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Re:Build Your Own Flight SIM in C++ on Saturday September 02, 2023 @09:39PM (#37366986)
Ultima Underworld - The Stygian Abyss from 1992 enjoy ;)

https://archive.org/details/msdos_Ultima_Underworld_-_The_St...

Re:Doom for 16-bit DOS computers on Thursday August 31, 2023 @01:07PM (#37340444)
How can multi-player be ported to https://dos.zone/ ? WebUDP ??
Re:Fortran on Monday August 28, 2023 @07:34AM (#37292486)
I think it's the oldest joke in cs: "I don't know what we will be programming in the year 3000, but I know it will be called FORTRAN"

My own renaissance came via Jetson Nano where CUDA FORTRAN has some nice examples for image processing via convolution kernals. It's blazingly fast: both design time and run time!

This short film from 1982 shows the love scientists feel for "the infantile disorder":

The Beginnings of FORTRAN (Complete)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KohboWwrsXg

Re:Factorio: Space Age on Friday August 25, 2023 @09:07AM (#37261257)
You neglected to mention the machine gun turrets shattering large asteroids into manageable chunks! Art style here reminds me of classic Metal Slug ;)
Re:Cyberpunk in the Nineties on Thursday August 24, 2023 @09:12AM (#37248351)
>>> Now imagine a cyberpunk version of Frankenstein

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrochicken

Re:The Ideal Viewport Doesn't Exist on Monday August 21, 2023 @01:04PM (#37212329)
If you need to get weird now, webgpu has arrived, what we really require is a dedicated demoscene on the live web ;)

Your first WebGPU app (Conway's Game of Life)

https://codelabs.developers.google.com/your-first-webgpu-app

Re:SpaceX Revenue Doubled to $4.6B in 2022 Versus 2021 on Friday August 18, 2023 @12:16AM (#37171352)
“HUMAN LUNAR RETURN X-PROJECTS APPROACH” (a Briefing to the Administrator, NASA Johnson Space Center, November 1995)

https://space.nss.org/lunar-base-studies-1996-human-lunar-re...

hey avmich, thnx 4 the memories ;)

Re:Asteroid ZTm0038 with a >3% impact probability on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @04:20PM (#37138849)
How accurate is this? I just feel implicitly that a 1mi asteroid would leave a creater bigger than 30mi wide upon direct max impact ;)
Re:Scalable Machine Learning at Cloudflare on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @04:11PM (#37138759)
>>> "What is the most efficient low-level method for data transfer between two processes provided by the operating system?"

Unix Domain advantage is that its just another re-direct, another pipe for i/o. IPC involves design-time consideration ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named_pipe#In_Windows

history.nasa.gov is woefully underfunded ;(

I recommend AI upscaling of archive footage to 8K!

Disneyland - Man in Space (1955)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFXza9RH7-E

Parker Solar Probe Imaging of the Night Side of Venus

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/202...

Very interesting research out of Black Hat '23! Actually observing 100 honeypots. If you build software there is no substitute for real Live Tests ;)
Re:VirGL on Sunday August 13, 2023 @08:45AM (#37109439)
GPU Virtualization: life's toughest challenge ;)

GVT-g high-level design

https://projectacrn.github.io/1.6/developer-guides/hld/hld-A...

Re:John's Nautical and Boatbuilding Page on Saturday August 12, 2023 @09:53PM (#37105903)
Starlink & a tri-masted schooner is all one needs ;)
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Oh The Danger Zone had essential XNA knowledge ~2010

https://therealmjp.github.io/posts/pix-with-xna/

Re:Getting Started with Torch-Harmonics on Thursday August 03, 2023 @08:57AM (#36985252)
Phenomenal explainer, bravo!

Simply put, it also makes a terrific benchmark for supercomputers.

Using on TC Disrupt / Aero dataset: "overhead infrared" ;)

https://techcrunch.com/events/tc-disrupt-2023/space-domain-p...

Biodiversity. Nature loathes monocultures. I noticed it first hand this summer. Plots with varietals produce much richer compost. With much bigger blooms. NYC is essentially a tropic zone now. Things I couldn't imagine a generation ago, are now within cultivation: ghost peppers, white peaches, kiwi fruit, haas avacados, meyer lemons!
Day-Z with F-14 tomcats ;)

Do you recall "Onslaught Mode" in Unreal?

Re:Ask HN: How do I get started in philosophy on Monday July 31, 2023 @09:23AM (#36942120)
Sole criticism is that it's perspective is too "western-centered"? Though I agree it's eastern resources are sine qua non. One could conceive an entire Digital Library devoted exclusively to Ancient Indian Philosophy & Music and it would encompass 10x the scale ;)

Mind (Heart-Mind) in Chinese Philosophy

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-mind/

GCP has graciously begun to roll out its internal AI suite: vertex model garden, lookerbi, simpleml for sheets & notebookml. Wizardcat (palm api codesynth) is nutty! You use your lifetime stash of GDrive txt files as "Personal AI" training set so it can basically finish your thoughts, refresh your memories, summarize your research, answer complex queries & brainstorm ;)
vk_mini_path_tracer is a beginner-friendly introduction to writing your own fast, photorealistic path tracer in less than 300 lines of C++ code and 250 lines of GLSL shader code using Vulkan

https://nvpro-samples.github.io/vk_mini_path_tracer/index.ht...

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