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by umvi 2y ago
When there are no balls left in play, the game is over. If you have more points at game over, you win.
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by umvi 2y ago
Iteration cycle of strongly typed languages can be very short too, if you pick the right technologies. Rust (and c++), unfortunately, has pretty long compile times compared to, say, Go. The problem with loosely typed languages is that you d
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by umvi 2y ago
I read his post less as Rust fanaticism and more someone who has learned their first programming language isn't perfect - strong types? iterators? These are all things that are present in many languages, it just sounds like Lua is lack
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by umvi 2y ago
There's also that pesky thing called a conscience that makes people prefer legitimate sources first where possible even if the "watching experience" is inferior
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by umvi 2y ago
> I'd rather assume that the lack of a framework to understand the harshness of the world is what makes people go crazy. I think this is exactly it. And I personally think this and the general decline in mental resilience we see in
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by umvi 2y ago
He wrote probably the most accurate SNES emulator ever and he spent tens of thousands of dollars on SNES carts to rip them and test against his emulator. He later committed suicide I believe.
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by umvi 2y ago
So when a person commits a crime, they can just say: "the initial state of my molecular machine made me do it!" ...? To me that is exactly the same as saying "the devil made me do it!" i.e. both things are euphemisms for
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by umvi 2y ago
Are you well established in the N64 modding/emulation community? If so, I apologize. Otherwise I'm just assuming you are an armchair expert with a particularly strong opinion about this for some reason.
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by umvi 2y ago
Even if the C is ugly, just the fact I can use gcc + ide of choice for editing is already loads better than using a hex editor on a rom file or having to build up or hunt down custom n64 tooling.
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by umvi 2y ago
Because... it's easier to hack on C source code than on the assembly language of an old esoteric CPU that no one uses (64-bit NEC VR4300)?
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by umvi 2y ago
You are thinking from gaming PC centric perspective. The article says "their tool works by statically recompiling N64 binaries into C code that can then be compiled into native apps for any platform". N64 emulators have poor perfo
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by umvi 2y ago
This seems like the secular version of "the devil made me do it". We can't be accountable for any of our actions because we are all just molecular machines playing out their predetermined outcome.
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by umvi 2y ago
Theoretically better performance when running native (higher fps, etc). Really the main draw is that the native version is more amenable to modding.
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by umvi 2y ago
It's the difference between running the game in a virtual machine and running the game natively
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by umvi 2y ago
I guess the point is that saying you are a teenager in the title can seem like an unfair way to game your post ranking by garnering awe/sympathy. Lots of middle aged people build cool things too, but they can't pull the age card t
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by umvi 2y ago
There were tons of claims about the efficacy of masks at different points in the pandemic. Masks went from being ineffective, to super effective, to marginally effective (depending on material used) in a matter of months. Various scientists
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by umvi 2y ago
> free will Assuming free will doesn't exist, how would a world where free will does exist be any different? As far as I can tell, our current world is indistinguishable from a world with free will, therefore our world is equivale
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by umvi 2y ago
SO isn't the only source. Official docs/wikis, GitHub issues, etc, are also good knowledge sources.
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by umvi 2y ago
I thought gradient descent always followed the steepest slope, this looks like a physics simulation where marbles are rolling down hills. In mathematical gradient descent do you really oscillate around the minimum like a marble rocking back
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by umvi 2y ago
I feel like diabetes will be difficult to cure because it's like tobacco: you need to buy expensive consumables at regular intervals (needles, cgms, insulin, etc). Stem cell therapy to restore beta cell functionality (for T1) would thr
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by umvi 2y ago
Most services let you fall back on traditional username and password if you lose your passkey
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by umvi 2y ago
You can use yubikeys as passkeys, if you are afraid of a Google/Apple ban
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by umvi 2y ago
Yes, it's good for the government to not be tyrannical, but I'd argue that when the majority of people increasingly and collectively want things that are net negatives for society like recreational drug use, it's a red flag t
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by umvi 2y ago
"Normalize" in this sense means "to make culturally acceptable". A thing can be legal but still be taboo, for example, in Japan tattoos are legal but you might get discriminated against at an onsen if the owner doesn&#x2
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by umvi 2y ago
You can't trust Yubico?
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by umvi 2y ago
Rules with Nintendo: 1. If making a fan made game, build it in secret and release it once it is finished. Otherwise it will suffer an early demise (see: Chrono Resurrection) 2. Don't build emulators for current gen consoles (or if you
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by umvi 2y ago
Big fan of Xubuntu! Recently switched to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed so I could have rolling release, but I still use XFCE as my desktop manager!
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by umvi 3y ago
USB is a frighteningly deep rabbit hole. I thought it was going to be easy when I first dipped my toes into the USB stack but boy was I in for a shock.
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by umvi 3y ago
Let's hear your distro journey! What did you start with, what do you currently use?
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by umvi 3y ago
Any other possible actions we can take for punishing these sorts of bad actors?

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