hooby

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by hooby 4mo ago
This is not meant to be any sort of religious "my lang > your lang" discussion, or anything along those lines. I've no big complaints about the langauge itself, or it's syntax so far. I picked C++ over C, because I&#x
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Trying Out C++ as a Web Developer(hooby.blog)
1 points by hooby 4mo ago|5 comments
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Shadowrun Boston Unlocked(hooby.blog)
2 points by hooby 4mo ago|1 comments
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by hooby 4mo ago
Private servers for Shadowrun Chronicles: Boston Lockdown now available
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Die Roll Maths for Tabletop Nerds(hooby.blog)
1 points by hooby 1y ago|0 comments
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by hooby 2y ago
There are some valid reasons to use software in English as a German speaker. Main among those is probably translations. If you can speak English, you might be better of using the software in English, as having to deal with the English langu
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by hooby 2y ago
I'm actually of the opinion, that blue-green colors like teal or turquoise are both green and blue at the same time. Basically a mixture. Having to pick just exclusively one - blue OR green - for such colors just feels, wrong and arbit
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by hooby 2y ago
"Shards" are the inlore explanation in Ultima, for why there would be multiple copies of the game world existing in parallel (the different servers). Some sort of world-crystal being shattered into small pieces, or something...
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by hooby 2y ago
Raph Koster is also currently working on a new game, that aims to take this ideas of social experience and player-driven virtual society and push it beyond what they were able to do with UO. (Also with less PK-ing, griefing, etc. - things h
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by hooby 2y ago
I used to say that video games do everything you might find in any other kind of software - only difference being, they do it 60 times a second.
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by hooby 2y ago
weirdly enough, when asking for documentation/problem solving types of questions - chatGPT actually is a good alternative. you still have to double-check since you can't trust it... but you shouldn't trust random google resul
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by hooby 2y ago
Regardless of whether you hire in-house developers or hire a software studio that does contract work - I believe the key to success is giving the developer unfettered access to an experienced subject-matter expert who really understands wha
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by hooby 2y ago
This game is definitely gonna be known for it's systems, mechanics and simulation, and not for it's graphics - that much is sure.
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by hooby 2y ago
The Discord is currently the probably best place with the most information... https://discord.gg/starsreach Check "A brief, subjective history..." in "community-forum", for a rough summary of what is kno
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by hooby 2y ago
Full player housing, with building options similar to Landmark. Also player-cities, and even player-governed planets.
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by hooby 2y ago
Yeah it does - but it is early work in progress, and is gonna see several more passes before getting close to release. According to Raph the goal is for the visuals to end up somewhere between Genshin Impact and Wind Waker. Roughly.
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Stars Reach – new social sandbox MMO by Raph Koster announced(starsreach.com)
29 points by hooby 2y ago|15 comments
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by hooby 2y ago
They all can be colored in 4 colors - if you don't care about giving the enclave the same color as the parent country. If you insist giving those little islands the same color as the country they belong to, then things get difficult. T
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by hooby 2y ago
So, there was this one question "Can every map be colored with just 4 colors?"... And there I sit, knowing that every map of CONTIGUOUS territories can be colored with 4 colors - but on real world maps, there are enclaves - little
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by hooby 2y ago
I remember playing around with that like... 20 to 25-ish years ago. Back then only pre-rendered cut-scenes could come close to having graphics like that, and I dreamed of the day when games actually look like that realtime. Kinda ironic tha
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by hooby 2y ago
Many years ago, I've been playing around with similar ideas - although my attempts were probably more like "abstract fonts" then actual ciphers. What feel kinda curious to me about this one, is that I see no reason or pattern
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by hooby 2y ago
All of that sounds like, that torrent-based updaters/downloaders should be the absolute killer-app for environments like that. Infinitely resume-able, never looses progress, remains completely unfazed by timeouts, connection loss, etc.
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by hooby 2y ago
"I invented a ranking system that cannot be gamed!" By my experience, ALL ranking systems can - and will be gamed, no matter what. I'm still willing to give you the benefit of the doubt - maybe you are the one who can finally
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by hooby 2y ago
might save your own life as well
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by hooby 2y ago
when I made my drivers license, you were still taught that if all your breaks fail and there's no way to stop car, you should use "body braking" - i.e. use the friction of scraping your car's side against something, pref
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by hooby 2y ago
"Rapid Unstructured Energy Dissipation" is a nice euphemism for the robot crashing into pieces... but I really feel there's a missed opportunity there, to come up with something that abbreviates to "S.P.L.A.T." rath
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by hooby 2y ago
So, each stage/each FROM has it's own scope basically. If you define an ARG in the global scope, you have to import it to the local scope before using it. Not terribly unusual, but I wasn't aware of it - so yeah, wouldn'
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by hooby 2y ago
Having fruitful complex discussions and staying factual/rational, and not succumbing to impulsive answers, emotions and knee-jerk reactions, is a social/culture problem. And I'm not convinced that this types of problems can b
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by hooby 2y ago
I'm pretty sure that the policymakers did NOT understand ML models in 2014 - and still do NOT understand it today. I also don't think that they care. They don't care that ML is a hodgepodge of data & compute, and they don
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by hooby 2y ago
Over some decades of doing development work on legacy systems - sometimes by my companies own design, sometimes contract work for a customer - I've seen lots of things that make me believe that certain customers do prefer complex, bug

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