midnightsine

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by midnightsine 13y ago
Are you sure? Is the universe described by an equation s=t*v, v=10 untrue unless we compute it? Does moving electrons on a CPU die suddenly give it meaning? Do scraps of graphite left on paper by a pencil? The simplest turing complete cellu
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by midnightsine 13y ago
Cashing out 100 000 BTC would crash the market down to 0 - right now the MtGox has exactly 105 708 BTC in the order book. Cashing out 100 000 USD however is a different story. It actually happened a few hours ago, you can see the impact for
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by midnightsine 14y ago
I think the debate stems mostly from the imperfections of our spoken language. What is a human? Is it any biological organism that is genetically identifiable as homo sapiens? Is it our bodies? Our minds, hearts and 'souls'? When asked to d
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by midnightsine 14y ago
Heightmap based 3d would be very simple to add via something like f(x, y) -> x, y, heightmap(x, y). The city building genre is essentially "2.5D", as the gameplay itself is purely 2d with the third dimension existing solely in the prese
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by midnightsine 14y ago
You know, I've actually spent the hours leading up to the SimCity launch coding a simple clone. Here's a link http://www.browserpolis.com/ , you need a webgl enabled browser though. And a screenshot ( http://imgur.com/4ixB2lO ) in case you
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City building in webgl(browserpolis.com)
2 points by midnightsine 14y ago|0 comments
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by midnightsine 14y ago
$ nc -l 8888 > file $ cat file | nc host.example.com 8888 I don't think a dedicated utility is required. Edit: Sorry about my comment coming off as a bit hostile, I did not intend it to be.