skohan

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by skohan 5y ago
Really? The audio component I use for interactive projects fits in a single C file.
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by skohan 5y ago
In many ways game development seems decades behind other types of software development in terms of workflows. Virtually every other discipline in CS has moved towards loosely-coupled, composable components, but game development is still mo
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by skohan 5y ago
It really depends on the games you are making. Not every game needs nav meshes for example. For things like audio and asset loading, you can get really far building on top of a library like SDL2 or GLFW as a cross-platform system interface
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by skohan 5y ago
At its core a game engine is a render loop and a game logic loop. If you're using a 3rd party renderer, your "engine code" might fit in a single source file if you're making a game like asteroids or tic tac toe for exam
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by skohan 5y ago
"Governments" is a bit broad but some policies almost certainly.
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I'm not saying thorium is a solution to the climate crisis. But I think the balance is a bit far in the other direction: people rule out Nuclear unnecessarily as a part of a larger clean energy strategy because of bad associations wit
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by skohan 5y ago
Some problems are complex. If you asked me in 2012 if fuel cell cars would ever exist I would have called it a pipe-dream, but now you can buy one and use it as a real vehicle in California.
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Yes I would support this as well. Let's get rid of all the non-contributive activities.
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by skohan 5y ago
Everything is until it isn't right? Do you think there's a fundamental problem there, or is it just taking too long?
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by skohan 5y ago
Security is the argument of last-resort for so many bad technologies.
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That all might be true, but there are ways to improve on those points. For instance thorium reactors are much more efficient in terms of waste, and they are much safer. A lot of problems we have with Nuclear is because the tech most widely
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by skohan 5y ago
No I would support a real carbon tax. I would also support regulating specific activities with perverse incentive structures, like cryptocurrency mining. You don't have a real argument do you if you are are resorting to name calling a
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by skohan 5y ago
Yeah exactly. Another example would be the impact on GPU prices: mining almost certainly plays a role in making GPUs less accessible, which raises the cost of ML for example. There's probably innovations which would affect the world
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by skohan 5y ago
Is this a distinction without a difference? If the climate impact of mining were truly priced in, is there any chance this activity would be remotely profitable?
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by skohan 5y ago
Yeah fine, but then it's still completely consistent that if your goal is to decrease overall energy consumption, you would find ways to curtail energy intensive activities which provide little social value.
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by skohan 5y ago
Using clean energy for mining still increases the total demand for electricity which is going to result in more dirty energy production no matter what.
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by skohan 5y ago
In the current environment, you can't separate energy usage from energy generation in terms of externalities. Electrical power is something like a fungible asset, so even if you are using 100% green power (which doesn't really
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by skohan 5y ago
One role of government is to curtail negative externalities. If it's possible for a few people to profit by causing general harm through accelerating climate change, that would be well within the government's mandate to regulate
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by skohan 5y ago
Honestly I have yet to see a language really nail async. For instance much attention has been given to async rust, but in my experience it is 100x more difficult to work with async than standard synchronous rust. So many gotchas, and the
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by skohan 5y ago
Yeah I get this argument for native apps, but does it really make sense in the context of a React app? If I'm combining components from different authors, what's more important to the user is consistency between components in my
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by skohan 5y ago
It's a nice idea. I've recently been working with React more, and one of the things which can be frustrating is that it's often hard to find the right level of composability if you want to combine ready-made components. I.e
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by skohan 5y ago
Wasn't that your entire supposition, that both crypto and traditional finance started as criminal activity?
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by skohan 5y ago
One of the nicer things about Linux is that it's just software. It's not trying to implement any corporate ownership over your hardware.
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by skohan 5y ago
Idk it doesn't sound like a very good argument for a real value proposition. Maybe knowingly participating in a highly speculative market isn't exactly being naive or a scam artist, but it still doesn't make NFT's seem
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How likely do you think this is?
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by skohan 5y ago
Can you point to an example of what you would consider a legitimate NFT project?
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by skohan 5y ago
> It's exactly the same for NFTs. Dorsey's NFT sold for $2.9 precisely because it was 'issued' by him, and there's the implicit promise that he won't sell another NFT associated with that same tweet. If you
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by skohan 5y ago
But again, what's the incentive? For instance with something like CS: Go skins, the developers of the game are doing all the investment creating the asset, and they have zero incentive to make this available outside of their game?
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by skohan 5y ago
> You feel like you own something that the artist can only sell once (assuming they're honest). Also, I don't know if there is a credible receipt for a donation on Patreon that you can use to flex Yeah I mean I understand the a
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by skohan 5y ago
So I think the value of a signed book (which I agree in itself is dubious) is based in the provable history and scarcity of the artifact. You know that this individual copy of the book you are holding was touched by the author themself. T

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