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by dottrap 22d ago
Maybe try a Steam Controller? I've used the OG one. I think the device itself registers as a keyboard. Its trackpad controls the mouse cursor and the triggers act as the various mouse clicks. If you are running Steam in the background,
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Lua 5.5.0 (rc1) has been released for testing(lua.org)
53 points by dottrap 10mo ago|2 comments
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by dottrap 10mo ago
Microsoft's timing was the worst. I think they announced this a year after Swift was already announced, but before Swift was open sourced. So Microsoft wouldn't be able to deal with things like Obj-C/Swift interop which iOS d
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Lua 5.5.0 (Beta) Released(lua.org)
10 points by dottrap 1y ago|1 comments
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by dottrap 1y ago
Main changes (since 5.4) declarations for global variables for-loop variables are read only floats are printed in decimal with enough digits to be read back correctly. more levels for constructors table.create utf8.offset retu
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by dottrap 1y ago
One of Lua's goals has been extreme portability, and the main implementation works on anything that has a C compiler, going to the extreme of compiling cleanly on C89, C99, and even compiling as C++ (no extern "C"). Remember
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by dottrap 1y ago
>> I really wish the Lua authors would add official types to Lua. > Never going to happen IMO. Adding static types would change the nature of the language completely, even more than it has in Python. You both are kind of right. The
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by dottrap 2y ago
This should be plenty fast. SDL_RenderCopy generally should be doing things the 'right' way for on any video card made roughly in the last 15ish years (basically binding a texture in GPU RAM to a quad). You probably need to due so
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by dottrap 2y ago
I was referencing the historical motivations that led to where we are today. Yes, I was referring in part to the SDL_Render family APIs. These were insufficient to support things like Nuklear and Dear ImGui, which are reasonable use cases f
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by dottrap 2y ago
This is a separate thing with the same name. Although both share some common ideas. The grimfang4/sdl-gpu is a separate library used with SDL, while the new SDL GPU API is directly part of SDL. grimfang4/sdl-gpu is much older and
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by dottrap 2y ago
The old SDL 2D API was not powerful enough. It was conceived in the rectangle sprite blitting days, when video hardware was designed very differently and had drastically different performance characteristics. If you wanted anything more, Op
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by dottrap 2y ago
Where did you see that? I'm skeptical of that claim because I know some embedded uses of Lua strongly utilize pre-compiling to Lua bytecode so they can keep their hardware as slim as possible. I know some will even strip out the Lua co
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by dottrap 2y ago
As another extremely simple idea, in my personal experience, just using regular Lua table syntax for serialization and then pre-compiling it with luac so it could be loaded quickly via dofile(), produced results just as fast for loading it
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by dottrap 3y ago
> IMHO there wasn’t any reason to bother fiddling with the definition of BOOL. There were good reasons to change this to a real boolean. I think it was a WWDC, where kind of discussing this topic, one Apple engineer said they did an audi
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by dottrap 3y ago
As a historical note, this was also a thorny issue for language bridges to Objective-C, going beyond just Obj-C++. I'm thinking of bridges like PyObjC, RubyCocoa, CamelBones, and LuaCocoa. BOOL was one of those things that would have b
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by dottrap 3y ago
I saw a few presentations from the 280 North guys. It was clearly impressive what these 3 guys built. Learning from Cocoa/Objective-C/Interface Builder well, they realized they needed to build 3 separate, but interconnected things
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by dottrap 3y ago
The food, including Cajun & Creole, crawfish, The French Quarter, Mardi Gras, voodoo, bayous, the music (birthplace of jazz), Louis Armstrong, Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis, salt domes/caverns (which is why much of the US Strategic
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by dottrap 3y ago
I don't know about outside the US, but the impression I have is, Star Wars toys have mostly been a universal bust, especially of the items that are from new Star Wars and not the original. You can find a lot of info if you search about
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by dottrap 3y ago
Thank you for identifying that. I felt a bunch of things were off in that screenshot. For one, I don't remember those colors. But I didn't trust my memory. But more importantly, since the article went on to describe the "octo
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by dottrap 3y ago
Lots of indies keep close track of Disney. Many of them have a good understanding of the cost structures and revenue splits, and every time somebody does a breakdown of the numbers, Disney is bleeding red ink with the Lucasfilm acquisition.
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by dottrap 3y ago
I got to speak to a couple different Apple file system engineers many years ago over the course of many WWDCs. I think it was around the Leopard or Snow Leopard time frame (2007-2009), where we casually discussed some of the challenges Appl
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by dottrap 3y ago
Gold is classified as a commodity. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is the federal government agency that regulates the commodity futures and other commodity derivatives, not the SEC.
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by dottrap 4y ago
As a teen, I tutored at my school's free tutoring center. Almost nobody ever came.
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by dottrap 4y ago
Wow, so cool. Brings back so many memories. This is a way better version. Torpedo targeting was such a drag in the original. I love the new targeting bar. I can't remember, were you able to destroy a starbase in the original? (I though
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Why is building a UI in Rust so hard?(warp.dev)
7 points by dottrap 4y ago|1 comments
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by dottrap 4y ago
This YouTuber (Sasha Yanshin) did a scrutiny of the errors or omissions made with the different wallet checks in the report. This is the most detailed tear down I've been able to find so far on the Internet. https://www.yout
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by dottrap 4y ago
Thank you for that. Also as an American, I too have never heard of this. When I saw the words Alice and restaurant, I thought back to the TV sitcom called Alice from the 1970's-1980's who worked at Mel's Diner. As far as Amer
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by dottrap 4y ago
This already happened. FTX was paying out lots of money to YouTube finance influencers for promotion. There is some public push back on some of the bigger influencers right now for their role in encouraging people to sign up with FTX, Graha
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by dottrap 4y ago
I've read many anecdotal stories about how "advisors" prey upon newly rich celebrities. These advisors are scum bags who know celebrities don't know anything about money, and work very hard to charm their marks in convin
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by dottrap 4y ago
If the money was stolen, it was never SBF's to give. The law does have provisions that can force the clawback of stolen funds. But because we're talking about politicians here, I don't think anybody believes the law will be e

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