kroltan

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by kroltan 6y ago
I'm not sure if this is still the case, but Youtube used to use WebComponents v0 which has to be emulated in JS in non-Webkit browsers, since only Google ever implemented v0, while everyone else agreed it required a bit more work, and
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by kroltan 6y ago
Let's break it down! (I'm no expert so sorry for any mistakes, and this is simplifying a lot) > improve the programmability of emerging heterogeneous hardware reducing the fiddlyness of developing for mixed hardware > those
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by kroltan 6y ago
I understand and agree with "make the game fun despite computer power", but you got to understand that at least in the current industry climate it means less games are even viable for porting at all. Basically every triple-A studi
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by kroltan 6y ago
> just run macOS on a VM As far as I know it is against the terms of service to run Mac OS on non-Apple hardware, so you can't just run a macOS VM. > Hardware isn't horrible from Apple. It's just more expensive for macO
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by kroltan 6y ago
Maybe for the first year or two, but many many games are pretty much untouched after that, even though there is a long tail of players still buying and playing them. And yes, many expansions and additional content are usually data-driven, s
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by kroltan 6y ago
Danieru explained pretty well in a sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23048633
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by kroltan 6y ago
Neat, on the bottom of the page there is a switch that changes all screenshots to Dark Mode (to demonstrate the OS's feature). But the neat part is that in the "Gaming" card, it swaps Firewatch (a game/movie-with-buttons
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by kroltan 6y ago
Facebook is a very large company that uses lots of tools, and (apparently) encourage some degree of independence between its teams. So it is likely one or a few teams might be using this. I always take this kind of listing with a big grain
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by kroltan 6y ago
As an user of a language with diacritics back in the 2000s, I certainly switched to English whenever I saw broken encodings. I can only imagine the incentive must be greater if a site is actively broken or unusable.
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by kroltan 7y ago
> Also a demonstration of how slow that technique is. Or how fast! SDFs can compute approximations of volumetric effects that on a regular raytracing engine would take a few seconds to render. Additionally, games have been using (baked)
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by kroltan 7y ago
The thing is that there is the Promise "class", which is provided by the environment, but there is a interface called PromiseLike, which is defined as having a method called then that takes one or two functions. Now, JS doesn&#x
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by kroltan 7y ago
Why? It's not offensive or NSFW.
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by kroltan 7y ago
No, it's due to using a custom event handler to trigger page changes, instead of the proper <a> link element.
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by kroltan 7y ago
Web link: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-02-21-the-boy-who-st...
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by kroltan 7y ago
Yes, quite confusing
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by kroltan 7y ago
I found the README is not particularly useful in informing what the library does, but it seems to be a big bag of data structures, algorithms, and performance utilities. The overview is much more informative: https://github.com&#
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by kroltan 7y ago
Making this and not having a counter of corner bounces should be inconstitutional! </humor>
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by kroltan 7y ago
It's not just about speed, it's about timing. With setInterval the alignment of the screen refresh and the code to update will quickly become out of sync and cause periods where 2 frames are the same.
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by kroltan 7y ago
GP was referring to /dev/null in the actual article title (not the HN title)
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by kroltan 7y ago
That is true, but I suppose the issue arises from people who cannot make an accurate assessment on the "necessary" front.
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by kroltan 7y ago
Yes, and it's a recurring theme. In Portuguese we have a word "esmero", which is very applicable. It means something made with extreme care and craftsmanship. For example, I once needed to take a very precise crop off a scree
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by kroltan 7y ago
Fair enough, but I frankly wouldn't trust it exposed on the internet. If you really need, run a reverse proxy only on the /video endpoint. For I don't know how hardened the focus and automation control APIs are.
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by kroltan 7y ago
Yes! In fact, games use another method that could also be very beneficial in VR: signed distance-field rendering. As far as I know it's mainly used for text, but there is nothing specific stopping it from working with other kinds of im
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by kroltan 7y ago
Good idea! You could do that with a spare controller or a Vive tracker too.
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by kroltan 7y ago
I can almost see a more traditional tech company buying a bunch of those for their workers in the current climate, even at such a ridiculous markup, just to guarantee a "standard" workspace.
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by kroltan 7y ago
What do you mean, they all have a orange underline...?
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by kroltan 7y ago
It seems to have massive delays if I capture on full resolution (3060x2295 on my phone), but that is a ridiculous number that can't even be transmitted over my internet, so I run it at 1280x720, which has basically ideal latency.
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by kroltan 7y ago
I can second that. It is actually beyond amazing, and I'm not one to say that lightly. Not only it does screenshots, but it has editable annotations, records gifs or videos, has complete keyboard support, and uses only 5MB RAM. As well
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by kroltan 7y ago
I've had huge success with IP Webcam, especially since it appears to be a standard MJPEG stream, so very hackable (in the good sense). The web interface also crucially adds UI for focusing, in addition to the customizable in-phone UI.
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by kroltan 7y ago
It is hardly reliable, given how great of a percentage of people have drift issues, as well as obvious oversights in the joycon build: overly long flat cables that have to be bent 180deg and end up breaking, use of a plastic that is clearly

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