jtolmar

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by jtolmar 6y ago
The capitalist economy can function as long as it can find new ways to expand profits. That's the core of capitalism - somebody owns the ability to decide what is produced, they use that ownership to choose production that is profitabl
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Percentile and mean are both divided by the same number. The size of the economy has nothing to do with the point you're replying to.
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True top-down (allowing software rotation) is as cheap art-wise as side view is, but the only indie hit I can think of that used it was Hotline Miami. It's a very unpopular art style. Isometric views take wildly more art assets than si
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Some problems I'd note for any resurgence of the RTS genre: * There hasn't been a huge RTS hit in ages, so large studios aren't going to push large chunks of cash into them. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy, and you may d
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SSCAIT is one of a few major tournaments in the Star Craft: Brood War AI scene. It tends to be one the one that gets the most preparation and biggest releases, since it's the only tournament that broadcasts every single game live on Tw
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Annual Student StarCraft AI Tournament enters its round robin phase(sscaitournament.com)
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Having done a large chunk of this myself, I feel like I have to ask about this one: > Share multiple flats with multiple people (i.e. live in multiple places, but cheap) I've never even heard of people doing this. How does it work?
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I feel similarly, and usually only separate out functions when there's opportunity for code reuse, which usually ends up with one or two very large functions per module. That's been fine in most of my career (fancy algorithms) or
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I'm going to cite this next time I try to talk someone into using dual contour voxels :). In addition to being a really cool result, this is a really approachable article with a lot of interesting ideas in the background information. I
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I suspect the draw tools simultaneously draw to 2-4 different canvases, with the input coordinate transformed for each, and the display cycles between them. Just transforming the canvas itself can't explain how it works with patterned
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Feels weird to have one of these threads without a subthread of people posting what they made in the tool, so: https://i.imgur.com/rR5On9G.gif
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That's touching. Weirdly enough, I've gotten multiple requests to put a chainsaw murderer in my corn maze. Apparently the current surprises aren't enough.
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I'd highly recommend looking at a few toy parser projects, like this and Crafting Interpreters (which are both recursive decent, with very different styles), writing however much of a typical parser you think makes sense "for fun,
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I really like the crows idea! Footprints are more or less impossible with this kind of rendering. I'd like more variety and decoration in the maze, but ran out of time. Perhaps an update next year. I was considering upgrading for Wolfe
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I'd really like some sort of macro that takes my random SQL query (with arguments), looks at the names and types of the returned columns, constructs some sort of struct/pojo/whatever to match, and gives me a function(my, args
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Those are the other players! You were the scarecrows all along!
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Hi from the US! It means you're one quarter of the way through the maze.
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It's possible, just uncommon! Congrats, you're uncommonly good at wall-following.
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I'm going to pretend it was artistic. In truth, I did it from memory and my first guess was close enough that I didn't feel like sitting down and working out the math correctly. I'm sorry if it's making you nauseous.
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Have you tried it? Because you're very likely to get stuck ;). If you strictly follow a wall from the start (or any of the checkpoints), you'll find your way to the end. However, most walls are on loops. The style of maze I used i
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by jtolmar 6y ago
Shoutouts to whoever named themselves "<b>corn</b>", that's a much kinder way than usual to probe at whether I have HTML injection vulnerabilities. edit: Un-shoutouts to whoever named themselves a racial slur
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My friends and I have a tradition of visiting a corn maze every Halloween season, but can't this year due to quarantine, so I made this. Now that we've all had our corn maze gathering, I'm sharing it with the rest of the worl
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Show HN: Virtual Corn Maze(noisyowl.com)
29 points by jtolmar 6y ago|28 comments
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Thematically related: A brief, incomplete, and mostly wrong history of programming languages (2009) http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-m...
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We just used adb install. It might've involved installing a special version of Android, but I deliberately forgot about that process because it sucked. Either way, I'd be kind of surprised if Play wasn't a special case, no cl
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I think the biggest problem you're going to run into is that there are very few people assigned to maintaining old systems, and it's quite hard to get these issues brought to anyone's attention. The ones I mentioned only got
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I ran into several other JIT bugs working on Google Maps. Since I worked on location, my code was the first complex thing that ran under most flows, and rather prone to being the first thing to crash when the system behaved in a very dumb w
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My first compiler bug was in my first year at Google. I'd just introduced a new system for the animation that updates your position while driving in Google Maps. It was perfectly buttery smooth as planned, except on my manager's c
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> I don't get the appeal. Bangs are nice as a quick shortcut to specialized search engines like etymology online, google image search, wikipedia, or whatever. You can set up your browser to do this (some keyword changes the search),
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I used to have a program that'd take eight arbitrary tokens and output a programming language using those as its commands, just as a reskin of Brainfuck (such as Ook). My copy is long gone, but it's an easy project if you want to

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