Can we just use mongodb?

The kicker is that CakePHP is an actual framework. S/he is probably more of a Symfony/Laravel wage slave, though.

laughs in CSS

https://media.giphy.com/media/94EQmVHkveNck/giphy.gif

This made me laugh far more than it probably should

As any programmer would tell you, HTML is the best programming language.

Just to make sure you know, this is satire. People often mistakenly think HTML is a programming language when it is not. It is used solely to format how data is displayed.

with or without having the generator for that list written in Java?

For some of us, it's PTSD from having had to work on PHP in the 4.x and early 5.x days. I swore never to touch it again after that.

Also bashing php is just boring now. I don't know why people are still upvoting these jokes...

PHP isn't a terrible language at all

uh.. but it kinda really is?

just your typical herd brain programmers that are still stuck in 2000 and write bad, inefficient, unoptimized code like it's 2018 and have never used PHP that just vomit their opinions based on rumors think it's bad language.

no, really... I had to use it most of my professional career - it is crappy. More crappy than most languages.

It's just like the real world, 90% of the population use a sledge hammer because they heard 10 people say the regular hammer is horrible so they'll never actually use the regular hammer but will perpetuate the idea just because they heard it from someone else...oh wait is this religion?

Funny how you compare PHP to a hammer... it's fitting.

To me the funny thing is that this is an artificially created meme, because you people can't/won't/don't care about writting efficient/optimized/well written code, either because you don't know how or don't care, if it's the latter GTFO of this industry.

you.. what?

Why would I put an online only DRM on a game that's single player from the 90's that anyone can download an emulator and ROM for free on the internet? Come on I got a little more sense than that................Yeah I remember putting an online only DRM on a game that's single player from the 90's that anyone can download an emulator and ROM for free of the internet.

But I put the emulator on my phone instead and still play some of them once every X years. (i.e. when I'm at my in-laws, far away from any internet connection)

I can and I do.

And it's really good too

It would have brought great dishonor to the legacy of Satoru Iwata if they hadn't

Fun fact: the Windows version still works. The biggest issues are that it seems to bring up a save dialog which is no longer supported (someone patched this) and animated tiles seem to freeze since 256 color palettes needed to be enabled manually (change settings pre-XP, compatibility mode thereafter) and aren't actually supported by Windows 8+. Also, the installer doesn't work on its own in 64-bit but that's easily worked around.

https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/SimCity_2000

GOG and EA use the DOS version because it appears to be more stable, because it's cross-platform, to prevent the above issues, and to future-proof since DOS emulation will outlast native support for the Win32 API and versions of DirectX from 1995.

If you think getting the old Windows version to run is a pain, lord help anyone who wants to run the original version for 68k/PPC Macs running OS 7-9... *shudders*...

Run it on android. I did.

I just assumed the naming scheme was the same as for the lster emulators, because I didn't bother to check on mobile.

Good ol' Not Invented Here syndrome. Gotta love it.

Why can't companies just think in terms of Proudly Found Elsewhere instead?

I love your username

Probably makes it a little easier since they've used a common API across the different consoles

Are you referring to the Virtual Console or the NES/SNES mini? Because none of those were better than the current PC emulators for the same platforms (BSNES, Snes9x, etc).

no, that's about the steam-version

it's shitty too

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See: leftpad.

Don't reinvent the wheel.

from inventions import wheel

"a = math.add(2,2);" is better than "a = 2 + 2;" no?

Yes. See: left-pad.

Nail on the head. Every now and then I will get lazy and start looking for a template.

inspect -> network -> mother of GOD! just look at all 25 javascript file calls.

Need your menu to drop down when you hover? Javascript.

Want to scroll to a position on the page when you click a button? Javascript.

And then get mad when the thing that is now automated behind a black box does not work when they could have written the code themselves and been totally in the know of how their application works and how it can be optimized...

This. Web apps are morbidly obese for what a website should be for that reason.

When I have to dabble in web dev it angers me to no end if I ask a question and the answer, instead of some lines of code, is to "install X library". No, just no. I'll figure it out myself before I use some third party dependency.

I had a coworker who was of the mindset of "If you're writing a lot of code, you're developing wrong." No sweet summer child, you're actually developing vs copy/pasting.

And this is how you end up with a lot of websites that look the same. -_-

I don't think libraries are the problem. Images that are just scaled down is the main problem imo

Ours still has comments from page templates renderered on the server side. Yeah.

nope. i confess, i'm a lazy backend dev, so i did exactly that (just so i could make *one* ajax request - shame on me).

• bunch of html: ~5KB
• jquery: ~70KB
• bootstrap: ~50KB
• random bootstrap template: ~150KB

and now gzip that - the compression rate is pretty good!

In the future, they are going to have animated anchorpeople walking around at the bottom of the screen presenting the news in addition to the videos, photos, and text, seeing as news orgs seem to think people want their websites to look like their TV programs.

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I own a copy of Halo 2600.

There's the common belief that limitations nourish creativity and abudance has a potential to stifle it.

It makes sense, too. It's just easier to find a path through a restricted problem space, than finding the same path through a practically infinite problem space that isn't restricted by anything.

You also have people who stick to faithful recreations. If I remember right Shovel Knight did a really good job sticking to the NES style except for a few very conscious departures like the color palette and parallax scrolling.

Same with music, you can have "8 bit" music, and then you have people who actually go and use 4 channels with arpeggiators and all the little tricks they used to wrangle music out of the NES. Even if it wasn't made on an actual NES or departs in a few ways, you can usually tell when someone has gone the extra mile and done their research on what the actual restrictions were.

Arduboy

Meanwhile others make games with pixel graphics for modern systems and call them "retro". Whenever an indie dev can't afford proper art assets they defend themselves with "it looks like crap because it's retro". This is retro from 1994. This is retro from 1993. Real retro stuff still looks amazing.

Microm City, the SimCity clone for GBC.

Planet X series.

Micro Mages's video on how they got things working is amazing, totally recommend

Not to mention the 8-Bit Guy's Planet X3.

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One of the best YouTube channels out there. It's half magician revealing his tricks, half out of the box tricks from a veteran game programmer, and a surprise third half comedy about just how dinky consoles back then were. Even with blast processing.

Or weird problems go away:

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DaveBaggett/20131031/203788/My_Hardest_Bug_Ever.php

FTFY another technique is that certain problems have to be emulated

I remember reading that Shovel Knight was designed with it being limited by the SNES.

I know some of the old arcade or other computer games like Galaga and into the 90s sometimes had graphics engines based on the CPU speed. So if you try to recreate a Galaga arcade game with modern hardware it runs really fast unless you do some tweaking or something, I honestly don't remember all the details except downloading a Galaga ROM and being frustrated with how fast the game was.

The Sega Genesis had amazing sound.

It was. And it was beautiful.

All textures in Quake were exactly 16 KB, because that was the size of the L1 cache on a Pentium CPU.

That's not always a sure thing. It really depends on if you can write an allocator that's faster than the one that came with the compiler.

20 years ago, maybe. Now, not such a sure thing.

It can be quite a bit different for games, but I’ve done a lot of optimization, (both memory and speed) for more general consumer oriented applications/products on platforms from computer to phone to embedded, and most of the optimization is simply “taking the dumb out”.

Either someone inexperienced did something inappropriate for the platform, or there were ramifications to the platform that no one realized. 80% of the time these things might take a little cleverness to fix, but aren’t really rocket science. Often the hard part is having and using the tools to find the problem, which can be especially lacking in the embedded world.

An example might be seeing you have hundreds of copies of the same string in memory and realizing that your data parsing could benefit from a tweak to reuse the reference to the same string.

Noticing you have hundreds of the same data structure and tweaking the structure declaration to be more efficient or use smaller fields for data that won’t need the entire field range.

Or finding out that someone’s home rolled DB is writing out the entire DB when adding an item. Or that adding an item has a lot of overhead, so batching the adds.

Sometimes it’s as simple as using the API correctly, like discovering your UITableview isn’t reusing cells because of reuseidentifiers.

Sometimes it can be a bit tricker, like rewriting the compiler to generate more efficient branches so that each branch block used one less word and saves you 10K over the entire binary.

Other tricks were more complicated, such as using pointer offsets to quickly load files.

I've seen the assembly code of several GBA ROMs. It's amazing to me how pointer arithmetic is used to calculate resource addresses. I don't know if the developers did this or it's an optimization of the compiler, but it's amazing.

:) I was taught a lot of those kinda tricks by one of my coworkers, he's probably been writing code about as long as I've been around lol.

Ha, Ed’s still there, still making my life miserable 🙃

At this point I think you can remove "recent". Lego Star Wars was over a decade ago.

His Sega Saturn videos are amazing (see Sonic R). You can see how different the system was, resulting in the Saturn's premature death, and ultimately, the fall of Sega consoles.

It was one of the more powerful techniques to squeeze more functionality into smaller resources. We also used to have multiple overlays in the code segment and mapped which routines needed which other routines resident to organize the overlays to minimize disruption when you needed to swap one out for another. Multiple well organized and optimized code segments allowed programs larger than memory to run by dynamically swapping pieces of themselves in and out of memory as needed. Also highly optimized hand written assembler helped.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/9wywve/computing_in_the_90s_vs_computing_in_2018/e9pj3ed/

It was one way of forcing important logic to stay in cache (there was only one level of instruction cache and it was only 16k). It was the only way to maintain 60fps in many games. We also used part of the scratchpad (a programmer-controlled 16k data-cache) as a way of cheating to preload some shit. These are 18 year old memories so it's not guaranteed to be 100% accurate. =p

But the PS2 had one magical instruction: conditional move. So instead of branching (which murders the MIPS pipeline) you could move something from one register/memory to another depending on a register's zero/nonzero state. So this allowed us to self-modify code paths instead of branching; it saved 7 clock cycles (full pipeline stall) minimum on every single branch that would have happened instead of self-modifying. It was a pain in the ass, but we did it. I personally wrote a sound mixer that could outperform the MediaEngine (the hardware mixer) using exactly that (it was the original reason I wrote it; it gave us like 16 channels for audio mixing instead of 4 at the bitrate we were streaming sounds).

Ahh man that brings back memories. Sec, I still have those giant sony books around here somewhere.

Here they are

I kinda feel like you missed my whole point about pixel art not being all about retro...

Another common complaint is that Shovel Knight uses parallax scrolling, which isn't possible on the NES. Personally, I don't care, because it's the beautiful visual aesthetic that matters to me more than nostalgic feelings.

Is that really essential for the aesthetic?

Typically, but late NES games from the early 90s had parallax. Kirby's Adventure, Return of the Joker, Metal Storm, Ninja Gaiden 3

They are, only the most basic parallax effects could be achieved with scrolling different background rows of tiles at different speeds

You're right

I mean, it was the widest selection of colors on the NES.

Blue is very wide relative to the NES color palette. http://www.thealmightyguru.com/Games/Hacking/Wiki/images/e/e8/Palette_NTSC.png

Keep in mind that the statement came from the Japanese developers of the game - the Japanese word "ao", which is usually translated as "blue", covers a wider range of colors than "blue", encompassing what we we would call green as well.

Because the general population doesn't give a shit. They eat shovelware and micro transactions like its the greatest thing ever.

Something like that.

I woke up one day wanting to make a simple app and went down a 2 and a half year rabbit hole.

Something like deciding I want to eat a piece of corn then proceeding to learn all of the science of germination, the regions and composition of soils, the laws behind a real estate purchase, the how to's of gardening, the time waiting for my corn stalk to grow, how to raise and milk cows, how to make butter from milk you learned how to get from the cow, learning from scratch, the collective wisdom of fire and cooking, and finally...

Enjoying that sweet piece of corn

Loved every minute of it though.

Depends on the game. I bet a card game needs fewer frames to feel smooth.

That was a choice so the characters could live mostly in the players minds. A pretty good one given the insane popularity and fanart. I'll take that over blurry doom sprites and 5 polygon star fox ships with distance fog.

The only reason anyone wants truely limited systems is nostalgia. Anyone looking back without rose tinted glasses knows working with more power and a good aesthetic is better.

Not really, when you don't have efficiency as a primary goal you skimp on it in too many ways and end up with an inferior product.

It shouldn't be the ONLY primary goal, but it should be up there. I've seen far too many projects where the whole thing ends up a bloated mess because people don't understand that a little extra work towards making something efficient goes a long way down the road.

You are falsely assuming that these games are universally aiming for a “retro feel.” Pixel graphics have evolved from a limited means of displaying information to a genuine art style. While many pixel artists choose to abide by the limitations of the era in which they were conceived, many freely integrate modern enhancements with the only limitation being resolution—perhaps in the same way that their predecessors would have had the tech been available to them. Check out Pixel Joint if you want to know what I’m talking about.

Certainly graphics seen in Fez, Hyper Light Drifter, Celeste, Eastward, Sonic Mania, Owlboy, and many many others would have been impossible in the era that inspired them. And yet, they are beautiful in their own right. Some of these games were likely made with the intent of creating a retro experience, while some chose pixel graphics due to budgetary or personnel restraints, while others still chose their art style purely out of love for the craft. Calling this art “crude” is not only false in my opinion, but it is also an insult to the artists.

nidhogg has better and smoother animations than like any game from those eras

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Nope. Will have to check it out.

It actually had it's own charm, each sprite was hand drawn and that captures something that just mapping a vertex character to a pixel grid just doesn't approximate.

If anything it's a lot like comparing the end-of-an-era hand drawn anime like Evangelion to a more modern 3d anime like Knights of Sidonia.

Sure both are beautiful in their own ways, though people who grew up on hand drawn anime often feel that those cells have more character and artist influence than just a posed and modeled 3d character.

There are a lot of model tweaks in Evangelion that were basically done on the fly by the animators to convey story points that in hand drawn basically boils down to drawing ten or twelve frames slightly different from the reference character design, whereas in 3d CGI it would take designing and animating a whole new model.

Just like any medium has its limitations, there are fans of those mediums can come to appreciate the techniques artists use to overcome those limitations.

I've had discussions with people on how magnificently elegant the Atari 2600's screen writing process works, it really is a work of engineering genius, yet nearly everyone tells me "Yeah but you only get like 12 pixels for the entire screen". Which is true, compared to modern day tech. That in no way reduces the wonder to me.

But then I grew up on the Atari 2600, it was my first console, and I spent just as many hours as a kid playing big blocky pixel games, and had just as much fun as kids today playing the most advanced 3D games.

And the kids of today will have to contend with whatever media limitations are exceeded by whatever comes next (probably ubiquitous VR) and when they've gotten older, will have to deal with a new generation of gamers wondering how they even could manage to play games on only a flat screen with a 2d plane mouse for input.

And those VR gamers will probably be ragged on by WireHead full immersion brain connection gamers when they get older...

That readme displays all the program's functionality, with precision instructions for each use case.

What more did you expect?

Reboot

Why would you want to?

Press Ctrl+C

Just send the command 'top' in console, find the process PID, kill using 'kill' command

CreateObject("Wscript.Shell").Run "C:\doot.bat", 0, True

Save as doot.vbs. The whole thing can probably be written much easier in vbs instead of batch and powershell. This has the benefit of using three different scripting environments in Windows for solving a complex and important problem.

https://superuser.com/questions/140047/how-to-run-a-batch-file-without-launching-a-command-window

Batch file calling a powershell command to play the sound. Bash isn't installed by default on Windows.

And you would fail considering the internet was down.

Required .NET framework interop, so a bit above basic stuff. I googled shit on my cell phone

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Scratch that, was mixing up instances in my head. I simply launched media player pointing the the MP3 for the song here, but in a completely separate instance I had a similar script play a tone when connection was made. That one used .NET

And then realize the internet is down.

They mean that it kept pinging a website until any response was received back, since obviously without internet you won't be able to get a response from any website.

A ping response. It was not attempting web traffic, just seeing if it would traverse the path from home to the Internet and back.

Look up the docs for the powershell commandlet Test-NetConnection I can't recall off the top of my head what I was looking for in the output, but that should point you towards it.

Not really an issue because it should only have actually hit the website once. When our connection to the internet was restored

Scheduled task to run the command directly.

Sounds awesome, count me in !

Nope, not me. But Netherlands indeed.

In October I made a program that plays a 'doot' every 15-30 minutes or so. It should've been pretty basic, but it needed to run on a Windows computer without admin rights and with hardly anything installed.

Did this change or what?

Also should've used /s apparently, too many people get butthurt apparently

Isn’t there that Mono thing?

This.

A million times this.

The current state of Javascript is reminiscent of the horrible COBOL layers infrastructure. Sure, just encapsulate your shitty script in a super bloated library to make it look like you developed a stand-alone executable! Yeah!

ok

0 is the max trackers I approve of.

That's not what he's talking about. Tracker scripts are used to track users across all their travels on multiple sites to build profiles of their interests. They are ubiquitous on any sure that relies on user data and ads for profit.

If so, that's an extra 50k on every page of every site you visit that doesn't need to be there. Even if you only get 1 piece of junk mail every day, everyone gets that 1 piece. That's a lot of worthless paper being shoved around, and the people who are receiving it don't want it.

I love web assembly from what I've used. But I think the issue will inevitably become big corps need to support older browsers that don't have it, so that will take a long time. And the other is that while I can code C and I love Rust, a lot of web devs can barely code JavaScript. Do we really expect some contractors or offshore India devs to do better in webassembly?

Well, DOM API is not what WASM aims to replace, is it?

BRB registering document.ly domain name

I know of a website that did this ("Better on firefox!") but they did it while putting a cute anime foxgirl saying it, so they're now immune to flak.

Chrome, Firefox, degrades gracefully to anything Opera is missing.

Everything else is just a redirect to Chrome download page.

Okay, gimme video player in only HTML.

Ok, now do that except make everything look exactly the same on every browser.

And while you're at it, make your webpage look exactly like an app so you're users don't have to download a shitty app for every website they visit.

Have... have you used the latest 3 Windows versions? Try running anything after 7 with a 5400rpm hard drive. After a month of use your disk usage will become a bottleneck and the thing will slow down to a crawl.

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Thing is, JVM and other interpreted languages don't even need to be compiled for any platform. You only need to make whatever runs them once. That's the beauty of it.

Well code that's easy for the developer is less likely to have bugs, can be built to be more complex/functional, and may be easier to have plugins and upgraded features later. If every code change required some bullshit hacking in assembly, the software would be less maintainable and more difficult to improve over time.

Actually C wasn't designed with portability in mind, but compilers for different systems were written for it.

Before programming languages (like C), you had to program in assembly which directly maps to machine code (it's quite interesting to have a look at how it works just to get an understanding of how computers do things) and thus is very specific to the actual machine you are programming on.
C abstracts away a lot of details about the specific machine (the instruction set basically. Also you have to manage the stack and registers manually in asm) and a compiler (like GCC, Clang, etc.) translates your C code into the machine code for the machine you compile on (or compile to in case of cross compiling). So you need to compile for different architectures if you want the program to run on them.
This is the same for C++ and very similar for other compiled languages.

Then there are languages like Java, C# that don't compile to machine code but instead to a language that is then interpreted by a virtual machine, allowing stuff like garbage collection and a compiled program to run on different architectures if there is a VM for it.

Then there are interpreted languages that are only compiled at run time.

Only a rough (probably too long) overview, but research ASM vs compiled vs JIT vs interpreted languages if you want more info.

Dont know why you are being downvoted. There are plenty of devices which don't support JVM and never will.

> I've never met a computer problem or virus that wasn't somehow tied to fucking Java

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Is this a joke? The **vast** majority of major security flaws are due to problems in C like buffer overflows and other issues related to bounds checking. It's more than a meme at this point.

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This is coming from someone who loves C and loathes Java - Java has its issues, but if you want to start talking about security flaws you can't just glance over C/C++ upon which the entire security industry remains afloat.

My roommate is a penetration tester, and you're absolutely incorrect if you think that C is any more secure than any modern language. It is so much easier to write unsafe code in C than it is in Java for example.

Security

Null terminated strings

Pick one

More abstraction = more security unless you're a security specialist, generally.

Multiple JARs were mostly used for different screen sizes because you can't exactly download megabytes of stuff on GPRS or EDGE and they had to split the assets. If the code was written correctly and didn't use some proprietary APIs, it was very portable.

I used to program for Java ME myself until Android took over, and I had no problems with making the midlets run on different devices. By the way, Android uses the exact same approach as Java ME, except it also allows you to use native libraries (but not standalone binaries and with very limited API access).

That goodboy's name? /u/CMMCQ

Water only fills part of the container though. It fills it 2-dimensionally and has some depth, but does not completely fill it in 3 dimensions.

But gas fills all of the volume of the container when water fills only the volume of water??

I think that's called an ice-cube

Water doesn't change it's volume, just shape. Gas changes volume

Only in a gravity field, and then only fills from bottom up. Gases always fill the container they're in.

Liquids don't expand to fill a container.

I was thinking if you have a ten gallon container and you have one gallon of water it ain't gonna fill it. But you can put any amount of gas in it, as long as the container can physically hold it, the gas wil fill the entire volume.

Wait would this still work in really high gravity?

Edit: I just looked this up and it would

Then the room/container is still filled with gas, just not one gas. Air would be the other.

Put that heavy gas in a vacuum container and it will fill the entire volume

Yes. Gasses will conform to any volume, but they will also FILL any volume. All squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares. All gasses are fluids and therefore conform to their containing volume. But not all fluids are gasses. Gasses are compressible, and therefore expand to fill any volume, while most other fluids are not compressible, and so will not expand to fill a volume.

Because they have and are effected by gravity. Otherwise yes they would.

Aside from the fact that space itself is expanding faster than the speed of light? 🐸☕

GYVË ÄLL CÖLUMNS

Meh, my ORM already does queries that require complex joins for each element in a list, so...

What if there are columns you didn’t know you needed?

As a .NET dev, I've totally come full circle. 20 years ago my code was a mess of datasets, data adapters, very little in the way of OOP, etc. then I started learning about design patterns and "proper" OOP construction and went down that whole rabbit hole for a decade. So about 5-ish years ago I was all about using an ORM to mutate relational data into objects, often using DTOs to then translate the models into something I can serialize into something that can then be mutated into json (or whatever) objects in case someone was using a browser or something, using IOC containers to get rid of the pesky "new" command, programming literally everything to an interface so I can readily swap out objects, adhering to the SOLID principals, etc etc.

Then recently I realized - this shit just takes WAY too god damn long and it's overly-complicated for most small/medium (sub 250K-ish SLOC) projects. Half the problem is all the fuckery that goes on between the DAL and higher level business/service tiers. We're forcing a square peg through a round hole because DB data is relational but we want "real world-like" objects.

Why not just say fuck it and keep it relational? You can still wrap things up into easy to use APIs to keep things pretty clean. Anymore for me it's back to datasets (I'm talking about the .NET DataSet object) and table adapters. My tiers are super damn clean - I still separate my DAL, service layer, business layer and UI layers, but I don't stress over "proper" OOP constructs. I'm much more diligent and disciplined than I was in my early stages, so the code is clean and organized.

The DataSet is the true god. Interaction between the services/DAL layer is lightning fast and super efficient because there's no ORM fuckery going on. I can easily serialize the results for transmission across the wire. It has built-in change tracking so I know which records have been modified, added, and deleted - but I don't even really need to care about that because table adapters will do the right thing for me.

I still pepper around some OOP here and there, but I'm far less an OOP weenie now than I was a decade ago, and it has saved me SO MUCH time. I can crank out projects in no time and am not constantly stressing about "the perfect OOP architecture". I'm glad I went through the OOP phase though because so many existing projects utilize all that fuckery so I'm familiar with it, but anymore when I'm in charge it's all about keeping it simple af, and delivering to the customer as fast as possible.

Me.

They are a fun concept, but I have never found one that stands up to the needs of enterprise level software.

So, no.

select * from (select * ...)

I may have used the wrong term, it's asp.net so I end up doing both usually. No front end SQL though...yet.

found the rails guy

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Okay, so now I understand; the third dimension is simulating the increasing distance from the background objects as you climb higher.

Thanks.

At least it wasn't java, I guess.

..or Typescript, C++, ObjectiveC

we got to face it: Coding sucks and we just use these languages because we have not a single really good one

HTML, haha

Inb4 AML

Reckon it would be wrong to dream of a distant future where you specify your intended resolution before you download?

The server could then pass up the relevant engine and art assets designed for your needs, rather than downloading 4k art to a machine only intending to run at 1080p.

Which is why they should all follow games like Rainbow 6 Siege, where high quality "ultra" textures are an extra download

I know this all too well. IIRC, the game Medieval Total War was about 6GB, and it was released a long time ago when 6GB was unimaginably massive.

I liked the music, so I managed to find the songs in the file system. A 57 second sound file was 109 MB. They hadn't compressed the audio at all, and there were dozens of these. The majority of the game was the sound files because they simply didn't bother to compress them. They printed multiple extra CDs per box (which was the only way to buy the game) because they hadn't bothered to compress the background audio. And those 4-CD cases can't be cheap.

The bigger the update the more content added generally. Or maybe just modified or fixed assets. Code rarely sees the gb mark

It's a tod Howard reference

I think Skyrim without mods, while a little washed, looks amazing still. So does Fallout 3. They're just kinda dark.

I'll look into it. I am taking a Computational physics class this semester and our guy is really into ROOT and gnuplot but it seems neat. Thanks for telling me

Oh the horror

I omitted it to give fellow Rust-Enthusiasts the opportunity to mention it ;)

I really,really need to learn Rust.

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So... one?

Yea thanks, well no escaping from math then :/

Btw, for a newbie intro that's short and sweet, pick up "Introduction to the theory of computation" by Michael Sipser.

To expand on /u/Talbooth, /u/NoNameRequiredxD, You can approximate things and get close enough without having to go as many digits. Taylor Series expansion, is what most calculators are doing.

Bruh, I just typed sudo apt install streamlink to install it, and then streamlink twitch.tv/whoever best to watch whoever's stream.

Did you not check the little "how to install for Windows" link below the pip command?

Because I remember it being very easy to use on Windows as well, I recorded the better part of E3 using it at one point to watch later.

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