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by throwaway7679 3y ago
It kind of sounds like we're saying opposite things. You're talking about the minimum necessary for just drawing a triangle, as if that's what "hello triangle" means. That's nothing. That's pointless. The
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by throwaway7679 3y ago
That tutorial sets up a complete rendering system, and demonstrates that it works by drawing a triangle... the exact thing described in the black triangle story. Drawing a triangle is not the end goal. That's nonsense.
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by throwaway7679 3y ago
> and to a lesser extent the ground of warcraft3 which I think is a clever use of marching squares Ground textures, cliffs, and ramps are tiles.[1] A heightmap modifies tile corners.[2] Everything else is an individually-placed object. [
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by throwaway7679 3y ago
I may not have made it clear enough, but my first line was meant to be absurd and obviously wrong. I think a service should focus on how it provides value to users, not the other way around. People use it because of what it provides to them
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by throwaway7679 3y ago
The same sound logic could have been used to put the old search being a login. That also consumed some amount of compute per query after all. Actually there's no reason to serve logged out users with anything except a login page. Why s
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by throwaway7679 3y ago
Metal Marines, a 1993 game with multiple windows that interact with each other: https://youtu.be/KiiAUP1fG14?t=297
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by throwaway7679 3y ago
That book[1] speaks of the Andasol Solar Power Station, and makes several dubious statements about it. The one being cited is: > The well-insulated tanks where molten salt is stored contain enough thermal energy for up to a week A false
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by throwaway7679 3y ago
There are significant issues that limit the scalability of these systems in terms of power, capacity, and duration. Building larger heat storage capacity, for example, would be useless if it cools down before being used. Long-term storage i
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by throwaway7679 3y ago
This is a molten salt system heated by solar. It can output power for one night, but only when there is enough latent heat from the previous day. Any number of consecutive days of operation is a lucky streak. A single day of non-ideal sunli
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by throwaway7679 3y ago
> we don't need more base power This reads as "building nuclear is pointless because we have already have plenty of coal" I think you'll have a hard time persuading anyone of anything after dropping that turd. The onl
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by throwaway7679 3y ago
Gibberish. Screenshot: Any image of any screen (noun), or the creation of such an image (verb) Screengrab: Not a thing. lmao.
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by throwaway7679 3y ago
Forty years and printers are still as treacherous as ever.
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by throwaway7679 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983#Loss_... TLDR A game market flooded with shovelware crap is a disaster for everyone. Modern day consoles intentionally add hurdles/friction/cost to publi
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by throwaway7679 3y ago
Maybe not trivial in 1956. They probably could have managed it, but the first step was to discover that the hazard exists.
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by throwaway7679 3y ago
> The Navy considered the incident a one-in-a-million fluke and was certain it would never happen again. Attridge was less convinced, however. “At the speeds we’re flying today,” he later said, “it could be duplicated any time.” I think
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by throwaway7679 3y ago
Kids may love Fortnite. Their parents love it less when Epic steals hundreds of millions of dollars from them [1] Players tend to focus their complaints on Epic's "customer service", and use of exclusive titles in their store
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by throwaway7679 3y ago
Listing Microsoft and Epic as good guys is wack. "Disagreeing" that Epic's practices are clear-cut intentional abuse had me searching for a punchline.
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by throwaway7679 4y ago
Yes, not having the entire game state on the user's computer in the first place is a solid choice. And for many games, that's exactly how multiplayer works. They run all the logic on a server, "never trust the client" (t
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by throwaway7679 4y ago
As long as users are running the game on their own computers, preventing that type of read-only cheating is not possible. "Solutions" to this problem come in the form of invasive spyware, such as Warden (Blizzard), Easy Anti-Cheat
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by throwaway7679 7y ago
Even simple cases can have amusing results: https://i.imgur.com/hKre88I.png