jheitmann

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Reversing Factorio's RNG(gegell.github.io)
239 points by jheitmann 5d ago|44 comments
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by jheitmann 2mo ago
It reads to me like "We did all the work you'd do to figure out how to fix the benchmark, then we decided to throw out the benchmark". Is there some reason the underlying data is so golden that it can't be patched? At th
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by jheitmann 1y ago
There's a book covering this and more from 1993 called "Strange Attractors: Creating Patterns in Chaos" by Julian C. Sprott that's freely available here: https://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/SA.HTM It's
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by jheitmann 1y ago
Sibling comments are giving good answers about Silksong in particular. But, a more general point to keep in mind is that gaming by revenue is an order of magnitude larger than movies. In that light it's a little strange that gaming new
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by jheitmann 1y ago
Check out the game Bombe [1]. It's a minesweeper variant where instead of directly flagging or uncovering cells, you define rules for when cells can be flagged. As it gets more advanced you end up building lemmas that implicitly chain
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by jheitmann 2y ago
Also, China's battery production is described as a "battery complex" while US battery production is described as a "battery industry" or "battery industrial base".
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by jheitmann 3y ago
The video meanders for a bit at the start, but about a third of the way through turns into a pretty interesting breakdown of how deferred rendering works in general, and then specifically Breath of the Wild's deferred rendering passes.
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The Glitch That Broke Link's Cel Shading [video](youtube.com)
1 points by jheitmann 3y ago|1 comments
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by jheitmann 3y ago
Waypoint was lost. Good gaming media is like a big water droplet that keeps on getting smushed by a the big dumb thumb of capitalism. It still shifts to a new spot, but ever diminishing. One of the rare ones that even made money. Still, gon
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by jheitmann 3y ago
Looking forward to the competitive video game Zendesk VS .
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by jheitmann 4y ago
Should thinkers read? As a thinker, I thought I'd venture here to the reading room to see if I could glean any data-driven insights. What I found was a new form of Readable Thinking Words (aka "writing") called a blog. After
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by jheitmann 4y ago
> Less than 1% is radioactive for 10,000 years. This portion can be easily isolated and shielded How would this work? My assumption was that the pellets are fairly homogeneous. Does the decay happen faster in exterior of the pellet? Or
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by jheitmann 4y ago
Why does ntpd lose the smear on a restart? I would have thought that the current smear could be calculated purely based off current non-smear time, plus the config to say when to smear, which is presumably available upon restart. Also, why
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by jheitmann 4y ago
This feed has been working for me: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/feed
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by jheitmann 5y ago
36 comments in 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18559477 19 comments in 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10105437
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by jheitmann 6y ago
I haven't had to deal with PII issues for a few years now so I might be a bit rusty but: Regardless of how driver's license ids are created, they are global identifiers of a specific person. If company A knows a person's driv
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by jheitmann 6y ago
The speech that should absolutely be abridged is using the phrase "Freedom of Speech: A Right" seemingly without referring to the U.S. constitutional right, and also without defining what you mean otherwise. The penalty for violat
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Overwatch's latency compensation techniques(youtube.com)
1 points by jheitmann 10y ago|0 comments
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by jheitmann 11y ago
Julien C. Sprott has a very fun, approachable, and free book on generating various kinds of strange attractor visualizations: http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/sa.htm It has 1993-era code, which paradoxically might make it goo
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by jheitmann 11y ago
You can do that today. Just freeze it: https://apps.tsa.dhs.gov/mytsa/cib_results.aspx?search=gel%2... I learned that from one of the TSA line prep barkers. They were putting such a jolly spin on their spiel and it sou
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by jheitmann 12y ago
While I think this whole thing is a useless namespace land grab, I was pleasantly surprised to hear that there is one slightly useful new TLD: http://www.atgron.wed They're selling .wed domains cheap for the first couple of
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by jheitmann 15y ago
I won't claim that Seattle is a terrible place for broadband, but it's also not wine and roses. On the cable side, Comcast "competes" with Broadstripe. Broadstripe has both terrible customer service and poor internet service. Broadstripe al