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by setr 1y ago
with enough people, and a sufficiently high view, all problems are about human-management. This is the case for any subject. Management is not a product of university MBA programs and power-hungry corporate animals seeking to impose their w
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by setr 1y ago
Found an example that you're correct: https://www.reddit.com/r/AnaMains/comments/14gsuot/whats_wit... > You say "the state never happened on the server" but what does that even mean? Yo
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by setr 1y ago
Ok what happens in scenario Player A fires at B at time 0 Player B moves at time 0, causing A to miss Due to lag, player A receives B movement at time 3 So player A fired at a still target, and hit. Player B moved, and dodged. Rollback woul
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by setr 1y ago
It is weird, and if I’m reading this right a single player with a poor connection will trigger repeated rollbacks for everyone. It also seems to be client-authoritative? Which is just 100% illegal if you’re at all concerned about cheating.
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by setr 1y ago
I’m still not clear that this actually a problem. If they overbuild more expensive housing, isn’t the inevitable result that they’ll have to eventually undersell it? There’s only so many wealthy persons, and no matter how fancy the house is
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by setr 1y ago
the problem with false positives is that a single instance means you have to review every record meticulously, because you have no idea where the system has lied to you, or how many times (because the system itself doesn't). If you&#x2
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by setr 1y ago
One major difference is that tags/folders better enable discovery. Search can get you to “similar to thing I found”, but it can’t really do “related to thing I found” ala Wikipedia. AI might be intelligent enough to fix that, but in th
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by setr 1y ago
Yup that’s the one. Idk why I always forget about sirlin but it’s good shit
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by setr 1y ago
Probably not, since game design is usually done iteratively, and you’ll end up writing a simulator for an unstable ruleset. The first trigger for changing the rules will be whether it’s boring or not, and that will mostly come from playtest
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by setr 1y ago
Developers interested in speciation have a tendency to fall prey to genetic algorithms and simulations, and eventually lost to those ratholes
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by setr 1y ago
Seconding this. With infinite time and money, I can do whatever you want — excepting squaring the circle. Onus is yours to explain the difficulty and ideally the other party decides their own request is unreasonable, once you’ve provided an
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by setr 1y ago
Generally the ideal format for one problem is not the same as another. For example, to store a graph in a RDBMS, the ideal format is probably an adjacency list with a recursive query to iterate it. But in my app code, it’s probably easiest
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by setr 1y ago
It’s because you’re looking at it from opposing ends. From the perspective of the data source, in a streaming context, the size is finite — it’s whatever you’re sending. From the data sink’s perspective, it’s unknown how many records are go
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by setr 1y ago
Sure but generally speaking, the safer the language/model/api, the more likely you can get away with AI generated code. Rust having more powerful modeling tools than the usual language sales it more viable to use crappier programm
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by setr 1y ago
Isn’t that exactly why If rust avoids defects due to programmer mistakes, then throwing a shitty programmer at it is functionally safe (or safer than otherwise) because their shitty code won’t compile. So worst case is they don’t do any har
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by setr 1y ago
If you’ve massaged and normalized the data at entry, then the assumptions at core logic should be well defined — it’s whatever the rules of the normalized output are. You don’t need to know all of the call chains because you’ve established
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by setr 1y ago
Online multiplayer games? AFAIK they’re all dead unless the server has been reverse engineered like WoW. Offline games continue being playable only because of software/hardware emulation — it’s not a product of the game design/eng
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by setr 1y ago
Candide and White Noise I accidentally read prior to the class, not knowing they were curriculum books. Both I found absolutely hilarious. Both failed to elicit even a minor chuckle once it entered the classroom. Not from the students, not
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by setr 1y ago
I’m not even sure it was correct for its time? The whole point of an RDBMS is to execute join operations. The only reason I’d suspect an RDBMS to be bad at its one fundamental job, in any point of time, is the N+1 query scenario or multiple
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by setr 1y ago
>because the current state is the sum of all previous states I don't think that's true, except for the server? From the client's perspective, the current state is whatever the hell the server thinks is the sum of all previ
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by setr 1y ago
Any input data has the same problem. Type safety exists after validation, and its guarantees hold only if your original validation was upheld. Files, database, user input, network protocols, etc. I don’t know why the network would be any wa
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by setr 1y ago
To further justify your position; Originality is just the unique composition of various unoriginal things. If you chase quality, originality will appear as a byproduct as you deal with the intricacies from your specific combination of featu
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by setr 1y ago
The lost money comes from the taxpayer. But that loan money was going to be used to pay the school; and presumably if the student doesn’t have that loan money, they ain’t gonna be paying (or attending, because they can no longer afford to d
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by setr 1y ago
This isn’t Y2K design; it’s SEO spam design. Specifically the type that copy & paste legitimate site content and wrap it in thousands of ads to catch the naive googler
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by setr 1y ago
what in the seven hells is this cursed website its more ads than site; and they're not even unique ads
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by setr 1y ago
15 time further than the furthest once-planet is fairly intuitive to say really freaking far ; you don’t need to know how far pluto is, just that it’s the furthest.
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by setr 1y ago
There’s generally no repercussions to bullying robots — or being nice to one. Aggressively direct, if not outright unsympathetically cruel, is probably the best approach in all scenarios
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by setr 1y ago
The first comment is, at best, pointing out a name collision. It's otherwise fairly meaningless yet misleading. Julia could be named for any Julia in the known universe... but it wasn't.
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by setr 1y ago
ECS is basically the realization that relational databases are a pretty damn good model. I’m suspicious though that you could probably get away with literally just using like an in-memory duckdb to store your game state and get most of the
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by setr 1y ago
it is an open system; the two-party-in-practice nature of it is a result of optimizing over the ruleset. specifically, you need to get rid of the winner-takes-all vote

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