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by eliasdaler 4y ago
"I think its really important for any developer, whether they are encased in the glories of the browser or otherwise, to understand how to add the Lua VM - to anything - and then use that as a means of productive application developmen
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by eliasdaler 4y ago
I think I should clarify this in the article further. What I meant to say is: "after you've implemented the basics, e.g. input handling, basic renderer, file I/O etc. and you've got a basic game running, then you can sta
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by eliasdaler 4y ago
I don't think that this approach is that good. First of all, you need to write a custom "interface" file. Then, you need to integrate running of swig into your build process, which makes the build complicated. With sol, it&#x
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Using Lua with C++(edw.is)
66 points by eliasdaler 4y ago|42 comments
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by eliasdaler 4y ago
> 100% anonymous, aggregated, and open to the public I don't believe the "100% anonymous" is a thing with AI anymore. When AI can identify/fingerprint you by your walk pattern[1], you can't really tell what data
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by eliasdaler 4y ago
"and realize that it needs the ability to switch, install, or even decide at boot as a purpose built OS." They don't care. This won't bring them money. Showing you ads and tracking you will, so they'll continue doin
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by eliasdaler 4y ago
FTC actually has guidelines and rules for online advertising. Here’s a doc from them saying that the ads should be clearly marked as ads: https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/plain-language/bu... S
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by eliasdaler 4y ago
The ads should be clearly marked as ads, in my opinion. I hate when social media sites hide ads by making them look like regular posts. It’s a dark pattern.
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by eliasdaler 4y ago
Why not hire directly then?
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by eliasdaler 4y ago
Plausible deniability. "Rogue employee" is what they always use when doing damage control.
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by eliasdaler 4y ago
Ah yes, "Don't blame company, blame the contractors". That's exactly why companies use contractors more and more - plausible deniability. Same with CEOs hiding behind many layers of hierarchy so that they can always say
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by eliasdaler 4y ago
Agreed. Making custom editors/tools/content pipelines is also much easier when you have your own engine. Of course, you can write custom plugins for some engines, but I always felt uneasy about this - plugin API always breaks and
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by eliasdaler 4y ago
* glfw, SDL - C, low level, require more work to get started with (maybe coupled with bgfx if you don’t want to write your own renderer). * SFML (C++), Ebitengine (Go), bevy (Rust) - high level, easier to use. * LÖVE2D (Lua), raylib (C) - e
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by eliasdaler 4y ago
Check out "Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software" by Charles Petzold. It goes back to the earliest days of computation (Charles Babbage, etc.) and then shows how it evolved into computers we have today. It do
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by eliasdaler 4y ago
I can also highly recommend Plex and Plexamp. They're fantastic - I use it for storing my music on NAS and playing it from all my devices. https://plexamp.com/
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by eliasdaler 4y ago
Indeed. It's a shame that many people immediately call others "Luddites" as if technological progress always equates to "good things". The opposite has been shown to be true again and again.
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by eliasdaler 4y ago
What about people with social anxiety? Speech disabilities? People who can't physically go out to an online meet? It's not just about acceptance, it's also about the comfort and safety of online communication.
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by eliasdaler 4y ago
"quick, fact-based overview" I'd argue with "fact-based". It frequently makes up facts (and even sources!) as it generates text. Also you should consider the possibility that "the facts" it generates can e
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by eliasdaler 4y ago
But you can buy non-physical DRM-free games too on GOG or itch.io, for example. So it's not just physical games that stay with you forever. DRM-free digital PC games are even better because you can back them up a lot easier than disk&
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by eliasdaler 4y ago
At least people are giving a disclaimer. I'm afraid we'll soon waste a lot of time reading ChatGPT generated comments without even realizing it.
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by eliasdaler 4y ago
Custom ranges will be possible at some point: https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/54245
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by eliasdaler 6y ago
We should not - it's a dangerous idea which gets people's lives destroyed. "Innocent until guilty" is an important concept which mob justice often forgets which causes a lot of damage. Just because one system is broken,
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by eliasdaler 6y ago
Does mob justice have a wonderful track record? Just because police and justice system are not perfect doesn't mean that the "alternative" is the one that should be considered right.
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by eliasdaler 6y ago
"... and Stallman writes an e-mail that sounds very much as if he's obliquely defending Epstein" Complete misinterpretation of what RMS has written about. He defended Minsky, not Epstein.
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LuaVela – the LuaJIT fork I've worked on(eliasdaler.github.io)
5 points by eliasdaler 7y ago|2 comments
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by eliasdaler 8y ago
That's because the compiler would have to track at compile time which value the "foo" has.
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by eliasdaler 8y ago
Why not just use Qt then?
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How to implement action sequences and cutscenes (action lists and coroutines)(eliasdaler.github.io)
1 points by eliasdaler 8y ago|0 comments
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How my little C++ meta-serialization library works and how I wrote it(eliasdaler.github.io)
12 points by eliasdaler 9y ago|0 comments
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Making and storing references to game objects (entities) in C++ and Lua(eliasdaler.github.io)
1 points by eliasdaler 10y ago|0 comments

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