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The Coming Game Engine Inflection Point
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members.newdesigncongress.org
The Coming Game Engine Inflection Point
In 2022, game engines sit at the centre of a key ideological and economic battleground and the two most popular game engine companies face uncertain futures. What is the alternative?
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Tom Lehrer has released all of his songs into the public domain
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The Wandering Shop
Marianne Kirby (The Rotund) (@therotund@wandering.shop)
Oh, wow, Tom Lehrer has released all of his songs into the public domain. Apparently also his website will shut down "at some date in the not too distant future" so now's a good time to download directly.
"In short, I no longer retain any rights to any…
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Hot Wheels are one of the most inflation-proof toys in American history
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NPR
Why Hot Wheels are one of the most inflation-proof toys in American history
Inflation, the curse of our pocketbooks and the Federal Reserve, has hit almost every good in the U.S. But the price of a beloved toy has managed to hover around $1 — for more than 50 years.
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The $8 Linux Computer
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Blogspot
The $8 linux computer (part 1.)
Yes, you read that right... for $8 you can run linux on a RISC-V computer. And not just a stripped down kernel without an MMU. No, t...
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Jack Ma flees tech crackdown to Tokyo in twilight of neoliberalism
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Nikkei Asia
Jack Ma flees tech crackdown to Tokyo in twilight of neoliberalism
Alibaba founder built wealth under Jiang Zemin's open policy
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Path Tracing vs. Ray Tracing
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TechSpot
Path Tracing vs. Ray Tracing, Explained
Every few years there's an amazing new technology with the promise of making games ever more realistic. We've had shaders, tessellation, shadow mapping, ray tracing -- and...
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TikTok’s Secret Sauce
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knightcolumbia.org
TikTok’s Secret Sauce
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The Continuity of Splines [video]
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The Continuity of Splines
why are splines? well my god I have good news for you, here's why splines!
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This project grew much larger in scope than I had originally intended, and burnout made it impossible…
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Songtell
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Songtell
Unlock the hidden depths of your favorite songs with the help of AI. Discover the true meaning behind the lyrics you love with Songtell.
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‘Nasty’ geometry breaks decades-old tiling conjecture
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Quanta Magazine
‘Nasty’ Geometry Breaks Decades-Old Tiling Conjecture | Quanta Magazine
Mathematicians predicted that if they imposed enough restrictions on how a shape might tile space, they could force a periodic pattern to emerge. But they were wrong.
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GTK File Chooser Dialog gets a thumbnail view after 18 years
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I Asked ChatGPT to Explain Some Jokes to Me
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Carp – a statically typed, non-GC Lisp language
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Carp/README.md at master · carp-lang/Carp
A statically typed lisp, without a GC, for real-time applications. - Carp/README.md at master · carp-lang/Carp
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French accounting firm Mazars is pausing all its work with crypto firms
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Yahoo Finance
Accounting firm Mazars drops all crypto clients, including Binance and Crypto.com
Binance and Crypto.com are among the crypto companies dropped by the accounting firm Mazars, sending shockwaves through a crypto community looking for more transparency.
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Solar panels open crop lands to farming energy
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IEEE Spectrum
Agrivoltaic Panels Allow Farmers to Harvest Energy
Efforts to combine solar technology and farming — known as agrivoltaics — have been underway for a decade. In the past several years, some researchers have begun exploring the use of PV panels that allow some light through, rather than simply capturing it…
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As unions decline, inequality rises
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Economic Policy Institute
As unions decline, inequality rises
To a remarkable extent, inequality, which fell during the New Deal but has risen dramatically since the late 1970s, corresponds to the rise and fall of unionization in the United States. BLOG: Union decline and rising inequality in two charts The passage…
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Linux, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft Want to Break the Google Maps Monopoly
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Ars Technica
Linux, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft want to break the Google Maps monopoly
Overture Maps Foundation wants to end the oppressive rule of the Google Maps API.
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When Paper Beats the Screen
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The Economist
The enduring value of an analogue technology
When paper beats the screen
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Water-based circuit concept switches much faster than semiconductors
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New Atlas
Water-based circuit concept switches much faster than semiconductors
Water is usually something you’d want to keep away from electronic circuits, but engineers in Germany have now developed a new concept for water-based switches that are much faster than current semiconductor materials.
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So, what can you do with a process ID?
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Will-Keleher
So, what can you do with a process ID?
If you have a process ID, you can look at what files/ports a process has open, see details about how the process was started, trace it to see what work it's doing, or wait for it to complete its work. Process IDs are pretty cool!
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The strange case of Britain’s demise
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The Economist
The strange case of Britain’s demise
A country that prided itself on stability has seemed to be in free-fall. Whodunnit?
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