months old, and it ha
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by dbandstra 7y ago
I think this is a great idea. I maintain a personal extension as well. I've experimented with a few ideas for augmenting browser experience, but so far I'm mostly just hiding obtrusive elements on various websites (mostly by CSS,