rishflab

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by rishflab 6mo ago
Security does not depend on code review. They have stronger sandboxing and have granular permissions that the user must allow. My point is running untrusted code securely should be the operating systems job. It is possible to do this at th
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by rishflab 6mo ago
I don't understand the push to make the browser a tool for securely running general purpose applications. This is the job of the OS. We keep building layers on top of layers of abstraction instead of fixing or improving what we have. I
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by rishflab 6mo ago
> The web is fascinating: we started with a seemingly insane proposition that we could let anyone run complex programs on your machine without causing profound security issues. Isnt this what an OS is supposed to do? Mobile operating sys
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by rishflab 1y ago
physics is not easy. its pretty challenging and has unending scope. audio can also have unending scope if you want to do physically simulated Spatial Audio. Im not sure if AI/pathfinding are worth developing as part of an engine. I fee
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by rishflab 1y ago
yep, Im not saying its a bad design or a dealbreaker it is probably find for the vast majority of games and can provide a nice api for people coming from web games.
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by rishflab 1y ago
animation blending isn't that bad. If you have a two poses represented as lists of quaternions and positions, all you have to do slerp between the quaternions and lerp between the positions. FABRIK IK algo is a ~100 loc function.
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by rishflab 1y ago
does anyone know if densified wood can be used as exterior cladding? Does it handle moisture/sun etc well?
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by rishflab 1y ago
Speaking of async coroutines, my belief is that they don't get used enough in other game engines because their lifetimes are not tied to anything - you have this danger where they can outlive their entities and crash your game. Async
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by rishflab 2y ago
Because we can't opt out of taxes that fund this. If it is clearly personal and you do not have an objective answer then let this be a cause we can choose to donate to based on our personal assessment.
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by rishflab 4y ago
Agreed, engineering is about building stuff, not making discoveries about how the universe/existence works. Engineering often results in scientific discoveries but this is incidental.
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by rishflab 4y ago
Mathematics isn’t a science, it seperate thing entirely. Science is about trying to understand how the real world works. Make falsifiable hypothesis then do repeatable experiment do will either prove or disprove hypothesis. Computer science
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by rishflab 4y ago
Why don’t we just burn plastic for energy. We burn hydrocarbons for energy anyway, why not substitute some coal for plastic waste. Not an expert on this matter but I am pretty sure most hydrocarbons can be burnt pretty cleanly in the right
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by rishflab 4y ago
Please change electric to battery powered... I don't think the largest mining trucks are battery powered. They have diesel generators that power an electric drivetrain.
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Criticism: It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware(youtube.com)
2 points by rishflab 4y ago|1 comments
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by rishflab 4y ago
I watched this talk a while ago and it initially blew my mind and made me very upset with the state of OSDEV. The speaker basically says OSDEV ignores the reality of modern computers. There are multiple binary blob operating systems with di
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by rishflab 4y ago
Code can be parsed into an abstract syntax tree. Structural editing is editing code at the tree level. You probably already do it using expand/shrink selection. If you have a selection eg. a node on this tree, expand selection would mo
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by rishflab 4y ago
Most VIM proponents mention the power of VIM's editing grammar as a selling point. I think the idea of having an editing grammar is good but VIM does it at the wrong level; text, instead of syntax aware tree.
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Opinion: Structural editing is superior to the Vim grammar
5 points by rishflab 4y ago|8 comments
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by rishflab 4y ago
> Breaking backward compatibility ought to be considered the cardinal sin of open source/free software, and they get away with it too much. It depends? It's not like there is any apps for linux desktop. Who cares if you break b
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by rishflab 5y ago
You can beat physics. Big cars means more energy to dissipate in a crash. If the regulators had half a brain they would of taxed cars based on volume + mass. Large cars also reduce visibility which further reduces safety. There has been a c
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by rishflab 6y ago
Being concise and to-the-point is just as important as using simple English. That blog post is too long for the ideas it conveys (kinda ironic?). Here are some things I found tiring to read: "There's an Italian dish called saltimb