mrspeaker

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by mrspeaker 5y ago
I've just been browsing for a bit, but this seems like a really great book! Most "maths for games" books feel like the authors are just regurgitating their university exams. This is very focused on the "why" rather
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by mrspeaker 5y ago
"10% chance of releasing the magic smoke" made me laugh out loud. Off topic-ish, but maybe someone here would know... I have a 2013 macbook pro. It's still great for coding but recently I got into Blender, and now I understan
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by mrspeaker 5y ago
Would be great to read a write-up on how you approached it. Also, it seems pretty tight - how are you doing the timing loop? Also also, Great job!
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by mrspeaker 5y ago
Not to deny your orbs (though, orbs are pretty "common" - like ball lightning)... but I saw 3 flying orbs in the 90s that I thought were ufos (or, one ufo) - like they were kind of linked, but moving independently. Weird looking.
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by mrspeaker 5y ago
Interesting talk by Jonathan Blow based on a similar (though software-focused) premise: "Preventing the Collapse of Civilization" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk
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by mrspeaker 5y ago
It's not. I ended up putting thousands of hours into Fortnite on iOS too (so glad it got pulled - that stopped me playing!) Playing on the table is one way - but it hurt my neck too much. I preferred the "claw grip" on my pho
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by mrspeaker 5y ago
Really cool work! I've been thinking about this a lot since I watched this Corridor Digital vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmJ74774RO8 ... I had no idea where to start, so I quickly gave up. Now you've inspi
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by mrspeaker 5y ago
"Real orbital mechanics, real 3D simulation, real programmer art, real nerdy" Made me smile, and made you a sale ;)
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by mrspeaker 6y ago
The help tutorial is really well done for something that is a little bit complex, and holy heck - that's fun! You can export a "template for texturing" then color it in Gimp, and re-upload it to give it colors and features. Y
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by mrspeaker 6y ago
Atom and His Package called it years ago in his song "Goalie" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpe7R_KgdVo ) In hockey, you must score a goal. Which one can not do if between me and the net there's n
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by mrspeaker 6y ago
I wondered about JSON serialization too - lots of discussion on this here https://github.com/tc39/proposal-bigint/issues/24 and here https://github.com/tc39/proposal-bigint/issues&#x
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by mrspeaker 6y ago
Same - especially when there's a rocket launch or other long-running stream. I shrink the PIP view to a tiny thumbnail in a corner of the screen so I don't miss anything.
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by mrspeaker 6y ago
Maybe it would be good to mention what this project is at the top of this post. What is "Free Hero Mesh"? A mesh network framework? A 3D mesh generator? Something to do with textiles? (I copy-pasted that main link, and it says it&
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by mrspeaker 6y ago
I'm biased (I wrote a book on it: https://www.sitepoint.com/premium/books/html5-games-novice-t... ), but JavaScript is great for making games: certainly no game engine required, and runs everywhere. Just make
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by mrspeaker 6y ago
Emacs has been life changing for me in this regard. It's ugly and brutalist and weird - but also beautiful! Everything I do (Email, slack, GTD, project planning, time keeping, note taking, typing this comment) is done in one program. I
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by mrspeaker 6y ago
No information about why - account is 3 months old, with one comment... way to make me intrigued!
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by mrspeaker 6y ago
I spent so many hours on "Fravia's pages of reverse engineering" and "Fravia's search lore" (mirror here, original is gone: http://www.darkridge.com/~jpr5/mirror/fravia.org/index.
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by mrspeaker 6y ago
This looks intriguing! Though, very niche: I'm both a JS dev, and an Emacs user - but I'd personally prefer to stick with Lisp... buuut, couldn't we have a LISP->JS transpiler and get the perf benefits without the JS? :) O
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by mrspeaker 6y ago
I was wondering what the effect of imposing a "minimum time to reply" would be. For instance, if I wanted to reply to your post - I would need to indicate my intent to reply, then after X minutes (at least 15, but ideally more) I
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by mrspeaker 6y ago
I'm not a bitcoin fan, but every bitcoin bubble for the last 10 years has people saying "lol, tulips". When it popped to $1: tulips. When it popped to $100... tulips! Then $2000... TULIPS! Then $20000, then $40000... TULIPSSS
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by mrspeaker 6y ago
We ran the VST synths through the same signal path as the Juno (as a test - with good DACs)... but yeah, I've long-since given up on hardware synths: they're fun, but just take up too much space. I miss combining the sounds though
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by mrspeaker 6y ago
I used to dabble with making tunes with a friend - we had access to a Juno 106, and a couple of Juno VST plugins. We'd do a bunch of takes with both, and then later we'd choose "blind" which versions to use. The real thi
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by mrspeaker 6y ago
How would you know it was a webasm IDE if it's just a blank page? (I thought it was going to be a music DAW when I clicked the link)
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by mrspeaker 6y ago
That's amazing! I had a C64 as a kid, and never learned any real 6502 because getting beyond "flash the border a different color" was tough: I only had a machine code monitor in a cartridge, and never figured out how to load&
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by mrspeaker 6y ago
I was wondering the same - I was a concert once, and was putting in earplugs - when I noticed one ear wasn't affected as much as the other when I put the earplugs in. Testing showed I had some hearing loss - but not a lot. I ended up g
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by mrspeaker 6y ago
Apparently this was not true, and was some kind of "April fools" joke: https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/no-half-a-million-geforce-rtx-30-...
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by mrspeaker 6y ago
More so than the art and tools/homeware (which are very modern - often better than utensils I own now!), the Pompeii graffiti really changed how I think about the past. When you're growing up, it seems like the older generation is
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by mrspeaker 6y ago
I don't think it's the same person, but "OldSkoolCoder" streams a lot on twitch ( https://www.twitch.tv/oldskoolcoder ) - a lot of disassembling and reverse engineering Jeff Minter games! Another great res
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by mrspeaker 6y ago
Years ago I had a genius idea of making a USB-powered mini shawarma machine that you could have on your desk, and shave off bits of meat during the day. Sometimes I still lay awake at night, wondering if that would have worked.
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by mrspeaker 6y ago
One bit of "meta" feedback from me: I love Open Library, but I get stuck every time I read one of the blog posts - because there's no link to the actual library! I always hunt for it for a while and eventually have to go up t

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