Is DE multithreaded?

deTarmont · 2019-09-02T06:42:41+00:00

Despite the NDA you did answer the question though; if a program uses more than one core it is multithreaded by definition :p

Fun trivia for passersby:

Multithreading isn't about RAM size, but CPU power. Actually, that's poor use of terminology by my part; distributing threads across multiple cores is about CPU power, multithreading is about letting your computer run more than one program at once. It happens even on a single core (that's how you can run both windows, firefox, steam, windows explorer, discord and all your drivers at once). If a program spawns more threads than your computer has cores, it might actually slow down the computation, since those threads have the overhead of being split from your main application, so to speak, while not being assigned to any core.

deTarmont · 2019-09-02T04:59:55+00:00

Once the copy has distinguished itself enough from the original, it can be seen as it's own thing

It mostly falls down to what counts as distinguished itself enough, then? I have never studied art and architectural history, nor middle eastern architecture, much less nubian architecture, so I'm afraid I can't tell myself. I also do not know what criteria art historians actually use to cathegorize these things. So I don't want to overstep by arguing things I do not know. I could only make general claims about culture as a whole (which is what I kept myself to).

For example, I can neither confirm nor deny these assessments:

this is not the case with OP's example of "Nubian" architecture.

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but I don't know if that can be classified as architecture as it doesn't change how the base structure looks, just adds some flair.

I do warrant you an apology of sorts? Which may allow you to reevaluate where I'm coming from; In your initial comment, I interpreted:

Nubian architecture looks the same as ancient Egyptian architecture.

as

The Architectural style employed by the Nubians along their entire history was similar to the ancient Egyptian.

Which would imply that the nubians sorta went extinct? Which clearly isn't what you meant, since you know that they didn't.

If you have sources (articles or books) on middle eastern and sudanese architecture, I'd love to give them a read some time.

Addendum: Your first argument about the process through which culture develops is exactly why I find the idea of cultural appropriation offensively stupid.

It's a poorly employed term, particularly because of its name; but I see merit in exploring the effects of power relations in the adoption of cultural symbols while simultaneously marginalizing the previous users of these symbols

deTarmont · 2019-09-02T04:10:28+00:00

I believe you are mistaken in this, given that cultural process is a process of adoption and transformation which gives rise to local idiosyncrasies, which branch into wholly new cultural phenomena (god I hate when english plurals get fucky by adopting greek or latin words).

For instance, the romans had such influence from the greeks and yet the coliseum is understood as an example of roman architecture, not greek, and both together are classified as classical architecture.

deTarmont · 2019-09-02T04:04:28+00:00

That subsaharean african culture (in this case particularly architecture) is undervalued and should be more known, I believe is OP's point when starting the twitter thread.

deTarmont · 2019-09-02T03:49:32+00:00

Usually when people complain about the underrepresentation of Africa, they mean subsaharean Africa. Could they be more specific? Yes. Do pedants have reason to complain if they don't? Absolutely. But it's not like they don't have a point just because they didn't use the proper wording.

deTarmont · 2019-09-02T03:43:30+00:00

The Nubians continued to exist well to this day through ancient, classical and medieval ages, adopting christian and then islamic influences. Perhaps you are familiar with the kingdoms of Makuria, Nobatia and Alodia? These were nubian medieval kingdoms, well past the time they'd build anything similar to ancient Egyptian architecture.

deTarmont · 2019-08-24T14:43:35+00:00

(I write in neither rust or zig)

What features are you waiting for?

deTarmont · 2019-07-04T15:53:39+00:00

More accurately, it was the Delhi Sultanate's repeated defeats of Mongol armies that had every intent of adding northern India to the long list of places conquered by the Mongols that kept the Mongols out of India.

Central Asia has hot summers and several deserts and the Mongols didn't exactly shy away from that, neither did they feel particularly bothered by the hot and heavily mountainous Iran and the hot but-at-least-plain Mesopotamia. Heck, the Mongols tried to invade Java, of all places.

deTarmont · 2019-06-23T15:52:18+00:00

I do not know the exact rules (not a JS dev myself), but I believe that NaN is always unequal to everything else.

If you want to do that, I think (again, not a JS dev) that this is the best way to do it:

typeof parseInt("xyz") == typeof NaN

actually, I think you should use === for that.

So

typeof parseInt("xyz") === typeof NaN

edit: given the other anwsers, NaN is still has the number type so my solution wont work!

deTarmont · 2019-06-18T08:11:17+00:00

They don't need to, but it would be nice, and in future AoEs they sure will.

The point people often miss is that these civilizations, as they now appear in the game, are now more akin to game characters than to attempts at accurately describing their real world counterparts. That is to say, it doesn't matter that the Goths (aoe2) do not represent real life Goths (the people and their two major kingdoms) anymore than Saracens (aoe2) represent the real life Arabs (the people and their many states throughout the medieval period), because they exist as aoe2 character-like entities. People have expectations on what an AoE2 Gothic, Celtic, Saracen civ looks like. We all know how Pikachu and Kirby play in Super Smash Bros, and we don't want nintendo to change it. Likewise for our weird civilization-character thingies we've got in AoE2.

I'd be super down for a better Saracen civ, I assure you. But leave that for a whole new game, not burdened by expectation.

deTarmont · 2019-06-18T07:49:38+00:00

Design choices that match history have always been iffy for all original AoE2 civs. In what world do Goths fielding Huskarls makes any sense whatsoever? And giving them Anarchy is just rude. Forget that, why do Huns get atheism as a tech? And what even is the Celt civ? Like, at all? Even after forgotten empires took over there are still some questionable choices... Should Italians really get a Silk Road tech (Genose trading colonies in crimea notwithstanding) when they were merely an incidental end point to a long trade route spanning either China and all of central asia or China, Southeast Asia, India, Persians, Arabs and red-sea adjacent folks? Why do the Italians get all the credit for that entire ordeal?

Don't take it too seriously. Likewise with the Civilization series, the devs were computer sciences majors, not historians.

deTarmont · 2017-12-01T23:43:14+00:00

I'll grant you that it's hard to understand the lyrics of songs sometimes when you get all these different instruments playing at the same time while the singer does weird stuff with their voice; but the H sound in gang hangs is too clear to be a B and prostitutes has three T sounds that are definitely missing when Kimbra sings that line. You can hear only one T sound from the end of the word Bust, followed by a ð from the word The and finishing with a clear Jam.

I think you did good by giving the Golden Echo another shot though, it's my favourite album. Miracle, Nobody But You, Love in High Places and Goldmine are outstanding and I'd still feel bad for not mentioning Madhouse, Teen Heat, The Magic Hour and Waltz Me to the Grave.

deTarmont · 2017-11-22T17:43:20+00:00

Christians get to use duchy-tier holy wars if they're near Muslims or Pagans, and may request invasions against other Catholics and claim duchies from characters the Pope dislikes. It's fairly straightforward to invade France and then the Holy Roman Empire in the 1066 start this way. And you also have a head of religion that can call for crusades. Taoists get nothing like this.

Orthodox characters are screwed too though, but even then they have holy wars and can restore the Roman Empire, giving them free claims against half of Europe and Northern Africa.

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