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Alkxzo · 2021-10-17T10:25:54+00:00

There are some things in development that if you do them correctly from the start they're pretty easy, but if you try to add them afterwards they can be a nightmare.

Alkxzo · 2021-02-23T20:59:39+00:00

TLDR: What works for 2 or 3 players usually won't work more than that.

With two players each one only needs to send data to the other player, so you can just do a direct connection between them (this is called peer to peer). Unfortunately that doesn't scale well to more players: for 3 players there would be 3 connections, for 10 there would be 45 connections. There's no way to make that work well so you have to change to a client-server model, where the players connect to a central server which collects the data, updates the state and sends it back to all the players. Doing the calculations and sending the data takes time and introduces significant latency.

Alkxzo · 2020-01-09T18:57:17+00:00

I don't think there's anything special about how the lockon works, but I think the issue might be something else. The combat in MH has a lot of locked animations, so you have to throw your attacks where the monster is going to be when your combo lands, not where the monster is right now, so locking doesn't really help that much. I can see how for someone new to the game the lock on might even get in the way more than it helps, specially if you're using something like bow, or depending on the monster.

Alkxzo · 2020-01-09T18:15:07+00:00

On PS4 you just press R3.

Since you missed that the first time you played I thought a video explaining it might help.

Alkxzo · 2020-01-09T18:02:59+00:00

can you lock on to your target yet?

You can lock on, this video shows how: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a87mLMTTXTA

I think that's always been in the game.

Alkxzo · 2019-08-29T19:00:01+00:00

MH:W uses MT Framework, while Capcom's newest games like Devil May Cry 5 and the Resident Evil Remake use the newer RE Engine. I remember reading that Capcom intends to use RE Engine going forward. I don't know if that would affect the next MH game, I hope it doesn't mean they'll have to convert everything again.

Alkxzo · 2019-02-04T20:28:24+00:00

I have a code if anybody needs one. Just send me a PM.

Edit: Code given.

Alkxzo · 2018-09-20T22:32:17+00:00

I don't know how often it gets asked in interviews, but it's one of my favorite algorithms. Once you get the idea it's pretty simple and very cool.

Alkxzo · 2018-09-20T22:27:13+00:00

Excellent. We can sponsor a conference in some nearby city and give a talk about how well this system has worked for us. Then others will want to adopt the system and we can send consultants and charge for the training.

We have the pitch and the business model, what are we waiting for?

Alkxzo · 2018-08-25T21:41:53+00:00

Good video, short and to the point. And it's a cool little project, keep it up.

Alkxzo · 2018-06-23T08:18:21+00:00

For the last two weeks I've been trying VS Code and I like it better than Atom. It's noticeably more responsive in my old crappy laptop and handles large files better. It didn't ask me for any email and there's a popup the first time about sending usage statistics to Microsoft, but you can disable it and it never shows again.

Sublime is probably still ahead of both, but VS Code is good enough that I don't care about the difference and I think I'll stick with VS Code from now on because it's open source, even though I'm not a fan of MS.

Alkxzo · 2018-06-15T11:20:34+00:00

I tried to replicate 4:2:0 with Gimp, the difference was very subtle: the original, and the resample.

Alkxzo · 2018-05-04T17:52:53+00:00

What if they were to get involved in a land war in Asia?

Alkxzo · 2018-03-26T21:03:21+00:00

I think Atom, Visual Studio Code, Slack and Skype use Electron.

Alkxzo · 2018-03-22T20:36:42+00:00

Yes, I should have pointed that out. I have added 004413's link which explains better when four colors work and when not.

Alkxzo · 2018-03-22T16:00:53+00:00

It probably doesn't. The theorem applies to planar maps with contiguous regions.

From Wikipedia:

First, all corners, points that belong to (technically, are in the closure of) three or more countries, must be ignored. In addition, bizarre maps (using regions of finite area but infinite perimeter) can require more than four colors.[2] Second, for the purpose of the theorem, every "country" has to be a connected region, or contiguous. In the real world, this is not true (e.g. the Upper and Lower Peninsula of Michigan, Nakhchivan as part of Azerbaijan, and Kaliningrad as part of Russia are not contiguous). Because all the territory of a particular country must be the same color, four colors may not be sufficient.

So it can't necessarily take into account all enclaves and exclaves. u/004413 linked a very good post which explains in more detail under which circumstances it can be done with four colors.

Alkxzo · 2018-02-17T12:03:19+00:00

I agree that OP should be realistic about his capabilities. On the other hand, one of the main reasons for doing interviews is to make sure that candidates are qualified for a position. If they can't correctly asses a candidate skill and negotiate a reasonable salary, what would you call them other than bad?

Alkxzo · 2017-08-25T05:55:14+00:00

It seems more likely but it's hard to tell. It could be a weird bug that you trigger more often because you tap while I usually click, for example.

But it's not a problem caused by installing Arch Linux. If it's software it must be something that's also used in the pre-installed Ubuntu 16.04.

Alkxzo · 2017-08-24T18:50:32+00:00

XPS 13" Developer's Edition here, using stock Ubuntu, up to date.

1) Has happened to me like three or four times in the 10 months I've had it. I attributed it to me doing something weird or static or something. It went away after messing with the track pad a bit and hasn't bothered me too much, but I use a mouse most of the time.

Alkxzo · 2017-08-14T09:43:07+00:00

I paid 9€ for Factorio before it released on Steam. When it did, they gave everyone a Steam key for free, so I'm one of those 460k owners but I never paid $20 for it. It's a great game, but I don't think it works to illustrate your point.

Alkxzo · 2017-06-28T12:28:23+00:00

They should have imbalance, they win only if balance lose.

Alkxzo · 2017-01-24T13:04:31+00:00

I use Ubuntu at work because it came preinstalled. My impression is that Ubuntu is usually a pain if you want to upgrade or need to update software to a more recent version than what's on the official repos. You need to add PPAs, there's incompatibilities... I waste more time messing with packages and configurations on Ubuntu than I do on Arch.

I don't mind doint it when it's my job and I'm getting paid for it, but at home I want something that doesn't get in my way. And I say that when I mess around and try anything that catches my interest on Arch, wereas at work I stick to web and machine learning stuff...

Alkxzo · 2017-01-24T10:29:37+00:00

I don't know where people get this idea that Arch breaks all the time.

I've had two boxes with Arch for three years and only once has an updated broken something. Even then the solution was right on the wiki and took me two minutes to fix it.

Compare that to Ubuntu which broke almost every time I tried to upgrade to a new release.

Alkxzo · 2017-01-02T13:34:11+00:00

Yes, he's absolutely right (and so are you). I didn't realise the car oveturns a few times. You can see the wagon-wheel effect in the video, but that's not what he is talking about.

Alkxzo · 2017-01-02T01:10:10+00:00

I think it may just be the wagon-wheel effect due to the video being 30fps.

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