boterock

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by boterock 9mo ago
some oled displays have white subpixels, i dont know if the power cost is a thing though
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by boterock 10mo ago
tv manufacturers don't want high end chips for their tv sets... hardware decoding is just a way to make cheaper chips for tvs.
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by boterock 11mo ago
And regarding availability, Colemak is now included in Windows 11, which makes it available out of the box in all 3 major OS's. Also, Colemak is an easy way to upgrade comfort in cases where you can't change the keyboard, like a l
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by boterock 1y ago
I think US culture overall frowns upon non-original works. From school there's some push against working on something that is a copy of someone else's work. In the meantime China has mastered copying and made it a big part of thei
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by boterock 3y ago
Fun way to look at it, you at the north give us a lot of planned obsolence goods in exchange for our monies. North even gets into politics pushing developing countries infrastructure towards oil economies. and then, we consume what you led
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by boterock 3y ago
but now they added this task switcher to iPad which also appears when dragging from the left edge, and now going back is like rolling a dice. you don't know how how to go back without triggering the task switcher so it ends up taking m
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by boterock 3y ago
godot ticks at that rate, but if you don't transform UI things, they don't get redrawn. so maybe the framebuffer is switched every frame, but draw calls shouldn't be reissued unless needed. also, I think it is possible to mak
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by boterock 4y ago
That is exactly the point. That is the impression, impression made by media mostly.
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by boterock 4y ago
I always thought of this as a gimmick from the government. Why would they risk an operation just to send hopes to the hostages. I always felt this was more to get good will from people than for the hostages themselves. And as always, only p
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by boterock 4y ago
There is a world out there where people pay 15~20% of their annual income to buy a computer seen under a different lens: you think that an effort a person does over 3.65 days to afford a computer is expensive, while many people would have t
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by boterock 5y ago
I have heard of sandstorm.io
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by boterock 5y ago
I switched to Colemak 4 years ago or so, and I think it is one of the best investments of my time ever made. Yes, you will feel similar to that feeling you get when you write with your left hand (something like, why tf I'm doing this,
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by boterock 5y ago
I would also add their animation system is crap. If you try something like Animancer, you will never ever want to interface to the AnimatorController stuff because is so badly designed. Overall their business model of providing some kind of
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by boterock 5y ago
That's an issue you don't have if you provide source code. If a customer relies on bad architecture/undefined behaviour, that shouldn't pull back all the other customers that want their subscription materialize into engi
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by boterock 5y ago
Having the source code available is much better as an investment. Unity support (forums, answers, whatever) is a joke. It is very sad that whatever gamedev question you have, if you search in google and add "Unity" the answers qua
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by boterock 5y ago
UE4 has been able to export to switch for a long time (Snake Pass notably released on switch, before any other console, 4 years ago) For Godot, there are companies that do the porting (presumably they developed their own interfacing layer),
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by boterock 5y ago
That review at the end is strange in many ways, it shows the sad truth about economics between other countries and the US. If someone is doing something good, but is not for the benefit of the US, then it is bad. If we develop a technique t
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by boterock 5y ago
Yes you’re right, I can’t say from that side. What I can say is it has happened here for a long time, and no one questioned as they were also in control of the media. Just until recently it became widely known the 20+ years of smoke of “fig
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by boterock 5y ago
The skeptical part of me makes me think that it is just smoke... the police takes down large gangs as it draws too much attention, so they gotta do their job. But really big fishes never get caught, and everyone gets good scores in their r
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by boterock 5y ago
Small captures are just the distraction, heck, they even made a tv show “alerta aeropuerto” where they show how efficient they are grabbing mules (that’s the name we give individuals who transport cocaine). The truth is that cocaine transpo
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by boterock 5y ago
The case here is that coca traffickers and producers are very different. Producers the bottom of the chain, who live in the violence, sometimes they’re threatened if they try to change their crops. Traffickers are the ones that have got int
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by boterock 5y ago
US and Canada are very into southern politics, to do a lot of coal/oil/etc mining very below the actual worth, because it is always so much cheaper to lobby local politicians, who get elected year after year because they control t
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by boterock 5y ago
These turf wars exist because these people have a lot of power from trafficking drugs over a very widespread area. In the moment that every person can have a coca plant in their house, the trafficker loses this power.
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by boterock 5y ago
Maybe they do the same that politicians do here... they keep the cops busy grabbing individuals, but they turn a blind eye to the shipments of tons that are sent via airplanes that could be intercepted easily. In the end everyone knows that
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by boterock 5y ago
The problem is more that people don't know all the problems that are causing when buying cocaine. In the end, if they're doing it at home without harming anyone, what's the issue? I would relate it more to how people eating m
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by boterock 5y ago
About that last sentence: "former U.S. Ambassador [...] said in April that López Obrador views the fight against drug cartels as a distraction ... So he has basically adopted an agenda of a pretty laissez-faire attitude towards them, w
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by boterock 6y ago
I was doing something like that with Godot [1], the approach I took was setting some global "dragged_item" when the drag started, and then each drop target would check if the dragged_item was compatible and if the mouse was within
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by boterock 6y ago
Godot shading language is GLSL with some syntax sugar. The nice thing about the Godot visual shader editor is that you can start from nodes, and then open the generated code panel, copy it and continue from there in a code shader. I think t
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by boterock 6y ago
From what I've seen on computer graphics, most of the algorithms are tricks and hacks... I think that in the end a good engine should acknowledge that it is hard to support everything, so just having a hackable interface is good enough
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by boterock 6y ago
I would like to deepen a bit on "guerilla" and "paramilitaries": * Guerilla is a movement born and driven by farmers, where they weren't receiving aids from the central government, so they got into this business so

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