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huachimingo

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    Conway's Game of Life

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    Comment #31983187

    Sometimes you need to see all the available tools. Replace the "talent" with a little "technique". Cannot draw 3D with perspective? Use isometric-ish projection with graded axes. C…

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    Comment #31983150

    Whats the answer to services? More services! /s

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    Comment #31959053

    It is the same as Nicanor Parra's: There are two pieces of bread. You eat two. I eat none. Average consumption: one bread per person

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    Comment #31875374

    Basically all of the UNIX world.

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    Comment #31875353

    "Limit cycles" come to mind. How you translate "cycle detection" from and to a continuous space?

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    Comment #31872535

    This is like when kids start to ask "stupid" questions, when in reality those are sometimes useful data coming from another paradigm.

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    Comment #31825027

    An addiction can be sometimes a masked emotional need/problem. -I want porn, because I carve intimacy -I want to smoke, so I can relax or be seen as Y. -I drink a lot of coffee bec…

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    Comment #31787043

    Sometimes complicated things are just bad abstractions: you dont have a clearer framework yet.

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    Comment #31787016

    >It is built for the joy of building something. It s built for fun, both in its coding and in coding with it. It is not the fastest language with the hottest features. It is not th…

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    Comment #31757328

    LittleBigPlanet was a blast on creative/user-made maps. You could have a fairly stupid concept (free-falling sponge, with a shark that follows you while only in water), copy the wh…

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    Comment #31757259

    Anything that has a sane package system (apt, etc), and is able to install LXDE and use it out of the box. Then, put dwm/[your fav. wm] on top of it, with some autoservices for blu…

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    Comment #31743865

    Not only ports, but the actual original source, see Fabien Sanglard's work: https://fabiensanglard.net/ He has a "[Game Engine] Black Book" series where he touches old games, its f…

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    Comment #31730036

    Which one is faster? (C code) Return: see if abs(num) > x. / logical comparison / int greater_abs(int num, int x){ return (num > x) || (num+x / squared approach / int greater_abs2(…

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    Comment #31676466

    I've been wondering if there is a connection between Lagrangian Mechanics/Calculus of Variations and Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm. https://profoundphysics.com/lagrangian-mech…

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    Comment #31666520

    The guys at TIC-80 had a proposal of embedding mpython to the engine, so you will be able to write in python: https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/issues/935

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    Comment #31661247

    PNG vs JPG on a nutshell: https://i.stack.imgur.com/qJoKW.png

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    Comment #31624410

    Bob Ross of code? Iñigo Quilez videos.

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    Comment #31624391

    Eh, what about cartoon violence? Like Rayman, Mario, Sonic, Pokemon, Worms... If you want more story, you could try with visual novels, like Ace Attorney, Professor Leyton, or any …

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    Comment #31588286

    Its like procedural generation: hide the data into a formula/algorithm, so it makes less space. Replace "data" with "computation", and "formula" with physical, less expensive proce…

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    Comment #31313951

    There is no explicit incentive in Universities to make innovations(or work) at the current state-of-the-art of Eng. in software. At least where I live (Chile), we have outdated cou…

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    Comment #31249307

    Something like Lua? It wont run because the QBE compiler doesnt have bindings to those OSes. Only x64.

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    Comment #31234656

    Meanwhile in Chile, we are losing in a year what we used to lose a decade of water drought in Santiago. The government has a plan to ration water consumption if it gets worse. Moun…

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    Comment #31229282

    Now you can make music with clones of trackers ported to modern platforms: http://schismtracker.org/ https://milkytracker.org/ The main problem is finding samples.