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by zubspace 11y ago
Google improved the outcome by putting in large amounts of processing power. What happens, if humans would do the same? Instead of just Lee Sedol, how about putting the top 10 Go players in a room vs. AlphaGo? Would the chance to win increa
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Godot is awesome. It's a great alternative to Unity. It has a friendly community (IRC). The all-in-one editor is nice. The scripting language is easy to get into and if you need to, you can extend the engine and scripting language with
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Thank you, I will definitely give it a try. Never heard of "reference management software" before, so I learned something today.
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Last year I started importing my firefox bookmarks into OneNote with OneNote Clipper. In theory this awesome: + Ability to organize bookmarks with searchable content. + No more dead bookmarks. + Boomark into a quick notes section and organi
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My firefox bookmark manager contains about 1300 links. Since quite a while I was really unhappy with this solution. Link rot is really bad and it's sad when even internet archive does not contain the lost site. The only solution to thi
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There are just too many edge cases. I believe, that we'll get some kind of hybrid solution: computer drives on the highway during daytime otherwise drivers takes over. In Switzerland we have those wonderful pass roads. On one side you
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It's strange. We have so many widely available tools to keep a collaborative code history, but when it comes to art assets (images/music/sound/3D models/videos) the general consensus is just dumping everything into
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by zubspace 11y ago
The video says, that the magnetic cage has been optimized by a super-computer. Does someone know, why it looks like it looks? Why is it circular? Why are the path and the surrounding magnets twisted like this? Please ELI5.
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Give haroopad a try. It's a very young project, but it works quite well. The editor and live preview are side-by-side: http://pad.haroopress.com/ What makes markdown annoying for me are the different flavours of markdo
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So he has a net income of about 150k first year for a successful game. You also need to factor in already spent development time, but on paper this sounds ok. But the second year the net income dips down to 40k. Oops! How long can you do th
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So, what's her secret? Is it something you can learn, is it experience, x-ray vision you either have or have not? Are women better suited for this job? What clues are you looking for while talking to founders? Is there something like a
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Linus' version is intimidating. But that's why it is very effective. Case in point, we people on hacker news would have never even read his rant if the language was mild. So in some way it sticks better. You really DO NOT WANT to
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There's a very revealing and entertaining documentation about the rise of sugar in our lives, drawing parallels between the tobacco lobby and the sugar lobby: Sugar Coated (2015). Highly recommended. It was streaming on tvo, but someho
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This could be a perfect scenario where drones make sense. But I don't know about mars... http://www.aerialpower.com/
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Ask 100 Programmers what their favourite font is and you get 100 answers :) I'm a big fan of Proggy (the clean / slashed zero / bold puncutation one) combined with a light color on a dark background I can stuff as much code o
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There was a time, when not every household had a computer. A time where kids were playing without stuff supported or made by computers. Not everything was better back then, but the world did not collapse due to unoptimized processes. In con
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Quote of a friend of mine: we developers keep solving problems we would not have without developers. I really like this quote, because I believe that it's nearly impossible to stay motivated fixing stuff over and over again in similar
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Yeah, this is known as BadUSB and can be used to infect even air-gapped systems. In high security systems (Banks, industrial facilities) USB devices should be completely forbidden because of social engineering attacks. See stuxnet: http:&#
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by zubspace 11y ago
That's an interesting point. Think of someone getting into this stuff early in his career. How long will it take to get proficient? In my opinion, it's necessary to know the underlying principles to use the abstractions well. So 1
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Things get interesting when the number of possible code paths increase. One such beast is the Unity Standard Shader. There are dozens of combinations depening on Metallic/Specular PBR, Multi-Texturing, Shadows, Light Types, Light Bakin
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I don't know if this is a blessing or a curse. 3D games are very complex. It takes years to grok all the concepts from linear algebra, to scene management, occlusion culling, shaders, physically based rendering, network synchronization
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What I would love to see is putting this whole advertising market into the hands of the webmasters. A system installed on the webserver, where the webmaster offers ad-space which can be bought directly by the advertiser. Ads will be hoste
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by zubspace 11y ago
Does someone have experience hosting a dedicated server on EC2 24/7? How's the performance and is it cost effective? Or is it preferable to host on digital ocean/linode?
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A huge roadblock I recently ran into: It's possible, that floating operations may yield different results depending on the compiler or CPU architecture. As far as I know it's not possible to run a simulation depending on floats on
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Ok, you won. I'm simply too old for this, I guess :) I'm not even able to follow him doing all this after rewatching it again and again. Makes it even more impressive.
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The funny thing is, that this is not actually all that different from playing FPS. Know your map, time item respawns, use the right weapon depending on the environment, move to strategically better positions, retreat if necessary and aim as
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Thanks a lot for this in-depth analysis! It looks so unlikely to me that someone could pull something of like this intentionally... But maybe that's my 30+ year old brain getting rusty ;)
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Interesting! What this basically boils down to is 'handling instinctively the right way'. It's hard to grasp for me, because there are so many factors in play and by watching LoL recordings it's sometimes impossible to t
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Very interesting article. I must admit, that I never played League of Legends. So could please someone explain, how is it possible to reach top position simply by using this strategy in this game: "My strength is in understanding t
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One thing, where protobuf (at least protobuf-net) really shines, is serialization of data into a binary format which is incredibly fast. In .NET, all inbuilt alternatives are slower by a large margin. https://code.google.com&#x2F

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