ANTSANTS

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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
I am pseudonymous, though. I don't really care if you can e-stalk ANTSANTS to find that they posted in X forum or played Y game, as long as it stays separate from my real identity. However, if you're gonna be creepy about it, ma
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
A little bit, chummer. Not enough to catch your drift, though.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Seconding this. I have browsed forums where important users threw temper tantrums and deleted all of their posts, making it downright impossible to follow years worth of valuable dialogs. I am a staunch proponent of anonymity and privacy
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
I agree, I love FM and will always think good FM or "real chiptunes" are more impressive than good sample-based synthesis, because you can't just lean on your sample library. There are a few Genesis trackers out there, includ
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
And I'm unimpressed by the technology but dig the music! It takes all kinds. I like dubstep when people put some thought into it and aren't just lazily fiddling with an LFO, but to be fair, getting into breakcore as a teenager mig
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Absolutely nothing. I do like these demos for their music and their visual aesthetics, but I'm sorry to say, they aren't in any way technically impressive. The first one [1] is literally an FMV, it's all pre-rendered vide
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
>Text evolved from shapes chiselled into rock or pressed into wet clay, so the roots of typography are as tactile and 3D as it's possible to be. >Even ink on a scroll has a 3D feel. The 'paper' - whatever it's made
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
A symbol is a symbol. A flat monochrome floppy disk icon represents the concept of saving a file just the same as a lovingly rendered 3D floppy disk or even a photograph would. Text glyphs are very flat, abstract symbols that represent soun
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
I also used ME for about a year but I don't remember it crashing once. Never understood why everyone had such problems with it, I thought it was just Windows 98 with USB drivers.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
John Romero was making shareware games for years before he met John Carmack. He wrote the level editors, much gameplay code, created many levels for, and significantly contributed to the game design of all the id games from Commander Keen t
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Yeah, the possibility of a "gatekeeper effect" is what's worrisome here. There's no way you can anticipate everything a user might want to do with their computer, so while opt-in sandboxing can only help, mandatory sandb
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Media players are rather large programs that users feed lots of untrusted data (gigabytes of pirated movies/tv shows/porn from suspect sources etc) into. All it takes is one exploitable bug in your media player of choice (or more
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
I watched it last night and can confirm that C was not explicitly mentioned once.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Yes. Asynchronous image loading and rendering is already built into the browser, and the rest of the content shouldn't take long to load to begin with. Fancy dynamic Javascript frameworks that break up what should have been a single re
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
I don't know of anyone that has ever experienced any kind of technical problem with their landline telephone or cable TV services. Rather, you pretty much need a cell phone and (to a much lesser extent) a home internet connection to pa
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
I fear I may never get a better chance to mention Garage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwYYFjGtedw http://lostmedia.wikia.com/wiki/Garage:_Bad_Dream_Adventure_...
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
That's debatable. Even in 64-bit mode, x86-64 processors treat 32-bit integers as the default word size for the majority of integer instructions, requiring a operand size prefix byte (on top of the larger integer itself) for almost eve
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Modern Blogspot strikes again.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
>I never would have guessed that. The tech press keeps telling me how hot mobile is and how lame PC's are. There was an interesting discussion on this topic here a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
I think you mean Bettie Boop.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Common Sense , the pamphlet that inspired many to fight in the early years of the American Revolution, was published anonymously. Don't discount the power of anonymous dissent; the US owes its existence to it. https://en.wi
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
How about "amoral 'journalists' trolling for clickbait," "far left-wing nutjobs salivating at the chance to strike at the tender underbelly of a vulnerable target hesitant to defend itself," "people with l
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
It's particularly ironic that the author included this quote: >“When I coach women, I tell them how wonderful they are. Women won’t make the ridiculous projections about their companies that the guys will. They won’t say the really
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
"The story of the guys that created the FPS" sounds pretty cool to me.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
>I loved the parts when Romero swam across the lake to work all night with the rest of the crew, That was also one of my favorite passages: "The lake house was filled with the sense of unlimited possibilities. And the bond between
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Interesting, thanks. The idea that Chrome is moving to garbage collected C++ is... a bit surprising to me, though I suppose it makes some sense given their focus on security. I can see why you'd want to get away from C++'s compile
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
I think you're right about Go's memory model helping a lot when compared to e.g. a typical dynamic language, but I have to ask: if you're going to be using manual memory management techniques like object pools and avoiding he
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
It's kind of hard to "draw a parallel" when your writing implement of choice is a giant image macro.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
I'm well aware of all that, but with all of the intentional unjustified downvoting that goes on around here, I'm happy to burn some meaningless internet points calling people out on it from time to time. Downvoting for disagreem
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Perhaps the most rebellious thing you can do to the liberal elite is to be a white person, marry another white person, and have a lot of children. No wonder they hate the Mormons so much! I agree with your thoughts about "shock" a

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