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by nikki93 6y ago
Anyone try running this on iOS? Does the CS backend always definitely need writable executable memory access (not available on iOS) or can it interpret a bytecode?
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by nikki93 6y ago
He's using Unreal for his latest game: https://www.stevestreeting.com/2020/05/07/from-unity-to-ue4-...
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New EU regulation strengthens hand of developers in dealings with storefronts(mcvuk.com)
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by nikki93 6y ago
Yeah I'm looking forward to seeing how concepts work out in practice. Also, to clarify on the original point, in this case it doesn't require that much template trickery. Most attributes could be handled as `.foo(Foos::BAR_1)` to
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by nikki93 6y ago
I'm fine with that rn cuz the use case is a personal API for me making game tooling UI on a side project, still kind of experimental. It's basically what the JS that gets generated from React JSX is like, and also like immediate m
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by nikki93 6y ago
I haven't used GCC in a while, but clang's template error msgs are way better than MSVC's in my experience. Still not like--good--haha. Like not Elm-level.
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by nikki93 6y ago
Yeah it's not great unfortunately. It ends up being that I have two sides of this code--one side is this subset that I've wondered about writing analysers for and checking the syntax just for this custom "dialect" almost
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by nikki93 6y ago
With 'modern C++' you can make APIs way nicer than the Java-like API going on here. Lambdas really help, along with RAII which has already been around. I have an API going where the following syntax creates a div with a 'tool
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by nikki93 6y ago
Re: the first paragraph--a lot of "formal CS education" focuses on systems and there are systems tracks. Where BSD came from, for example. So I wouldn't call it useless (while the parts that do not focus on systems do, indeed
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by nikki93 6y ago
Another consideration here is that you can use languages that offer control over data layout as a natural feature, which can matter a lot for good cache utilization etc. In many cases the data layout matters a lot for performance. You can d
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by nikki93 6y ago
The manual memory management thing -- like needing GC -- feels like a false dichotomy. Most of these languages that have GC need you to "manually" manage resource lifetimes anyways for a lot of resources: files, network connection
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by nikki93 6y ago
It seems like the main benefit the authors of hooks get at is being able to encapsulate a library's logic into hooks that you can reuse, so eg. you could do `const [data, loading] = useQuery('some query');` and the query is a
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by nikki93 6y ago
It seems good! I wanted to play with Rust WASM things but it doesn't seem to help with completion of sources from wasm-bindgen's canvas 2d context for example. :/
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by nikki93 7y ago
Lua has this with `xpcall`.
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by nikki93 7y ago
I agree for all the 'appliance' stuff; and a lot of times that's what you want. But I think also we should be sure to enable and flood computers with "play" spaces--which are about such 'tinkering' but I t
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by nikki93 7y ago
Assuming at least two of the components are "idea" and "execution," if you start with a definitely super bad idea, you'd get an execution-independent (bad) outcome.
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by nikki93 7y ago
I use dmenu: https://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/
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by nikki93 7y ago
Yeah this definitely makes sense. I think the startup work you do should build your personal portfolio. Open source (like with an actual open source license like MIT and no weird edge cases) work helps a ton too. I think also being paid in
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by nikki93 7y ago
Thanks! There are ways to work on ideas without sacrificing one's own life. And this can involve working in a small group that people will call a startup. There is no reason to enter into abusive relationships or sacrifice being paid,
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by nikki93 7y ago
There are a lot of envs that are not abusive. Having your workplace generalized and called abusive on the internet when it's not in real life, definitely feels abusive, however. I've seen people join abusive personal relationships
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by nikki93 7y ago
There may be forms of messaging where the "medium" surrounding messages is more like an aether -- sorta like photons in space. And the addressing to objects super loose. I don't think it needs to be so strongly receiver-bound
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by nikki93 7y ago
Isn't the internet the social institution then?
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by nikki93 7y ago
The square is defined as a union of lines, and the line integral of a whole shape is the summation of that of the curves it is a union of with open intervals not including the "corners" (points of 'infinite curvature' as
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by nikki93 7y ago
If the "game" is survival and selection for attention (to get compute space, so literal survival) from humans, "interestingness" is what will matter and I think what people will end up finding most interesting is NPCs th
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by nikki93 7y ago
Yeah I believe in this game / simulated world NPC idea too. To get the kind of complexity we want we either need sensors in the real world or interfacing in a virtual world that humans bring complexity to (probably both -- the humans a
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by nikki93 7y ago
I think the line integral of curvature (changes sign based on concave / convexness) along perimeters remains the same under cutting / pasting; and it's different for squares and circles, so doesn't work out.
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by nikki93 7y ago
I just use VSCode for the actual editing then build with cmake.exe from command line. VSCode's autocomplete and everything just work. Been a good experience.
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by nikki93 7y ago
A key consideration here would probably be the expression and passing around of managed instances spawned in the high-level variant through low-level code. Would you explicitly retain and release them? -- etc. I think it should be an ergono
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by nikki93 7y ago
Wouldn't this just mean that we happen to be in a young universe?
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by nikki93 7y ago
This is now one of my favorite comments on hacker news. Thanks! I've been wondering -- how to recreate this feeling in an MMO? We can definitely have scale changes by letting people zoom in or out and changing their character avatar si

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