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Marazan commented on Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room nytimes.com/2025/08/18/ar... · Posted by u/asnyder

zedascouves · 8 days ago

I Started with actionquake (aq2). check it out.

Minh “Gooseman” Le, one of CS’s creators, was a fan of AQ2. Counter-Strike (first released in June 1999 as a Half-Life mod) built on AQ2’s ideas but refined them with better hitboxes, buy menus, maps, and more tactical pacing.

AQ2 is often described as “the bridge between Quake and Counter-Strike”.

Marazan · 8 days ago

I loved aq2 so much, just an incredible mod with so many gaming moments seared in my memories.

Leaping off the cliff on "cliff" straight through the hatch in the cable car breaking my legs but right next to my opponent and blasting him with the double barrelled shotgun as they turned round. Classic .

Marazan commented on Books will soon be obsolete in school shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/08/... · Posted by u/edent

xyzzy123 · 10 days ago

> It will be a dystopian environment but they earned it and can earn their way out of it.

It's not very clear cut but sometimes it seems like kids just end up being punished for having bad parents.

Marazan · 10 days ago

This is the crux of the matter and any "solution" offered that ignores that young children are primarily the product of their parenting is no solution at all

Marazan commented on Airbrush art of the 80s (2015) coolandcollected.com/airb... · Posted by u/Michelangelo11

Marazan · 11 days ago

Desert Chrome lettering is the true gift from the 80s

Marazan commented on Blender on iPad Is Finally Happening creativebloq.com/3d/blend... · Posted by u/walterbell

rkachowski · 13 days ago

I've made a few failed attempts at embracing blender before - how did you pick it up in a day?

Marazan · 13 days ago

It was this video tutorial that I used:

https://youtu.be/sbCW0Cs7aI8?si=lOIbHEgtQhE3775e

It covers the absolute basics of navigating the Blender UI before it even gets into How2Modelling. I found it remarkably clear.

Marazan commented on Blender on iPad Is Finally Happening creativebloq.com/3d/blend... · Posted by u/walterbell

tannhaeuser · 13 days ago

I loved SketchUp's interface, made tons of 3D "art" back then, and had high hopes Blender could fill the void when SketchUp was sold off Google and went subscription-based. But the various interface refactorings did nothing for casual 3D modelling and Blender is still as unintuitive and deserving of the "vi of 3D modelling" label as ever, focussing on undiscoverable keyboard nav and features for pro workflows spending 364d/year in it. What's the point of porting it to iPad OS, esp. when a keyboard and mouse is required? I even own iPad hardware with keyboard and pen and might give it a try but not if it's just a 1:1 port. Anyone checked out Blender for Artists (bforartists.de)?

Marazan · 13 days ago

I learnt basic Blender 3d modelling and UV mapping in a day, to the level and beyond of "create 2d plane and extrude" that I was doing in SketchUp.

Its UI genuinely isn't that inscrutable these days.

Marazan commented on Vanishing from Hyundai’s data network techno-fandom.org/~hobbit... · Posted by u/pilingual

surajrmal · 15 days ago

I think that's more likely to get companies to remove mics than to make them secure.

Marazan · 15 days ago

Yes

Marazan commented on Poorest US workers hit hardest by slowing wage growth ft.com/content/cfb77a53-f... · Posted by u/hhs

hellgas00 · 22 days ago

"people earning roughly less than $806 a week — slowed to an annual rate of 3.7 per cent in June, down from a peak of 7.5 per cent in late 2022"

With inflation dropping from 9.1% in June 2022 to 2.7% in June 2025, real wages for these low earners are now growing for the first time in years. The Financial Times failure to mention this context makes me question their motives.

Marazan · 22 days ago

> now growing for the first time in years

This is a lie. Low earners had strong real term wage growth under the previous administration.

Marazan commented on Telo MT1 telotrucks.com/... · Posted by u/turtleyacht

freshtake · 24 days ago

I don't think this generalization is quite fair. I'm sure this is true for some folks and their social circles, but for those of us who engineer and know our way around a Home Depot, the capacity is a game changer. I used to have to rent or borrow trucks for my projects.

Not to mention Christmas trees, moving, helping friends out, etc.

Marazan · 23 days ago

Depending on the survey 63-to-75% of truck owners use it for towing once a year or less (i.e in reality never). So yes, the majority do not use it for towing.

To be fair I'd misremembered the load carrying figure and the load figure for 1 time a year or less is 32-35%

https://www.axios.com/ford-pickup-trucks-history?trk=feed-de...

https://www.thedrive.com/news/26907/you-dont-need-a-full-siz...

Marazan commented on Telo MT1 telotrucks.com/... · Posted by u/turtleyacht

SilverElfin · 24 days ago

> I see them in pristine condition on city streets hauling a totality of one human.

It’s about having one vehicle that can do it all. Maybe you’re noticing when there’s one human but you don’t really know how else that person is using the vehicle at other times. Trucks can haul people, things, do road trips, etc. pretty well.

Marazan · 24 days ago

The typical number of times an American non work truck is used to haul a load each year is zero. Same for using it's bed capacity.

Marazan commented on I wasted weeks hand optimizing assembly because I benchmarked on random data vidarholen.net/contents/b... · Posted by u/thunderbong

heipei · a month ago

Counterpoint: I once wrote a paper on accelerating blockciphers (AES et al) using CUDA and while doing so I realised that most (if not all) previous academic work which had claimed incredible speedups had done so by benchmarking exclusively on zero-bytes. Since these blockciphers are implemenented using lookup tables this meant perfect cache hits on every block to be encrypted. Benchmarking on random data painted a very different, and in my opinion more realistic picture.

Marazan · a month ago

Back when Genetic Algorithms were a hot topic I discovered that a large number of papers discussion optimal parameterisation of the the approach (mutation rate, cross-over, populations etc) were written using '1-Max' as the "problem" to be solved by the GA. (1-Max being attempting to make every bit of the candidate string a 1 rather than 0)

This literally made the GA encoding exactly the same as the solution and also very, very obviously favoured techniques that would MAKE ALL THE BITS 1!