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The Lua source code is also a masterclass in C, I recommend it to anyone learning that language. It's big enough to be an involved implementation, but small and focused and well-or…

I'm sure you know, but for others reading: even on the same architecture, there is more to floating point determinism than just running the same "x = a + b" code on each system. Th…

Partly what I mentioned above: a higher rate of development "churn" — incorporating new systems or technology before it's well-baked or well-integrated with the rest of the OS, onl…

> FreeBSD was perfectly fine but it didn't do anything I needed that Linux didn't already do. I broadly agree, even as a FreeBSD fan myself; things have converged a lot over the de…

Why must you attack me personally like this?! ⠀(:

This is super cool, and I like the no-nonsense presentation. I'm curious to know where he takes the gameplay. He mentions it being digging-focused, and also mentions the digging/te…

The Dreams team made a nice talk at SIGGRAPH 2015, if you want to check it out: * Slides (good notes): https://advances.realtimerendering.com/s2015/AlexEvans_SIGGR... * video: http…

I'm reminded of that scene from A Beautiful Mind where someone asks him if he still has his hallucinations. He looks over and sees the fake people still there, and says "Oh no, the…

Pretty cool. I haven't dived into the details of this post, but it's a problem I've been wrangling with from time to time in my game. Below is a series of writings on this topic th…

From the name, I thought it was going to be about fractal dimensions[1] (: So on that tangent ... you can measure that value for ordinary objects using the "box counting" method[2]…

This seems fairly culture-dependent, from my experience. For instance, I've noticed a distinct difference in how sarcasm is received in the Northeast US vs the West Coast. What you…

As an aside, this "robot tentacle" paper was referenced in a recent HN story: "SpiRobs: Logarithmic Spiral-shaped Robots for Versatile Grasping Across Scales"[1] Seems like a prett…

Speaking as someone who has made their own game engine for their indie game: it really depends on the game, and on the developer's personality and goals. I think you're probably ri…

Just tossing in my own recommendation: I use Lyrion Music Server (previously Logitech Media Server (previously Slim Devices/Squeezebox))[1] It's open-source, self-hosted, has vario…

> But I wonder how common the knowledge is these days ... In one sense, it is less common, as you imply (though perhaps it's more that the number of high-level programmers have bal…

Go back to /r/vxjunkies/, and take your retro-encabulator with you :Þ

> turning python to PHP. Why stop there? Go full Perl (: I think Python needs more quoting operators, too. Maybe qq{} qq() q// ... [I say this as someone who actually likes Perl an…

Do you use ZFS for root, on Debian? (enabling "boot environments") I've recently switched my FreeBSD setups to use that scheme, and it's been nice. Would be interested to hear if i…

It was a crash bug, but I'm not really sure the details (and it has been some years...). Even at the time, I wasn't personally involved in it, just heard about it through the grape…

Video games used to be like this. Once you built the "gold master" CD/DVD/cartridge/etc it was out of your hands. It was kinda nice to have a concrete end to the project [1]. Nowad…

I do this sort of "raw material" note-taking on a piece of paper because a lot of my thoughts I feel most able to express with diagrams, shapes, lines-between-things, visual patter…