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by rf15 8y ago
I guess that last paragraph shows the temptation, our wish for meaning and some meta mechanism around us beyond a couple of rocks we can see flying around. We are unable to deal with the concrete mundanity of reality. (learning how things w
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by rf15 8y ago
That manager description seems....off. ...Was this written by a manager? The hacker description is very interesting though and reflects my experience mostly
633.
by rf15 8y ago
I checked a few sources and you are right. turns out I was in a bubble there.
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by rf15 8y ago
confirming that there's definitely a trend towards separate threads for audio, but the rest, especially networking, depends strongly on the engine
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by rf15 8y ago
if you are disagreeing with my broad-ish statements about two very different platforms please explain how I am wrong instead of just downvoting.
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by rf15 8y ago
they use extra cores for live video recording and fun like that, also console games are usually run in a vm on the console these days so it's giving the OS some spare space too (contact lists/chat, achievements, etc.). Also it giv
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by rf15 8y ago
No, most games are single threaded, even AAA ones. You might get this impression from a vocal minority though, "vocal" in the sense that they're the ones landing on your radar, while the technical details of other games do no
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by rf15 8y ago
As a game dev, I agree with you. Also: all the casual observers that say "just multithread/core it! would make it so much faster!" and don't understand one bit about parallelisation problems, as if it's just a bit y
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by rf15 8y ago
It's an existing, rarely-used feature. You can try it in your browser!
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by rf15 8y ago
I'm sorry, Sturgeon's Law is in full effect and the current system encourages spamming out low-tier research for grants/etc.. So the bar is on a completely different metric altogether from what a normal person would expect
641.
by rf15 8y ago
reminds me of the story where a chinese plastic factory created lots of small white pellets and sold them as rice, making a fortune. (might be wrong on the factory detail, but the plastic rice definitely happened)
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by rf15 9y ago
You're not going to see a raise if drugs get more expensive; the company is only interested in paying you the minimal possible amount and giving everything else to high-ranking shareholders. This is a shareholder/roi-optimising ec
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by rf15 9y ago
this is actually known in most of the world; that the US just cleanly won with raw superiority purely driven by what is good and right and no complex motives (including omitting the use of nukes to avoid having to do a proper invasion with
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by rf15 9y ago
Happy paypal user here; don't like handing out credit card info and never contacted customer support or requested a refund of companies I dealt with. Don't give in to stereotypes so easily and do not call part of your customer bas
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by rf15 9y ago
well from there it's just mixing different wavelength ranges of "monochrome", so the difference is less than one might expect (yes I am ignoring the preprocessing cells that have to be in tune too for correct colour vision to
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by rf15 9y ago
But are they not themselves part of the problem they decry?
647.
by rf15 9y ago
Your assessment is definitely sufficiently true, although I would argue that, looking at how v8 essentially increases speed down to just twice the time of a comparable C program (as opposed to a magnitude or two) it is worth the convenience
648.
by rf15 9y ago
Some of these questions are really good, but some are more buzzword bingo than anything, like "What are the building blocks of HTML5?"
649.
by rf15 9y ago
They probably just timed execution with a few thousand samples and compared results. Nothing too fancy either way, I think.
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by rf15 9y ago
You can program efficiently in js. Just maybe drop the fat framework that dynamically checks each and every of your assigned variables to update other hidden functions (and maybe the dom) and avoid dragging things through N functions for &q
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by rf15 9y ago
I'm always impressed by some of the optimisations they find: 0aa403b649 improves readDouble/readFloat in buffers by 200-800% simply by...moving the code to plain javascript binary operations instead of the C++ runtime.
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by rf15 9y ago
This seems to be missing WebGL and WASM as branches further down the frontend tree.
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by rf15 9y ago
I am just into physics as a hobby as well, but yes, the site is a somewhat extreme variant of soft/popular science. (maybe extreme isn't the right word, but it's very much inside this category with all the enthusiasm that com
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by rf15 9y ago
there was a time when birds and bats were hard to distinguish in the sense that both their ancestors were first one, then very closely related, and now very distinct and separate. And it's hard to tell where to draw the line in this pr
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by rf15 9y ago
Maybe we have to face the fact that there's multiple ways to reach a solution and no single canonical mechanism. (essentially the point of the article)
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by rf15 9y ago
Agreed, and it's depressing to see that so many people see any disagreement with "natural selection pressure and mutation is the sole method for formation of new species" (despite these two being rather hand-wave-y in parts)
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by rf15 9y ago
I think going for anything BUT rgb based on a digital rgb source image is beyond the scope of this experiment. You are not dealing with a real image, don't bother with real color space, ESPECIALLY if you filter it all down to a palette
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by rf15 9y ago
a lot of geeks are also not into it: it is advertised as giving you more degrees of freedom and immersion, but VR gives you half the features of these degrees (free hand movements! looking around wherever you please!) and feels limiting bec
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by rf15 9y ago
Most publishers and developers do fine with reasonable microtransactions, DLC, season passes and so on. It's just EA that makes it extra inhuman in trying to squeeze out the last cent out of everyone (including bleeding out their studi
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by rf15 9y ago
It snowballed a bit, but overall it reflects the disregard gamers feel from EA: they try to make a $60+ game that also has microtransactions (Games-as-a-Service) and everything that is buyable by microtransactions has to be impossible/

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