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Yes, and that actually sharpens my previous conclusions.

That's the unlock!

So it's not a one-word theory, it's a theory with a one-word name... shocking. What a clickbait title!

They used to be called "Sales Engineers". They still are, but they used to, too.

I'm pretty sure I submitted this idea to the internal "file a patent" drive they were doing like 15 years ago. It was rejected. I thought it was either stupid or too obvious and they were already doing it...

For me it was "There’s a clean exception to all of this, and it flips the entire logic." and "here’s the reframe". That's Claude-speak.

No Striker? [0] Zero realism but incredibly fun to play. IIRC it had a two-player mode (sharing the keyboard) that was super fun.

[0] https://www.mobygames.com/game/12380/striker/

I was thinking exactly the same thing, this is CSP/SR. One of my favorite topics! https://gabrielgambetta.com/client-server-game-architecture....

I've read that. I'm not part of the conservator community, I just really enjoy the videos.

I fully agree with you. However, when non-LatAm people talk about "socialism", they probably think of European-style socialism, which is awesome. LatAm socialism is a lot more extreme, and closer to full-on communism - my country still has people stuck in the 60s cold war era mentality and fully supporting the ideals of of the Soviet Union, still praising Cuba and Venezuela, reality notwithstanding.

European-style socialism would be better. Full 60s socialism would be significantly worse. It's quite likely that people ITT are using "socialism" to refer to either, and we're all talking past each other.

They should just trap Julian Baumgartner inside for a month, with nothing but water, food, and conservation-grade varnish and reversible pigments, and the whole place would look like new!

It seems you're not from LatAm.

That's a great idea! Just haven't gotten that far yet (that article is pre-LLM, and I'm very early in a new AI-driven reconstruction). But yeah, taking the original extracted sprites and having Nano Banana upscale or redraw them is a great idea.

I'm very happy to see this! Not so much because of TDIII (which I played, although not nearly as much as Stunts), but because there seems to be some momentum building around recreating old games using AI agents, and I love that! I had explored some related ideas [0] but throwing Claude at the problem seems super promising. The recent Crimsonland thing [1] was great!

[0] https://www.gabrielgambetta.com/remakes.html

[1] https://banteg.xyz/posts/crimsonland/

Fair, I wouldn't have been able to write Bresenham back then (or now, off the top of my head). I'd have written a simple trig-based one. Maybe I'd have failed the interview :D

So at the end of each run increment the relevant pointer by (pitch - w) not pitch which I'm sure it's one of the bugs they saw all the time in this interview :)

Thought the same. Reckless today, literally standard back then.

This brings back memories! I could easily pass this interview today, because I used to write code like this all the time 25 years ago doing gamedev (and so did everyone else to some extent). But the really interesting thing is that I just realized I haven't written code like this in a long, long time.

Programming has changed over time, but the change has been so gradual I hadn't even realized this until this article. These days I'm pondering how the profession has changed in the last 2 years due to AI. Feels a lot more like a step change. And yet I'm having more fun than I've had in a long time, both at work and at home, throwing Claude at problems. I still don't fully understand why.

What I'm hearing is that the smoke in smoke tests comes from the oil tanks!

And the public funded the research that made it possible. The transformer architecture,

Errr pretty sure that was Google?

The whole thing compiles with 2 warnings. Incredible codebase. John Carmack definitely was/is on a different level.

Back when I was making videogames I followed a similar philosophy. No warnings (but in an orders-of-magnitude smaller and less complex codebase). Crash on failed asserts, used liberally, in debug builds. Not sure why but it seems that gamedev doesn't do this kind of rigorous engineering in general (or at least it didn't back then -- and admittedly I never worked in a big studio).

Thanks for the detailed explanation, I had no idea about any of this.

I'd have guessed multiply-by-0 and multiply-by-1 can be special-cased to run much faster and simpler code paths, like you'd do when writing MUL for a processor that doesn't have it (I <3 z80)

Not gonna fix 'em!

I love this! Happy to see I'm not the only crazy out there trying to port modern renderers to the Spectrum :D I've been meaning to experiment with assembly, but haven't gotten to that yet. This has some good ideas I'd love to play with.

No need to resend inputs with seq IDs <= the last one acknowledged by the server, right? 1-2 seconds sounds like overkill. Unless the server updates themselves are lower than 0.5-1 Hz, but what kind of game is that? A very sparse world where chances of misprediction are very low?

This is so well made! In the car racing track there's an overpass, and the cursor correctly Z-orders depending on whether you're coming from the upper or lower part of the track. Respect.

We tell ourselves scary stories about everything new. Advances in electricity + medicine == FRANKENSTEIN!

I learned primarily by trial and error, haven't found any good articles or videos :(

Hahaha, good observation :) I ran out of my childhood books (in Spanish) to fix, then I ran out of my GFs childhood books (in Latvian), so at that point I offered my services to anyone in the Google Zürich office. I got books in all kinds of languages I couldn't read, and a few chocolates and bottles of wine for my troubles :)

Some of the most interesting books were especially challenging. One in old German that was missing a couple of pages. It was a popular fairytale so I found the missing content online and a closely matching font, and reconstructed the pages. Another was in an Asian script I not only couldn't read, I didn't know how to sort or even properly rotate some loose pages, so I had to ask the owner. In a few cases when bits of the cover were missing, I found photos online, and printed a patch. Fun times!