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poutinepapi commented on Infocom-zcode-terps: Historical source code for Infocom's Z-machine interpreters   github.com/erkyrath/infoc... · Posted by u/m463
pjmlp · 2 years ago
You can start by learning JVM bytecodes [0], and play around with Jasmine[1].

Even today many cool performance tricks require understanding the bytecodes of the underlying language runtimes.

[0] - https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/

[1] - https://jasmin.sourceforge.net/

poutinepapi · 2 years ago
Ahhh mate cheers! I had never seen Jasmin, I'll definitely take a look.
poutinepapi commented on Infocom-zcode-terps: Historical source code for Infocom's Z-machine interpreters   github.com/erkyrath/infoc... · Posted by u/m463
poutinepapi · 2 years ago
My dumbass opened up this repo full of hope and then realized I can't read any of this XD, I trained in the early 2000s, my first language was Java, I'm pampered as all hell.

The last time I saw assembler was in a bloody history class :P

Mind you, old school game developers were absolute gangsters and gave 0 shits about anything except things working and that's what I appreciates about them.

poutinepapi commented on Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive   signal.org/blog/signal-is... · Posted by u/mikece
poutinepapi · 2 years ago
Understood, $7 CAD per month are heading your way since I use Signal quite a bit.
poutinepapi commented on Blender 16yo winner of UK young animator of the year   younganimator.uk/winner/1... · Posted by u/countrymile
tombox · 2 years ago
I'm the organizer of the YAY UK competition, and so glad Euan's work has got such wide recognition!

The completion is judged by professionals from UK Animation & VFX Studios (including ILM) and we were all blown away by the quality of the entrants - Blender and Ian Hubert are doing amazing things for the next generation of talent!

I thought people would like to hear Euan's description he entered as part of the competition submission:

"I used Blender for the animation and Davinci Resolve for the colour grading (I also used the Film Convert plugin), all animations were rigged and keyframed by me with exception of the people walking in the first shot (those were from mixamo). The TV and advertisment footage were from previous projects.

The humans in the first and second shots are free photoscans I downloaded online and then rigged, there are a few small mechanical parts that were included in a library that I used, but the majority of them are mine.

I used Quixel megascans for some of the rubbish seen at the bottom of the second shot.

Most textures are photos sourced from textures.com or taken by me in real life, but have been modified by me to include procedural grime and dirt buildup in crevasses.

Some sound effects were from purchased sound libraries or found online copyright free. The rest I recorded myself. "

poutinepapi · 2 years ago
Hey mate! The animation look doooope, if any of the young animators are interested in the gaming industry and need someone to ask questions from(That isn't trying to hire them or get them to sign up for a course)

I always have spots open for students and indies at my consultancy: https://www.the-lovelace-gang.tech/

poutinepapi commented on Tuta (formerly Tutanota) denies claim it has intelligence ties   cp24.com/news/encrypted-e... · Posted by u/ipcress_file
shrimp_emoji · 2 years ago
> No one serious uses them

Hey... :c

poutinepapi · 2 years ago
Sorry mate! Didn't want to be mean XD, but funny you commented this, because I posted about it on LinkedIn and got like 5 private messages asking:"Should I really switch?" XD, so you're at least not alone and in the company of some pretty fine people :P
poutinepapi commented on Tuta (formerly Tutanota) denies claim it has intelligence ties   cp24.com/news/encrypted-e... · Posted by u/ipcress_file
poutinepapi · 2 years ago
Stick a fork in them, they're done. At least with that name they are. Easiest thing would be to disolve, and start a brand new company with the same people.

Don't get me wrong, whether they have or don't have intelligence ties is irrelevant. No one serious uses them, they're a general public supplier, and the general public is about as brave as a gringo cop, i.e.: not much.

So they're about to lose a chunk of customers and Tutanota's leadership isn't exactly quality so who knows what they'll do.

poutinepapi commented on Is this link to watch Star Wars Despecialized safe?   harmy.link/... · Posted by u/poutinepapi
Finnucane · 2 years ago
Disney has yet to take any action against Harmy as long as his version has been available. Maybe they figure that it costs them nothing (he's offering a product they refuse to sell, and could if they did), and suing would only serve to bring more attention to it.
poutinepapi · 2 years ago
Cheers, you're probably right really. Still, amusing dark web artifact I guess.
poutinepapi commented on Is this link to watch Star Wars Despecialized safe?   harmy.link/... · Posted by u/poutinepapi
poutinepapi · 2 years ago
Came accross this. Looks more like activism than anything else, nonetheless, thought it interesting. I started watching it and it seems to work fine, but still curious.

Thoughts? Because I'm pretty sure this will last top 5 days before Disney finds the poor fuckers and sue them into oblivion.

poutinepapi · 2 years ago
I say 5 days, but I tried posting this 2 weeks ago and it got flagged, so this is actually my second attempt :P
poutinepapi commented on Is this link to watch Star Wars Despecialized safe?   harmy.link/... · Posted by u/poutinepapi
poutinepapi · 2 years ago
Came accross this. Looks more like activism than anything else, nonetheless, thought it interesting. I started watching it and it seems to work fine, but still curious.

Thoughts? Because I'm pretty sure this will last top 5 days before Disney finds the poor fuckers and sue them into oblivion.

u/poutinepapi

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