turtledragonfly

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by turtledragonfly 6mo ago
The Lua source code is also a masterclass in C, I recommend it to anyone learning that language. It's big enough to be an involved implementation, but small and focused and well-organized enough to (at least roughly) understand what&#x
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by turtledragonfly 7mo ago
I'm sure you know, but for others reading: even on the same architecture, there is more to floating point determinism than just running the same "x = a + b" code on each system. There's also the state of the FPU (eg: rou
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by turtledragonfly 7mo ago
Partly what I mentioned above: a higher rate of development "churn" — incorporating new systems or technology before it's well-baked or well-integrated with the rest of the OS, only to be replaced a few years later with somet
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by turtledragonfly 7mo ago
> FreeBSD was perfectly fine but it didn't do anything I needed that Linux didn't already do. I broadly agree, even as a FreeBSD fan myself; things have converged a lot over the decades. But still, I generally feel that while y
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by turtledragonfly 9mo ago
Why must you attack me personally like this?! ⠀(:
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by turtledragonfly 9mo ago
This is super cool, and I like the no-nonsense presentation. I'm curious to know where he takes the gameplay. He mentions it being digging-focused, and also mentions the digging/terrain deformation aspects in other games like No M
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by turtledragonfly 9mo ago
The Dreams team made a nice talk at SIGGRAPH 2015, if you want to check it out: * Slides (good notes): https://advances.realtimerendering.com/s2015/AlexEvans_SIGGR... * video: https://www.youtube.com/wa
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by turtledragonfly 1y ago
I'm reminded of that scene from A Beautiful Mind where someone asks him if he still has his hallucinations. He looks over and sees the fake people still there, and says "Oh no, they're not gone. Maybe they'll never be.&q
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by turtledragonfly 1y ago
Pretty cool. I haven't dived into the details of this post, but it's a problem I've been wrangling with from time to time in my game. Below is a series of writings on this topic that I enjoyed, by James Blinn, of "Blinn-
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by turtledragonfly 1y ago
From the name, I thought it was going to be about fractal dimensions[1] (: So on that tangent ... you can measure that value for ordinary objects using the "box counting" method[2], to get a notion of objects being "1.3 D&quo
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by turtledragonfly 1y ago
This seems fairly culture-dependent, from my experience. For instance, I've noticed a distinct difference in how sarcasm is received in the Northeast US vs the West Coast. What you described feels more Northeast-y to me (I'm sure
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by turtledragonfly 1y ago
As an aside, this "robot tentacle" paper was referenced in a recent HN story: "SpiRobs: Logarithmic Spiral-shaped Robots for Versatile Grasping Across Scales"[1] Seems like a pretty high bang-for-the-buck for versatility
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by turtledragonfly 1y ago
Speaking as someone who has made their own game engine for their indie game: it really depends on the game, and on the developer's personality and goals. I think you're probably right for the majority of cases, since the majority
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by turtledragonfly 1y ago
Just tossing in my own recommendation: I use Lyrion Music Server (previously Logitech Media Server (previously Slim Devices/Squeezebox))[1] It's open-source, self-hosted, has various good plugins (eg: I have some Pandora stations
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by turtledragonfly 1y ago
> But I wonder how common the knowledge is these days ... In one sense, it is less common, as you imply (though perhaps it's more that the number of high-level programmers have ballooned, rather than that the low-level ones have shr
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by turtledragonfly 1y ago
Go back to /r/vxjunkies/, and take your retro-encabulator with you :Þ
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by turtledragonfly 1y ago
> turning python to PHP. Why stop there? Go full Perl (: I think Python needs more quoting operators, too. Maybe qq{} qq() q// ... [I say this as someone who actually likes Perl and chuckles from afar at such Python development
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by turtledragonfly 2y ago
Do you use ZFS for root, on Debian? (enabling "boot environments") I've recently switched my FreeBSD setups to use that scheme, and it's been nice. Would be interested to hear if it's similarly straightforward on De
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by turtledragonfly 2y ago
It was a crash bug, but I'm not really sure the details (and it has been some years...). Even at the time, I wasn't personally involved in it, just heard about it through the grapevine. But yes, my understanding is it was quite ex
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by turtledragonfly 2y ago
Video games used to be like this. Once you built the "gold master" CD/DVD/cartridge/etc it was out of your hands. It was kinda nice to have a concrete end to the project [1]. Nowadays, everything is on the 'net
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You need a novelty budget (2018)(shimweasel.com)
2 points by turtledragonfly 2y ago|0 comments
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of SDFs, Part 1(festina-lente-productions.com)
2 points by turtledragonfly 2y ago|0 comments
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by turtledragonfly 2y ago
I do this sort of "raw material" note-taking on a piece of paper because a lot of my thoughts I feel most able to express with diagrams, shapes, lines-between-things, visual patterns, etc. I haven't found a good digital equiv
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The history of replication in PostgreSQL (2015)(peter.eisentraut.org)
2 points by turtledragonfly 2y ago|0 comments
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The Grocery List Collection(grocerylists.org)
1 points by turtledragonfly 2y ago|0 comments
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by turtledragonfly 2y ago
> Games are for playing, code is an unfortunate side effect Boo, hiss! (I respect your opinion, though :)
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by turtledragonfly 2y ago
That's a good library (I use it myself), but just to be clear for anyone reading: that's a standalone fixed-point implementation, not a compiler-provided one like the article discusses (via -ffixed-point).
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T-Minus: 10 space stations of the future(freethink.com)
3 points by turtledragonfly 2y ago|0 comments
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by turtledragonfly 2y ago
This is fixed now, for the record (:
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by turtledragonfly 2y ago
And yet, he says "... I didn’t care about fooling the diners." I agree with you, that the diner seeing what they are about to eat is an important part of the experience. But Chang seems to be saying that even that is not the poi

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