Ogre

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by Ogre 2mo ago
There used to be a site called Forgotify that would only play songs from Spotify that had zero listens. So each song played, of course, removed that song from the set that could ever be played by Forgotify. Doesn't look like it's
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by Ogre 4mo ago
I'm with you, came here to ask this too. This is how I would have read it: "Crack engineer" someone who is an excellent engineer, I feel like this goes back to at least the early 20th century, certainly long before gaming cu
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by Ogre 4mo ago
The Merchant Princes series is fun, and I really enjoy the story of why he wrote it. It starts out as fantasy for basically the whole first novel and then some. But you can find some evidence from the start that it's really sci-fi, an
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by Ogre 10y ago
"Moving left" is NOT an input. An input is "The controller is pushed to the left" (with perhaps a numeric value of how far it is pushed to the left). "Firing once" is similarly NOT an input. "The fire b
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by Ogre 10y ago
You can handle orders of magnitude more users with the same hardware if you don't have to run the game simulation on the server.
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by Ogre 11y ago
Don't know about those, but here's an Apple ][ still in use in 2009 (How it's made - player piano rolls of all things) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uL9NudhhSQE It's like an obsolete technology fractal.
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by Ogre 11y ago
Just today I was arguing for not moving something off of Oracle. No one's really happy the thing in question is on Oracle, but it is live in production and most of the time does what it needs to. It ain't broke. Changing to &quo
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by Ogre 12y ago
The author also created SpaceChem, which is one of the best programming/engineering games out there. For just programming games, I'd call it my second all time favorite just behind Robot Odyssey, an ancient Apple ][ game. This giv
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by Ogre 12y ago
I only skimmed it, but I didn't see anyone in there who took years. They were all on the order of months. Entirely possible I missed it. That said, adding networked multiplayer to a game is very difficult. But designing a game aroun
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by Ogre 12y ago
> So ruby and perl are specifically designed to be a handler of untrusted data? Perl actually is when used in taint mode. http://perldoc.perl.org/perlsec.html
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by Ogre 12y ago
In the 1990s, people used to write these things called plugins to add features, like support for specific video containers and codecs, to browsers. Now I guess browsers have to have everything built in or not at all. "Progress".
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by Ogre 12y ago
Yeah, see my reply to myself, I beat you by a few minutes =) Whether 6X the searches is worth it or not is something only testing can answer, I think.
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by Ogre 12y ago
Partly answering my own question after mulling it over, the difference in the pre-pass is that you're not actually coming "from" an edge or going "to" one when you're doing the flood fills, you're just tes
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by Ogre 12y ago
For the actual occlusion test, you have a "don't go backwards" rule. If you have to go backwards to reach a chunk, you know it's not visible along that path (but may be on a different path, which you will eventually fin
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by Ogre 12y ago
Glitchiness of occlusion may be driver or hardware dependent. I've been using it successfully, but haven't tested on a variety of hardware. The bigger issue is the two way communication between GPU and CPU. You want your pipelin
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by Ogre 12y ago
I approve of people trying to improve the editor experience. This is a good project! I have a nitpick though: "forking the current panel using Ctrl+F is a game changer, as you don’t have to scroll away from your current code location
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by Ogre 12y ago
It's likely coming to PC as well. It was announced last year without any console attached. At E3, it was at Sony's keynote, but it wasn't announced as an exclusive. On the other hand, they haven't explicitly said it wi
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by Ogre 12y ago
For MacBooks there's these things: http://hengedocks.com I had one for an older laptop. Worked fine, but I didn't use it much just because I wasn't at my desk at home very much.
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by Ogre 12y ago
I can't speak for all games, but this sort of visualization is something I believe to be common in large AAA games, and is something I've had (and continue to have) in the small subset I've worked on. On the other hand, it&#
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by Ogre 12y ago
Something you can do with components if you set some strict restrictions is do static or runtime analysis to determine which sets of components are disjoint in terms of systems that access them. For example, if the combat system only needs
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by Ogre 12y ago
Powersnap was amazing. I seem to recall it was usually able to figure out what font each program was using and only had to search for letters for that specific font, and only fall back to a bigger search if that failed. I might be misremem
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by Ogre 12y ago
I did this a few years ago using text messages and Twilio. Not quite as slick as "Siri, open the garage", but it worked! http://rumsey.org/blog/2011/11/voice-controlled-garage-door/ "Siri,
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by Ogre 13y ago
I thought it was kind of hard to take the article seriously after that. I know it's the guy's real name, so I feel bad about this (as bad as I can feel for someone with an awesome name!), but it doesn't change that it sounds
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by Ogre 13y ago
Maybe it's not uncommon, but it is against FTC guidelines. (I claim that because it's in the article too) I don't know if being "against FTC guidelines" is equivalent to "illegal" or not. But let's ho
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by Ogre 13y ago
It's really not much like Lode Runner at all. Lode Runner itself was a "clone" of Space Panic much more so than this is a "clone" of Lode Runner. In both cases, there is clear inspiration drawn from the earlier game
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by Ogre 13y ago
I work in Orange County, not far from the airport (and even closer a few years ago) I did the napkin math on commuting from Arizona every day at one point, and it definitely worked out. I would've saved money doing that. Of course that
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by Ogre 13y ago
Phil Plait's (Bad Astronomer) review(1) on Slate is based on the actual movie rather than the trailer. The summary is that despite some big problems with the science, it's a fantastic movie and you should go see it. I agree with
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by Ogre 13y ago
Of course, if they actually have a really easy time de-anonymizing users, they might "leak" a document like this to encourage people to keep using it. Conspiracy theories are fun!
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by Ogre 13y ago
How I got a root shell in my NAS: Went to "Terminal" in the web control panel. Enabled the SSH service. SSHed in as root. This is an off-the-shelf device, not an OS I installed myself.
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by Ogre 13y ago
That's true, but the OP said "Typical DVD-quality SD bitrate". DVDs use MPEG-2 encoding, but there are much better codecs available today, such as H.264, which can achieve equivalent quality at substantially lower bitrates.

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