jamesu

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by jamesu 3y ago
Another example could be: in Tribes, when you pilot a vehicle your player character gets attached to a mount point and any physics calculations are ignored. I'd imagine nintendo probably have other claims linked to this since alone it
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by jamesu 3y ago
In a project a while back we had a problem with too many potential shader variations which needed to be precompiled because there was no way of determining which variants were actually used in advance. I think it was well past the 20k mark.
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by jamesu 3y ago
Is performance really going to be a deciding factor for using this? I'd guess it depends what you really want in your "scripting" language. For me I'd want some sort of runtime with an easily readable language that can t
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by jamesu 3y ago
Bit fields saved me an immense amount of pain when packing together state variables for a renderer, so I wouldn't write them off as being bad myself.
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by jamesu 3y ago
It feels like theres so many of these fancy text editing solutions out there right now, would be great if there was a good comparison of features and pros/cons vs other solutions.
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by jamesu 3y ago
I was planning on doing this, but wasn't entirely sure how much of a bottleneck the CPU would be especially in some sort of encrypted raid setup...
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by jamesu 3y ago
I would love an explanation of Tribes' skiing bug presented in the style of this video. There have been so many differing explanations of it in blog posts over the years which haven't completely sat right with me.
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by jamesu 3y ago
I played through this game the other month and was amazed at how well it still holds up. Also a good example of a game with a very complimentary sound track.
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by jamesu 3y ago
I don't think making the usernames randomjoe4587 and randomjoe4597 is going to be much of an improvement in this case. If anything, its harder to read.
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by jamesu 3y ago
One time I had to consolidate a late family members personal files spread across several types of media which ended up totalling several TBs. None of it was organized, so there were duplicates everywhere. Probably only 20% of the data was n
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by jamesu 4y ago
This kind of thing makes me wonder, could you write the prompt in a different style and still get the same results?
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by jamesu 4y ago
For a long while I just copied everything to an imap server and dumped the mailbox, but this looks like an even better solution.
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by jamesu 4y ago
Gitea actions looks neat though I'm not sure how you are meant to run windows or mac-centric workflows with it since the runtime (nektos/act) seems to require docker. If its not possible that might limit its usefulness somewhat...
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by jamesu 4y ago
I'd love something with more workflow centred around pruning and reorganizing notes. Often I'm just dumping lots of info into notes which end up not being so useful in the long-run since the signal-noise ratio is too low.
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by jamesu 4y ago
Benchmarks for fib are great and all, but unless you are making fibonacci simulator 2023 it's not really a good selling point. What I really want to know when looking at a scripting language is: how easy is it really to embed? Does it
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by jamesu 4y ago
On my current gen Windows 11 box it takes 5-6 seconds to launch and 2-3 seconds to finish opening a new window, which to me is pretty jarring.
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by jamesu 4y ago
From personal experience, it's not quite a silver bullet either.
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by jamesu 4y ago
Using a 4 as a wireless bridge. I've tried using them to host servers (mainly storing data) but been burned too many times using sd cards, and once I inevitably add in an ssd/hdd the value of using the pi vs just getting a cheap s
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by jamesu 4y ago
One thing that surprised me: pushing git-lfs files was around 3x faster in onedev on a ~3gb repository with about ~60k files. I don't know whats going on inside gitea to make it so much slower as they both just store data inside a fold
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by jamesu 4y ago
Can also recommend checking out onedev. Seemed much lighter weight to me than gitlab, and it didn't choke when handling large amounts of data like gitea seems to. Not used the CI besides some basic tests, but it looks pretty capable fr
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by jamesu 4y ago
I'm aware of several communities which seem to rely heavily on custom mods. Not sure what they are going to do, though on the plus side maybe we will see more innovation in the multiplayer VR marketplace.
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by jamesu 4y ago
Can also recommend MoneyDance. Transaction entry and reconciliation is pretty slick, plus it's just a java app so you can run it on anything.
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by jamesu 4y ago
Speaking of networking older games, I think the "TRIBES Engine Networking Model" is also an interesting read. Managing ~128 players over the internet in a single game back in the late 90's was no mean feat. A lot of these kin
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by jamesu 4y ago
Can't believe this is not better known. I had huge problems with a git-lfs setup being slow on gitea, but I tried out onedev and its implementation was a magnitude faster. Plus configuring and launching the thing was pretty simple....
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by jamesu 5y ago
I find it somewhat insane it renames files to add tags to them by default. Though there is a "sidecar" option which stores the tags in a hidden folder at least. Still, pales in comparison to a full-featured document management app
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by jamesu 5y ago
"Multiple occurrences of matches" could have definitely been an issue for a friend of mine. When they took a picture, they'd often go for the "blitz the subject with the camera" approach, then never ended up deletin
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by jamesu 6y ago
Font metrics are a pain. A while back I was working on trying to reliably reproduce the behaviour you get from the win32 font api using stb_truetype, but due to time constraints I just ended up having to manually tweak font sizes to match.
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by jamesu 6y ago
Would be interested to see some guide on supporting 3d acceleration. Wasn’t there some announcement last year they were sticking some d3d layer in wsl2?
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by jamesu 6y ago
I'm not surprised given mine seem to play notification sounds at FULL BLAST.
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by jamesu 6y ago
Does any of this translate into actual real-world improved stability yet?

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