fenomas

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by fenomas 6y ago
I've been doing a lot of gamedev and performance tuning in JS, and I do a fair bit of object pooling, but I don't think I've ever found a case where I was able to measure any actual impact on performance from it. It seems lik
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by fenomas 6y ago
I made an ECS in JS and have been using it for some time. It's not particularly designed for the kind of rollback you're talking about, but you might find it useful as a comparison: https://github.com/andyhall&#x2F
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by fenomas 6y ago
You can definitely dive into Zork fresh and have fun, and probably make it a fair ways into the game. But you will almost certainly hit a wall somewhere in the middle, as some of the puzzles (and also one important game mechanic) are pretty
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by fenomas 6y ago
> For example I can't help but think of what would happen if some random (not PhD) engineer came up with a new and highly innovative mathematical construct and published it on their blog... I doubt their idea would get any attention
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by fenomas 6y ago
Sounds about right. A pretty good friend of mine worked at Apple for a year or two, and I once asked if he enjoyed his time there. He answered: "no comment".
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by fenomas 6y ago
I read GP's post (and hence my reply) as being about sentiment here on HN. Obviously I agree that the general public's opinion of Apple isn't heavily influenced by meetup speeches and Gruber's blog :P
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by fenomas 6y ago
I said P⇒Q; you're asking if that means I believe !P⇒!Q. That is: I'm not saying a company is trustworthy if-and-only-if its employees speak publicly. I'm saying that my mental model of what a company would or wouldn't d
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by fenomas 6y ago
I've long felt like Apple is uniquely easy to distrust, due to its almost total lack of visible employees. I assume there are actual people working there, but I've never seen one, say, speak (openly) at a meetup or answer a stac
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by fenomas 7y ago
"Well" and "good" as predicate adjectives are both completely fine grammatically . Al's lyrics there are just telling people not to confuse the separate idiomatic meanings of "doing well" and "doing
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by fenomas 7y ago
> The names of the colors aren't even searchable (because it's not actual text), This might have something to do with the fact that the site predates CSS transforms.
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by fenomas 7y ago
I think the many comments griping about this site's layout/readability/accessibility are missing the fact that it was made in 2010 - a time when HTML5 was relatively new, many modern web features didn't exist yet, and
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by fenomas 7y ago
Yeah I think the article was off-base there - "withered" isn't a mistranslation at all. I'd probably have gone with "dried-up", but to translate it as "weathered" changes the meaning considerably.
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by fenomas 7y ago
The article's usage seems to drift around somewhat, but in esports I follow "meta" refers specifically to the consensus about which strategies are good or bad, not to strategies themselves or to anything someone does in a g
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by fenomas 7y ago
When last I read up on fingerprinting it was pretty dodgy - the problem being not that it's inaccurate, but that nobody really knows how accurate it is. Apparently the professional society that analysts all belong to forbids its memb
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by fenomas 7y ago
I think both senses are still common. I mainly hear the first one from news sources - "more cases of the so-called corona virus" or such.
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by fenomas 7y ago
Rest of the story: the article was restored about two days later. https://twitter.com/TwoBitHistory/status/1228332876099473409
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by fenomas 7y ago
> So-called λ-calculus? https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/so-called > 1: commonly named > the so-called pocket veto
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by fenomas 7y ago
I think I see what you're saying, but the context here was asking for cases where omitting semicolons causes non-obvious bugs. I mean: if(x) return "foo" clearly there's a bug there, but adding in semico
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by fenomas 7y ago
Linters correctly highlight all the ASI-related that realistically happen. (Or eslint does anyway, can't speak for others.)
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by fenomas 7y ago
Note though, that this ambiguity doesn't really affect the whole "whether to use semicolons" debate either way. If anything, it's more likely to occur in code that does use semicolons than in code that doesn't.
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by fenomas 7y ago
No idea what GP was trying to say, but the C style intuition is correct. The bug in that code is due to omitted brackets , it has nothing to do with semicolons/ASI.
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by fenomas 7y ago
In my experience, precisely as often as you write statements that start with a left bracket or paren. E.g. [1, 2, 3].forEach( ... ) (function(){ ... })() Statements like that are virtually always errors under ASI, but if you av
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by fenomas 7y ago
The animation style. Not sure how armor fits into things, but etymonline lists "anime" as being derived from French, where it's actually just an abbreviation of English "animation".
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by fenomas 7y ago
YMMV I suppose - I emailed him a correction (for "anime") years and years ago, which seemed pretty uncontroversial (4-5 reputable sources that all agreed), but he never replied or updated the entry. :(
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by fenomas 7y ago
No particular sources, but topic-wise what made things click for me was roman numeral notation and secondary chords. Or rather, implementing the math behind those things made me feel like I understood what was going on, and that's the
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by fenomas 7y ago
I've been down this rabbit hole for a few years, except making procedural music with code rather than physically playing an instrument. No musical background at all (I started by googling "chord" etc). My take is, the basics
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by fenomas 7y ago
> caught on camera acting in an extremely partisan manner I'm sorry, but even as political talking points go this makes no sense. He made a "cut" gesture during a live feed, but live news broadcasts cut from one feed to an
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by fenomas 7y ago
This is understandable, but nonetheless HN guidelines ask that you suspend that distrust. Every legit account starts with a first comment, and it's natural that a person's first comment would be on a topic they feel strongly about
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by fenomas 7y ago
It's open to anyone Apple certifies, and not to anyone else. How is that different from Docomo's model 5-6 years earlier?
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by fenomas 7y ago
> that were not generally open to anyone Apple's store isn't open to anyone. > and that took a much bigger cut than Apple. AFAIK Docomo (largest carrier in Japan) took 9%. Are you sure you know what you're talking about

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