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plopz··on Oasis – a small, statically-linked Linux system
Then why does every steam game need to install a different version of visual c++ redistributable?
plopz··on Collision Detection (2015)
The reason GJK was commonly used in real time usage is that you can cache the previous iterations solution to seed the next iteration which will often have the same result turning it into an O(1). Other commonly used algorithms were SAT (Separating Axis Theorem) and MPR (Minkowski Portal Refinement) although these were all popular in the 2000s and I have no idea what modern engines use nowadays.
plopz··on NASA loses contact with Ingenuity Mars helicopter
I think the CLIPS program is supposed to be a variation of that tradeoff
plopz··on United finds loose bolts on plug doors during 737 Max 9 inspections
spirit doesn't have any of these in their fleet, but it's not the most comfortable flight
plopz··on Understanding Parquet, Iceberg and Data Lakehouses
Are these formats appropriate for multi dimensional gridded data or are hdf/netcdf still what people use for those?
plopz··on Probe says Hans Niemann didn't cheat against Magnus Carlsen
It did find however that he cheated more recently than he previously admitted.

>Professor Regan analysed some of the games mentioned in the Chess.com Report, and his statistical analysis showed fewer instances of cheating in comparison with the Report, bringing the range down to 32-55 games cheated in. The analysis of the Chess.com Report revealed discrepancies in GM Niemann´s statement- he claimed the cheating took place when he was 12 and 16 years old, but games of 2017 and the games against Bok in August of 2020 occurred after he turned 17 in June. Another important discrepancy is that the cheating took place in rated online games.

plopz··on A Node, TypeScript, TS-Node and ESM experience that works
i think its reasonable to hesitate on using something less than 2 years old. it does a lot of things that look good to me, but im happy to wait a few years and see. it still needs to get buy in from people who maintain packages, for example just try using puppeteer with it. and its also not clear to me how its going to make money.
plopz··on Former Mozilla exec: Google has sabotaged Firefox for years (2019)
also killing old addons, i miss classic theme restorer, having to resort to keeping a git repo up to date in my appdata to style userchrome is so annoying
plopz··on Bevy 0.12
I was looking at the web examples and saw the ui section which seems to all be done inside the canvas. Is it possible to do the ui in the dom instead and hook it up to the wasm?
plopz··on Making Bulletproof Wood [video]
I would have liked to seen a baseline comparison against just a regular piece of denser hard wood like ebony, bull oak or lignum vitae
plopz··on Reflect – Multiplayer web app framework with game-style synchronization
Can this be used to let multiple people edit a very large image concurrently?
plopz··on NASA finds water and organics in Bennu asteroid sample
wonder whos job it is to hunt down every little spec of dust that falls on the floor
plopz··on HTTP/3 adoption is growing rapidly
For games running on the browser absolutely yes. They are all currently on tcp and being able to switch to udp is huge.
plopz··on The anatomy of a Godot API call
The author of the article seems to say that even the c++ api version is a heap allocated dictionary, so you would still take the perf hit
plopz··on The Sound Proof Booths of Silence
thats surprising, its such a ubiquitous word in multiplayer games. i think i first heard it used back in the early 2000s in wc3 or wow.
plopz··on Mathematics of Hurricane Modeling and Forecasting (2008, ppt) [pdf]
When you say you encode different values in rgba channels, are you actually saving the rasters as image files then?
plopz··on Mathematics of Hurricane Modeling and Forecasting (2008, ppt) [pdf]
With a lot of weather data you end up with these large gridded files like grib, netcdf, hdf, etc. Does anyone know if theres a way to get this kind of data into a database or something where you can query it quickly? I've been wondering how people handle this kind of data for awhile.

The only idea I came up with was contouring the data into shapes and then storing those shapes in a db that can do spatial queries.

plopz··on Why isn't chess popular in Japan?
There was a chinese live action made that was pretty faithful
plopz··on Learn WebAssembly by writing small programs
In the browser, can it integrate with SharedArrayBuffer, worker's postMessage or transferrable offscreen canvas?
plopz··on Internals of async / await in JavaScript
It hurts a lot though when you have a bunch of promises and you want to rate limit the execution
plopz··on Internals of async / await in JavaScript
The most surprising thing that's bitten me about async/await is that the promise is immediately executed rather than being executed at the point they get awaited.
plopz··on Shell abandons its plan to offset CO2 emissions
the bigger problem with carbon offsets is that the underlying system that is supposed to be backing the units aren't actually offsetting any carbon. wendover has a nice video on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW3gaelBypY
plopz··on Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf
I run pi-hole strictly for my mobile devices, I let my desktop run through the router normally
plopz··on Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React
I'm not familiar with how its evolved but I really enjoyed using it around 2015-2018.
plopz··on Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React
I think JSX was a mistake and just using hyperscript would have been better for the ecosystem. I think frameworks peaked with mithril and have been downhill ever since.
plopz··on Python: Just Write SQL
I come from the PHP world and have used a variety of ORMs/query builders in that ecosystem but the most common issue I encounter that they don't handle well is when I want to do a "left join foo where foo.id is null"
plopz··on What dif­fer­enti­ates front-end frame­works
I'm sure they do, theres even a construct to do this called OffscreenCanvas
plopz··on What dif­fer­enti­ates front-end frame­works
I'm not super familiar with svelte, but my understanding was that it solved it at compile time rather than run time.
plopz··on Microsoft wins FTC fight to buy Activision Blizzard
Are you talking about the Vivendi and Activision merger?
plopz··on Deno 1.35: A fast and convenient way to build web servers
Does it have HTTP/3 features like WebTransport?
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