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by umvi 3y ago
For a fun challenge, implement space invaders in Verilog (i.e. purely in hardware)
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by umvi 3y ago
Would need to know which vendor. I used to work for a company that provided satellite Internet solutions for airplanes but might not be what OP used
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by umvi 3y ago
> 2-3x yearly net revenue, more if you're lucky. And what is the yearly net revenue of a game like generals? > Also most sales agreements have a confidentiality covenant Yeah that's super annoying. I'm mainly just inter
454.
by umvi 3y ago
How much does a game/IP like that sell for, if I may ask?
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by umvi 3y ago
Right now incentives are misaligned. Politicians have no incentive to be responsible with the money. Time to implement Warren Buffett's proposal: passing a law that says anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting me
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by umvi 3y ago
My understanding is that a countertop won't release silica dust unless you cut it with power tools, unlike exposed asbestos which releases fibers with much less effort.
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by umvi 3y ago
Seems like you should ban the manufacturing methods, not the end product. Like, if I invent a way to safely manufacture and do on-site adjustments of engineered stone, shouldn't I be rewarded by the market for it? The material itself i
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by umvi 3y ago
I think saint11 is the guy who did the art for the game Celeste
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by umvi 3y ago
Obscurity should never replace security, but it can and does augment security by increasing the cost to even study the security.
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by umvi 3y ago
And who gets to control the "fiction" stamp? Especially for hot button topics like covid (back in 2020)? Should asking an LLM about lab leak theory be auto-stamped with "fiction" since it's not proven? But then what
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by umvi 3y ago
So you're saying we need a Ministry of Truth to protect people from themselves? This is the same argument used to suppress "harmful" speech on any medium.
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by umvi 3y ago
Sql is a more well known DSL than git CLI
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by umvi 3y ago
> If you take care of a Yonoya comb, it’ll last you for decades, the company says I don't take care of my $3 Ace plastic comb, and it's over 20 years old. You're telling me for this Japanese one I need to pay $200 and I
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by umvi 3y ago
Well if you can redefine what the bits mean you can make any number. "let the value of the 8 bytes be tree(n), where n is the unsigned integer value of the bytes". There, I just blew the article's big number out of the water.
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by umvi 3y ago
It would be more like "what's the point of becoming a champion runner if a theoretical drug existed that made anyone instantly into a champion runner and was very difficult to detect?"
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by umvi 3y ago
Controversial opinion, but what is the point of becoming a pro chess player in a world of computers? Any novice can beat you when assisted by an engine. The same can't be said of other professions. A novice can't design a better b
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by umvi 3y ago
I was surprised with how little the Pokemon formula has changed over the past 20 years. Despite all the advances in graphics and such the core gameplay loop is still catch Pokemon and play rock paper scissors in a turn based battle system.
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by umvi 3y ago
My point is that for most people, the size savings of minification are going to be miniscule because most people are dealing with small JS files. Not only that but it makes debugging a much bigger pain. You start needing to generate and dis
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by umvi 3y ago
Saving 200 bytes is "still huge"? For me 200 bytes is not worth the extra headaches minification introduces.
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by umvi 3y ago
Most people aren't making webpages that need a quarter million lines of JS. For a normal sized webpage, difference between raw gzipped and minified gzipped is negligable. Or maybe even "modern front end" hello world apps now
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by umvi 3y ago
IMO, if minification is the difference between a slow and fast page load, it means you aren't utilizing compression. Minification is more obfuscation than anything, it doesn't really bring much to the compression table.
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by umvi 3y ago
How big is your JS that minification has measurable performance impact? In my experience, minification doesn't add much (if anything) on top of gzip + cache for most applications.
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by umvi 3y ago
Uncharted games are very good. Story driven and cinematic, they play like an Indiana Jones movie.
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by umvi 3y ago
Nice, didn't know about this. Perhaps much smaller in scope, but justserve.org is a good one for finding service/volunteer opportunities in your local community
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by umvi 3y ago
Yes, and go upvote this .NET feature so we can make portable .NET WASM libraries: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/86162 .NET WASM performance is actually very impressive, especially with AOT enabled.
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by umvi 3y ago
Also Bertrand Russell: "Only within the scaffolding of [nihilism], only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul’s habitation henceforth be safely built." I could not disagree more with a lot of this man's p
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by umvi 3y ago
Eh, I don't know if I agree. For me the bottleneck is my brain. I spend far more time thinking than typing. Being able to type faster would only save me a small amount of time compared to being able to think faster. I guess to steelman
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by umvi 3y ago
Golang's compile times << Rust's compile times
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by umvi 3y ago
Unit tests are valuable for certain types of code, mainly library code in my experience. For example if you are developing a 3d math library, unit tests will be invaluable. Unit tests are less valuable for testing applications because the u
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by umvi 3y ago
> But even if I wasn't, I would know what's right and what's wrong. Is it right or wrong to act on homosexual urges? Is it right or wrong to use abortion as a form of birth control? Have your answers to those questions rem

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