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by slimsag 10y ago
I'm not trying to be rude by saying this, but these names "Vector" and "Matrix" are far from Google-able, and sometimes (esp. in game development, and other scientific fields I'm sure) not even clear in person-
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by slimsag 10y ago
FWIW I did measure the CGO call overhead a while back: https://github.com/slimsag/cgo-batching
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by slimsag 10y ago
Atom can't open files larger than 2MB IIRC, and files below 2MB are.. very rough. This was about 6 months ago, though, so hopefully it's improved since then! EDIT: yep, things have improved: https://github.com/atom
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by slimsag 10y ago
Have you tried Sublime? I'm asking honestly, because I used Atom for a year and thought it was pretty fast until I tried Sublime.
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by slimsag 10y ago
In my experience, Sublime is vastly faster than both. VS Code comes next, and then Atom. I still wouldn't switch to VS code because by design[1] you can't open multiple folders in the same window, which destroys my workflow. [1]
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by slimsag 10y ago
Am I correct that WebAssembly is the first browser language VM (like JVM, Flash, etc) that is developed as a specification and not an implementation? If so, I wonder how security will fare in comparison to JVM/Flash/etc, I imagine
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by slimsag 10y ago
What would the implications of this be? Does it just mean that people can root all devices using this chipset? Or something worse? (sorry if this is obvious, I'm just not in the know)
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by slimsag 10y ago
From the article: > Worries have been raised that birds could be struck and seriously injured by a drone’s blades. Mr. Hoogendoorn said that the safety of the animals was a top priority, and that although eagles’ talons had scales to pro
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by slimsag 10y ago
Even with an explanation to "How", "Why" is the more common question when faced with intentional and extreme tragedy against yourself and loved ones.
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by slimsag 10y ago
There might be more game devs using Windows than Linux, just due to market share, so I'd say Windows was the right choice here.
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by slimsag 10y ago
WebAssembly will have a binary format with a 20-30% reduction size than its gzipped asm.js counterpart[1], for context :) [1] https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/Rationale....
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by slimsag 11y ago
Cool question, I was thinking of much the same last night. But, politically, nothing can be done because encryption and decryption is purely technical -- there is no middle ground that I see. From a technical perspective.., the solution is
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by slimsag 11y ago
(OP here) @shurcooL raised an interesting point with me while chatting. If I commit a 50 MB file into a git repo, GitHub is just "OK, download as much as you want". But if I put it into git-lfs where it really belongs? "No, y
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(GitHub) Git LFS 1GB bandwidth free tier limitation(github.com)
3 points by slimsag 11y ago|3 comments
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by slimsag 11y ago
Agree, and it's a pity because this tutorial looks great. A better title would be: "Write your own video player with SDL and ffmpeg!" Or something along those lines, anyway.
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Ask HN: If you develop a codec in a cleanroom is it still encumbered by patents?
7 points by slimsag 11y ago|4 comments
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by slimsag 11y ago
Me and my brothers came up with this as a bit of a joke for measuring time; I got bored and decided to take it to another level. Enjoy!
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Show HN: GigaSecond(gigasecond.github.io)
5 points by slimsag 11y ago|2 comments
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by slimsag 11y ago
(the author is a friend of mine), posting this here because I always forget that this project exists but I think it's super useful :) thought others might not have seen it yet
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Markdownfmt: Like gofmt, but for Markdown(github.com)
2 points by slimsag 11y ago|1 comments
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by slimsag 11y ago
Gamestop is to Steam what Blockbuster is to Netflix, they failed to adapt and now they're obsolete. Not only that, they also have a horrible track record for customer service. The internet is littered with tales of horrible experiences
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by slimsag 11y ago
I'm not familiar with the Git project's inner workings, but their website git-scm.com tells me they are hosted on GitHub, which has a public issue tracker: https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/issues GitHu
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by slimsag 11y ago
I haven't read the whole article yet, so I might have missed something; but how do we know that people weren't reporting these issues? I've always had to report issues to GitHub via email as they do not have a public issue tr
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by slimsag 11y ago
It seems a bit contradictory to write a manual memory management library in Go and _then use type reflection as a shoehorned version of generics_. It must be that the author only cares about GC pauses, i.e. 'nondeterministic' paus
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by slimsag 11y ago
This is really awesome :) The truth is that the 'web' is really becoming the cross-platform application architecture. Just a few years back I despised the very idea of this -- I want to program in my favorite language, not JavaScr
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by slimsag 11y ago
(dev here) thanks for the heads up! :) I've created an issue[1] so I can fix this soon; it's just a link to the trace served by Appdash[2] and the instance isn't actually public so it's not a security issue (just a broke
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by slimsag 11y ago
Do you really think Make could replace npm?
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by slimsag 11y ago
Highly agreed! I would be really curious to see if someone could take a slightly defocused picture and run it through this to see what it would produce / if it would introduce a bunch of undesirable effects or not.
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by slimsag 11y ago
FWIW this used to be hosted on GitHub here: https://github.com/go-llvm/llgo Not really obvious to me how much progress has been made since the transition to LLVM repo.. but last time I checked it was missing _a lot_: -
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by slimsag 11y ago
The very fact that we 'do not break APIs' is one of the reasons that this newsreader is 100+ MB. If Google Chrome wasn't 4,490,488 lines of code designed across years of development to, well, _support old web APIs_ -- then it

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