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   by mentos 6y ago

   My dad was in the hospital with Covid for 3 weeks 1 completely unresponsive last March 2020 from the NYC strain. Everyone in my family (5 people) developed primary symptoms but me (33 years old). I had a very strange course of leg/musc
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   by mentos 6y ago

   Funny coincidence I was just wondering this a few weeks ago when reading a Tinder bio of a girl named Alexa who had something to the effect of 'heard all the Alexa jokes for a lifetime thanks' Made me wonder if there is a class ac
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   by mentos 6y ago

   I was an early backer of Oculus having bought the DK1/Dk2 back in 2012/14 and I was so perplexed when they announced they were putting effort into a mobile headset. It made no sense to me until I put the Oculus Quest 2 on my head
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   by mentos 6y ago

   Great book. I read it once 4 years ago and again 2 years ago thinking about reading it a third time. The lessons have been applicable to me in game dev but if you work in any field whatsoever that relies on creating anything I'd recomm
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   by mentos 6y ago

   Of all the systems that you guys reverse engineered here what do you think is the coolest? Ai/pathfinding, quest systems, large world rendering?
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   by mentos 6y ago

   Yea I was expecting an argument that their cans stand out on the shelves and lead to higher sales.
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   by mentos 6y ago

   Of course. But I like to imagine Steve knew well in advance there was a huge market for an all in one device and feigned interest in this direction as a quick jab while he was building up the big left hook with the iPhone..
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   by mentos 6y ago

   Yea honestly the Rokr seems like an intentional misdirection to throw people off the trail
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   by mentos 6y ago

   I often wonder about the parallels between reverse engineering games using memory inspection software like 'cheat engine' to trying to reverse engineer the brain using a BCI. For example if you want to find the memory address for
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    by mentos 6y ago

    Anyone else find it extremely coincidental that of all the millions of years of human civilization we could have existed in we all just happen to find ourselves at the most exciting period of technological innovation? Coincidence or Simulat
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    by mentos 6y ago

    I've been working remote for a decade now. Moving my office out of my bedroom eliminated 99% of the claustrophobia I had developed. Having where you work and sleep in two different mental compartments is more valuable than you could ev
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    by mentos 6y ago

    If I'm understanding this correctly this offloads the copyright issue by making it the users responsibility to upload a rom? No one really talks about it but the first iPod had the same approach to letting people play their thousands o
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    by mentos 6y ago

    I would love to see Microsoft use the work from Flight Simulator 2020 [0] to create a Google Maps competitor. [0] - https://youtu.be/EOeDTr1x3XI?t=53
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    by mentos 6y ago

    “In one particular FAA test performed on the right simulator, a whistleblower says Boeing officials were present and told the test pilots when to hit the switch that killed MCAS. When these actions were reported by whistleblowers, they were
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    by mentos 6y ago

    Ha wow astronaut Owen Garriot was Richard Garriots father. Richard Garriot is the creator of the Ultima series of video games that I owe my childhood and love of programming to. Small world!
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    by mentos 6y ago

    What if targeted ads are hurting small businesses by being too targeted? Maybe there is a chance that dentists advertising to just people who brush their teeth is missing a large part of their potential market?
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    by mentos 6y ago

    Curious, what is an io party game?
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    by mentos 6y ago

    Yea same here If you haven't yet maybe implement statistics so you can see at which level people give up at? I feel like around level 10 another mechanic needs to be introduced. Maybe 1 mirror and 2 lasers that you can position to cut
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    by mentos 6y ago

    Looks like they have abstracted the rendering to a Rendering Hardware Interface, this is what UE4 has I wonder if the name and API are inspired?
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    by mentos 6y ago

    No experience with Plastic it seems better suited for Unity from the little reading I did on their website. If you’re using UE4 I 1000% recommend learning Perforce because it is what Epic (the developers of UE4) use as well as thousands of
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    by mentos 6y ago

    >>How do you manage / version assets? Git? Git LFS? ...? Perforce! https://allarsblog.com/2014/09/25/setup-perforce-digital/ I use perforce to track game content and GitHub for code. UE4 has s
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    by mentos 6y ago

    This will give people with smaller hands an advantage until the people with larger hands start playing the smaller piano.
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    by mentos 6y ago

    Thanks for the reply incredible work! Are there any FPGAs out there with an order of magnitude more memory you have considered?
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    by mentos 6y ago

    How is the rendering performance with large worlds?
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    by mentos 6y ago

    Awesome, I setup subscriptions using Stripe for a website a few months ago for the first time and was so turned off by how convoluted the process was I was actually thinking about emailing Stripe to suggest they take a hard look at the proc
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    by mentos 6y ago

    Ok thank you, so I guess 'big bang' is the wrong imagery. Really its someone stretching the taffy out that all mass sits on, a 'great expansion'. However and wherever mass came from, the idea that mass exists at all is u
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    by mentos 6y ago

    The mass of the observable universe is often quoted as 10^50 tonnes or 10^53 kg So was all of this mass somehow condensed inside a space smaller than a bowling ball? Seems theoretically impossible? Are there any examples of black holes&#x2F
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    by mentos 6y ago

    Thank you for that link to the Adam Savage podcast with Joe DeRisi. I watched the whole thing absolutely incredible research he is doing from a layman’s perspective it seems like a very bottom up approach that could take all of the guess wo
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    by mentos 6y ago

    Seems like an odd product for a car company to sell?
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    by mentos 6y ago

    What about HN experimenting with tabs in the comments so if you want to have a more philosophical discussion click on the ‘Philosophy’ tab or if not maybe the ‘Technical’ discussion is more your speed. I could even see supporting an ‘Offtop