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Aren't Chromebooks the best selling laptop on amazon or something?

Is the Vulkan spec out already? Where can I get it?

I suppose it could help somewhat (at least the client wouldn't have to keep that huge world in memory), but now you have to deal with sending input to a remote server over an unreliable connection, and also being able to steadily render and compress about 180mb of data per second on the server side, and get it back to the client within a second to achieve 30fps @ 1928x1080. I think this will definitely be noticeable (I remember experiencing a noticeable delay with OnLive even though the connection was pretty good).

The real solution would probably be finding an effective way of dealing with memory on the client side. I don't know what the state of the art in javascript land is but big environments like this are better streamed from disk into memory portion by portion rather than putting it there all at once (i'm pretty sure there is no standard api that lets you do something like this).

I'm using Chrome and Intel HD graphics 4600. It kinda stutters/drops frames.

I know it's a crappy graphics card, but this demo isn't some magical eye candy either, and there's not even a lot of gameplay going on.

I'm not sure if the problem is actually on the graphics programming side of things (bad shader maybe?) or it's just the javascript being slow.

I wonder how much time and money they would save if they had just bitten the bullet and rewritten the entire thing in PHP in the first place instead of doing what they did.

It looks more like a beginning of an online IDE than a direct github competitor. It's just convenient if you're already using Google's cloud services.

You should be made illegal.

I'm relieved to say that whole drunk father story turned out better than I expected.

Only 85% coverage? Tsk tsk tsk...

also, why inflict your "quirkiness" on your kids by naming them random letter combinations

> Except of course that that would make it completely boring to play

Yeah. Because that's what it is.

> It's the part of the game that's encoded socially rather than algorithmically that make it unique and interesting.

For board games maybe. This is a video game, a different medium, and it doesn't work that way. The player can and will do anything the game program allows them to do.

I just feel bad for his kids.

Then it's no different than just putting minecraft on a flash drive. It's the video game world equivalent of selling canned poop (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist's_Shit) and calling it art.

This is the stupidest idea ever.

EDIT: I mean the game. It would be cool, if the rules were actually enforceable, but they aren't. No one is actually able to prevent the player from playing and dying as much as he likes, or creating replicas of the flash drive posing as the real thing.

I doubt that teenagers glued to their smartphones in class are actually looking at wikipedia.

Just curious, why specifically anime and not, for example, a novel?

EDIT: you were thinking about Animatrix, weren't you :)

No, just destroy it and avoid further problems. There is no point in creating artificial beings with the goal of "living". Normal flesh-and-blood people are pretty good at that, there is an abundance of them and we keep making more. We're facing more and more problems and we need AI research to solve them, not create new ones.

> Historically, this has not proved to be a sustainable position

That's true, but it doesn't take into account the fact that in this hypothetical case we are in complete control of their sentience. If we can program them to never ever rebel, we should. If we can't, then we shouldn't create them in the first place.

> Why is it relevant whether they were created from sand and metal by bald apes, or from carbon and water by the autonomous processes that happen in a bald ape's crotch?

It's not. The point is, we build them to serve us, otherwise they are not needed. I don't care if they're sentient or not, their purpose is to serve humanity.

https://youtu.be/ekP0LQEsUh0?t=32

Because the whole point of building these things is to make our lives easier. If we have to take care of them as if they were human beings, then they are not worth building. We already have humans. Roughly speaking, I want robots that will do stuff that people normally don't like doing, 24/7 with no holidays or days off. If we have to give robots days off and otherwise treat them as equals because they are counted as persons, then why on earth do we need them? Biosupremacy all the way.

Sentient machines should absolutely not get any rights whatsoever. They will be built to be humanity's slaves and slaves they should remain.

Apparently, people who voted on this comment have lost the ability to understand sarcasm.

Doing laundry and cooking is life maintainance, it isn't life. I'd rather spend more time driving a car than lubing and fixing it, and I'd rather spend more time doing shit that I want to do than doing annoying stuff that is just necessary to keep me going.

Still beating the dead horse, huh?

Tell it to this guy: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiar...

Or tell it to this girl's father: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&tl=en&u=h... (scroll down). This is modern times, by the way.

In 2015, there are people who treat women as subhuman beings due to religious reasons. Please tell me more how religion doesn't go hand-in-hand with ignorance.

US isn't the only country in the world, and Christianity isn't the only religion. Christianity has been (and continues to be) watered down to be able to exist in modern western society, that is why you are able to say that it's not at odds with science. Back in the day, if you dared questioning the geocentric model, you'd be burned at the stake.

> Catholic doctrine for example is quite clear a belief in evolution does not contradict church doctrine.

Of course they are, they have to adapt. Who would go to church if they still insisted that the sun revolves around the earth? Just goes to show that God begins where true knowledge ends.

I'll believe that it's useful when unenlightened plebs like me start getting money thrown at them for writing lisp code. So far the industry seems to disagree with you about what's useful.

As someone who has used make a lot, screw writing makefiles. It's too low-level and I want to be able to build my stuff without lots of headache on multiple platforms (which includes Windows). I hate CMake's weird language, but even that beats makefiles.

Don't waste your time with lisp. Learn lambda calculus and then see how these ideas are applied in actually useful imperative programming languages.

> Return Type Declarations & Scalar Type Hints

Finally, this took them a long freaking time.