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by packetpirate 6y ago
And to think my team is migrating to CentOS 8 as we speak...
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by packetpirate 7y ago
Flow fields are also great for reducing the amount of computation required to generate pathfinding for a large number of entities in a game world. I implemented flow fields as the pathfinding for the enemies in a game I was working on last
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by packetpirate 7y ago
Yes, throughout High School. At that point I had become socially disconnected and didn't have many friends. There were a few people who stood out from the usual put-downs and idiotic comments. The problem is that even when something ph
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by packetpirate 7y ago
A lot of the people I saw in college who were CS majors didn't really seem to care about CS as a topic and only saw it as a lucrative career path. These same people would constantly struggle to understand the most basic concepts and no
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by packetpirate 7y ago
These teachers need to know about WolframAlpha...
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by packetpirate 7y ago
This is a good point. Given the unreliability of voice recognition, an app would be preferable. But also, even a touchscreen where you can select your order would be a better idea.
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by packetpirate 7y ago
I've been really looking forward to this for the last couple years, and am glad to see it finally released, but I must have missed the memo when they put a price tag on it, because I thought it was going to be freeware. The only disapp
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by packetpirate 7y ago
Only application I've used this for so far is a technique for defining and recognizing gestures. They're called "flash gestures" (or that's what the page where I read about them called them) where you find the close
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by packetpirate 7y ago
I love how the High School edition of Down and Out in Paris and London says it was edited by Moira Propeat...... in 2105.
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by packetpirate 7y ago
I'm working on Grave Wave, a top-down zombie shooter with a dark synthwave aesthetic. I've got most of the core gameplay worked out, but am currently working on overhauling the game's graphics and migrating towards more of a
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by packetpirate 7y ago
As someone who has been playing games for well over 25 years and who has a Vive, I DO think that VR is the future of gaming, just not in its current state. I think the biggest barrier is the price. The most affordable VR option is the Oculu
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by packetpirate 7y ago
If SCP-3137 is viewed, the subject shall be immediately taken into custody and then fed to SCP-682.
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by packetpirate 7y ago
Here are a few recommendations based on things I've read this year and last: - Infinite by Jeremy Robinson - The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson (this series is a rabbit hole) - Scythe by Neal Shusterman - Snow Crash by Neal Stephens
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by packetpirate 7y ago
Why the hell would you even use a "virtual" card? With the rate at which personal data is being stolen day after day and companies as large as Equifax being breached, why would you trust your money with an all-virtual bank? Especi
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by packetpirate 7y ago
When I first went to college for my Associate's Degree, we learned C++ and had the option to choose between Java and Visual Basic. I chose Java, obviously, because who the hell wants to know Visual Basic? I really liked Java back then
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by packetpirate 7y ago
You could bring in a Raspberry Pi and show them how they can modify Minecraft on the fly with Python.
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by packetpirate 7y ago
I don't take any medication for it, but music can help, and over the years, I've gotten better at focusing by simply willing myself to do it. There are definitely a lot of days when I'll end up blankly staring at my screen fo
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by packetpirate 7y ago
For that matter, it would be cool to see a breakdown of how even earlier games like Elite for the NES achieved their pseudo-3D using wire mesh graphics and how they packed so much content into such a small cartridge.
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by packetpirate 7y ago
I see in the comments that he has been working on a Quake Black Book, but I hope he plans to eventually do books on other types of games as well, instead of just Carmack/Romero-centric, raycasted first-person games. Don't get me w
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by packetpirate 7y ago
Something isn't "coding" just because it involves following a set of instructions... you could argue that a knitting pattern is an algorithm of sorts, but that doesn't make it coding.
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by packetpirate 7y ago
Yeah, except that if they were to start failing and needed a bailout, you can bet that would fall on the farmers, because they have enough of a stranglehold on the business that it would be their only option.
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by packetpirate 7y ago
I can definitely relate to his feelings of not being taken seriously in school and being put in the spotlight without oversight. I frequently did dumb things when I was in middle school, and it became a self-actualizing thing as I became in
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by packetpirate 7y ago
I can't imagine anyone is surprised by this. I've been hearing horror stories about PayPal since the mid 2000s. They're a garbage company, and the only reason people don't use something else is because they're a ver
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by packetpirate 7y ago
I've spent the past two years remaking my first game from 2013. I know that even though it has come a LONG way since the original, it probably won't sell, but I do it anyway simply because the original was a pile of hot garbage wi
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by packetpirate 8y ago
What a load of crap... "why do schools focus on unmarketable skills?" Gee, I don't know? Maybe because we shouldn't be teaching kids that they only exist to learn about a trade so they can be another cog in the machine?
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by packetpirate 8y ago
Fucking black magic obfuscation. Is it possible to learn this power? I want to see someone try to rewrite C++'s entire syntax in the form of another language (I just have to assume it has already been done.)
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by packetpirate 8y ago
Because doing the same thing every day for decades is incredibly dull and some people want to do something new and exciting? Maybe someone started off in a high-pressure environment, but now wants to focus on their personal life and wants m
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by packetpirate 8y ago
I feel bad for the guy because my dad goes through the same thing, being in IT and being 66, it's hard for him to find anything. But stop blaming everything on millennials, damn it. We didn't create age bias and blaming millennial
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by packetpirate 8y ago
> Before Facebook, if people wanted to organize conversation and cooperation on an information technology platform, the options were to pay $X00-$X000 for a proprietary system, get lucky enough to know about mailing lists, have someone w
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by packetpirate 8y ago
Damn! My work machine is cut off from outside networks and restricted to the versions of packages on their repo. Guess I can't use it. :/

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