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by syntheweave 3y ago
Godot has always made a point of prioritizing features and simplicity of modification over speed. In a lot of instances it does just ignore low-hanging opportunities for performance because the simple thing works and needs less code, which
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by syntheweave 3y ago
One of the most important qualities in storytelling is believability: it might not be true, but you want to believe it. And pop fiction resonates at the large scale that it does through its ability to reflect beliefs that people already hol
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by syntheweave 3y ago
The most you can accomplish on a PS1 with CD streaming is, roughly, a Crash Bandicoot level[0]. Texture data is relatively bandwidth-heavy - and a single speed drive can only manage 150 Kb/s. So the optimal use case for "showing a
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by syntheweave 3y ago
It folds together a lot of user cues around input: that the controller that presses start is the one that the player wants to use, that they are present and ready to play(vs sitting back and watching a cutscene, which, uncued, can be confus
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by syntheweave 3y ago
let DebugFlags = {StepOne=false, StepTwo=false, StepThree=true}; if (DebugFlags.StepOne) { ... } if (DebugFlags.StepTwo) { ... } if (DebugFlags.StepThree) { ... } Your training in structured, DRY and OOP will recoil at this
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by syntheweave 3y ago
They've gotten commodified. It's going to be like being Oracle in a Postgre/MySQL world. You'll have some big legacy customers who just can't switch. But the market as a whole was primed to pack up and leave anyway.
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by syntheweave 3y ago
So many of the Victorian era's jobs are starkly low-value by today's standards. Even poorer parts of the world today don't have a need for knocker-uppers and can leapfrog directly from rising with the sun to an alarm clock.
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by syntheweave 3y ago
I had one of these AtariLab kits, probably leftovers from the school library(the source of a lot of retro gear and books in my youth). And yeah, it was badly misreading the room temperature in the early 90's, too. I was hardly prepared
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by syntheweave 3y ago
There was a whole run of decent sci-fi TV back then: Quantum Leap, Sliders, Babylon 5 all aired in that period. Some of them I watched as a kid, others I didn't, but I see all of them referenced occasionally. Then the late 90's hi
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by syntheweave 3y ago
Double masking with surgical has been shown to get to 80% filtration efficacy because of better sealing. That said, there are brands of N95 mask that are more comfortable and easier to be heard through than a two-mask layer.
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by syntheweave 3y ago
Given how long they take to implement, transit plans should not be the biggest factor in where you move. The biggest transit things actually taking place locally are CA HSR(which is happening, and Caltrain is currently shovels-in-ground ele
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by syntheweave 3y ago
In the runup to WWII, reactionary portions of Japan's military attempted coups multiple times, with some successful assassinations. The origins of this trend date back to the unequal treaties Japan was forced to sign by Western powers
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by syntheweave 3y ago
The difference is that the id devs had already come from the Apple II world first, so they had written plenty of 6502 assembly and were aware of the cycle counting types of optimizations, but chose to give some of them up to use C when they
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by syntheweave 3y ago
The office has become a real hot potato. The crux of it is that demand is down and staying there, and cities, companies and individuals are all winners or losers, but the losers can try to lose less by passing the cost on to someone else. A
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by syntheweave 3y ago
When trying to run one system at a higher rate than the other(whether it's render, physics, input) the principles of DSP come into play: you're running a bunch of things that can be coordinated together for maximum smoothness if y
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by syntheweave 3y ago
My suggestion is to focus on some of these: * Protocol implementations(e.g. TCP, HTTP, MIDI) * Smaller compilers(PUC-Rio Lua, Forth-80) * Commercial video game sources [0] When studying protocols, you can compare apples-to-apples because th
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by syntheweave 3y ago
As scaling kicks in, it'll be the cheapest transit that can be added at margin within car-centric environments. Still centrally administered, professionally operated and maintained just like a bus fleet. The modality is something that
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by syntheweave 3y ago
It's comparable to FBP, and indeed, such a comparison has been made, specifically with Linda: [0] In effect, the difference stems from whether you want to explicitly allocate ports to processing nodes, or if you want nodes that discern
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by syntheweave 3y ago
Yes, this is along the lines of what I'm suspicious of too, as an also-gamedev that has done some ECS. It's too easy to study an existing system and, given the resources, create a perfect demo for how to dramatically improve it in
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by syntheweave 3y ago
The marginal driver cost is what creates equilibriums in the conventional modes. Either they're scheduled to work a shift, or they're owner-operators. Both create constraints on how many vehicles can be dispatched, the form they h
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by syntheweave 3y ago
Every market is a good one for some job seekers and a terrible one for others. It's very hard to have a good sense of it unless you're really close to the industry cycles(financing, hiring, etc.) - anecdotes always have an aspect
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by syntheweave 3y ago
Go's good parts are basically the parts inherited from Bell Labs - the channels are an echo of Plan9's 9p protocol being used everywhere, and the style syntactically and in metaprogramming capability remains close to C, but with r
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by syntheweave 3y ago
I spent some time experimenting with CUE in 2020 and would handily recommend it if you need something resembling "configuration with constraint solving behaviors". It can be a bit surprising in that when it terminates evaluation,
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by syntheweave 3y ago
I am doing something using Gemtext, but not the Gemini protocol. Basically - it's a decent way to "start over" and not be HTML-compatible, which is important if you are moving away from the owned-server model of hosting(which
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by syntheweave 3y ago
Ultimately, the goal of all the systems is not really within the systems, but the applications. And one of the reasons why we have such an excess of configuration - which includes general-purpose programmability itself - is because we&#x27
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by syntheweave 3y ago
I suggest instead cutting to the heart of it: * Ensure that men with guns cannot be paid. If you do that, every empire falls. It is not necessarily a technically sophisticated problem - it happens naturally through economic constraints. Tec
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by syntheweave 3y ago
Russia's actions today aren't exactly demographic in nature - they're precipitated by the trade balance shifting away from oil exports, which were what maintained post-Soviet state expansion. The pressure to move to an overtl
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by syntheweave 3y ago
I'm still busy with Jagged Alliance 3. And BG kind of slid off of me back in the day so I'll probably skip this too.
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by syntheweave 3y ago
Well, AI really suggests the endpoint: styling is done at the whims of the user, not the site owner. The owner, at most, suggests a default prompt for the content. But any particular formal encoding - language, visual design, etc. - is shre
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by syntheweave 3y ago
I have compared about $400 worth of stationary supplies in the past two years, looking for office pens that work well for drawing. My conclusion is that there are basically three that I will gravitate to, and to get qualities beyond that I&

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