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How Emoji Got to the White House(newyorker.com)
1 points by lispit 11y ago|0 comments
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by lispit 11y ago
I guess the flip side of "don't contribute to a project unless you are intrinsically interested in it" is "don't contribute to a project you aren't interested in unless you are capable of significantly helping
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by lispit 11y ago
Both the Z80 and the 68000 were launched in the 70s.
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by lispit 11y ago
>Tying simulation to framerate is often the best choice, when you consider that most hardware is average, it minimizes latency for the average user, and results with a more accurate simulation It can be, if you either are on a fixed hard
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by lispit 11y ago
Many engines do exactly that. http://gafferongames.com/game-physics/fix-your-timestep/
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by lispit 11y ago
>Physics are always tied to framerate. There is not a game physics library in wide use that is independent of update rate. In practice what usually happens is that the physics library has an internal tick rate (say every 1ms or every 2ms
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by lispit 11y ago
This is a valid question, not sure why you're being downvoted.
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by lispit 11y ago
How to Pick a Meditation App (well.blogs.nytimes.com) 13 points by delambo 1 hour ago user: delambo about: My real-name HN handle. Web developer at The New York Times. @delambro I think I get it.
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by lispit 11y ago
>That too was known for ages, and still no light changing apps for it like flux How is Joseph Programmer von Notasleepscientist supposed to know that a blue-light dimming filter is something that he might want before he sees the effect i
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by lispit 11y ago
I could kinda see your point of view in your other posts ITT (though I disagree), but what? The entire point of this discussion is that their patent application is discouraging other people from creating "competitors" (if you can
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by lispit 11y ago
How else would you reduce the amount of blue light emitted by a monitor using a CLUT except by changing it to reduce the amount of blue light emitted?
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by lispit 11y ago
I said "obvious and trivial thing to do once you know that blue light affects melatonin production. " In the past people did other hacks with CLUTs (like some early 3D games baking gamma correction into the CLUT so that proper li
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by lispit 11y ago
Monitors are not perfectly calibrated, so if you send one a raw sRBG image, the result will look subtly wrong. To fix this we have monitor profiles (mappings from sRGB colors to the values needed to accurately display said colors on a parti
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by lispit 11y ago
It's the "patent pending" part that sucks. They're trying to patent the idea of changing your video card's CLUT (color look-up table) to reduce eye strain, which is a fairly obvious and trivial thing to do once you
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by lispit 11y ago
>Both get a little carried away, but the main melody is clear and pretty interesting. In case it wasn't clear, "Death Waltz" is just a cover of "U.N. Owen Was Her?" from the Touhou games (as are many of the more
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by lispit 11y ago
You can certainly have both types, but it's annoying and sad that the people whose jobs are to write about video games can't tell the difference between the two, and routinely write articles judging mechanically innovate games b
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by lispit 11y ago
The Souls franchise became popular solely because it dared to provide complicated mechanics and harsh trial-by-fire instruction in a time where the vast majority of AAA games are dumbed-down handholdy themepark rides with all of their edges
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by lispit 11y ago
He used Renderdoc, which lets you pick a frame apart draw call by draw call, inspect shader bytecode, etc. https://github.com/baldurk/renderdoc
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by lispit 11y ago
From part 3: >Links >The tech that built an empire: how Rockstar created the world of GTA 5 featuring an interview of Aaron Garbut. http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/the-tech-that-built-an-... >GTA V N
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by lispit 11y ago
Isn't trivializing their ideology a good thing?
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by lispit 11y ago
No perceptible performance hit on a modern machine? Absolutely. I'm sure you can run 100 copies of Doom simultaneously in Javascript or whatever. No perceptible performance hit on a 486? Somehow, I don't think that the 486 is an e
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by lispit 11y ago
Thank you for not taking it that way. From-scratch recreations of games and renderers are always cool, and you're absolutely right to not obsess over the performance of a Doom level renderer in 2015. I just wanted to make it clear that
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by lispit 11y ago
Original game: An entire game, written mostly in C for a (comparatively) extremely primitive CPU with a similarly primitive compiler. Performs all rendering in software, with tightly optimized x86 assembly targeted towards said extremely ou
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by lispit 11y ago
That's not how I saw it, but in any case, it should be clear that the guy is not above lazy, sensationalist clickbait.
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by lispit 11y ago
Jason "the Dragon's Crown Sorceress is a 'lolicon fantasy'" Schreier? I hate to link to reddit (and KiA at that) but here you go: https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/2on4l
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by lispit 11y ago
As long as Disney is around, nothing will ever enter the public domain again.
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by lispit 11y ago
That's what really pissed me off about this charade. It would have been the perfect opportunity to talk about how fucked up our school administrations and their "zero tolerance" policies are, and instead everyone wasted their
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by lispit 11y ago
>It's just the incidences of slaughter they - perhaps optimistically given the US status quo - believe may be reduced through gun controls are actually happening on a not infrequent basis, whereas the Second Civil War scenarios are
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by lispit 11y ago
That's another good bit of cognitive dissonance. I'd wager that many of these same people are aware of and support movements like #BlackLivesMatter, that use social media to spread awareness of instances of police brutality to mas
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by lispit 11y ago
There's some weird cognitive dissonance going on where many of the people that love to point out that the US military can't possibly succeed against guerrilla combatants in the Middle East are the same people that laugh at "g

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