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by strags 4mo ago
Authentication is an interesting example - it sounds like might be the easiest component to remove. But without authentication, you don't have identity. And without identity you have no viable notion of accounts - and without accounts
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by strags 4mo ago
> That way the community has the opportunity to run their own servers if they want to. That might be fine for very small titles - where the "game server" is a relatively simple binary that can be run anywhere. Larger titles dep
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by strags 3y ago
I remember that PIC project. I don't know if source was ever released, but I recall a lot of folks being very dubious about the claims made. Quote: The PIC has 1024 words (12-bits) of program ROM, ~256 bytes contain a hand-crafted RF
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by strags 6y ago
Yeah, this is absolutely true, but we don't really like to impose a rule regarding which editor(s) people use. Most of our workflow is Windows-based.
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by strags 6y ago
The problem with shebangs that I really want to solve is that I often need to edit files on a Windows machine, and then try to run the resulting CR/LF scripts on a Linux machine using a shared filesystem. (Docker, WSL, Vagrant etc...).
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by strags 6y ago
From personal experience, I've always had better results from Simulated Annealing than Genetic Programming. I hasten to point out that it's entirely possible I've been doing GP poorly - but part of the problem seems to me t
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by strags 6y ago
Curious as to why they'd base this on AngelScript (which I had not heard of before today) instead of a more widespread language like Python?
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by strags 6y ago
Cost and Latency. My team and I run the servers for a number of very big videogames. For a high-cpu workload, if you look around at static on-prem hosting and actually do some real performance bencharking, you will find that cloud machines
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by strags 6y ago
That is awesome! The retro box is fantastic. I discovered that my son (17 months old at the time) loves to mess with stereo controls. So I bought a few rotary encoders and neo-pixel rings - build a wooden enclosure with a plastic faceplate,
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by strags 7y ago
I recently needed to encode a 32-bit value into something easy for QA folks to remember and report. I opted for 3 words out of an 11-bit (2048 entry) dictionary of commonly used words. How to build the dictionary? Well, in order to determin
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by strags 7y ago
I have a Sonos that came with my house. It's actually the least of my worries. The house was built about 10 years ago with what (I presume) was a state-of-the-art system at the time - an "AudioAccess WHEN" system. It works fi
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by strags 7y ago
This is awesome. I now have Guns'n'Roses playing in my office, and Axl Rose is a faint voice coming from the garage.
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by strags 7y ago
This one is fascinating - especially the slides from the JavaOne presentation. It JITs heavily-used R3000 blocks into Java bytecode, which is then JITted by the Java interpreter. And he did it 14 years ago!
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by strags 7y ago
It's actually quite a bit louder than this now. Also, the lights aren't quite as infant-retina-searingly-bright as the camera would have you believe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtE8oE9GOsM Currently it's
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by strags 7y ago
I discovered that my 17-month old son loves to mess with stereo controls. So I bought a few rotary encoders and neo-pixel rings - build a wooden enclosure with a plastic faceplate, and wrote some code to generate fancy light and audio effec
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by strags 7y ago
Take a look at HJSON.
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by strags 7y ago
Switch your parsers to HJSON, and never look back :)
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by strags 7y ago
HSON ( https://hjson.org/ ) addresses a lot of this. Just allowing trailing commas and adding comments reduces 90% of the friction involved.
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by strags 8y ago
https://youtu.be/ITbqTl8pTMs?t=200 Err... were these commands meant to be obfuscated the whole time?
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by strags 10y ago
We had to shift focus to the PS3 project, which needed everyone's full attention.
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by strags 10y ago
Yeah, the runtime for GOAL was much closer to C/C++ than LISP. The pre-processor was pretty much a full Scheme implementation, and had all kinds of dynamic cons cell allocations and garbage collection, but not the generated code itse
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by strags 10y ago
I know of at least a couple of ex-dogs who lurk around here. The article's pretty much correct, if memory serves. I started at ND in 2004, around the tail-end of Jak 3. After Andy had left, I picked up the Goal compiler, and hacked it
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by strags 10y ago
"GOAL never had a source-line debugger, as far as I know, although there's no reason it couldn't given some effort to write one." Actually, it did. IIRC, the debug state required for converting run-time addresses to sour
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by strags 11y ago
I used to have a favorable opinion of Microchip, until their patent case against Scenix. http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Court+Rules+for+Scenix+Semicon... Featuring such fabulous claims as: -- Having a number of I/O pins
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by strags 11y ago
I added some copy-protection to a Nintendo 64 game once. If the anti-piracy checks ever triggered, the game would do nothing at first - but after a few minutes, the frame-rate would ever-so-slowly start to get progressively worse and worse
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by strags 11y ago
We evolved packaging systems for a reason - they provide a standardized way to manage dependencies, provide clean uninstalls, etc... Having a shellscript pooping files arbitrarily into the filesystem is so 90's. Seriously - you pretty
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by strags 11y ago
I've always wondered about this. Wikipedia says ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(cryptosystem) ): "When m is not relatively prime to n, the argument just given is invalid. This is highly improbable (only a
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by strags 11y ago
I found this extraordinarily helpful: http://www2.physics.umd.edu/~yakovenk/teaching/Lorentz.pdf The Lorentz transform allows you to calculate exactly how time/distance differ between two reference frames. Th
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Netgear's security video monitoring service broken for 11 days and counting(my.vuezone.com)
1 points by strags 11y ago|0 comments
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by strags 12y ago
> Of 12224 players, just 182 passed the hardest level. The firm will get in touch with these elite players and help place them with one of their clients, who pay Starfighter a fee. As player #181 out of those #182, I'm excited :)

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