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muchwhales

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    Comment #37751347

    The way I see it: Memorizing puts things in your RAM (which may be slow to access), or CPU cache (if recently used). Looking them up would be equivalent to having them stored on yo…

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    Comment #37634542

    Wasn't there a math prof that did exactly that? Can't find the link now, but after some getting used to the results were overwhelmingly positive. TBH, just staying at home and watc…

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    Comment #37505357

    One point that wasn't mentioned: It has a performance-oriented alternative implementation, called LuaJIT. With this, you can run JIT-compiled Lua code at speeds comparable to V8 (t…

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    Comment #37505212

    "Where your audience is, go you must" - Master Yoda, probably

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    Comment #37504999

    Just to give some perspective: Without prior graphics programming experience, I was able to write a simplistic 3D engine (VERY simple, but enough for my purposes) in a week or two.…

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    Comment #37414438

    New feed? It's an abomination. My workaround: Discord bot with WebHooks set up for only the things I care about.