rux
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Comment · 2 years ago
I recently came across my first game where not only is the non-inverted Y the default, there's also no way of setting inverted Y as an option! Consequently I can never play Genshin Impact. The lack of a setting is seemingly a long-running issue in forums, as the developers seem to be ignoring requests to implement it.
Comment · 2 years ago
Descent's control system is for me what cemented the "invert Y axis" on the mouse for controlling first person gaming forevermore. My brain absolutely clicked with the 6DoF mindset, but it has meant that all FPS games from that point on had to conform to it, even if the game wasn't in any way flying-based.
Comment · 3 years ago
Nothing about the warming climates makes food easier to farm, hotter temperatures just mess every established system we have. It's catastrophically destructive and everyone/humanity starves.
Comment · 3 years ago
It very much won't matter in the grand scheme of things though
Comment · 6 years ago
GDPR is currently entirely valid and enforced until December 2020. After that point it is believed that an entirely compatible law will continue to exist - currently the understanding is that the UK will be considered to have adequate equivalency therefore making it a safe third party country to transmit data for processing. No hard guarantees until the end of the year though.
Comment · 7 years ago
You've made this comment twice yet haven't enlightened me. I have no ideological bias - what is the value of the energy use?
Comment · 7 years ago
If you don't mind a bit more config to tune to your precise preferences, I'd highly recommend https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
Comment · 7 years ago
It is possible to have two fully working eyes but for your brain to lack the wiring to combine the two images into a single three dimensional construct in your brain. Your eyes can be fine yet you can have no binocular depth perception. If this is the case you'll not be able to see any Magic Eye pictures or SIRDSs, or get the benefit from going to a 3D showing of a film instead of a 2D showing.
Comment · 9 years ago
That was much fun
Comment · 9 years ago
Disclaimer: my brother is mikera, maintainer of core.matrix
I asked why neanderthal wasn't part of core.matrix and Mike replied that he'd like if it were 'for the sake of the ecosystem', and he'd offered some code and tests last year to get this started but it didn't get taken in. It's still there from last October, probably a bit out of date by now...
Comment · 9 years ago
Ahh damn shame, I hadn't seen this.
Comment · 9 years ago
It's from a while back, but here Treehouse describe how they operate on a 9am-6pm four-day week.
http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/work-less
I remember talking to Ryan Carson (the guy who put this into place) at a conference and he said that the results from doing it were overwhelmingly positive.
Comment · 9 years ago
I dearly, dearly wish that the Resident Advisor system would be adopted for more shows. RA only cater for a particular subset of music genres, but the way the ticketing system works with regards to combating touts is awesome.
If you decide to not go to a show you bought tickets for, you can relinquish them and they goes back into the stack to be re-sold. Once the standard stock of tickets is exhausted, your tickets get put back into the pool of available tickets. If someone buys them, you get your money back minus the service fee. Whenever I've put tickets back in the pool this has happened, often within minutes of them being re-listed.
Yes you can probably get more £ for your tickets by hawking them on gumtree or craigslist, but thanks to countless horrible transactions with ticket touts I'm always more than happy to use this system, as I know I'm getting a fair amount of my money back, and I know that whoever buys my tickets is getting a fair price too.
Comment · 10 years ago
My brother wrote a rather nice clojure library that does 4D texture generation
https://github.com/mikera/clisk
My simple gamer (ie every texture is 2D) brain had a bit of trouble coming to terms with continuous 4D textures, and I think it was talking about how Perlin noise could be continuous that made the idea stick eventually.
Comment · 11 years ago
As a front end dev, I love it when people I work with use the right tools, and the mindset encouraged by making React things is just... good. The lisp/scheme/clojure wisebeards would approve of how it makes you think about UI.
I feel as though the move from raw JS to JQuery is similar in significance to the move from JQuery to React. So in answer to your question, I would say a dev who learned React would be more appealing as a hire and as a colleague, and it'd be well worth the investment for any future career.