hunterloftis

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by hunterloftis 6y ago
...or simulating the world every 16 ms as is typical in a "real" game. You can bridge that gap by taking periodic snapshots of the reduced state, which is a useful pattern in distributed game development where you sometimes have t
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by hunterloftis 6y ago
I believe this is why OP brought up the birthright social contract. Given an absence of society, it’s fair to argue self-reliance, and that no one should have to carry another. However, being born into a society strips you of certain natura
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by hunterloftis 6y ago
Ha! Thanks for the actually out-loud laugh. (I maintain a handful of small libraries that meet your description, and only recently "awakened from slumber" to release a new version of https://github.com/hunterloftis
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by hunterloftis 6y ago
In what way does <shop-app> not deal with complexity through composition? It is a component, composed of other components, which in turn are composed of further components. At what arbitrary level of complexity should we stop comp
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by hunterloftis 6y ago
> Using a fairly simple base class like Lit-Element to provide some template niceties and lifecycle hooks gives us all the extras we need. We've figured out a really nice top-down functional state pattern for data that eliminates th
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by hunterloftis 6y ago
> in my experience 95% of the dependencies of web components are... other web components Sure, and in a single project at a single company that's probably fine. You've all agreed to standardize on a single version of Lit-Elemen
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by hunterloftis 6y ago
HN seems to be beginning a transition I recognize from proggit: thoughtful discussion by experts devolving into superficial critiques for the social media masses. Perhaps I’m yelling at clouds, but it’s disappointing to find an article that
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by hunterloftis 6y ago
And according to the article those $99-type whales are elevated into the "high-rollers" areas where the amounts gambled for are larger... leading to a similar amount of playtime at "higher stakes" only because of digital
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by hunterloftis 6y ago
Would you continue paying for a game where you lost 99% of the time?
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by hunterloftis 6y ago
I think you may be interested in Web Components. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Web_Components
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by hunterloftis 6y ago
I've heard this term used a few times now - a "frothy market," or a "frothy startup," but I'm not familiar with it. What does frothiness mean in terms of markets?
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by hunterloftis 6y ago
Me too! I went deep into that rabbit hole and ended up with a presentation on things webdev can learn from gamedev: https://youtu.be/avwDj3KRuLc
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by hunterloftis 6y ago
I love the style of this and tried something similar before changing direction with Table of Sending. After lots of testing, I settled on 2.5D tiles for the DMs who wanted to sketch their maps 15 minutes before playtime: - https:/&#x2
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by hunterloftis 6y ago
How not? If car A and car B are traveling on parallel routes at speeds X and Y, then their speed delta is |X-Y|, which will always be < X and < Y unless one of them is driving into oncoming traffic.
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by hunterloftis 6y ago
Agreed. Following the article’s own advice of “ask someone who knows how your industry works” would certainly lead to “pay an artist” rather than “churn on your programmer art” if your goal is shipping a successful game.
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by hunterloftis 6y ago
Sure, slower in absolute terms. But a car crash on a highway typically involves two moving vehicles, reducing the delta at impact. Moreover, cars are engineered specifically to protect occupants during a collision. They have safety cages, a
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by hunterloftis 6y ago
I have not seen any data to indicate that server-side developers (outside of your circle) are more excited about Swift than Go.
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by hunterloftis 6y ago
> a "simple" stack of lit-html, vanilla JS and ES6 modules This is precisely how I’ve been building tableofsending.com and it’s been a lovely experience. You do need some babel/tsc/etc build step to reach a reasonabl
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by hunterloftis 6y ago
In my very limited (I don't use nix) opinion, the default of /nix isn't an issue, but rather: > and it's not possible to migrate without causing major disruptions for existing NixOS and other Linux users. Software tha
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by hunterloftis 6y ago
> I find it hard to believe that wealth transfer from metro to rural is larger than wealth transfer in the opposite direction. Why do you find this hard to believe? I'm curious to learn what wealth transfer from rural to urban metro
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Dungeons & Dragons, new friends, and an app to keep playing(tableofsending.com)
2 points by hunterloftis 6y ago|0 comments
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by hunterloftis 6y ago
I'm building a Dungeons&Dragons/Pathfinder/etc remote tabletop system for my D&D party: https://twitter.com/HunterLoftis/status/1248742209110884353 "Share a link and start playing"
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by hunterloftis 6y ago
I still use a 7. I don't even notice it, which is exactly what I want in a phone - it does what I need and doesn't annoy me or have many annoying quirks. iOS's new text interface may still push me to Android. The affordances
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by hunterloftis 7y ago
A bit late but I use the OXO brew conical burr on its "fine" setting. It looks nice, works reliably, has good ergonomics, and doesn't get messy. Also runs the full gamut of grind sizes so we can use it with our french press a
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The Invention of the AeroPress (2014)(priceonomics.com)
147 points by hunterloftis 7y ago|184 comments
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by hunterloftis 7y ago
That isn't what I took from it; it sounds like various components (the example given was CPU and GPU) can sort of "trade" energy budgets: > send any unused power from the CPU to the GPU so it can squeeze out a few more pix
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A Go Roguelike(github.com)
1 points by hunterloftis 7y ago|0 comments
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by hunterloftis 7y ago
"web-sights"
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by hunterloftis 7y ago
I've also been enormously impressed with the design of lit-element, which carefully balances ease with simplicity. Just enough abstraction to automate the hard stuff without dictating your architecture.
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by hunterloftis 7y ago
> I know many smart folks, some who are engineers, who were scared of investing until they were in their mid 30's. One of my biggest regrets, coming from a family/socioeconomic group where nobody invested, is not beginning to i

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