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by ethbro 6y ago
Presumably nothing! But I imagine it was might have been impractical, given lockstep method is kind of predicated on "Do it because you can't afford to only compute and transmit from a central node." In the era it was used, s
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by ethbro 6y ago
There's a reason there were no complex-state MMOs at that time -- there simply wasn't the residential bandwidth to perform continual full state updates (latency aside). E.g. grid & turn-based vs 3-D free-motion worlds They say
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by ethbro 6y ago
It was linked to in that one. Pretty sure this is it: https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131503/1500_archers_o... It's also a fascinating historical artifact of "when internet play meant orders
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by ethbro 6y ago
Per the infamous Age of Empires multiplayer write-up (I think?), never use independently random code. Everything should be key-based pseudorandom. Much easier to sync keys and play forward vs syncing at every Rand call.
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by ethbro 6y ago
Publish benchmarks as an LLC, then just go ahead and declare bankruptcy.
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by ethbro 6y ago
You can't sue someone for violating ToS... right? At worst, you can refuse to do business with them and revoke any current contracts. You'd have to sue under actual law, which would presumably be libel, which is (in)famously hard
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by ethbro 6y ago
I mean, the US embargo is a big cause of why they're poor. But the dictatorship is the cause of that embargo. If Cuba could trade freely with the US, their economy would be better. If Cuba were under a more free government, their econo
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by ethbro 6y ago
Yes. And we're both clear that there wasn't always a mobile app version of Gmail, right?
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by ethbro 6y ago
As my father pointed out to a younger me, 'Evolution is lazy. It would always rather repurpose something already created than build something new from scratch.' So, why base64? Because there was already a nice base64 library in th
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by ethbro 6y ago
The initial phrasing about heavy metals sounded to me like it was referring to the brewing process (without being specific as to which one). At first approximation, I'd be surprised if agitating heated water in the presence of particul
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by ethbro 6y ago
It's pretty popular for email, at 25%+ market share [1]. That's a LOT of information to mine. And point about conversations moving to post-email protocols, but email is certainly still up there with HTTP as a bedrock standard that
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by ethbro 6y ago
To an average user, Google in 2003 was a search page. In 2004+, it was essential internet infrastructure. That's a pretty big difference.
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by ethbro 6y ago
I definitely feel there's some poor-UX lazy loading of results. But literally mystified why there isn't a prebuilt index table that instantly loads the top results. All Windows apps / panels + last 250 files opened shouldn&#x
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by ethbro 6y ago
The really sad thing is that Windows has multiple accessibility layers for every visual control (e.g. Active Accessibility). So there is literally already a textual, and usually interpretable, path to any window . Apparently tying search i
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by ethbro 6y ago
My only explanation is that the Windows 10 search rewrite metadata was outsourced to a team that didn't actually know how Windows works. It seems like they stripped all metadata, including visual names of items themselves , and instea
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by ethbro 6y ago
I mean, modern Google was half-built on the back of the Gmail web app...
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by ethbro 6y ago
Because small trucks require more fuel- and emissions-efficient engines than larger ones.
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by ethbro 6y ago
Sony's only interest is to do a single deployment, using a customized OS and firmware, and then get as many articles out of the project as possible. They have zero incentive to subsidize supercomputers. They're in the business of
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by ethbro 6y ago
It comes down to a truism about generally anything: it's inefficient to figure out how to do a thing without some amount of doing a thing. It's not a huge surprise someone building games makes a better game engine than someone
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by ethbro 6y ago
They did. Unfortunately, they isolated all the innovation in the Alpha Centauri / Beyond Earth / Starship line.
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by ethbro 6y ago
I'm sympathetic to the AAA publisher / developer plight, where they're basically doomed to give Steam a cut. But for god's sake, take the Hulu approach. Both Origin and Uplay were a hot mess last time I tried them, when
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by ethbro 6y ago
Seen through the most charitable glasses, the purpose of Soace Force is that any major-power shooting war is now likely to involve rapid space-based asset degradation. Fighting such a war without a unified command over the theater in whic
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by ethbro 6y ago
Optimize for the game you're actually playing, not the ideal game you imagine it to be.
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by ethbro 6y ago
Anything less than perfection will incure avoidable future costs, and perfection approaches infinite time to deliver. Ergo, standing in the present, one should do ones best to estimate future costs and decide what percent of perfection seem
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by ethbro 6y ago
>>> Using cars at all isn’t the best we can possibly do. >> Granted. But any solutions to that are several orders of magnitude more expensive. > Strong disagree. Right now - the state of Covid work-from-home - is partial e
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by ethbro 6y ago
People disliked Ribbon because it took a logical system geared towards power users (hierarchical menus) and replaced it with an organic system geared towards new users (usage-driven ordering). There was no way that wasn't going to piss
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by ethbro 6y ago
> What people wanted was quick & easy way to produce HTML5 forms and tables, but with the power of a native GUI app. Spot on. As with all things, Microsoft-of-the-time saw the web as a competitor to its products, not a new platform.
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by ethbro 6y ago
Essential tremors are absolutely a thing as one ages too (and develops a coffee habit).
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Because gig economy businesses successfully lower the friction of getting a job. By having an on demand workforce, they can fire (aka not schedule) much more easily. Consequently, they can also hire easily. There's a non-negligible poo
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by ethbro 6y ago
> Determining which organizational complexity is essential and which is accidental is likely the quintessential hard problem of business. Three questions. (1) "What would the impact on our business be if we built the best possible,

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