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by megameter 5y ago
A great use of bitwise operators I came up with recently was to define a unique key with two sides(source and destination) in a single int. Just allocate one bit of the int to defining which side is represented and you have partitioned the
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by megameter 5y ago
An example I know of that resembles the bricklayer problem is synthesis of human singing vocals into MIDI sequence data. There is now a history of products around that check off the boxes - one (Vochlea Dubler) debuted just last year - and
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by megameter 5y ago
Increasingly I have absorbed "work" into a three step feedback cycle - something comparable to OODA but with a more contemplative purpose. It's really intended for creative projects but it scales and generalizes nicely to man
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by megameter 5y ago
Competitive judo has grown a plethora of rules of this type - restricted holds, stalling penalties, 20 second timers for the ground game. My teacher participated in some of the conferences leading to those rule changes, and he said it boile
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by megameter 5y ago
The focus of browser development was(and always has been) a kind of Worse-is-Better thing of supplying sexy features to wow users. While client apps are definitely sexy, the overall shape of the browser wars was towards throwing in many bu
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by megameter 5y ago
The economy nominally runs on money and productivity, but human beings run on emotions, credit and blame. So everywhere you look, if there is an opportunity to gain credit for something (even if financial incentive isn't there, like
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by megameter 5y ago
By the late 1980's early versions of Cubase et al. existed. These were not yet DAWs in the modern sense(while there were some very early high-end examples of multitrack digital audio, that phenomenon waited until memory and storage wer
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by megameter 5y ago
Economy: So many pieces have been shuffled around, intervened with, and exposed to different business climates that what we are experiencing(and will continue to experience) is like strings on a marionette breaking, making it swing out of c
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by megameter 5y ago
Ending tipping needs a top-down enforcement of norms akin to pandemic response measures. The restaurants that try to go it alone confuse and sticker-shock their customers, unfortunately.
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by megameter 5y ago
Of course they are, and we run into it constantly in computing. You can encode text with images as a bitmap, as vector graphics, as symbolic content that references bitmaps or vectors, as an algorithm that procedurally generates any of the
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by megameter 5y ago
A major difficulty of dweb technology is answering "what's the point of it all" in a self-interested sense. For centralized, it's easy to motivate a Facebook because of the assumptions of user data and attention being va
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by megameter 5y ago
The thing that has always defanged authorities of the past is organizational inability to see where the game is changing. And the game has gone on for a long time - villages would do all sorts of things to operate outside of the vision of
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by megameter 5y ago
Unit tests help verify individual components of a system - which makes them top-of-mind for library code. I think the issue with them lies in that most developers aren't shipping libraries, they're shipping integrated systems, so
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by megameter 5y ago
It's deceptively tricky to build out this kind of strategy. IP builds product awareness, but it doesn't lead to a sustained gaming audience, which needs something more akin to a platform strategy per franchise(a Madden, Mario, Gui
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by megameter 5y ago
Like with gambling devices, redemption games all seem to have operator-adjustable payout. I recall playing "Stacker" for a little while in the 2000's. It used an LED dot display for gameplay, which was a simple timing game wh
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by megameter 5y ago
I did a lot of grinding out heavy reps when I was younger and less experienced(mid-30s now) but now I am suspicious of that whole idea. If I stick to two reps before failure - i.e. when I start really slowing down the movement - my recovery
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by megameter 5y ago
There is a certain thing that I realized and got somewhat good at only recently: what we call a social "skill" is a bidirectional skill of performance and appreciation. It has to be, to be communicative. Therefore, being "goo
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by megameter 5y ago
Like a lot of questions historical, the more one studies the Industrial Revolution, the more questions one has. I have often wondered about exactly this kind of thing so it's nice to see a researched take on it. The thing in my mind wa
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by megameter 5y ago
It's a little bit too pat in its conclusions. When watching livestreams of riots, it's really evident that the chaos they produce is rather like little bursts of action, and not so much a sustained pandemonium. These bursts are a
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by megameter 5y ago
I'd have to look it up to see which was first, but the ports of Pitfall! are a rough contemporary of Spelunker , which also has an infamous NES port. Both are Western-originated games about descending into caverns and collecting tre
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by megameter 5y ago
I find that the question of "whether simpler" is summed up in the aphorism "it's easy to get wrong answers infinitely fast". Where software gets out of control really quickly is wherever you start to express a thing
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by megameter 5y ago
The term "character generator" in video specifically refers to hardware that overlays text onto the video signal. That is, in this case it's not a "text mode", it's a bitmap graphics mode used for text, which a
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by megameter 5y ago
It's a "where are the bullet holes on the planes that survived" kind of problem. The thing that overwhelmingly kills game projects is overscoped design, which manifests into a need for very detailed, configurable entities wit
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by megameter 5y ago
The point is to not have abstraction power. The goal is to make the DSL be a direct expression of the intended thought, which usually means cutting it down to the point where it's reduced almost everything to preset categories. At th
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by megameter 5y ago
The biggest thing was the replacement of the "success script" with a more philosophical approach. The script is something that appears in all the big life decisions: what a good career, relationships, living well is supposed to &q
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by megameter 5y ago
Author selects a different success benchmark, gets different results. Casey's demonstration is specific to the claim that terminal text rendering, by itself, is "worthy of a PhD thesis", as written by a Microsoft employee. He
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by megameter 5y ago
Yep. The reason why San Francisco has to be seen failing is because of the national implications of success. It's been a punching bag for decades, it just had a brief respite for a while.
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by megameter 5y ago
I often use plogue's Portasound VSTi for FM tones. It's actually quite a bit more powerful than a real one since it can layer sounds and do some additional modulation.
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by megameter 5y ago
You're getting at the part that I can expound a bit on :) It's possible to engage with nihilism and say "I'm just going to survive pragmatically". It's related to the "state of nature" many philosophe
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by megameter 5y ago
It's clear to me that it's too easy to be Panglossian about our material conditions. Just thinking about the time frame I grew up within(1980's-2000's US) there were a lot of things that I now see as definitely bad and t

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