huachimingo

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by huachimingo 4y ago
Conway's Game of Life
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by huachimingo 4y ago
Sometimes you need to see all the available tools. Replace the "talent" with a little "technique". Cannot draw 3D with perspective? Use isometric-ish projection with graded axes. Cannot do music? Learn music theory, some
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by huachimingo 4y ago
Whats the answer to services? More services! /s
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by huachimingo 4y ago
It is the same as Nicanor Parra's: There are two pieces of bread. You eat two. I eat none. Average consumption: one bread per person
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by huachimingo 4y ago
Basically all of the UNIX world.
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by huachimingo 4y ago
"Limit cycles" come to mind. How you translate "cycle detection" from and to a continuous space?
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by huachimingo 4y ago
This is like when kids start to ask "stupid" questions, when in reality those are sometimes useful data coming from another paradigm.
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by huachimingo 4y ago
An addiction can be sometimes a masked emotional need/problem. -I want porn, because I carve intimacy -I want to smoke, so I can relax or be seen as Y. -I drink a lot of coffee because I dont have time for Quality Sleep.
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by huachimingo 4y ago
Sometimes complicated things are just bad abstractions: you dont have a clearer framework yet.
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by huachimingo 4y ago
>It is built for the joy of building something. It s built for fun, both in its coding and in coding with it. It is not the fastest language with the hottest features. It is not the most stable thing or the best tool for every or even an
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by huachimingo 4y ago
LittleBigPlanet was a blast on creative/user-made maps. You could have a fairly stupid concept (free-falling sponge, with a shark that follows you while only in water), copy the whole level and mod it to whatever new state you wanted.
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by huachimingo 4y ago
Anything that has a sane package system (apt, etc), and is able to install LXDE and use it out of the box. Then, put dwm/[your fav. wm] on top of it, with some autoservices for bluetooth, mtp and stuff.
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by huachimingo 4y ago
Not only ports, but the actual original source, see Fabien Sanglard's work: https://fabiensanglard.net/ He has a "[Game Engine] Black Book" series where he touches old games, its full development history and
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by huachimingo 4y ago
Which one is faster? (C code) Return: see if abs(num) > x. / logical comparison / int greater_abs(int num, int x){ return (num > x) || (num+x < 0); } / squared approach / int greater_abs2(int num, int x){ re
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by huachimingo 4y ago
I've been wondering if there is a connection between Lagrangian Mechanics/Calculus of Variations and Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm. https://profoundphysics.com/lagrangian-mechanics-for-beginne... How you
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by huachimingo 4y ago
The guys at TIC-80 had a proposal of embedding mpython to the engine, so you will be able to write in python: https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/issues/935
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by huachimingo 4y ago
PNG vs JPG on a nutshell: https://i.stack.imgur.com/qJoKW.png
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by huachimingo 4y ago
Bob Ross of code? Iñigo Quilez videos.
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by huachimingo 4y ago
Eh, what about cartoon violence? Like Rayman, Mario, Sonic, Pokemon, Worms... If you want more story, you could try with visual novels, like Ace Attorney, Professor Leyton, or any DS game.
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by huachimingo 4y ago
Its like procedural generation: hide the data into a formula/algorithm, so it makes less space. Replace "data" with "computation", and "formula" with physical, less expensive processes.
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by huachimingo 4y ago
There is no explicit incentive in Universities to make innovations(or work) at the current state-of-the-art of Eng. in software. At least where I live (Chile), we have outdated courses, filler courses that even some teachers say they coul
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by huachimingo 4y ago
Something like Lua? It wont run because the QBE compiler doesnt have bindings to those OSes. Only x64.
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by huachimingo 4y ago
Meanwhile in Chile, we are losing in a year what we used to lose a decade of water drought in Santiago. The government has a plan to ration water consumption if it gets worse. Mountains are less green than they used to be.
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by huachimingo 4y ago
Now you can make music with clones of trackers ported to modern platforms: http://schismtracker.org/ https://milkytracker.org/ The main problem is finding samples.
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by huachimingo 4y ago
I've always wondered why today we dont have people like them. Is science stagnating (aka Law of diminishing returns)?
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by huachimingo 4y ago
Use phosphorescence. You could extend its half life if you shield and prevent erosion, but it could cost more.
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by huachimingo 4y ago
By coincidence, I heard this at morning too: "Give a man a mask and he will tell the truth" - Oscar Wilde
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by huachimingo 4y ago
This reminds me somehow of Haiku/senryu poems: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku
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by huachimingo 4y ago
They should test induced psychedelic-like experiencies without substances too, like meditiation or trance with music...
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by huachimingo 4y ago
I saw something similar on a pretty obscure spanish forum. They added a sub called /anarchy/, where everyone could edit the CSS and some parts of the page. It was pretty cool but then someone started to spam anime or music.

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