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by ndepoel 1mo ago
The jumpy polygons are because the PSX's GPU only accepts vertex positions in screen coordinates, meaning that vertices always snap to hard integer values. There is no sub-pixel accuracy. That's not a limitation caused by the PSX&
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by ndepoel 3mo ago
Which is complete nonsense anyway. Robert Smith from The Cure famously went against TicketMaster before their last world tour several years ago, pointing out the ridiculous prices and demanding that they be lowered to make their shows more
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by ndepoel 4mo ago
That's usually not a problem with Mega Drive/Genesis games, as they typically don't draw beyond the 224 lines that are visible on a (correctly calibrated) CRT TV. I've played this game on a B&O MX4000 CRT using an or
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by ndepoel 4mo ago
Here's another: code was open sourced with every intention of becoming a thriving community-driven project, but in practice users only take from the code what they want for their own needs and never contribute back, or expect the maint
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by ndepoel 5mo ago
A lot of the things you mention there have been in development for the better part of 10 years already, and still haven't reach a stable, mature and production-ready state yet. Unity have also kept deprecated stuff around for much long
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by ndepoel 5mo ago
Unity 2022.3 is a great LTS version to park an older game in maintenance mode on. It's where everything kind of congealed into a solid, reliable engine again, after the hot messes that were 2020.x and 2021.x. It's also still recei
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by ndepoel 5mo ago
It does make quite a big difference. The network packets received from the server in Quake will tell you exactly what state the game is in at any point in time. They contain information about the position and state of every entity and their
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by ndepoel 5mo ago
It wasn't really that much to do with determinism. Quake uses a client-server network model all the time, even when you're only playing a local single-player game. What the demo recording system does is capture all of the network
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by ndepoel 5mo ago
It kinda does resemble a natural resource though. The machines and technology in use at TSMC are so insanely complex, that there isn't a single person on earth who knows everything about how it works. TSMC functions only because of all
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by ndepoel 6mo ago
The PS1 version uses a custom engine based on technology built for the game Shadow Master, the previous title by Hammerhead Studios. It was a technical tour de force for the original PlayStation.
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by ndepoel 6mo ago
Yes but also no. The problem with fixed point arithmetic is a lack of dynamic range compared to floating point. Floats are great at representing both large numbers with limited precision and small numbers with high precision, but with fixed
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by ndepoel 8mo ago
Windows is not exactly free of this sort of nonsense either. Just recently I built a new PC for a friend, and we wanted to keep using his old SSD and Windows installation. After messing about with Bitlocker recovery keys which was already c
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by ndepoel 8mo ago
That 20% is mostly covered by competitive online multiplayer games that use kernel-level anti-cheat systems which will only work on Windows. There's not a whole lot Valve can do about that, other than continuing to push Linux for gamin
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by ndepoel 9mo ago
The real "a-ha" demystifying moment for me was not so much learning about the elementary rotation, translation or even perspective projection operations. It was understanding how all of those operations can be composed together in
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by ndepoel 9mo ago
Id Software very much skirted the edge of legality by making Commander Keen outside of office hours while still employed by SoftDisk and using SoftDisk computers, and SoftDisk could have easily sued them if they wanted to. They managed to a
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by ndepoel 10mo ago
Honestly, I think that if Steve Jobs had lived, he would have continued to push the industry in a direction more aligned with his tastes, others would have followed suit, and whatever hot topics we'd be discussing today, they would be
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by ndepoel 1y ago
I had this epiphany last year when I went through some old holiday pictures and saw a photo of a monument in a location that I had no memory of. So I spent some time retracing our steps on that day, based on other pictures from around the s
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by ndepoel 1y ago
> They could offer value, but just rarely, at least with the LLM/model/context they used. Still a net negative overall, given that you have to spend a lot of effort separating the wheat from the chaff. > Could have a special
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by ndepoel 1y ago
Us Europeans have been extremely naive and complacent for the past decades. We've been all too happy to rely on America for our tech and defense needs, and America has been all too happy to provide. There have been plenty of warning si
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by ndepoel 1y ago
Ahh yes, been there, done that. Several years ago we had issues with certification of our game on PS4 because the capitalization on Sony's Turkish translation for "wireless controller" was wrong. The problem being that Turkis
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by ndepoel 1y ago
This all reminds me a lot of the early 2000's, when big corporations thought they could save a lot of money by outsourcing development work to low-income countries and have their expensive in-house engineers only write specifications.
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by ndepoel 2y ago
4 MB is the maximum size of the console's ROM address space, so this would've allowed for any Genesis game to be published through this service, with the exception of the few games that used bank switching to go beyond 4 MB (reall
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by ndepoel 2y ago
It's all about clearly stating your intent. With INNER JOIN you're literally saying "I want to join these two tables together on this particular relation and work on the result", while with the more basic WHERE form you&
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by ndepoel 2y ago
The thing about Nine Inch Nails version of 'Hurt' is that it works best within the context of the album 'The Downward Spiral'. As a song by itself it's fine, but it doesn't really hit home unless you've be
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by ndepoel 3y ago
Oh I'm sure they exist, that's why I said "a lot", not "all". My point is more about how managers perceive the employees they manage. They all want to believe that they found the goose that lays the golden eggs
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by ndepoel 3y ago
Not just innovation, but layoffs are also devastating to the morale of the employees who are allowed to stay. This I feel is a factor that managers tend to grossly overlook when planning mass layoffs.
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by ndepoel 3y ago
AI has increased the perception of productivity to unwitting managers, which is a dangerous pit to be falling into. It's like a lot of those fabled 10x engineers that I've run into over the years; they may seem like they'
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by ndepoel 3y ago
Considering Brian May played God Save The Queen on top of Buckingham Palace for the Queen's Golden Jubilee in 2002... yes, yes she had.
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by ndepoel 3y ago
I'm not sure if it would've been John Carmack in this particular case. He was more concerned with the engine and rendering side of things, less with the gameplay logic stuff. More likely it would've been either John Romero or
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by ndepoel 3y ago
An example of how you could fill this in: identify a small subset of the problem that is relatively quick and easy to test. If the entirety of the problem can be solved, then for sure this small subset has to be solvable too. If you can&#x2

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