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by snarfy 1y ago
We don't really have a lot of options as far as open source geometry kernels goes. OpenCascade CGAL Is there anything else?
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by snarfy 1y ago
pun driven development
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by snarfy 2y ago
If your job for 30 years is to move bags of cement 50 miles each day, is it not more productive to use a truck than your legs? Even if you use the truck so much you could not move a bag of cement with your legs anymore due to atrophy? You
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by snarfy 2y ago
I like to refer to this as resume driven development.
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by snarfy 2y ago
Linux's ever evolving ABI is a feature, not a bug. It's how Linux maintains technical excellence. I'll take that over a crusty backwards compatibility layer written 30 years ago that is full of warts.
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by snarfy 2y ago
It's a trade-off. Consider how dynamic linking libc works when a critical security bug is found and fixed. To update your system you update libc.so. If it were statically linked, you need to update your whole distribution.
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by snarfy 2y ago
I did not have a very good first experience with cosmopolitan. I followed the examples, made a very basic hello world type app, and it consistently crashed. I know it does work but my experience definitely turned me off to it. A polyglot
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by snarfy 2y ago
If it's going to take 10+ minutes to cook, why not use something like a toaster oven?
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by snarfy 2y ago
Seeing this reminded me of power mode. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=hoovercj...
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by snarfy 2y ago
Yes because implementing a pop-up is akin to murder.
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by snarfy 2y ago
That's privilege talking. Not everyone is in a position to quit their jobs over the morality of implementing a pop-up.
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by snarfy 2y ago
It's not the engineers making these decisions. They write the code they are told to write. Some middle manager / VP gets a promotion if they 'increase engagement', 'increase ad-spend', or some other hollow me
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by snarfy 2y ago
If shareholders want to replace the people with AI, it would be easier and more profitable to go top-down instead of bottom-up.
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by snarfy 2y ago
I'm really disappointed in all the advancement in frame generation. Game devs will end up relying on it for any decent performance in lieu of actually optimizing anything, which means games will look great and play terribly. It will
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by snarfy 2y ago
the controls are ass
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by snarfy 2y ago
UT2004 is on archive.org already, fully patched with some modern additions. I'm very hopeful this will get Epic's blessing too. What is strange is that they approve of the archive.org download, instead of say, OldUnreal hosting it
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by snarfy 2y ago
A quick glance at the headline makes me think this is about electron spins in elemental chromium. I know, naming things is hard, but c'mon people.
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by snarfy 2y ago
One of the solutions listed to discovering this is to investigate /proc/mounts and look for these type of mounts. Couldn't you use the same trick on /proc/mounts itself?
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by snarfy 2y ago
Nobody got promoted for improving core functionality.
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by snarfy 2y ago
I honestly don't care if they spend it on drugs and think addiction is another ill of society like any other. Fear of giving money to an addict is an excuse we give ourselves. I always give them money, but I only do it once for the s
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by snarfy 2y ago
In the mid 90's I knew a guy with a few soda machines. I recall him saying he would buy soda from Costco and made about 8-10k/yr from each machine. The machines were about 2k each. I think he had 4 machines for about 40k/y
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by snarfy 2y ago
The unrealtournament subreddit is your best bet. You can find links to download the game, get a cd key, and configure for the new master servers so you can find servers online. Game tracker still lists this game, so you can check there to
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by snarfy 2y ago
Yes, it's why I don't share knowledge of it. There are less than 300 people actively playing this game (maybe fewer) so any impact of something like a RCE running wild is relatively small.
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by snarfy 2y ago
> There's also "illegal" amx plugins and commands, which are generally frowned upon and extremely abusable, but quite useful in these situations. My favorite (which most of the "illegal plugins" are based around)
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by snarfy 2y ago
It's more effort than it's worth. There are server aimbot scanners which do something like this. There are also aimbots written to thwart this type of detection, adding delays, random drift, etc. It's a cat and mouse game.
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by snarfy 2y ago
Yes, we have a whitelist ability also, but it is definitely a last resort. The game is mostly dead and difficult to discover for new players. We don't want that roadblock if we can avoid it.
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by snarfy 2y ago
For UT2004, you can ban by player GUID (a hash of the CD key) or IP. With the game abandoned by Epic, a number of key generators have cropped up, which makes GUID bans useless. IP bans only go so far with VPNs costing $2 these days. The m
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by snarfy 2y ago
It was Jobs specifically that was anti-gaming. I'm not sure where Cook stands.
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by snarfy 2y ago
I'm overloaded with notifications. I don't want any more.
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by snarfy 2y ago
Because the EU required them to.

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