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by gmueckl 5y ago
The tram loading screen could have been an engine limitation. Streaming the game world from disk works nicely if the player moves at a pace that is slow enough that the disk can keep up. Long range teleportation breaks that assumption compl
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by gmueckl 5y ago
If hydrogen is produced from electricity at scale, it won't be used for energy storage. It'll get sold to chemical plants first. They'll pay good prices.
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by gmueckl 5y ago
Confined plasmas have complex behaviors that are really, really hard to model computationally. Experimentation definitely beats computation in this field.
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by gmueckl 5y ago
The German green party had made it part of their program to stop all research into all kinds of "nuclear" technologies, explicitly listing fusion research as something to be stopped. I think that this passage has been removed agai
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by gmueckl 5y ago
TL/DR: it's about readability and clarity of unfamiliar code. One problem of large codebases is that they tend to be team efforts. Given a a sufficiently large and flexible language, each team member will find their own style and
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by gmueckl 5y ago
There are some companies that develop various kinds of animation tools. This is pretty niche, but this probably also means that there's also not a lot of people competing for jobs. If you can, get a job that is not on the front lines i
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by gmueckl 5y ago
Do you want to tell us what you find interesting? There are companies that do the same or very similar things to game developers, but for/in other industries. For example, the product I'm working on a product for real time archite
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by gmueckl 5y ago
QtWebEngine is a completely separate module within Qt that you need to link to explicitly to use. You don't pay for it unless you actually use it.
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by gmueckl 5y ago
It's run by Intuition Machines, Inc. which seems to be incorporated in California. That fact alone disqualifies it.
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by gmueckl 5y ago
If you are navigating a complex folder structure, it's easy to start typing > cd path/to/ and then realizing that you don't remember whether you need subdirectory1 or subdirectory2 next. With tab completion, you can j
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by gmueckl 5y ago
The risk here is that the original code contains a bug that is inadvertently reproduced by the replicating scientists after reading it. It can easily happen in some fields that some computation looks very plausible in code, but is actually
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by gmueckl 5y ago
The 68k series are rather simple designs by today's standard and should be old enough to have lost patent protection. How hard would it be to reimplement the ISA as a Verilog/VHDL softcore?
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by gmueckl 5y ago
Did the author ask James Kajiya whether he is comfortable with giving hos name to this project?
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by gmueckl 5y ago
This reminds me: the Allegro library has a way to compile bitmaps into series of mov instructions to make blitting faster. This was somehow the fastest method on early x86 processors. Loops were expensive back then. See https://l
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by gmueckl 5y ago
This looks like a temporary injunction only and doesn't by itself establish any precedent. IANAL, but my understanding is that the court usually only evaluates whether that claim of harm is plausible and whether the burden put on the o
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by gmueckl 5y ago
A reduced rate of severe cases still is simply a mere constant factor that won't save us. Unless the rate goes down to approx. zero we're back to square one where there is almost no immunity and the number of simultaneous severe c
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by gmueckl 5y ago
Code review processes should catch the worst of that. If you don't have those and don't have incredibly disciplined developers, well, good luck...
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by gmueckl 5y ago
The codebase was originally written for V850 and quite mature by the time I joined. It was ported to ARM.
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by gmueckl 5y ago
In some languages, you can enforce boundaries within a monolith nicely using the build system. The key is to break the build up into a hierarchically structured set of libraries somehow where each library only gets to use those libraries it
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by gmueckl 5y ago
C++ on bare metal microcontrollers works quite well. I've done that. You have pretty much the same restrictions as C or rust in that space, even though they look a bit different due how C++ works. But then again, you also need learn
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by gmueckl 5y ago
Because a community with a strong devotion to a new tool is evidence of a strong reality distortion field and the reality is then decidedly less rosy than the followers of the new creed proclaim.
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by gmueckl 5y ago
That isn't quite correct. The Blender team did and does more than just the usual community building. They are more actively seeking attention from media than other open source which I am aware of.
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by gmueckl 5y ago
If you asked me, Blender is just insanely good at marketing itself. When it comes to software, having good marketing and sales is always more important than the quality of the product. The Blender team knows this and is very aggressive when
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by gmueckl 5y ago
Such an anonymous mode would be damaging for GitHub because it needs to stay friendly with its commercial and corporate customers. Besides, such a mode only provides obfuscation, but no legal protection at all. In fact, lawyers would turn i
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by gmueckl 5y ago
I haven't had a close look at Lego bricks for years until a few weeks ago and got a chance to compare that with copycat set. That made me extremely aware of the high level of quality that a Lego set has: the bricks are extremely well m
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by gmueckl 5y ago
In that case it's more a question of why that heck a chat UI inside a game cares about HTML and JS in the first place. Someone clearly overdesigned something here.
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by gmueckl 5y ago
Ogre had its golden period at the time when game engines were becoming so complex that writing a complete engine from scratch was definitely becoming too expensive for small teams to take on and the major engines at that time still had very
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by gmueckl 5y ago
You mean that tiny little UK that produces only around 2,5% of the gross world product? ;) Being fifth on a sorted list that is pretty long doesn't say much all by itself. The overall distribution matters, too. Seen that way, a success
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by gmueckl 5y ago
Also, massively reduced energy consumption if you choose the right hardware (e.g. ultra low power microcontrollers).
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by gmueckl 5y ago
Winamp at this point in time is just a trademark that ended up at a Belgian company. And I think they want to use it to launch a music streaming service. The rest of Nullsoft went down with AOL. I wonder which party would even have the lega

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