BonsaiDen

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Comanche Terrain Rendering [video](youtube.com)
1 points by BonsaiDen 4y ago|0 comments
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by BonsaiDen 5y ago
Very interesting concept as well as technical execution by encoding the whole thing into the PNG pixels :) Also cool to see myself featured there, so in case you need another homebrew game with access to the source try https://gi
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by BonsaiDen 7y ago
Considering that pretty much all multiplayer games in existence perform some sort of local prediction / state interpolation to hide the lag on the local machine, cloud only multiplayer will be considerably worse. After all you can no l
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by BonsaiDen 7y ago
I actually wrote a Asteroids "Clone" that uses Vector Graphics last year :) [0] But I agree, tooling is complicated. I'm currently adding the finishing touches to the rewrite of my own Assembler / Compiler pipeline [1] a
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by BonsaiDen 8y ago
That however goes both ways, making it also far easier to install a dictatorship etc. because you don't have to replace tens of thousands of police officers with regime loyal ones. We're walking on razors edge here, it only takes
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by BonsaiDen 8y ago
Plus the fact that you can't directly write to VRAM at all times and have to wait for the corresponding access windows. But it's also a big contributor to the general art style and gameplay limitations for which the games of that
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by BonsaiDen 9y ago
Factories in Orbit, pretty much. There might not be many products today which will benefit from this ability, but a free fall environment brings many benefits to things such as crystallization of materials. For example, the last resupply mi
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APFS vs. HFS+ Benchmarks on Mac OS High Sierra(malcont.net)
2 points by BonsaiDen 9y ago|1 comments
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by BonsaiDen 10y ago
They are simply ignoring the real world economic impacts though, which is stubborn to say the least. The world is no utopia, and as long as money / economic gain is the utmost priority for most of humanity and its corporations, allowin
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by BonsaiDen 10y ago
Currently a lot of fincancial products can be created and managed in London, since once approved there, they are automatically approved in all other EU member states, too. This of course will have to change once the UK has left the EU, maki
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by BonsaiDen 10y ago
It is actually the other way around. Internal producers simply cannot compete with external ones who can produce in multiple countries, in giant quantities at very low overhead cost and then sell reject goods for a very low price. Africa ha
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by BonsaiDen 10y ago
Compared to the current situation of writing a few lines and then having to wait for a vendor specific day one graphics driver update to have your game actually running at halfway decent speed, it is simple. The current APIs are a giant col
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by BonsaiDen 10y ago
One could assume that they are either simply lazy or incapable of designing such a system on their own. By taking a look at their "index" which consists of one giant directory in a single GitHub Repo, one could indeed argue that i
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by BonsaiDen 10y ago
This would definitely be very interesting in regards to language study. Repeating the experiment with people which are actively in the progress of learning a new language every few weeks could give some remarkable insight in how the new wor
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TTIP Documents Revealed(international.sueddeutsche.de)
256 points by BonsaiDen 10y ago|91 comments
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by BonsaiDen 10y ago
Point here is, all of this doesn't matter. The market doesn't care about "ethics" or whatever. The market only knows one thing: Demand. And it will do whatever it takes to satisfy this demand. If this happens to be &quot
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by BonsaiDen 10y ago
This is mostly about linters, makeprg's and things like Ctrl+P / Command+T, git-gutter etc. I recently switched to NeoVim and it really _does_ make a world of difference, saving is a whole lot faster when git-diff can be performed
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by BonsaiDen 11y ago
For smaller projects I definitely agree with having both unit and integration tests, especially for libraries. One thing to look out for is the fact that you can always "cheat" in unit tests, e.g. you can be "lazy" and s
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by BonsaiDen 11y ago
I in part agree with the pinpointing, though in my experience this really boils down to an issue of scope and how much of the data you want to test in each of your tests. E.g. an API returning user data, do you have one test for the whole s
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by BonsaiDen 11y ago
One good way to the limit breakage in such cases is to solely perform black box tests on the API level. In case of our Node.js based Backends we don't ever write a single classical unit test, instead we have a custom Framework built on
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by BonsaiDen 11y ago
Yes, they use AdBlock, but there's still a difference here, right now they're seeing the tweets of their peers in-order, with ads intermixed - which makes the ads trivial to filter out (bad for twitter, good for my friends). In th
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by BonsaiDen 11y ago
Most of my friends actually use it as a async, direct and realtime communications channel, pretty much like Whatsapp, just with more "social integration" (read: the whole internet). They don't use Facebook because its algorit
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by BonsaiDen 11y ago
The real problem here is the fact that there is missing oversight on these court orders, since it might be the case that the judge handing out the order does not have sufficient knowledge of the matter at hand and so there is a huge potenti
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by BonsaiDen 11y ago
For anyone interested in the talks from the recent RustCamp, the videos are now available: http://confreaks.tv/events/rustcamp2015
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by BonsaiDen 11y ago
Yes, nuclear power does have a safety problem, but not a imminent one. The real problem does not come from operations, but from the waste these operations leave behind. Minimizing and storing nuclear waste are the far greater challenges tha
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by BonsaiDen 11y ago
> We've also seen a _tremendous_ amount of interest from people who don't strongly identify as a 'systems programmer' at present. Can't underline this enough, as a long time WebDev with a lot of JavaScript, Pytho
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by BonsaiDen 11y ago
The whole things feels more like an easy way of putting (more) people into jail than anything else. Since the tech crowd isn't running around on the street smoking their joints (well, for the most part at least) it's far easier fo
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by BonsaiDen 11y ago
The standard should simply be changed to throw by default, but I guess the train has already left the station and so we're left with "bugs by design" before the spec has even been fully implemented by all vendors :( But then
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by BonsaiDen 11y ago
Torture is by definition neither open (you're not going to tell the public "Oh we just tortured X") nor idependently verifiable (for this multiple entities would need to torture the same person for the same information), so t
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by BonsaiDen 11y ago
They are. Games are not recognized as art here in Germany, so they do not get the same treatment as movies or books and have to remove the references. International releases of these games are actually illegal in Germany and owning them is

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