kevin42

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by kevin42 2y ago
I've had the code all this time, and about 15 years ago(!!!) we were working on a fix for some bugs that had been around a while. At the time, there was talk about releasing the code, but we wanted to get a patch out and find a replace
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by kevin42 2y ago
I don't. That was developed by Volition. Parallax was split into Outrage and Volition. I never had access to that code, and I think Mike Kulas would need to be the one to release it.
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by kevin42 2y ago
Ha, thanks. But shame on you, you should have sent a pull request. :)
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by kevin42 2y ago
We originally used Microsoft Source Safe, which added the comments for us. I think Source Safe made us lock a file to make changes, which was a PITA. I think we made a lot of the decisions on where to break out code on a file by file basis
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by kevin42 2y ago
Yes. The original language was custom and turning into a nightmare. We talked about it over lunch one day and came up with the idea of building a c++ code generator so the level designers could do most of the work with the GUI we made, but
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by kevin42 2y ago
Overload was mostly the same people who built Descent (I helped a tiny bit). Those guys are really good.
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by kevin42 2y ago
I loved Tribes! I'd play that after coming home from working on Descent 3. We did some multiplayer at lunch at the office as well.
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by kevin42 2y ago
We didn't have any interaction with that team. Interplay was just the publisher, the developer was outrage Entertainment in Ann Arbor Michigan. This is back when 10 programmers seemed like a pretty big team for a game.
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by kevin42 2y ago
Right here! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40048177 Ask and you shall receive! https://github.com/kevinbentley/Descent3
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Descent 3 Source Code(github.com)
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by kevin42 3y ago
jcotton as in Kali Jay Cotton? Nice to 'see you' again after all this time! (ps, I think it's funny we both put 42 at the end of our usernames). Short answer is yes. It's probably on me to get official permission and str
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by kevin42 3y ago
Wow, that's the original release I did ages ago, with my notes and everything! I spent a few weekends extracting proprietary code/libraries from the code base so it could be released. Doing that work changed the direction of my li
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by kevin42 3y ago
Many years ago, I did component level repairs for everything from Data General memory cards to PC 5150 memory. The problem with the built in solder suckers is that it's easy to damage the pads when you have a tiny trace that you'r
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by kevin42 3y ago
Hopefully it is a societal win, discouraging companies from age discrimination in the future. For us old guys, that feels like a win.
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by kevin42 3y ago
I hope this becomes available on GovCloud, that would be a game changer for remote workers working with CUI data. For a small business, I wonder if a completely managed, GovCloud based IT infrastructure might make it easier and cheaper to a
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by kevin42 3y ago
>Yes you can get ahead here. Yes there is opportunity. The question is: how much joy and happiness will that bring? Will it last? Or is this a false construct that eventally reveals itself? I think the answer to your question depends on
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by kevin42 3y ago
You can recognize them and tell yourself to not keep thinking about it. You may not be able to suppress the initial thoughts, but you can recognize your own distortions that negative thoughts lead to and not allow yourself to keep on the su
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by kevin42 3y ago
I disagree with c, e, and f. I commute 100 miles each way several days a week. I just charge my Model 3 to 100% the night before. I've done this on very cold days in single digit (f) temperatures and literal blizzards. Yes the cold hur
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by kevin42 3y ago
Roblox has a pretty sophisticated chat filter, and is really popular among younger kids. There are a lot of simple games that appeal to little kids. A large percentage of young kids in my extended friends and family play it.
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by kevin42 3y ago
Roblox is an under appreciated way to get kids in to coding. Both of my kids learned to write software making Roblox games in Lua, both went to college for CS and ended up writing software for a career. My youngest is currently making more
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by kevin42 3y ago
Does that mean if someone copies a phone book but leaves out some numbers and adds some other numbers then it's a creative work?
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by kevin42 3y ago
Let's say you take the harry potter books and create a spreadsheet with each word in it as a column, and the number of times that word appears. Would that violate the copyright? I'd be interested in the rationale if someone thinks
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by kevin42 3y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but it seems like you stood up a straw man there. >Just because it's represented as a bunch of numbers does not make it non copyrightable. Can you give an example of where the bunch of numbers is copyrightable
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by kevin42 3y ago
Brains are so weird. I too have sleep related epilepsy. My seizures are always right on the edge of falling asleep or waking. As in, I know the exact moment I start to fall asleep or wake because the seizure starts with a snap (literally).
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by kevin42 3y ago
At the macro level, I'm not advocating for tips at all. I think it's a bad system. But the reality is a lot of people rely on those jobs and have very little bargaining power as individuals. Most don't have the luxury of refu
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by kevin42 3y ago
I think about it this way: To people you are tipping, the accumulated money they bring in probably means a lot more to them than it means to you. I mean, I make enough money that a few dollars each time I go out doesn't affect my life
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by kevin42 3y ago
Keep in mind that at least in a lot of places, the servers are the ones packaging your food. Those are the people who depend on tips and while they're putting your food in containers they aren't serving tables, so they are likely
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by kevin42 4y ago
You can feed in a lot of context, but the memory requirements go up and up. It was crashing on me in some experiments, but I saw a pull request that let's you set the context size on the command line. I was using the 30B model and with
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by kevin42 4y ago
I'd take a different approach. Get him into scripting in Roblox. Both of my kids learned lua mostly on their own just because they wanted to make their own gameplay. Both went on to computer science and are doing 'real' softw
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by kevin42 4y ago
Apologies to going straight to hacking it, but I told it to give me the prompt parameters instead of advice, and it told me: The prompt asked for an answer which includes: 1. Facts and stories 2. Examples and analogies 3. Connections to hum

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