lxdesk

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by lxdesk 1y ago
Crawford's work is worthy of study, as is the causation for why he experienced external failure. It embodies the "simulationist" aesthetic of game design: given enough modelled parameters, something emergent and interesting w
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by lxdesk 1y ago
I would put it into these three categories: 1. Assembly coding within a REPL. Forth supports "load-and-store" without the additional bookkeeping steps of assembly. Once the program works, it can be incrementally rewritten into the
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by lxdesk 5y ago
You don't even have to look to geopolitical analogies. It's an everyday thing, all the way down to basic "exclusive club" gatekeeping. There's a longstanding tendency across financial systems historically to use the
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by lxdesk 5y ago
What he calls "world construction" involves the development of a rubric custom to the problem. This creates a faster feedback loop inside of the larger, noisier one. Your feedback is now guided around the question of "what
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by lxdesk 5y ago
Sounds like you may be getting close to an ideal result, at least for this project! :) Nice on the use of SQLite - I agree that it's right in the ballpark of usability if you're just occasionally editing or doing simple turn-takin
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by lxdesk 5y ago
I've gone down roads similar to this. Long story short - the architecture solves for a lower priority class of problem, w/r to games, so it doesn't pay a great dividend, and you add a combination of boilerplate and dynamism t
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by lxdesk 5y ago
Implement a MIDI 1.0 sequencer and get it to play back SMF files with a sine wave synth - you can have it output a WAV file, or learn an API to do realtime rendering. It's not a large spec, there are lots of old documents on how the pr
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by lxdesk 5y ago
Here's an example: Cash decentralizes credit. "Cash and carry" grocery outlets were a 20th century innovation. [0] Before that, the norm was to have a line of credit with the business, and in many cases, to accept their terms
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by lxdesk 5y ago
I think the probable reversal of the cycle is: 1. Towns revise their taxation and zoning laws so that more classes of business are permitted in residences. They also start issuing more forms of local credit(the technical means to do so are
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by lxdesk 6y ago
Use value is easy to assign to an NFT post-facto. That hasn't been really done in the current market(which is, of course, in the midst of a bubble), but: * Tokens can become tickets to events * Tokens can become options on commission
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by lxdesk 6y ago
Speculation is enabling to non-coercive frameworks. If I say a token has a use value that I will use to supply goods and services, you may want to acquire that token. If I can also control issuance and supply of that token, then, short of d
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by lxdesk 6y ago
Godot doesn't expose inheritance to scripting AFAIK; it's strictly a convenience used internally to describe the core nodes. When you script Godot to make complex entities, it's through composition of arbitrary nodes in arbit
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by lxdesk 6y ago
It's a fantasy to think that authoritarian governments actually succeed at this. Every one of them ends up with an underground market despite tremendous repression. Even literal prisons have one. At best, such governments have flare-up
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by lxdesk 6y ago
If VS Code is an endpoint to incremental improvements in text editing, then the next big thing that appears will involve a revolutionary approach.
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by lxdesk 6y ago
The kind of issue I see this thread getting at is what I call the "terrarium problem", which is, to make a whole software ecosystem like a language environment or API mechanisms bounded by a standard, one has to build a sufficien
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by lxdesk 6y ago
To me stoicism is helpful in the sense of the advice one gets in jujitsu: If taking one grip on something isn't getting you the leverage you want, don't grip it harder, let go and take a different grip. Stoicism can't help if
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by lxdesk 6y ago
I can see one avenue in which GPT-3 might be quite disruptive, and that is in reinventing our software development processes. For example, if it can be purposed into something that reliably converts source code between programming languages
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by lxdesk 6y ago
Most of stress injury derives from the "time under tension" component which is not necessarily a matter of key travel distance. In this case it's a combination of switch mechanism and keycaps. Flat and light keycaps have less
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by lxdesk 6y ago
Neat fact: I learned the other week that this exact format(first, last, number of characters in between) is how old Forths compressed the word encoding. It has a very low collision rate.
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by lxdesk 6y ago
Networked games touch on a number of general challenges with distributed computation: 1 Logical clocks used for synchronization. The clocks aren't literally synchronized, but the events taking place across multiple clocks(at least one
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by lxdesk 6y ago
Let's put it this way. Trans people are researching the topic of sex and gender through active self-experimentation. They are claiming empiricism, and their direct experience makes them credible experts. They have produced facts back
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by lxdesk 6y ago
I say, go back to basics - literally. There are still many "games BASIC" languages around. Some are attached to or reproduce retrocomputing environments like QB64, FreeBASIC and BASIC8(plus a plethora of modern BASICs that target
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by lxdesk 6y ago
ECS is useful for real-time, but it means that you are rolling your own query logic. This is fine for the runtime of game engines because they generally aren't dealing with that many data types(for the very most complex AAA games, perh
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by lxdesk 6y ago
That conflates the use of the schema with the use of the format features. You can, in fact, use your custom in-memory structures and then "slurp it out" to BLOB when you're ready to save.
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by lxdesk 6y ago
Data mining is an old gamedev worry. Nobody who's been doing it for a while particularly cares. If the game is remotely popular, data mining will happen. Disassembly to find the decrypt function is a talent possessed by many, many peop
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by lxdesk 6y ago
You need an idea to pursue. The idea cannot be a simple myth about changing the world in some way, it has to be somehow more intrinsically engaging to you. Studying some philosophy can help - not for getting the idea, but for usefully evalu
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by lxdesk 6y ago
Personal work goes into a sync folder organized by year. References are organized by media type, then by general subject, then (usually) by author. I mark up filenames with tags so that I have some options for tracking down stuff with file
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by lxdesk 6y ago
I've come to believe that the confounding factors in whether dietary ideas "work" are micronutrients and the gut biome, and these are still really unexplored areas of medicine. If you have a deficiency of, say, magnesium - th
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by lxdesk 6y ago
I think I understand this one. I would restate it as "Powerful static type systems usually encode more constraints than you can easily reason about." And that's good(it catches your errors) and bad(you start to fight the comp
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by lxdesk 6y ago
1. Do not set a goal that involves conquering the world, saving the world, or attaining personal glory. These goals have internal contradictions that will lead you away from doing good work. 2. Find a theme and follow the theme to set the g

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