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by z3phyr 3y ago
Gold does not require much infrastructure or utility to keep existing, and it is operable by anyone with hands or less.
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by z3phyr 3y ago
Physics engines are the real holy grail of graphics. Full interactivity is compute intensive and requires (Carmack, Ryg, Abrash) levels of genius.
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by z3phyr 3y ago
Yes, there are still bugs, but Cyberpunk is actually great now, and the new expansion Phantom Liberty is chef's kiss.
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by z3phyr 3y ago
It will evaporate relatively immediately. So no tides.
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by z3phyr 3y ago
Not the OP, but I do not like reading one line expression bonanzas. I would rather read implementations of different subsystems and then calling them. I mean, I find this simpler procedure x_component .. end procedure y_component .. end p
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by z3phyr 3y ago
God! Something about verbosity makes me nervous.
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by z3phyr 3y ago
They are officially developing the Max Payne remakes
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by z3phyr 3y ago
What does it take to form a community of enthusiasts who make computers do something that is thought to be impossible or difficult? Not necessarily demo scene with its rule, but close, like Flipcode or LambdaTheUltimate articles. What we cu
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by z3phyr 3y ago
Can it be not expanded to the current hardware? Making it do what other people think is impossible, investigating undefined behavior in hardware, which would be more given the behemoth size. A real time demo where every pixel can be deforme
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by z3phyr 3y ago
Regarding the last statement, segregation of game and engine is one way of thinking. But many a times, you do not need a full fledged map editor, sculptor etc. You just implement the parts you need for your game.
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by z3phyr 3y ago
Start with WebGPU, DirectX11 or OpenGL. Do learnopengl, try to write a gITF model viewer in it. Then rewrite the gITF renderer in DirectX12, Vulkan or Metal.
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by z3phyr 3y ago
Maybe we should have more fundamental science collectives where amateurs can also contribute, in addition to academic and state funded institutions. Sort of like amateur astronomy clubs [Amateur astronomers still contribute widely to their
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by z3phyr 3y ago
A lot of poor people were genuinely happy and inspired today.
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by z3phyr 3y ago
> There was a period of time when all Englishmen were required to train with a longbow I was under the impression that English Archery was a very specialized discipline, given its very skill intensive. The English did use the Longbowmen,
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by z3phyr 3y ago
English longbow and most of the archery is more akin to MANPADs, useful and game changers in many scenarios, but not the "Primary" weapons. Mongolian complex bows though are an exception, all horse nomads were expected to wield th
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by z3phyr 3y ago
In the non-unix (BeOS,Amiga,NT) world especially video games PascalCase is very popular. But there are exceptions. snake_case has a hacky feel to it, camelCase is very enterprisy and PascalCase says you are from the wirthian world of video
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by z3phyr 3y ago
I spent my recess in the school library reading Tintin and Asterix!
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by z3phyr 3y ago
Unlike how popular culture depicts, blacksmiths seldom operated alone. A village would have a big team of blacksmiths, including many acolytes.
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by z3phyr 3y ago
John Carmack, Ken Silverman and Tim Sweeney. The three legends / rivals of their time (but with mutual respect)
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by z3phyr 3y ago
Why near c travel is assumed?
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by z3phyr 3y ago
I miss the 90s security groups which were both funky and respectable and (most importantly) devoid of corporate lingo. Semi underground stuff like Phrack, 2600 and various punky groups who surprisingly did good security research and open to
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by z3phyr 3y ago
How easy is it to form and operate your own airforce with a fleet of fast fixed wing UAVs, rotorcrafts and balloons with surveillance sensors and maybe rudemtry arms (model rockets with limited guiding, small arms..)? Are there airforce bas
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by z3phyr 3y ago
Blue whales are usually loners and thus not capable of planning and inflicting damage like a pack of sea wolves. Blue whales are usually also very calm and do not have teeth (They can still be aggressive in defending themselves or their cal
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by z3phyr 3y ago
You are assuming that AI exists in the same scope. Its like calling airplanes "artificial birds" or AB, and then projecting bird related things to airplane. "AI" is a software model which uses applied statistics to gener
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by z3phyr 3y ago
> Is the human brain not a biological network of neurons, containing a lot of copyrighted material? In which file format is the material in the brain stored? How is it compressed? What is the memory model? How is it computed? We don&#x27
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by z3phyr 3y ago
Anything related to Collision Detection and physics at large. That part of graphics is still at very early stages in realtime context.
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by z3phyr 3y ago
In our Solar System, planets, dwarf planets, asteroids, space dust together hold 0.15% mass. The rest of the 99.85% mass is held by the Sun. I think this mass distribution is uniformly true for other stellar systems as well, where majority
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by z3phyr 4y ago
Tigers are much larger and stronger than Lions in general.
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by z3phyr 4y ago
Not all asteroids are alike. Some are ice, some are soft (like the one dart mission hit) and yet others are solid metallic hunks.
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by z3phyr 4y ago
> This system was kept in place so that a section of people can be exploited forever There is no law that upholds the caste system. Caste discrimination is criminal offense, and affirmative action is in-place. Its more of systematic soci

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