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by wk_end 10mo ago
You’re misremembering. SM64 was fully textured, outside of specific models. Also flat shading (vs. say gouraud shading) is isomorphic to the question of texture mapping, and concerns how lighting is calculated across the surface of the poly
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by wk_end 10mo ago
The README mentions that it uses both (new) fixed point as well as soft floating point. Unless I'm mistaken, the PS1 just plain doesn't support perspective correction. All texture mapping is done in hardware using a very not-progr
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by wk_end 10mo ago
It notes in the Known Issues section that "Tessellation is not good enough to fix all large polygons". Maybe it just needs more tessellation or something else is going on, because you're right - even as someone who grew up on
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by wk_end 10mo ago
Last sentence of the first paragraph says it’s Snowboard Kids 2.
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by wk_end 10mo ago
That frontend seems to have things that aren't hosted on Wikimedia Commons, whereas I think OP's link is Wikimedia-exclusive and more reliable. For example, Network (1976) - one of my favourite films - isn't listed on the Wik
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by wk_end 11mo ago
Managers everywhere love the idea of AI because it means they can replace expensive and inefficient human workers with cheap automation. Among actual people (i.e. not managers) there seems to be a bit of a generation gap - my younger friend
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by wk_end 11mo ago
Unreadable AI slop. If there's anything of technical interest in here, it's buried too deep underneath the parade of LLM clichés and self-aggrandizing marketing drivel.
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by wk_end 11mo ago
> Also the phonetic simplicity of Japanese is likely to have been caused by an Austronesian substrate related to that of the aborigine Taiwanese people. That's being asserted with too much confidence, I think. While I was aware some
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by wk_end 11mo ago
It's not that it's not a language, it's that it's not a programming language. You don't write programs in it.
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by wk_end 11mo ago
What I wrote would be a syntax error in TypeScript (no name for the argument, wrong arrow), not a function that returns array with one element; I used Haskell-ish notation instead of TypeScript's more verbose "(structure: MyStruct
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by wk_end 11mo ago
There's nothing I can do about the standard JavaScript library, but in terms of code I have influence over, I very simply would not write a difficult-to-type method like Array.prototype.flat(), if I could help it. That's what I me
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by wk_end 11mo ago
To answer this we probably need more details, otherwise it's gonna be an XY Problem. What is it that I'm trying to do? How would I type this function in, say, SML, which isn't going to allow incorrect types but also doesn&#x2
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by wk_end 11mo ago
If I saw that in a PR I would push very hard to reject; something like that is a maintenance burden that probably isn’t worth the cost, and I’ve been the most hardcore about types and TypeScript of anyone of any team I’ve been on in the pas
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by wk_end 11mo ago
Chrome apparently has a minimum memory requirement of 4GB, so you'd need to shrink it down to one-one-hundred-and-twenty-eighth its size to squeeze it into the PS2's 32MB of RAM.
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by wk_end 11mo ago
gdscript itself, sure, why not. Porting the entire Godot engine would be a real feat though, especially because of the PS2’s technical limitations.
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by wk_end 11mo ago
> For some people (including me), a sense of phenomenal consciousness feels like the bedrock of existence, the least deniable thing; the sheer redness of red is so mysterious as to seem almost impossible to ground. Other people have the
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by wk_end 11mo ago
Not to dispute the overall premise that Perl 6 did enormous damage to Perl, I want to interrogate this a little bit: > There are many languages still in use today that have all kinds of warts and ugliness, but they remain in use because
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by wk_end 11mo ago
> If there was a language that didn't require pure and impure code to look different I've occasionally wondered what life would be like if I tried writing all my pure Haskell code in the Identity monad.
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by wk_end 11mo ago
The nice thing about this compared to generating tests in advance is that, if your app changes in non-material ways that would otherwise break a test, you don't need to regenerate - the AI will "adapt". It's also, arguab
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by wk_end 11mo ago
You can’t “schedule an appointment” in Victoria. There are walk-in clinics, but the only way to access them is to call the very instant they open (as in within the first few seconds) - they immediately book up for the day, and they won’t bo
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by wk_end 11mo ago
“Routine visit”? “Semi—annual checkup”? Where I live in Canada (Victoria) the health care system is so overburdened that this reads like a sick joke. The cost of living is too high and the government doesn’t pay enough to get family doctors
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by wk_end 11mo ago
I actually went to university with him! It's so weird seeing his posts occasionally pop up on HN. That was when he was in his, as he accurately describes it, performative NPR phase of reading difficult modernist novels and having opini
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by wk_end 11mo ago
I mean, duh. The spicier take is that Barbara Liskov is smarter than Alan Kay.
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by wk_end 11mo ago
Listen, I don't really like the direction Apple has taken either, but since Tim Cook became CEO of Apple in August 2011 the company's stock went from like $15 to like $275; it had a value of $400 billion and now it's worth $4
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by wk_end 11mo ago
I very genuinely - in the interest of consuming a diverse set of inputs! - would love to see some sources that persuasively, with evidence, can demonstrate a vision of the ground in Gaza that runs counter to what seems absolutely obvious to
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by wk_end 11mo ago
Y'all are aware that this took place in Canada, right?
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by wk_end 11mo ago
On the flip side, if/when I ever go for surgery I'm pretty damn glad we don't have the same requirements to perform surgery as we do to write software.
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by wk_end 11mo ago
It's not that health workers are always thinking about legality; it's that they're following policies either written by people thinking about legality or re-written by people in response to legality, i.e. they got sued and
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by wk_end 11mo ago
Like this: https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/?#code/GYVwdgxgLglg9mABA... It's a bit of a hack, though - if you incorrectly implement myFunc so that, say, it returns a string even when x is true, it can viol
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by wk_end 11mo ago
No, because 1) you can't do (full) dependent types in TypeScript, 2) it's not clear what "dependent types" would even mean without type checking, and 3) using the union type you aren't giving up type checking at all

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