Ace17

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by Ace17 3y ago
> The most impressive one so far is making a port of a ~100 KiB Linux a.out i386 program to a native Windows PE i386 executable, despite not having access to its original source code or even decompiling it. This is indeed really impressi
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by Ace17 6y ago
You mean, having wrapper classes over the C primitives? Wouldn't this defeat the purpose of having an immediate-mode API ?
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by Ace17 6y ago
Quite the opposite IMHO : when your program interacts with a user, you cannot panic the program each time something unexpected happens. Here are some examples of unexpected conditions: - "Null pointer dereference" - "Out of m
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by Ace17 6y ago
Technically, `throw` is `goto somewhere`.
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by Ace17 6y ago
> But as natural as causal reasoning feels to us, computers can’t do it. That’s because the syllogistic thought of the computer ALU is composed of mathematical equations, which (as the term “equation” implies) take the form of A equals Z
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by Ace17 6y ago
> I was curious to see how the self-correcting mechanisms of science would respond [...] > I was disappointed by the response from Southwest University. Their verdict has protected [a fraudulent researcher] and enabled him to continu
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by Ace17 6y ago
> You learn how to use it, but you don't learn the proofs behind it? Which makes sense, at least firstly, considering that understanding a proof is a lot easier when its conclusion is already familiar.
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by Ace17 6y ago
It depends on how the physics engine has been integrated into your game/engine. The book "Game Coding Complete" shows how to isolate a 3rd-party physics engine so you can switch implementations. Of course, every physics engin
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by Ace17 6y ago
> You do not live in a video game. There are no pop-up warnings if you’re about to do something foolish, or if you’ve been going in the wrong direction for too long. In the good old times most video games weren't like that. It'
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by Ace17 6y ago
Facebook and Google anyone ? :-)
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by Ace17 6y ago
``` In this sense, the lock in lock-free does not refer directly to mutexes, but rather to the possibility of “locking up” the entire application in some way, whether it’s deadlock, livelock – or even due to hypothetical thread scheduling d
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by Ace17 6y ago
Your hypothesis would explain a decrease in sales ; but can it explain an increase of negative reviews?
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by Ace17 6y ago
"We’re so spoiled today. Every week a newer, faster processor is released. Hardware gets cheaper and we can just throw more chips at the problem." I've been running a 3.5GHz CPU (with 4 HT cores) for nearly 10 years. That&#x
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by Ace17 6y ago
I agree: if you only consider extra revenue, it's not worth the extra effort. And yet, GNU/Linux is supported by many commercial games: Amnesia, SOMA, SpaceChems, Towerfall, Braid, HyperLight Drifter, Shovel Knight, Undertale, VVV
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by Ace17 6y ago
No GNU/Linux version, for such a geeky theme ? The game uses Unity3D, it might only be a matter of ... recompilation :D
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by Ace17 6y ago
Source?
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by Ace17 6y ago
> Why would I want to solve puzzles with known answers that thousands of people have already solved? For the same reasons you might engage in any entertainment activity. Real-life still-unsolved puzzles are hard ; whereas puzzle games ke
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by Ace17 6y ago
You can't have a unified opinion here. There are some pretty good public game codebases (Penumbra/HPL, Quake I/II/III, Doom I/III), there are some okay ones (RedAlert), there are also pretty awful ones (Duke3D, Desc
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by Ace17 6y ago
Yes, obviously. But the message seemed to say that the constant speed of light implied that the derivative of the velocity with respect to time had to be zero.
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by Ace17 6y ago
> Also if the light wasn't moving straight that would mean it's changing direction, which is the same as an acceleration, and a beam of light traveling thru a gravitational field feels no acceleration, because it's not acc
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by Ace17 6y ago
From what I understand, once you accept that gravity isn't a force, the usual symmetry between the earth and the apple doesn't hold anymore. The apple doesn't curve space-time as much as the earth does.
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by Ace17 6y ago
So is the universe.
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by Ace17 6y ago
Backward compatibility isn't a technical issue, it's a political one. If only GNU/Linux systems have had half of Windows' marketshare, obviously some choices about breaking app-level compatibility would have been very di
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by Ace17 6y ago
> You should never compare two floating-point numbers for equality. ... when their values come from an arithmetic computation. Here's a counter example: Quake's collision code makes extensive use of `if(trace.fraction == 1.0f)`
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by Ace17 6y ago
The Assimp library can load FBX. Considering how well Frictional's code is architectured this should be pretty easy to fix.
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by Ace17 6y ago
Maybe keeping the devs terrified helps making terrifying games? :D
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by Ace17 6y ago
I found Kairo to be a little gem in this style.
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by Ace17 6y ago
> IIUC, the 20% slowdown happens with a build that does nothing, it's just the scons overhead. That's the whole point of performance measurement for build systems. The overhead is precisely what counts here. If you have many so
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by Ace17 6y ago
Imposter don't present themselves as such.
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by Ace17 6y ago
Efficient doesn't mean "fast". It means that it minimizes the ratio "energy_spent / goal". So if we're going to talk about communication efficiency, we need to define what's the goal being optimized h

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