swaginator

8 ms·

1.
by swaginator 2y ago
Unity's ECS framework
2.
by swaginator 2y ago
Vector search over title + tags.
3.
by swaginator 2y ago
I am actually working on a project where I have scraped ~400k recipes, and now am in the process of wrapping them in a little search engine. The idea is to have a little python/node script + sqlite file that you can use to search local
4.
by swaginator 2y ago
Prior to covid, yes. I haven't eaten McDonald's since covid, but in college I would use the app + whatever promotional "buy one get one" coupons they had going on to hit some devious combos. Usually I could get 3 burgers
5.
by swaginator 2y ago
The implication in what you just said is that Israel having total control over Palestinian territory is taken for granted. They can wiretap with ease due to their illegal occupation. I think if the example was Canada wiretapping the US, the
6.
by swaginator 2y ago
This is pretty common, Israel has previously spied on the ICC and intimidated a prosecutor: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-05-28/ty-article/.p... Not to mention the wiretapping of phones of members
7.
by swaginator 2y ago
Maybe "no reason" was a bad word choice. I would say that regardless of the reason, it doesn't matter to workers. What matters to workers is to have as much power as possible over their own situation. The simple calculus is t
8.
by swaginator 2y ago
If one studio closes you can imagine the screws are tightening at the others. Unionization arguably wouldn't help for studios closing, but it would help push back against crunch and other labor abuses.
9.
by swaginator 2y ago
> With how expensive AAA development has gotten maybe that’s the stakes now, and a reason so many are taking the modern Hollywood playbook of churning out sequels and remasters. The studio was owned by M$ though. There's no reason t
10.
by swaginator 2y ago
I imagine that the closing of Arkane studios Austin was a big motivator for worker's to unionize. They created successful games and Microsoft shut them down for pretty much no reason. I am kinda on the periphery of the gaming scene in
11.
by swaginator 2y ago
I will. I hope it continues to happen. The real policymakers of the country should not be continued to operate without scrutiny. Hacks like this are done illegally only because there is no legal alternative.
12.
by swaginator 2y ago
The Roads Must Roll https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roads_Must_Roll
13.
by swaginator 2y ago
> It's the only thing that would keep me functional and able to drive on with a project though. Don't you think that part of this could be stress? Also potentially dehydration. I have had eye twitches a couple times during long
14.
by swaginator 2y ago
The parent comment's experience does not reflect my relationship with coffee at all. I was diagnosed with ADHD as a kid, never medicated for it. Just regulated with diet and exercise, also probably self-medicated with caffeine and nico
15.
by swaginator 2y ago
Is there a regional aspect to it? I have been listening to a lot of Yiddish/Russian music lately and people say that there are a lot of Russian loan words and it is hard to understand for non-Russian Yiddish speakers.
16.
by swaginator 2y ago
Because Okies would sweep them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_River_Bridge_War
17.
by swaginator 2y ago
Weird coincidence, just yesterday I cracked open my Appalachian Trail guide to a random page just to scan through it. I opened it to the page with this guy's memorial. I thought "hey I didn't know this guy had a memorial on t
18.
by swaginator 2y ago
That's a similar but different anecdote. The one I am thinking of he specifically is talking to someone's wife while she is crocheting. It may not have been Feynman though, I CTRL+F'ed "Surely You're Joking" an
19.
by swaginator 2y ago
That's a good point.
20.
by swaginator 2y ago
That's a pretty short list given the length of the roman empire. Shorter than I expected honestly.
21.
by swaginator 2y ago
Semi-related, I was doing some reading about different cottage industries from antiquity and the feudal era and was wondering if a feudal-era simulator existed that included cottage industries as part of its core mechanics. I ended up findi
22.
by swaginator 2y ago
Oh yes, I forgot about Lucretia, that was actually the only other one I know about. That makes two I guess.
23.
by swaginator 2y ago
Back when that meme of "how often do men think about the roman empire" was going around, I was talking to my girlfriend about it and I noticed how I couldn't name any Roman women other than [Agrippina]( https://en.w
24.
by swaginator 2y ago
Yep! It's not a bad thing at all, it just ought to be acknowledged.
25.
by swaginator 2y ago
> He continued reaching into the pockets of wealthy people I'd argue he used subsidies from the government, both direct and indirect. Buyers get a tax credit for electric cars. SolarCity received hundreds of millions of dollars in d
26.
Soviet "Bath on Wheels" Train in WWII(eurogunzel.com)
1 points by swaginator 2y ago|0 comments
27.
by swaginator 2y ago
There's plenty of footage you can see of how the FPV drones are used. > to evade detection and interception. I was under the impression that the Reaper was typically used where US has air superiority. There is an international comba
28.
by swaginator 2y ago
I just watched that video. I feel bad for the kid. Even in the absolute best case scenario, Ukraine wins and he has to live the rest of his life with nightmares of all the people he killed. I know this isn't exactly productive discours
29.
by swaginator 2y ago
I really recommend this book: https://www.amazon.com/Age-Wood-Material-Construction-Civili... It is about how wood is arguably the most important material in human history. Covers a lot of its useful material properties, an
30.
by swaginator 2y ago
PA's pathfinding inspired me to write my own flow field pathfinding library in Unity. That was my first "big boy" programming project. I also really liked your writeup on the Chrono Cam system that PA used. Just know if you e

More ›