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by vvanders 6y ago
The parent is not wrong, coming up on two decades in this industry(and much more to keeping before that), the number of times I've encountered a binary tree is near zero. Only thing close was BSP trees in some engines we've licens
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by vvanders 6y ago
Not yet although I've been considering it. There's a lot of things that are really handy but not easily searchable(like din rails, they're the lego blocks of industrial automation) which I think would be neat to aggregate in
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by vvanders 6y ago
It's a neat project, we added solar based watering to our greenhouse and having grafana as a dashboard was super handy. Renogy's Rover MMPT chargers speak modbus over rs232 so you can interface it directly with a PLC or other indu
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by vvanders 6y ago
fuck fuck fuck. I had no idea it was being shut down, that place was really one of a kind. I think there are few places where you could see a running Alto. The scope of what was there and the breadth of what was running was simply incredibl
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by vvanders 6y ago
That depends a lot on platform and engine. X360 development was still one of the best damn environments on dedicated hardware I've ever worked on. PIX was nothing short of amazing and Visual Studio is still a bar I haven't seen to
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by vvanders 6y ago
Signal integrity and analog design start to share a lot of similarity as you start pushing around the edges.
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by vvanders 6y ago
Isn't that what cloudkey/dream machine covers though? The people who provision the types of systems we're talking about are the same that are familiar with how to spec server hardware. I had no problem with unifi-video, in fa
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by vvanders 6y ago
Pretty torn on this one. Really wish I could host Unifi-Protect on prem with my own hardware. Most of their dedicated hardware doesn't even offer raid or decent backup solutions. It's really a shame because everything else UBNT do
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by vvanders 6y ago
Yeah, I do this with my Kubota L4760 and a PTO generator, runs the house just fine on a similar sized generator. This is probably even a bit better because you have an inverter decoupling the mechanical load compared to needing to have a la
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by vvanders 6y ago
I love the moxie of some of the smaller rural WISPs, reminds me of community run ISP on Orcas Island[1]. [1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/11/how-a...
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by vvanders 6y ago
One notable exception from that list is the PS3. That thing was a real bastard to write for but if you managed to vectorize things properly it did really go at a good clip. One fun thing was optimizing for the SPUs meant that your code was
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by vvanders 6y ago
Same way we can have an open discussion on this lovely site we call HN. While I'm not going to claim to know every definition of advertising, generally if money changes hands for priority over organic traffic that fits the bill pretty
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by vvanders 6y ago
Honestly? I think all political advertising shouldn't be allowed, it gives those with a disproportionate amount of capital a lever of influence that runs counter to the democratic process. If you want to push an issue you should have t
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by vvanders 6y ago
Either way, if it puts pressure on FB to structure their business in a way that doesn't push hate at a micro targeted level isn't that a good thing?
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by vvanders 6y ago
It never really saw adoption outside of games from what I've seen. Its such a simple but powerful language, has one of the best interop apis with C and I love how they approached coroutines. It's really a shame it doesn't see
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by vvanders 6y ago
I've always heard of it as "third system syndrome". You screw up the first one(prototype), learn from it and build the second one(product) and then get overconfident, expand into unknown areas and repeat the process(third sys
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by vvanders 6y ago
Yup, delta compression and potential visibility sets are also a huge win as well. The best thing is to design your gameplay to be "predictive", that's how we had ~300 player games like Subspace over 28.8/56k way back in
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by vvanders 6y ago
Oh haha, memories. We had a co-founder who pulled an "April 2nd" joke about 1/3 of the team being let go because of a non-poaching agreement between their old publisher and the studio. Kept it going for about 15 minutes until
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by vvanders 6y ago
Yeah, would be curious as well. There's two really awesome things about radix sort: 1. It scans in linear order, so if you tune your radix size to L1/L2 cache it will happily beat other "faster" algorithms thanks to th
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by vvanders 6y ago
Probably? There is a fair bit of overlap between cable/fiber and radio in that both are mostly QAM, multichannel based. Radio tends to have a worse SNR and a couple other tricky problems tacked on top.
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by vvanders 6y ago
You can also use the typed-arena crate[0] or roll your own if you're feeling like cracking open unsafe. [0] https://crates.io/crates/typed-arena
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by vvanders 6y ago
Honestly I've never seen this problem solved well for any game engine short of in-house engines(which obviously wouldn't break titles they were supporting). It's been a while since I've been in the industry so maybe thin
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by vvanders 6y ago
Ars had a pretty good take on it: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/05/the-galaxy-s20-tacti...
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by vvanders 6y ago
https://xkcd.com/323/
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by vvanders 6y ago
As someone who built a career in C++ I like that Rust's generics are a poor approximation of templates(and that includes having worked with some of the modern C++ features). I have months of my life I've lost to the increased co
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by vvanders 6y ago
Oh man camera systems. We had one dev and an animator spend months getting our camera system to the point where it felt natural. Definitely one of those things that takes a ton of work and only gets noticed when it goes wrong.
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by vvanders 6y ago
The world writeable cross thread also has implications on how your GC algorithm is designed. Erlang for instance scopes gc pools per process so short lived processes just drop the pool. Also GC of one worker doesn't stop any others. Ca
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by vvanders 6y ago
Looks like most of these require physical access to the SPI flash and not just the thunderbolt port unless I'm reading the disclosure wrong.
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by vvanders 6y ago
If you call malloc/free in the inner loop of a C program you'll have the same problems. Android has a RecyclerView for the exact reasons that you call out. The framework is far from perfect but at least from the details you listed
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by vvanders 6y ago
The initial goal was both to flatten the curve and to ramp up wide scale testing. The federal government has largely failed in the latter, you can't reopen if you can't isolate and so we've wasted lots of the time that was ga

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