katastic

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by katastic 9y ago
Are you sure you know what you're talking about? Are we talking about the same things here? Are you saying that Star Citizen is using 64-bit doubles for their GRAPHICS pipeline? That's pretty much insane for the exact reason you m
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by katastic 9y ago
I would imagine the majority is Hollywood demanding more and more money to have access to their content.
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by katastic 9y ago
I haven't used the CryEngine but often times if you think you "need" a higher bit coordinate system (don't you mean 128-bit? ala long double? Doubles are already 64-bits and 80-bits internally.) you may be thinking of th
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by katastic 9y ago
Now there's a man that's thinking with his Id.
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by katastic 9y ago
As usual. If you want a company to change, you have to affect their bottom dollar. Otherwise, you'll only get a "we have learned through this experience and will take it forward with us to prevent [our messed up thing we did] from
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by katastic 9y ago
And if it is a "3rd world" state, why aren't people jumping to donate and help and aid them? "Cuz 'rednecks." The only group you're allowed to prosecute on TV, media, and public discourse. But if liberals
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by katastic 9y ago
>Good engineers make terrible leaders The entire position of lead engineer/developer seems to disagree with this.
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by katastic 9y ago
What about "sa"?
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by katastic 9y ago
So.. Calypso? https://github.com/Syniurge/Calypso And plenty of C++ code actually already works in the mainline branch. You'd be hard pressed to find other languages that are as developed as D and support C and
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by katastic 9y ago
You guys sound like you're 20. You think things in the world are so "obviously" black and white. Comcast making shitty business decisions is not burning Jews in ovens. And the fact your not immediately laughed out of the room
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by katastic 9y ago
That's a super careful wording when you realize two thirds of all people are killed by someone close to them.
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by katastic 9y ago
But what if it's for a good cause, like deplatforming Nazis? Oh, I see, what's going on, nevermind.
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by katastic 9y ago
Depends entirely on what you mean by specialized. Has a GPU to run games/movies? Fine. Has an "Amazon" logo so it won't load any Amazon competitor's websites? Bull. Hocky.
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by katastic 9y ago
So in otherwords, you want a Linux machine but with app compatibility for Win/Apple/whatever. - If you do mostly web stuff, Linux fits all the bills. - If you NEED compatibility (Office/Photoshop/whatever), you can often
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by katastic 9y ago
Your analogy is pretty hilarious when you realize old light bulbs last WAY longer because they're not as bright and there are old bulbs over 100 years old still glowing . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest-last
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by katastic 9y ago
My most important difference is whether Microsoft is going to stop supporting it a couple years after selling it like they did with Windows RT--leaving their customers with thousands of dollars of useless, unsupported machines. I still can&
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by katastic 9y ago
From the same people that brought us Windows RT and ARM Surface tablets... got many of my clients to buy them... and then magically decided "Windows RT and ARM sucks. We don't support them anymore." So I'll hold my breat
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by katastic 9y ago
>Landscrapers make sense where real-estate prices aren't so high. Except when real-estate prices aren't high, you're usually super far away from industry and population... the things that drive up real-estate prices. If pr
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by katastic 9y ago
I used the same trick to modify how X11 server sends keyboard messages. There's a boolean flag that denotes whether or not a key event is "real" or generated artificially. For some !@$!@'d up reason, 99% of apps actually
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by katastic 9y ago
>Note: I’m not defending trump or suggesting that the people he blocked were necessarily trolls at all. I’m just trying to think through this issue in general. You must be new here. The logic on HN goes "whatever I want, is good and
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by katastic 9y ago
I actually got used to and like Unity, sadly. It's low cpu/memory usage on my 2 GB RAM laptop with a Celeron processor. (A Chromebook converted to Linux.) It overloads a ton of meta keys for moving windows around, moving between w
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by katastic 9y ago
>You remember "Lock her up"? Who can guarantee that Trump is not going to follow through on this promise? 1) He hasn't in over a year of office. 2) He can't do anything that overrides the judicial and legislative bran
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by katastic 9y ago
TCP has different goals than UDP gaming. You can (and 99% of games do) implement a real-time version of abstract TCP. But the similarities fall away when you stop looking at the "abstract" version of TCP. This is an extremely opti
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by katastic 9y ago
PSA: Add print=1 to old gamasutra articles to get a single page. https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131577/halflife_and_t... Also, the reason many don't use TCP is that while it guarantees ordering a
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by katastic 9y ago
That's great! My intuition was telling me that was a big loop hole but it's great to hear a real insider / authority speak it so eloquently. Here's an article I just found about him... from 1987. https://www.w
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by katastic 9y ago
>having a phone with Google on it could be kind of dangerous to me. As I'm not doing anything like that, I have no reason not to use it. So those doing nothing wrong have nothing to fear? Isn't that a far-right argument? What a
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by katastic 9y ago
And companies like Facebook can literally "correlate" you back to a real name / unique person. That's literally what they do for people who don't even have Facebook profiles.
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by katastic 9y ago
You're intentionally focusing on a piece of my argument that you can distort into racism so you don't have to debate the rest. I picked Mexican deportation because it's an issue WE all disagree with. It's using common gr
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by katastic 9y ago
Except for the CEO being changed and having a toxic corporate culture that didn't change and produced the same deadly car across CEO's after promising change but did nothing different--including not stopping production of a deadly
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by katastic 9y ago
Guy did it for free man. Give him a little slack. He's not even a programmer. He does Mario speed runs. He didn't post his video here, someone else did. And I absolutely disagree with the "Robot voice would be better." T

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