fenomas

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by fenomas 4y ago
> when there are some heavy stuff on the main thread the audio may get glitches Where have you seen that? TFA is just using oscillators, not ScriptProcessor or anything, so one would expect all the heavy audio work to be happening outsid
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by fenomas 4y ago
> Originally (pre-ECMA days).. JS appeared in Dec 95 and the first ECMA spec came in June 97, so that's a pretty narrow window. But it's certainly true that ASI style (omitting semicolons) was relatively rare before, say, 2010-
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by fenomas 4y ago
The JS part of your comment isn't correct at all. ASI rules are fully described in the very first JS spec, and in 20+ years of JS coding I can't recall ever having heard of browsers handling it inconsistently.
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by fenomas 4y ago
> I would imagine that Lucas owned the books, If Lucasfilm ever owned the copyright to these books, they could grant themselves the right to publish without obligations. They didn't, so they never owned the copyrights, so Disney doe
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by fenomas 4y ago
I can't wrap my head around this "the assets but not the liabilities" argument. Surely the asset in question here is "the right to publish a work in exchange for paying royalties", no? The right to publish without p
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by fenomas 5y ago
This is not generally true. Mechanics in 5e with a radius affect a sphere of that size, and for grids normally the rule is that grid spaces are affected if their center is within the radius. So TFA's token radius is probably meant for
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by fenomas 5y ago
> Do they berate you? The website describes it as: > Mild: they ask if you met your goal when you pay > Normal: they ask about your progress once an hour or so > Hard: like Normal, and staff will frequently stand behind you sile
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by fenomas 5y ago
I think you're being too kind - TFA strikes me as basically a long confused "if we assume X then we find X". I mean, in the introduction the author gives a standard definition of the Gambler's Fallacy, but then he immedi
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by fenomas 5y ago
Something weird going on with this article. It was already on the front page a few days ago, and got plenty of time there and comments. Now it's back, and a comment I left three days ago is on this page labeled as "10 hours ago&qu
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by fenomas 5y ago
An adjacent topic, since TFA is about acoustic guitars and this is about electric, but I recently came across an excellent video where a guitarist tries to determine exactly which parts of an electric guitar affect its tone. He did it by me
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by fenomas 5y ago
I work on this space a lot, and maintain a couple of libraries you might be interested in. They are very much focused on light quick "good enough" web audio music/sound effects. https://github.com/fenomas&#x2F
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by fenomas 5y ago
Yes, managing webaudio nodes is pretty hellish. If you're interested I maintain a small library for abstracting them - basically you pass the library an object describing what oscillators and filters you want, and what timing envelopes
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by fenomas 5y ago
Agreed. As far as I can tell the author's premise is: "normally the Gambler's Fallacy refers to things like coins and dice, where you don't know the precise odds but you do know that trials are independent. But if we red
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by fenomas 5y ago
If you watch the video you'll see the two song samples in the latter half are in the same key and instrument.
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by fenomas 5y ago
> And if it really is a coincidence it’s quite the coincidence: > https://youtu.be/8OrT52ZToUk Obviously these things are subjective, but I heard no resemblance at all. in that video. Until the second song played I h
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by fenomas 5y ago
Karl's channel is a great place to dive into. I guess he started as just a speedrunner, but in recent years he's been making terrific videos on deep mechanics of speedrunning, on cheating and cheat detection, etc. And he's do
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by fenomas 5y ago
The Departed was a licensed remake. Its producers bought and paid for the rights to remake the original.
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by fenomas 5y ago
Bug report: the typo-squatting check seems overly aggressive. I checked a module with a name like "foo-engine", and Socket shows a warning that this may be a typo for "engine.io".
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by fenomas 5y ago
They didn't put a copy of Maisel's photo on their CD - they asked a pixel artist to draw it, and put that on their CD. Whether doing that qualifies as a commercial use of Maisel's photo is precisely the point under contenti
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by fenomas 5y ago
> He's the rights holder of a famous image and they used it Begging the question - they made their own image, and then Maisel claimed it infringed his. You can agree with that claim if you like, but if someone made a directly compar
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by fenomas 5y ago
> from the exact same community of people who rightly insist that free software licences are enforceable and that non-compliance should be shamed This seems kind of disingenuous. People were mad that Maisel threatened a lawsuit in a case
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by fenomas 5y ago
Thanks for the extra details! I think idle games are a special case here, in that variable timesteps aren't necessarily a liability for them. In an ideal world, one would like all the systems in an idle game to be able to quickly simul
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by fenomas 5y ago
I do hybrid canvas/DOM gamedev myself, and it's fine for overlaying a few pieces of UI and styled text and so on. But when you have 30,000 of something like in TFA, there is no world where it makes sense to draw them via the DOM.
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by fenomas 5y ago
Browser games like this are normally drawing pixels into a canvas, not creating DOM objects for each game entity.
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by fenomas 5y ago
Lots of cool stuff here. But on the last point about managing renders, for my money any browser game is in a state of original sin if its logic and render loops are tightly coupled. The Right Thing To Do is to run logic and rendering at sep
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by fenomas 5y ago
Years ago there was a comment here on HN, to the tune of: "when a man fronts a team he's called a leader or a CEO; when a woman does the same she often gets called a figurehead or a fake", and it's one of those things wh
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by fenomas 5y ago
> The whole letter reads like a polemic attack on the editorial department of Scientific American. As I understand it, the furore here is over SciAm having published the article - not just that the article exists or that people disagre
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by fenomas 5y ago
Speaking of phreaking, I always loved how Sneakers wasn't afraid to be understated. The David Strathairn character mentions that he got in trouble for helping some people make free phone calls, and has perfect pitch and the nickname &q
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by fenomas 5y ago
To a disinterested outsider, this dialog reads like: A: everything in this book is literally true B: what about this passage where it says 3+4=9? A: my interpretation of that passage is that the 9 represents a 7 in that particular context T
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by fenomas 5y ago
There weren't any eagles. Frodo made them up when writing down his memoirs, so he wouldn't have to narrate the long, dreary journey from Mount Doom back to Gondor.

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