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What's the proper way to handle a zero in the direction vector when calculating the reciprocal direction? Should it evaluate to infinity?
Re:A technical dive into the new Tokyo Xtreme Racer on Thursday January 23, 2025 @09:37AM (#42804432)
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.
Re:Sort, sweep, and prune: Collision detection algorithms on Thursday August 15, 2024 @01:14PM (#41258249)
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.
Re:Sort, sweep, and prune: Collision detection algorithms on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @10:23AM (#41246425)
Yes, although you're more likely to see something like a k-d tree in offline rendering than in real-time rendering.
Re:Why is 'Left Stick to Sprint' so unpleasant in games? on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @10:36AM (#41181925)
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.

Re:Why is 'Left Stick to Sprint' so unpleasant in games? on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @07:58PM (#41176839)
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.

This does not speak to the randomness of markets. Only the ever changing nature of them.
Re:CrowdStrike is not worth 83B Dollars on Saturday July 20, 2024 @10:39AM (#41016799)
Possibly. Or this could be a Boeing type situation where the stock price continues to fall.

Post your calls position if you’re serious.

Re:CrowdStrike is not worth 83B Dollars on Friday July 19, 2024 @02:25PM (#41009481)
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.

Re:CrowdStrike is not worth 83B Dollars on Friday July 19, 2024 @01:47PM (#41009065)
No, they are not ITM until CRWD hits $180/sh.
Re:Crowdstrike Outage Causing Widespread Issues on Friday July 19, 2024 @12:34PM (#41008236)
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.
Re:Run CUDA, unmodified, on AMD GPUs on Monday July 15, 2024 @03:21PM (#40970710)
Would like to see benchmarks for the applications in the test suite.

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

Not working for me on mobile. I get stuck in a loading loop
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.

Re:Lessons Learned from My First Roblox Game on Monday May 27, 2024 @06:03PM (#40495183)
What experience do you have creating games on Roblox?
Re:Lessons Learned from My First Roblox Game on Sunday May 26, 2024 @12:23PM (#40483324)
iirc, there was once a character limit for the title of your game. Obstacle course got shortened to Obby in order to comply
Re:Lessons Learned from My First Roblox Game on Sunday May 26, 2024 @12:11PM (#40483255)
Got it. Thanks for taking the time to help me with this!
Re:Lessons Learned from My First Roblox Game on Sunday May 26, 2024 @10:11AM (#40482326)
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.

Re:Lessons Learned from My First Roblox Game on Sunday May 26, 2024 @12:21AM (#40479767)
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.

Re:Sublime Text 4 [video] on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @04:57PM (#26653101)
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.
I tried it out for a few days. It's also nowhere near the old WSB.
WSB is a shade of its former self now due to the onslaught of new members
Re:Algorithms by Jeff Erickson on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @12:07PM (#26079906)
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.
The paper mentions this limitation. You really think a team of scientists would not recognize this?
Re:A New Chapter for PyPy on Friday August 14, 2020 @01:30PM (#24160719)
Where do you see the part in the license that discusses a licensing fee?
Re:Hiring Without Whiteboards on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @09:00PM (#23982399)
I'm not too familiar with them, but why does Recurse Center need to interview people for technical positions?
The definition follows in the next sentence of the article.
What are some neighborhoods that have all of things that you mentioned?

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