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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
Writing a general-purpose rigid-body physics engine like PhysX or Havok is probably overkill for most games (unless you’re a big enough company like Blizzard who can recruit developers specialized in physics). The Newtonian physics itself i
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
My understanding was that an illicit fund withdrawing was possible because of a bug in the contract code (more specifically a recursive call loophole), and the community executed a hard fork to return those funds to their original owners. I
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
Hyperinflation will ensue once the US dollar suddenly and completely loses its status as a global reserve currency. This is because the US is a heavily import-based country that has relied on the it strength of the dollar. When that dollar
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
Worse, if the overall Ethereum community reaches a consensus that a malicious entity attempted to take over the network, then the devs will fork the blockchain to rollback the particular transactions with the malicious entity, and the new b
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
If you're going the scientific computing / HPC server route, then the sky's the limit for core count, you can buy dozens of these and connect them up with Infiniband to run your MPI job or whatever. The point is, the people b
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
The source says that the new chip for the high-end Macbook Pro would have 8 performance cores and 2 efficiency ones. It's a bit surprising that they'll reduce the efficiency core count to half (although this might get offsetted by
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
Yeah I agree, it really sucks that really basic things like equations, code-blocks, and captions in images aren't supported in Google Docs, it's an incredible dealbreaker.
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
'Hacking' kinda loses its novelty when almost every single large multinational corporation is doing it, though. How boring ...
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
From looking at the code, I think it's basically just downloading the relevant google docs files as docx (or markdown if the file's just .md) and converting it into octopress, so I don't think it will matter. Source: https:&
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
Sorry about this, my intent for this criticism was not towards you, it was towards other people around HN who generally go around and generalize the young generation for being ignorant. Maybe I should have written this in a different place.
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The knowledge of making and maintaining these tools is still incredibly important and should be handed out through generations (while also inventing innovations to make more efficient and powerful tools). But what many older generations in
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
I've read both of them (actually, I've read the former before this was posted). The problem with the second article is the belief that conservative patriarchy was and is still the only way to sustain/grow population levels. T
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
Omar Cornut, who's a full time developer of dear imgui ( https://github.com/ocornut/imgui ), an immediate-mode UI library primarily used to create content-creation and debug/visualization tools. He was using Pa
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
Yeah, obviously not “perfect”, but totally understandable if the dev’s stressed out a bit.
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
To be fair, I thought the dev’s response was adequate here. Just posting on the issue section that the “colors are wrong” while comparing with uxrvt, without any explanation or self-investigation as to why this could be a problem, has ample
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
It’s quite strange that the reputation for Emacs being slow hasn’t changed in decades even though hardware has advanced significantly...
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
> Was the point small business owners at establishments like Dales are facing troubles because they're fat-cat capitalist Trumpian Covid deniers whose problems aren't valid as such? You still have to understand the workers are
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
The ergonomic keyboards from Microsoft often get a wave of applause from HN.
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
For the build quality of mechanical keyboards it really depends on what you buy. I've experienced cheap mechanical keyboards (around 50$ ~ 100$) break within about two years, these really aren't more reliable than membrane ones.
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It's unfeasible for most people though because of the incredible noise it generates (Yeah, I get it, the sound's awesome and it's a feature, but you're not going to use it at work or at home with other people)
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
Yeah, I remember using one of those at school when I was young, and it was one of the best keyboards I've used. It's a shame that recent Apple keyboards feel like shit (incredibly shallow switches, almost feels like typing on glas
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
I bought one about 3 years ago, and I have mixed feelings about it. My FC660C was quite wobbly and a bit scratchy, and seems to takes quite some force to press (leading to hand fatigue). For now I use it as a secondary keyboard, my primary
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
Yeah, but if the kids’ parents don’t let them buy a Playstation, then they have to make do with what they have. Gaming on a clunky mobile device is still better then no gaming at all.
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
Eigen, although often criticized for its long build times, is still the only linear algebra library that can lazy-evaluate and optimize expressions in compile-time, thanks to C++’s template metaprogramming. In overall Rust’s current type sy
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
The real problem is that because of the dollar’s (still) hegemonic status as the world reserve currency, dollars will never be cheap enough for manufacturing jobs in the US to come back. Trump’s tariffs really can’t do anything about it.
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Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit (David Graeber, 2012)(thebaffler.com)
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You can write a good apology even with simple English. And since the researchers clearly have the ability to write papers in major English conferences this doesn’t seem to be a problem. It’s just that the apology doesn't do enough in w
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
Ah, the fine slogan, “Corruption for everybody!” [ https://spectator.us/topic/corruption-for-everybody-slavoj-z... ]
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Though I think it’s too late for other coins to fix this and present themselves to be an alternative; Bitcoin has already grown too big (too much trust & resources spent on it globally), and the failure of Bitcoin will probably mean the
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by lasagnaphil 6y ago
Ok, but the reason he (kind of) knows a bit about Marxism it is because he's a right-wing accelerationist (more specifically, a neoreactionary), and this needs to be properly said in context before just naively moving on with "he&

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