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God! Something about verbosity makes me nervous.

They are officially developing the Max Payne remakes

What does it take to form a community of enthusiasts who make computers do something that is thought to be impossible or difficult? Not necessarily demo scene with its rule, but close, like Flipcode or LambdaTheUltimate articles.

What we currently have is a bunch of blogs which are hard to find.

Can it be not expanded to the current hardware? Making it do what other people think is impossible, investigating undefined behavior in hardware, which would be more given the behemoth size.

A real time demo where every pixel can be deformed, giving rise to an ultra interactive world in less than 4GB memory.

Regarding the last statement, segregation of game and engine is one way of thinking. But many a times, you do not need a full fledged map editor, sculptor etc. You just implement the parts you need for your game.

Start with WebGPU, DirectX11 or OpenGL. Do learnopengl, try to write a gITF model viewer in it. Then rewrite the gITF renderer in DirectX12, Vulkan or Metal.

Maybe we should have more fundamental science collectives where amateurs can also contribute, in addition to academic and state funded institutions. Sort of like amateur astronomy clubs [Amateur astronomers still contribute widely to their field(s)], in larger scale and contributing in much more significant ways.

Yes to more amateur scientist articles on HN!

A lot of poor people were genuinely happy and inspired today.

> There was a period of time when all Englishmen were required to train with a longbow

I was under the impression that English Archery was a very specialized discipline, given its very skill intensive. The English did use the Longbowmen, but as a specialized unit in specialized situations.

English longbow and most of the archery is more akin to MANPADs, useful and game changers in many scenarios, but not the "Primary" weapons.

Mongolian complex bows though are an exception, all horse nomads were expected to wield them out of hunting and warring needs.

If all of your main force is expected to wield it, it becomes a primary weapon.

In the non-unix (BeOS,Amiga,NT) world especially video games PascalCase is very popular. But there are exceptions. snake_case has a hacky feel to it, camelCase is very enterprisy and PascalCase says you are from the wirthian world of video games; lisp-case meanse you are into lisp.

I spent my recess in the school library reading Tintin and Asterix!

Unlike how popular culture depicts, blacksmiths seldom operated alone. A village would have a big team of blacksmiths, including many acolytes.

John Carmack, Ken Silverman and Tim Sweeney.

The three legends / rivals of their time (but with mutual respect)

Why near c travel is assumed?

I miss the 90s security groups which were both funky and respectable and (most importantly) devoid of corporate lingo.

Semi underground stuff like Phrack, 2600 and various punky groups who surprisingly did good security research and open to participation..

Today's cutting edge security research feels very silod in the products.

How easy is it to form and operate your own airforce with a fleet of fast fixed wing UAVs, rotorcrafts and balloons with surveillance sensors and maybe rudemtry arms (model rockets with limited guiding, small arms..)?

Are there airforce based mercenaries who charge for intelligence and others ops and provide service to field armies and other mercs?

Blue whales are usually loners and thus not capable of planning and inflicting damage like a pack of sea wolves.

Blue whales are usually also very calm and do not have teeth (They can still be aggressive in defending themselves or their calves against orcas, who do sometimes hunt Blue whales)

You are assuming that AI exists in the same scope. Its like calling airplanes "artificial birds" or AB, and then projecting bird related things to airplane. "AI" is a software model which uses applied statistics to generate data from a larger set of data. We do not know much about how the brain actually computes, and assuming such is just fantasy. It might be the same or it might be different.

> Is the human brain not a biological network of neurons, containing a lot of copyrighted material?

In which file format is the material in the brain stored? How is it compressed? What is the memory model? How is it computed?

We don't know much about how the brain computes actually, so making a claim that the brain maps 1-1 with my mechanical calculator is a stretch.

Anything related to Collision Detection and physics at large. That part of graphics is still at very early stages in realtime context.

In our Solar System, planets, dwarf planets, asteroids, space dust together hold 0.15% mass. The rest of the 99.85% mass is held by the Sun. I think this mass distribution is uniformly true for other stellar systems as well, where majority of the mass is held by the stars (singular, binary, collapsed) and very small amount by other objects in the system.

Given the above, why is there so much postulated "dark matter"?

Tigers are much larger and stronger than Lions in general.

Not all asteroids are alike. Some are ice, some are soft (like the one dart mission hit) and yet others are solid metallic hunks.

> This system was kept in place so that a section of people can be exploited forever

There is no law that upholds the caste system. Caste discrimination is criminal offense, and affirmative action is in-place. Its more of systematic societal problem, which can only be fixed if the society is large is properly integrated and educated.

Obscurity is a key ingredient to almost all the real world physical security in the world.

Yeah. RC cars can fit in your pockets. But you can't be the passengers.

Wealth is not the only variable, though people with wealth try to turn it into one.

Can the richest person on earth in a free society, get a personal armed forces with the state of the art platforms directly under their control today? They will be unable to indulge in this aspect as a splurge, because their money is restricted.

> bail bond industry

The fact that there is a bail bond industry sounds horrible to me.

Short answer: It is in space and relatively easier to get to than other planets in the system. It is a gateway to becoming space-faring civilization.