xeonmc

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Riot Engineering: How VALORANT Solved Peeker's Advantage (2020)(riotgames.com)
2 points by xeonmc 3mo ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: HN frontpage feels boring now?
53 points by xeonmc 3mo ago|37 comments
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Riot Engineering: How VALORANT Solved Peeker's Advantage (2020)(riotgames.com)
2 points by xeonmc 3mo ago|0 comments
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George Orwell's guide to making a perfect cup of tea (1946)(orwellfoundation.com)
5 points by xeonmc 3mo ago|0 comments
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by xeonmc 3mo ago
PVS-based culling is very different from the kind of fog of war system in discussion here. The cases that these FoW systems purports to deal with would all be "pass" cases for PVS culling. PVS culling solves the informational&#x2F
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by xeonmc 3mo ago
The many tradeoffs involved are not trivial, this can only feasibly work well on LAN. This is the reason why Valorant is the least playable among all competitive shooters if your internet is anything lesser than Google campus fiber, ironica
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by xeonmc 3mo ago
It's more that momentum-based defogging means that the peeker has control over how to manipulate the server's prediction, whereas the victim who is already disadvantaged by network latency now gets an additional penalty of the mov
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by xeonmc 3mo ago
> Does it cause pop-in when peeking? The goal is early reveal, not exact last-millisecond reveal. CS2FOW predicts using movement and ping, reveals enemies slightly before exact visibility, and keeps revealed enemies visibl
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DeltaChat 2.48: zero metadata, group description, native audio/video call & more(delta.chat)
5 points by xeonmc 3mo ago|0 comments
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by xeonmc 3mo ago
Purhaps being furry is a mythical power amplifier, like a devil fruit for infosec. Imagine the power levels of Filippo Valsorda if he gains a fursona!
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The Wonderful World of Slide Charts, Wheel Charts and Perrygrafs(sphere.bc.ca)
2 points by xeonmc 3mo ago|0 comments
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by xeonmc 3mo ago
I wonder if this could all be solved if doors are triangles instead of quadrilaterals.
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by xeonmc 3mo ago
Maybe it's because the author is a mathematician.
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by xeonmc 3mo ago
I wonder if LLMs could be useful here for automatic node-graph generation of which replies addresses which train of discussion within a thread, and the user can click through said generate index to follow how a specific topic evolved.
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Comparison Between ATProto and Tim Berners-Lee's Solid Protocol(forum.solidproject.org)
5 points by xeonmc 3mo ago|0 comments
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by xeonmc 3mo ago
In the case of data it should be more aptly described as "possession" rather than "ownership"
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by xeonmc 4mo ago
I like to think of it as dot product being the true "natural" space to compare magnitude metrics, whereas absolute value is just a human construct conceived for our mental convenience. A smooth parabolic bowl vs an unnatural sharp
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by xeonmc 4mo ago
> Anthropic, Open AI & Co. realized at some point that if they can't make money with barely any competition they sure as hell won't if the market is flooded. So here they are slamming the door behind them. Jokes on them, th
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by xeonmc 4mo ago
If you would actually read the comment then you'd see the mention of in-place upgrades instead of complete reinstall. There is no drawback of hassle with in-place upgrades as everything on you system is kept as-is, and it takes about t
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Building an 8-bit breadboard computer – playlist(youtube.com)
1 points by xeonmc 4mo ago|0 comments
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by xeonmc 4mo ago
> you could run into issues with software that expects home/pro and not LTSC. That's a laughably ignorant statement for how windows app development works. Raymond Chen weeps on reading your comment. Enterprise edition is a stri
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by xeonmc 4mo ago
You can just use the official iso with Rufus and MAS, no need to torrent sketchy backdoored versions.
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by xeonmc 4mo ago
> That's why you always normalize the quaternion first Again, that won't solve the problem of floating point components not perfectly adding up to one. Constantly normalizing quats are unnecessary performance hits and worsens y
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by xeonmc 4mo ago
The formulas provided for quat to matrix and quat to axis angle is terrible, they only work if the quaternion's magnitude is exactly one. You need to replace sqrt(1 - a*a) assumptions with actual components, and use atan2 instead of ac
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by xeonmc 4mo ago
You can disable PRs and Issues on GitHub. Though still good to migrate away for reliability considerations.
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by xeonmc 4mo ago
If it had been a proper developer he would've been nerd-sniped into yak-shaving those tools and never get the original work done.
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The Nightingale – Hans Christian Andersen (1844)(hca.gilead.org.il)
2 points by xeonmc 4mo ago|0 comments
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by xeonmc 4mo ago
Just following alignment rules right?
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by xeonmc 4mo ago
extremely relevant recent Kai Lentit skit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E7kBOH9owI
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by xeonmc 4mo ago
What advantage do permanent magnets provide that it isn't the case that all motors are made without them?

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