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deliveryboyman··on Show HN: I wrote a C++ ray tracer from scratch without AI
What's the proper way to handle a zero in the direction vector when calculating the reciprocal direction? Should it evaluate to infinity?
deliveryboyman··on A technical dive into the new Tokyo Xtreme Racer
Thanks for bringing my attention to the revival of this game. TXR2 was my favorite Dreamcast game growing up, and it seems like early reviews suggest that this new game brings back the same feeling of the originals.
deliveryboyman··on Sort, sweep, and prune: Collision detection algorithms (2023)
Yes, in TFA the author uses objects that are the same size. I imagine that is why OP brought up spatial hashing since they specifically mention this.
deliveryboyman··on Sort, sweep, and prune: Collision detection algorithms (2023)
Yes, although you're more likely to see something like a k-d tree in offline rendering than in real-time rendering.
deliveryboyman··on Why is 'Left Stick to Sprint' so unpleasant in games?
Holding L3 to sprint is not uncommon in my experience, I've actually never played a game where it's a toggle (but I don't play much).

For example, in Fortnite you have to hold L3 to sprint. This causes other issues as well. If you drive a car in the game for example, and use the analog stick to steer, accidentally clicking L3 will cause the car to turbo boost. If you're driving around a corner and have L3 moved all the way in one direction, accidentally clicking L3 is a given which causes an accidental turbo boost.

deliveryboyman··on Why is 'Left Stick to Sprint' so unpleasant in games?
Thanks for sharing. Curious to see if Xbox and PS5 controllers use the same analog stick hardware.

The issue with L3 as Sprint is that a button is so much easier to press and hold than a joystick (as mentioned in the article). Even worse is when games use L3 as Sprint but also configure the analog stick to perform some other action, in which case you can perform actions you don't mean to perform.

deliveryboyman··on Finding a random seed that solves a LeetCode problem (2023)
This does not speak to the randomness of markets. Only the ever changing nature of them.
deliveryboyman··on CrowdStrike is not worth 83B Dollars
Possibly. Or this could be a Boeing type situation where the stock price continues to fall.

Post your calls position if you’re serious.

deliveryboyman··on CrowdStrike is not worth 83B Dollars
Yes that was a typo. I meant 185.

Regardless, all of this is just intellectual play considering the Reddit poster has no desire to exercise their options.

deliveryboyman··on CrowdStrike is not worth 83B Dollars
No, they are not ITM until CRWD hits $180/sh.
deliveryboyman··on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
Not sure what material in their post is ill-informed. Looks like what happened today is exactly what that poster warned of in one of their bullet points.
deliveryboyman··on Run CUDA, unmodified, on AMD GPUs
Would like to see benchmarks for the applications in the test suite.

E.g., how does Cycles compare on AMD vs Nvidia?

deliveryboyman··on Show HN: The Tomb of Nefertari [QV 66] Guided Virtual Tour
Not working for me on mobile. I get stuck in a loading loop
deliveryboyman··on FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations
Unfortunately this is the epitome of the HN comment section.

Instead of comments by users who have read the linked article, you have comments by people using the discussion as their personal diary.

deliveryboyman··on Lessons Learned from My First Roblox Game
What experience do you have creating games on Roblox?
deliveryboyman··on Lessons Learned from My First Roblox Game
iirc, there was once a character limit for the title of your game. Obstacle course got shortened to Obby in order to comply
deliveryboyman··on Lessons Learned from My First Roblox Game
Got it. Thanks for taking the time to help me with this!
deliveryboyman··on Lessons Learned from My First Roblox Game
Thanks for the feedback.

Do you mean I’m not expanding on these threads deep enough? Instead, it feels like everything is a summary I suppose.

Just trying to learn how I can write these posts better.

deliveryboyman··on Lessons Learned from My First Roblox Game
What is odd about the mix? I wanted to include a little bit of everything to show what one may need to think about when developing their first game on Roblox.

Thanks for bringing up the other points. I should add clarification on that in the post.

I had to pay for advertising because after 1-2 months there were still 0 players. I thought Roblox would push games to discovery with an algorithm, however this doesn’t seem to be the case.

Roblox provides analytics so I leaned into them to see if my changes were making a positive impact.

I had no intention of creating a hit game. It was just a way to have fun and see what happens. I really enjoyed the process and loved to see how many players had fun playing the game.

deliveryboyman··on Sublime Text 4 [video]
Is the editor still written in C++ and assembly, or is the front end now based on something like Electron? The front end shown in the video looks similar to something like VS Code or Atom.
deliveryboyman··on The internet didn’t kill counterculture – you just won’t find it on Instagram
I tried it out for a few days. It's also nowhere near the old WSB.
deliveryboyman··on The internet didn’t kill counterculture – you just won’t find it on Instagram
WSB is a shade of its former self now due to the onslaught of new members
deliveryboyman··on Algorithms by Jeff Erickson
While I agree with you, you have to remember who the HN audience is. There's a reason why the top voted comment in any thread about math is someone asking for solutions.
deliveryboyman··on Texas astronomers revive idea for 'Ultimately Large Telescope' on the moon
The paper mentions this limitation. You really think a team of scientists would not recognize this?
deliveryboyman··on A New Chapter for PyPy
Where do you see the part in the license that discusses a licensing fee?
deliveryboyman··on Hiring Without Whiteboards
I'm not too familiar with them, but why does Recurse Center need to interview people for technical positions?
deliveryboyman··on Mount Vesuvius eruption: Extreme heat 'turned man's brain to glass'
The definition follows in the next sentence of the article.
deliveryboyman··on Los Angeles Tries to Prove That It Doesn’t Necessarily Need the Car
What are some neighborhoods that have all of things that you mentioned?