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EmilyHughes
·10 ay önce·discuss
This is impressive but I don't get it. All that work and you have a game written in JS of all things. Why not write it in a desktop language und port it to JS. Now this will always need a browser to run, feels like a waste of time to me.
EmilyHughes
·geçen yıl·discuss
Whats so crazy about it though? Intuitively it seems very likely to me that all possible states of 2028 would fit into a 64 bit number.

4x4 = 16 tiles, 64/16 = 4 bits, 16 powers of two = space for 0-65536 per tile.

So going up to only 2048 would leave some room even.
EmilyHughes
·geçen yıl·discuss
This still of programming does not adhere to MVC though, you can't ever swap out the frontend because it's basically merged to the backend and I suspect complex to debug simmilar to JSF.
EmilyHughes
·geçen yıl·discuss
I miss these kind of applications. Nowadays everything is flat tons of wasted space, unresponsive and eats 300mb ram because it runs on electron. Just compare windows 11 task manager to windows 2000 task manager.
EmilyHughes
·2 yıl önce·discuss
Not at all. Any song on youtube uploaded in the last 5-10 years is as good as a 320 kbit mp3. Why would it be with the bandwidth anyone has to today?
EmilyHughes
·2 yıl önce·discuss
This came out yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs0-8ZwZgwI

Apparently in germany they caught a pedo like that. Watching certain nodes and the sizes of files that are sent between them to identify the admin of a pedophile image sharing forum. Took them 1 1/2 years to identify the specific person, but they got him.

Considering this I would imagine it's pretty safe for the average user since they have to specifically target you for a long time, however it seems like with enough effort it's possible to identify someone even without Clearnet slip-ups like it was the case with Silkroad.

Once they have your address they will just storm your house and catch you on the computer, then you are done for.
EmilyHughes
·2 yıl önce·discuss
yeah kids are gonna love this
EmilyHughes
·2 yıl önce·discuss
1. Doesn't look like fluid at all 2. Goes down to 40 FPS on my computer

Granted this is web, but I think I can simulate that many particles with a simple loop in java on 60 FPS.
EmilyHughes
·2 yıl önce·discuss
How is this a trick question? Maybe I am dumb but I would have no idea how to solve this.
EmilyHughes
·2 yıl önce·discuss
UTF-8 is downward compatible to ASCII, so anything that is just a standard character (like every character in this comment) is just a byte.
EmilyHughes
·2 yıl önce·discuss
I am on the fence with this, maybe there should be research to create safer alternatives to the illegal recreational drugs. They are trying to make amphetamines and opioids that are safer and not as recreational for medical purposes. Why not make it safe and try to keep the recreational aspect of it. I am sure this can't ever be achieved 100%, but lots of people would probably rather buy some pure milder stimulant instead of random powder from a street dealer. Same with cannabis, the THC content on legal plants should have a limit on the THC content.
EmilyHughes
·2 yıl önce·discuss
For the psychedelics this is very true, I enjoy mostly low doses. But I am not so sure about the MDMA. If I didn't have enough to get "over the hill" it always felt it's about to come on now but it never does it's just a very dissapointing limbo state. Even worse, redosing after that won't get you the full effect either for that night (maybe because some serotonin was already depleted at that point).
EmilyHughes
·2 yıl önce·discuss
That might be, but then don't wonder if people look at you strange if you tell them you got burnout from a job where you never met any colleagues and didn't get paid either.
EmilyHughes
·2 yıl önce·discuss
If you don't get paid to do something it's not fun, how about you just stop doing it?
EmilyHughes
·3 yıl önce·discuss
I disagree. I loved that there were no loading times. I always thought PS1 games felt cheap and slow compared to N64 games. Nobody really used the CD space for game content, they just filled it up with ugly prerendered cutscenes, which I didnt care about.
EmilyHughes
·3 yıl önce·discuss
Going by how long ReactOS is developed and how unuseable it still is I wonder if the time would haven been better spent decompiling windows 2000 and structuring the code. Once that is done you have a solid base to modify and modernize the OS however you want.
EmilyHughes
·3 yıl önce·discuss
How about you stop caring that much about proving others right.
EmilyHughes
·3 yıl önce·discuss
Honestly the only thing extasy did for me was let me rave for hours to electronic music at clubs. It also opened the door for other chemical drugs which led to benders and hangovers that were so bad people who only drink alcohol have no idea are even possible.

Granted, I never did it in a quiet "therapeutic" environment, I would have thought of it as a waste because I considered the music and dancing an integral part of the experience, it's a pretty recreational and hedonistic substance after all.
EmilyHughes
·3 yıl önce·discuss
Another big reason is that the limitations actually make you more creative. I learned producing EDM in the FL Studio era and in a sense it's a godsend you don't have to buy all that expensive hardware. On the other hand modern DAWs give you so much freedom its somewhat exhausting. The entry level to produce technical genres like DnB are extremely high nowadays.
EmilyHughes
·4 yıl önce·discuss
Yeah man, great take. Should we drop a nuke on a city or open source DALL-E ? Seems about equally destructive.