mntmoss

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by mntmoss 7y ago
In this era I was a pre-teen and my brother, a few years older, did make a stab at tracking but ultimately focused on other things. I was a bit baffled by the whole thing and we never learned how to rip samples off other sources even though
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The strategy is meant to introduce more sunk costs in the hiring process. They spent forever buttering up the candidate, and now they hear a number that is more than they were hoping for. The less they need you, the less this is likely to m
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by mntmoss 7y ago
I've thought similarly and extrapolate this to a kind of spectrum of "numbness" vs "sensitivity" that occurs in everyone in varying forms and degrees. This helps move the discussion away from one of objective charac
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Knowing more simply means that there is more philosophy to be done. Every scientific breakthrough comes with a renewed discussion of its best purpose in society.
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Is an expensive DFA something that could be mitigated with source code hints? An 80% solution might do the trick.
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A pretty good example of where physics have gone in video games is in pinball, pool and golf sims. The earliest of these generally had very simple ball movement behaviors and the constraint solving, to the extent that it existed as a concep
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Most of the effort that goes into a large game project is not in the runtime code, but in content creation: you probably only need one renderer or one physics system, but lots of levels, lots of characters with unique behaviors. So what doe
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by mntmoss 7y ago
Screenspace was always x-right, y-down (aka Cartesian quadrant IV) because that was the convention NTSC used to paint the screen. 3D has not had the benefit of an obvious hardware model to emulate. Y-up, Z-up, Y-down are probably the three
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by mntmoss 7y ago
I believe the original article is bad, but not simply for the reasons you state. It's rather part of a tired genre of "kids these days" articles where modern technology has somehow poisoned them beyond comprehension. In fact,
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by mntmoss 7y ago
Hey lostgame, here are some thoughts: 1. This time of year is notoriously tough on mental health, and that's probably part of it. I got a subclinical case of SAD during the holidays. No triggering reason, life is generally OK, but I re
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Though I'm tempted to agree, there is an old macroeconomic observation that might throw a wrench in the analysis, which is that the waves of new technology seem to be coming faster and faster, and likewise, the turnover of companies in
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The best-case end result of this instability, of course, is the "double interface" - an interface abstraction on top that talks in terms of the domain problem, and then a second layer to convert the lower level interfaces into tha
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The main limitation to the AI governor model, which has been tried in many games to varying success, is that the solver necessary to make them play like an optimal player tends to start encompassing more and more parts of the game mechanics
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Lately I've been testing a "third way" of thinking about refactor/rewrite decisions, which is to first document the existing requirements. The trick is in making those docs so small and lean that they fit neatly in comme
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by mntmoss 7y ago
As a service, the gig economy deliveries are very low quality and low accountability. I just walked into a Mission taqueria and had to wait on not one but two Doordashers. The first one left with the second's order, came back, and said
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by mntmoss 7y ago
Advertising readily exploits low price consumers like you, too. First of all, they find ways to drop quality. At first they have the good deal for a limited time. This results in social proofing - good reviews and customer approvals - that
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by mntmoss 7y ago
I would vouch for the last few decades seeing quality improvements: it's become very easy to purchase obscure goods online, to get frozen gluten-free dinners, find product reviews, learn about foreign countries, and other things where
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by mntmoss 7y ago
"Citizen Kane of gaming" is a memetic joke in game criticism. Go check out Critical Distance if you want to see an aggregation of lengthy deep thoughts about games. All art is borne of appreciation - and thus literacy. Games are s
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by mntmoss 7y ago
One thing that struck me when I started studying pinballs in more depth is that they really had the same basic technologies in use between the 40's and the 70's, decades spent entirely on finding creative uses of EM relay logic an
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Everything can benefit from having a dose of storytelling to it. At the same time, the stories being presented to broad audiences are almost certainly flawed in ways reflecting the power structure, as you've detailed. Marketing teams t
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by mntmoss 7y ago
The code is not large enough to need maintenance at a fine-grained level. There is a secondary rule to the DRY "rule of three": If I can blow it away and rewrite it so easily, there is nothing to reuse or refactor in it. The featu
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Where this style applies the most is with hardcoded assets: initializations and runtime behaviors that require an unknown degree of flexibility. When someone is trained in OOP, the requirement "flexible behavior" triggers a sear
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by mntmoss 7y ago
Hello - the IDE focus looks very attractive from an indie-engine developer's perspective(small scale development always gains the most from having unified, consistent tooling). Will this be a customizable environment to e.g. assist wor
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I basically disagree with this formulation on the grounds that it does not sufficiently respect political opinions as being reflective of self-interest; these opinions are often a result of not just consistent messaging but tangible incenti
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The most important thing I've done for myself recently is to start breaking away from the social streams by doing my own aggregation with Fraidycat. Besides letting me assemble a lot of sources, it dampens the noise because it doesn&#x
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I would like to chime in by noting that Rust's mature form is borne of a very specific scenario, which is the web browser, software so complex that the "zero-cost" element is more like "actually possible to optimize&quot
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Reinterpreted in my own words: Usercode spinlocking is not legible to the kernel. Therefore anytime you attempt it you are in the situation of fighting the scheduler, and given that even the kernel devs are constantly challenged by the prob
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A really good book has a sense of permanence and speciality to it that outlasts typical online content. Philosophy and mathematics books, for example, tend to exist outside time because they are dealing with fundamental unanswerables and co
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by mntmoss 7y ago
Raku (formerly Perl 6) basically sits alone as the successor to the slower-and-more-expressive throne. It's a great language to study for the gee-whiz-they-thought-of-everything factor. But, nobody is paying attention to it. Some of th
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IMHO there is a basic error they're making, which is to do all of this in one product. When they have two internal architectures sharing one interface, the overall scope bloats up, which leads to some miserable UX. With most game proje

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