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by whatever_dude 6y ago
I haven't looked at the code but it's likely some out-of-the-box physics engine, many of them available in JS. They often have to employ many more complex physics features. Buoyancy is just one of them. Computationally I'm su
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by whatever_dude 6y ago
I had a similar thing happen to me, not here but on Reddit. Was shadowbanned for no reason (never learned what it was) on an account where i treated everybody with respect. I created a new account, but from that day on i started behaving li
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by whatever_dude 6y ago
I actually think a lot of the things that were very difficult are much better now. For browser incompatibilities we used to have to hand write CSS. We now can use normalizers and autoprefixer on build, including reading from a browserslist
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by whatever_dude 6y ago
Tangent, but BeyondCompare is one of the few tools I'm proud to have purchased. I use it all the time for file and folder diff. It has been invaluable for me and my work on both Windows and macOS.
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by whatever_dude 6y ago
This. Making DST permanent is like buying an amplifier that goes from 2 to 11 instead of 1 to 10.
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by whatever_dude 6y ago
> Is it right to expect an Engineer to do the managers' work too? Who said anything about a manager's work? There's lots of things that can be called "boring" but are still expectations that fall on an engineer,
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by whatever_dude 6y ago
I didn't get that impression at all. I'm purely an engineer who 100% prefers being hands on; now that I accidentally have to manage teams, I fully appreciate the article's perspective. I've been on both sides of that arg
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by whatever_dude 6y ago
Same. Playing on PC. Few bugs. I didn't buy into the hype (ignored the game's marketing) and am enjoying it very much as a result. In the past I've been bitten by my own unrealistic expectations of certain games prior to rele
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by whatever_dude 6y ago
My own favorite is an equation parser. Before attempting to do so I thought it was implemented as a simple seek over the string, maybe a bunch of regex stuff. I guess it can be done that way, at the cost of growing complexity; but the prope
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by whatever_dude 6y ago
This makes sense. I've been playing the game on PC (thankfully very few bugs compared to everybody else it seems) and loving it. The difference? I avoided reading or watching anything about the game prior to release. So on fresh eyes,
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by whatever_dude 6y ago
I've seen this phenomenon elsewhere. To some circles, everything that is not a huge, public, IPO'd tech company is considered a "startup".
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by whatever_dude 6y ago
Wrapping a piece of proprietary technology with other piece of proprietary technology is not the way to go with this. I get that you keep saying it's easier than creating a new player from scratch, but it doesn't mean it's be
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by whatever_dude 6y ago
You managed to put into words something I always felt about PG. Thanks.
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by whatever_dude 6y ago
Please support Ruffle. It's a true open source project borne out of the will to preserve a forgotten creative Internet. As opposed to previous and recent license-encumbered or commercial products.
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by whatever_dude 6y ago
The two goals are greatly symbolic of Maradona. There's the genius and there's the deeply flawed human.
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by whatever_dude 6y ago
Whoever is making that claim should bring the evidence, not the other way around. (there's none, it's a fabrication)
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by whatever_dude 6y ago
Twitter is a hellfire, but it still has value if well controlled. I use a third-party client and added dozens of muted word (eg anything political or covid related) and it's amazing; it's a bit of a escape even. Once I realized I
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by whatever_dude 6y ago
Sketch trying to make up for their (now) mediocre application by trying to turn one of their cons - heavy platform lock in - into an advantage. Clever.
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by whatever_dude 6y ago
She's right. It even has a name, "jeitinho": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeitinho
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by whatever_dude 6y ago
Only that Apple's track record for supporting anything long term, cross platform, "open", is non-existent. At this point I don't even care about how good their language is. Apple has a very, very long way to go before I
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by whatever_dude 6y ago
The point here is using types that are still fast and memory efficient without having to resort to brittle pointer magic full of gotchas. You still have raw buffers, and they're still efficient, but you just don't have to do mal
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by whatever_dude 6y ago
Long but great article. Echoes my own track record with Rust. I've been rewriting a project in Rust. The original is a 20+ years C project (not created by me). Rewriting it in Rust has been a delight. So many surprises, discoveries, le
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by whatever_dude 6y ago
Exactly same. I try different fonts from time to time but always end up going back to Consolas.
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by whatever_dude 6y ago
I agree with the sentiment but > Their core sync engine is truly amazing Compared to current competitors (e.g. pCloud) their syncing has been a mess. It tends to take forever to sync even the smallest files. I have no idea what's go
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by whatever_dude 6y ago
Can't shake the feeling this is another "me too" product by Dropbox while the main product (hosting files) gets jankier and jankier.
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by whatever_dude 7y ago
Zoom has a browser version as a fallback. Most people use the standalone app because indeed it "just works". That's why you don't hear much about its browser client.
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by whatever_dude 7y ago
I believe you missed half the article, as well as the main point: that trying to hide implementation details too much from the API consumers is not generally a good thing, and that's regardless of the system it's running on. The O
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by whatever_dude 7y ago
This. I like, and agree, with the conclusion, and wish more people would get to it: > Over and over, Go is a victim of its own mantra - “simplicity”. (...) > It constantly lies about how complicated real-world systems are, and optimiz
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I Want Off Mr. Golang's Wild Ride(fasterthanli.me)
717 points by whatever_dude 7y ago|492 comments
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by whatever_dude 7y ago
I've admired PG and his essays for a while, but I've started paying more attention, and thus I'm starting to realize he's somewhat thin skinned like that; this is exactly the feeling I got after reading this new one. Sim

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