skohan

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by skohan 4y ago
"Kitchen Sink" engines like Unreal and Unity come with their own set of assumptions which may or may not help to deliver a given game. If you want to make a game which is radically different than the industry standard, you'r
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by skohan 4y ago
Python and JS are top programming languages for very specific reasons. Python because: 1. It has a low barrier of entry for non-programmers, which makes it suited for applications like data science and ML. 2. There is vast library support
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by skohan 4y ago
Won't this still result in a lot of fragmentation? I.e. won't you have disjoint allocations for those new branches of the tree? Sounds pretty cache-unfriendly.
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by skohan 4y ago
I just disagree that performance isn't a concern in almost every context. There's a hierarchy of concerns, to be sure, and if you haven't written reliable code which solves the problem yet you shouldn't be worried about
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by skohan 4y ago
Data duplication is a tool which can be used to avoid large classes of bugs, but there's no question it comes at a cost to performance. If anything, I would say explicit mutability allows us to decrease data duplication. By being expl
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by skohan 4y ago
Yeah I totally agree. I think writing code which is "functional where possible" is super powerful and offers a ton of advantages. Trying to cover that last 20% of cases where you have to bend over backwards to create a performan
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by skohan 4y ago
Imo functional programming is one of those things that makes sense from a theoretical perspective, but comes with compromises when it comes to reality. The thing about functional programming is that the confidence you get from immutability
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by skohan 4y ago
Couldn't you theoretically have a version of DXVK which would just not support geometry shaders, or emulate them (maybe with a performance penalty) in a compute shader? It might not support every game, but proton isn't 100% either
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by skohan 4y ago
I'm not convinced Rust would ever be the right "everything language". Currently I find myself reaching for it for almost every domain, largely thanks to the ADT's and amazing tooling, but it's a bit low level and so
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by skohan 4y ago
It's also just a matter of the massive amount of prior art available on the JS side. There's so much you would have to create from scratch in Rust which is already an npm package.
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by skohan 4y ago
Related: MoltenVK is now compliant with Vulkan 1.2. https://www.phoronix.com/news/MoltenVK-1.2-Vulkan-Apple
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by skohan 4y ago
People make that comparison, but the secret sauce of TikTok is letting users score their content with high quality copyrighted music.
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by skohan 4y ago
Really could not have picked worse timing: a year ago capital was so much cheaper
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by skohan 4y ago
It's a good sentiment, but he kind of has to say that right? He just spent $44B taking this company private, if advertisers flee and it starts running at a substantial loss, it could mean financial ruin for him
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by skohan 4y ago
If that were really their goal, theoretically they could be. For instance, this forum has features, like invisible vote counts, and exponential cool-down periods which encourage healthy conversations. Whether that is compatible with thei
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by skohan 4y ago
Vine was just early right? I would assume hosting and delivering video was just too expensive at the time.
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by skohan 4y ago
It was part of the initial announcement. They talked about for instance being able to watch a streamer on YouTube, and press a button to pick up in the game right where they are.
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by skohan 4y ago
I think they really failed to deliver on the core promise of Stadia: making games a part of the internet the way YouTube videos are. If they really made it the case that AAA gaming was just another type of content you might bump into in a p
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by skohan 4y ago
Kind of an aside, but I recently signed up for YouTube Premium and find it a very good value. I often use YouTube as a tool, for instance for quickly learning how to do something by watching, and ad-free makes this a significantly better ex
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by skohan 4y ago
How does this compare to AWS and Azure?
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by skohan 4y ago
I watched the linked talk by Andrew Kelly - super interesting stuff. I've played a bit with data oriented design in the context of implementing an ECS, but some of the topics he discusses take it to another level entirely, and it&#x27
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by skohan 4y ago
They're user hostile in general. old.reddit.com also naggs you to go to the new version, just so you can accept cookies, every few days. Respect my preference, or don't offer the better UI at all if you want to punish me for it,
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by skohan 4y ago
Is wasm3 built in to iOS, or is that something you have to bundle with your app?
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by skohan 4y ago
There must be a way to set up a hotkey for this right?
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by skohan 4y ago
Is WASM typically interpreted? I would have assumed one of the advantages of an assembly language is it would be easy to JIT compile down to machine code.
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by skohan 4y ago
This is like a placeholder sentence which should have been replaced with actual content.
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by skohan 4y ago
> BetterTouchTool Physical function keys are a must-have for every mac imo
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by skohan 4y ago
We used a Qualcomm module for wifi/bluetooth connectivity on an IoT device and the bluetooth just straight up didn't work for a handful of Android devices. We had to wait like a year for a mitigation, since it was closed source f
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by skohan 4y ago
What more *nix do you want on macOS than is already there? I can understand from the lockdown perspective (i.e. just give me a Vulkan driver on macOS) but as a polished DTE with a unix terminal I find it pretty decent.
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by skohan 4y ago
Isn't it an IP issue? I thought maybe MS patented this

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