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ReactiveJelly commented on Hold on there: WPA3 connections fail after 11 hours   rachelbythebay.com/w/2024... · Posted by u/zdw
ysofunny · 2 years ago
how about some floating point sizes?

then again, thinking about code with timestamps in float makes me scared

ReactiveJelly · 2 years ago
I swear John Carmack said somewhere "Time should be a double that starts from 1 billion" or something, for games or VR or something.

Of course when I search on DDG I only get "wow the fast inverse square root"

ReactiveJelly commented on Ludum Mortuus Est   brokentoys.org/ludum-mort... · Posted by u/davikr
pprotas · 2 years ago
> And gamers won't buy them.

There is an even darker possible future: gamers WILL buy this AI generated crap. And the executives know it, since gamers have been buying their low effort budget cut pre-order alpha crap for years.

ReactiveJelly · 2 years ago
Then the repugnant conclusion is not that gaming is dead, but that games are made primarily for teenaged boys and most of us have aged out of the target audience, so games simply aren't made for us anymore.
ReactiveJelly commented on A* tricks for videogame path finding   timmastny.com/blog/a-star... · Posted by u/azhenley
aappleby · 2 years ago
Oh, and compute the distance from each path node to the nearest obstacle and store that in the path node. As long as your character is inside one of these "bubbles", you can skip collision detection against the world entirely.
ReactiveJelly · 2 years ago
Oh like in path tracing.
ReactiveJelly commented on Electric light transmits data faster than Wi-Fi   techxplore.com/news/2023-... · Posted by u/danboarder
FergusArgyll · 2 years ago
> Notably, Li-fi ensures robust security by exclusively transmitting data to areas illuminated by light.

Can someone explain how this ensures security?

Because hackers always work in the dark? /s

ReactiveJelly · 2 years ago
It might enable security but I wouldn't say it _ensures_ it.

It just means that visible or IR light (What are they using?) won't leak through walls the way Wi-Fi does. Depending on how wide the beam is and exactly how it all works, it _might_ still leak out of windows and under doors. But it's not like someone casually wardriving outside your house will get as much as they would from Wi-Fi, I would think.

ReactiveJelly commented on America doesn't know tofu   asteriskmag.com/issues/02... · Posted by u/jseliger
wouldbecouldbe · 2 years ago
The best meat replacer really isn't tofu, it's Seitan.

It has the umami quality certain meats & cheeses have, you just need to have another bite, that I've not have had with other meat replacements.

I've eaten the most delicious vegetarian chicken made of Seitan over a decade ago in a monastery in Xiamen.

Still not sure why it hasn't made it's way to the West. Maybe because of the fact its basically pure gluten.

ReactiveJelly · 2 years ago
I agree, seitan is a lot more like meat. I prefer less-realistic replacements so even though I've enjoyed seitan I actually quit buying it. It's too convincing.
ReactiveJelly commented on BCHS software stack: BSD, C, httpd, SQLite   learnbchs.org/... · Posted by u/edward
bionhoward · 2 years ago
Looks really cool, some feedback from a noob to optionally improve the “trivial” example:

1. can you put a link to the running http file served by the example so we could see how the result looks?

2. Defining CGI would be helpful because I looked it up and found “computer generated imagery” which doesn’t seem like what you meant.

3. Might be good for this example to load the html from a file or SQLite to fully trivialize the whole stack, as this example doesn’t include the S in the acronym.

sometimes I think the Next.js examples folder at https://github.com/vercel/next.js/tree/canary/examples is just an amazing example of how best to market a software product to developers because it’s such a rich source of integrations, almost anyone can find a good starting point for a web app project in there, if BCHS had the 80:20 of examples ready to roll then maybe it could blow up, because BCHS a great idea to use the most battle tested solutions in existence! Keep it up! bravo!

ReactiveJelly · 2 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface

The most primitive version is just launching one process per request, piping the HTTP request into stdin, and piping the response out of stdout.

It works, but you can imagine the startup latency is rough and it takes a lot of resources.

There are faster variations that try to reduce the overhead. Ironically FaaS is sort of a rebirth of CGI

ReactiveJelly commented on Black Triangles (2014)   rampantgames.com/blog/?p=... · Posted by u/andric
jacquesm · 2 years ago
It helps to know that under the hood almost every serious game is a complete more-or-less real time operating system with its own IO, scheduler, memory management and various sub-processes relating to output generation and so on.

It was only after I wrote a couple of games that I realized that extracting this OS component would be worth the effort and after that making new games went substantially quicker.

ReactiveJelly · 2 years ago
I don't consider it an OS if it needs an OS to run. Something like a "Ship can carry a boat, boat can't carry a ship" rule.
ReactiveJelly commented on A cargo plane flew 50 miles with no pilot onboard using a semi-automated system   businessinsider.com/semi-... · Posted by u/elorant
LoganDark · 2 years ago
Having a pilot on board means someone can fight back.
ReactiveJelly · 2 years ago
I think GP meant they could hack it remotely. If an attacker hacks a fly-by-wire plane remotely, I'd rather not be onboard.
ReactiveJelly commented on Woman pregnant in each of her two uteruses gives birth to twins   cnn.com/2023/12/24/health... · Posted by u/dirtyhippiefree
ReactiveJelly · 2 years ago
Cool! I kinda want a uterus some day.
ReactiveJelly commented on Technical Overview of AV1 Spec   github.com/QuPengfei/Tech... · Posted by u/dreampeppers99
unlog · 2 years ago
That may be why videos tend to stall when in the movie is raining
ReactiveJelly · 2 years ago
Yeah. And that's why TV stores really like slow-motion shots or static landscapes to show off the TV. Any motion will cause "HDTV blur" as the encoder struggles to describe complex motion with the limited number of bits it's allowed to use.

Stuff like static, film grain, particles like snow or rain, those all suck up bits from the same encoding budget.

"Why Snow and Confetti Ruin YouTube Video Quality" by Tom Scott probably explains it nicer than I can https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Rp-uo6HmI&pp=ygUaYnJlYWtpb...

This could be a problem for video game streaming, and it could affect the artistic decisions a game studio makes - Drawing a billion tiny particles on a local GPU will look crisp and cool, but asking a hardware encoder to encode those for consumer Internet (or phone Internet) might be too much. I think streamers have run into this problem already.

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