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by swalls 5y ago
in the future, I think Jai looks pretty good, as a language designed for game dev, considering they're basically battle testing it by shipping a large 3d game in it... if the compiler ever gets released. I think 7 years of streamed dev
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by swalls 5y ago
Why not just call into a C/other compiled language library in this case? It'll be faster and it's not like you're getting the advantages of Lua in this case because you're not actually integrating it. In the ideal c
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by swalls 5y ago
Even if they're not doing anything nefarious with that data, I'm against telemetry other than crash reports because data driven design makes for boring art.
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by swalls 5y ago
I like the original programming content the BBC produces. I don't like the BBC, and BBC news in particular, at all. They propagate bias in insidious ways like 'creative' titling of articles, pushing articles off to side chann
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by swalls 5y ago
Not requiring a battery is actually pretty genius because it covers up failure in testing as user error. "No, no, the device isn't useless - you just don't have enough static electricity to power it!" Repeat until you ge
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by swalls 5y ago
Then that's even worse, no? That they blindly comply with a request without details.
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by swalls 5y ago
Absolute pitch may not be possible to learn as an adult, but what they're describing is having good pitch memory, which is different from absolute/perfect pitch, and is definitely something you can develop with a bit of practice.
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by swalls 5y ago
The first real 'killer app' game (Half Life Alyx) released coincident to GPU prices going nuts. People got interested in VR... then couldn't upgrade their PCs to run it.
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by swalls 5y ago
Does anyone know any more about the Apollo Moon Project simulator? It looks remarkably advanced for 1967 and I can't find anything more about it. Would love to see the code for it.
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by swalls 5y ago
Are you implying this wasn't intentional? France (alongside Belgium) practically invented the comic industry, but in recent years I'd imagine that's been getting decimated by east Asian manga. If you want to inspire a generat
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by swalls 5y ago
I'd say they probably considered that a feature.
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by swalls 5y ago
These are problems coming from single entities trying to retroactively predict outrage. There is no grassroots activists trying to change white/black in chess. There was no grassroots actvists trying to change master/slave - it ca
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by swalls 5y ago
The amount of slippery slope argument and strawmanning on HN when it comes to topics like this is pretty embarrassingly Daily Mail-ish.
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by swalls 5y ago
The largest streaming service in South Korea is AfreecaTV, which is P2P; I think the problem, and why this wouldn't work with Twitch/Youtube etc comes with expanding it globally, as you have places with very weak upload and fewer
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by swalls 5y ago
Good. Just because someone died, doesn't mean their personal writing belongs to you.
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by swalls 6y ago
How do you go about gathering data and training a model for hundreds of hours and not question that what you're doing is wrong?
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by swalls 6y ago
This ignores the fact that cryptominers sell their old cards on to gamers, at a value which, due to the shortage, is potentially even higher than what they bought it at. The only way out I see is flooding the market or a crypto crash.
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by swalls 6y ago
What this article doesn't mention is all the failed attempts at creating collectible value, leading to a survivorship bias that implies rare+finite=value. Something being rare doesn't imply value, it's the combination of bein
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by swalls 6y ago
Any editor made in the last 20 years has syntax highlighting around strings, to not quote-delim hurts readability in this case.
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by swalls 6y ago
I'm a designer, and this may be a cynical take on this but all I see is Apple shifting to skeumorphic design just so that they can go back to flat in 5-10 years and go "Look at how timeless our previous designs were!"
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by swalls 7y ago
Well, they kinda do, sometimes at least. This is a slightly weird case, but Unity has gotten a bad rap recently for being host to a million shovelware and asset flip games due to its low barrier to entry, so much so that some people avoid t
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by swalls 7y ago
AI for helping you design and test UX, perhaps. I could see ML being used to 'simulate' eye tracking (and I'll bet some startup is working on that already). But morphing UI based on subconcious behaviour, I'm not buying
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by swalls 7y ago
Wow. I destroyed the planet I was on, moved outside the universe and then became God, destroyed the universe, then made a new universe. Thanks for releasing this, by the way. It's incredibly cool.
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by swalls 7y ago
This is what terrifies me about Discord, as well as the fact they store all their logs in plaintext. AFAIK it is impossible to delete logs in Discord and any new user joining a channel gets access to all the back history of chat, so it&#x
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by swalls 7y ago
Also in the UK (ISP is Virgin), getting similar results: the extended validation ones are the matching but the rest aren't.
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by swalls 7y ago
It's the best solution because attempts on it don't scale; any attempt at it requires either everyone in the room be in on the fraud (and it takes just one person to break that) and even then, going through ballots by hand takes a
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by swalls 7y ago
Apple has an obsesssion with killing off anything slightly inconvenient to them, users be damned.
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by swalls 7y ago
Oh man, this looks great. I've been wanting a system that you can program close to the metal like this. That being said, I think this will be just for the programmer enthusiasts, $200 is a pretty hefty price for consumers considering y
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by swalls 7y ago
As far as I know, it's at least partially because Russia doesn't extradite citizens and doesn't respond to other countries requesting they investigate.
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by swalls 7y ago
>The complaint goes beyond Apple and iPhone, Android does a better job of pretending you own the phone but all that really means is Google owns you instead of Apple. The problem is political not technological, all the common person can d

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