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lfowleson Typing with pleasure – human and machine aspects of typing latency

Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15071418 2017 68 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14962595 2017 6 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10787812 2015 34 comments

lfowleson Speed Is the Killer Feature

And then they just end up using a middleware like Coherent[0] which is back to HTML+CSS!

https://coherent-labs.com/

lfowleson Speed Is the Killer Feature

Funny, because I purposefully bought dimmer switches for bathrooms in my house that added a bit of ramp up time when turning lights on! (Makes it less jarring to turn on the bathroom lights at 2am with just that fraction of a second)

lfowleson Houdini Engine for Unreal and Unity Now Free

Ugh. Maybe this was a move to simplify licensing, I hate having to dig around to see what features are gated especially if there are caveats like API access vs Official Plugins only.

lfowleson Houdini Engine for Unreal and Unity Now Free

I doubt it. This is only for the engine integrations, not the core software.

lfowleson Houdini Engine for Unreal and Unity Now Free

Houdini is an exceptional tool! It took me a few tries to get through this press release... this only seems to change things for companies using the engine plugins that make >$100k.

lfowleson Ask HN: Why aren't you coding?

Because I'm designing

lfowleson Are we game yet? – A guide to the Rust game development ecosystem

A runtime scripting language is coming back in some form or another thanks to Epic acquiring the SkookumScript team.

lfowleson A Flash Player emulator written in Rust

Whew, "some" is putting it lightly.

lfowleson Amazon Is Forcing Its Warehouse Workers into Brutal 'Megacycle' Shifts

Are they fundamentally incompatible other than arbitrary restrictions applied by the business?

lfowleson Email from Jeff Bezos to employees

> We sell more than board game tables

Had to check and verify that claim. I'm familiar with the brand in general but had no idea!

lfowleson Cab Ride: Drive a train, forever, through a dreamlike land

Maybe this would work for you? It's a hiking sim in the Rockies inspired by A Short Hike .. I think I abandoned it before getting any sort of gamification/objectives added :) It just came about because I found some surprisingly high resolution elevation data.

https://partlyatomic.itch.io/joy-of-hiking?secret=msqgiZefzz...

Edit: Just went back and replayed, forgot about the stamina mechanic. You need to end the hike when the bar is in the green to gain more stamina for the next day (either by hitting E at the "car" or Q)

Various in dev screenshots here: https://imgur.com/a/jrO6iYd

lfowleson Myopia treatment 'smart glasses' from Japan to be sold in Asia

Happens to me when I switch between contacts and glasses despite the same prescription (well, not that everything looks horrible, but that I notice how accustomed I am to the peculiar way glasses shape the world for a few hours). I wouldn't attribute too much to it.

lfowleson Experienced well-being rises with income, even above $75,000 per year

Then the rat race intensifies for those originating in the smaller cities.

lfowleson Dev-C++ Is a Low Memory Windows Native C++ IDE Built in Delphi

Looks like something in their post history got them the equivalent of shadowbanned on HN.

lfowleson The lawn mower eyetracking pattern for scanning comparison tables

Anyone else mow their lawn spiraling inward?

lfowleson Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help

One of the few tools I gladly pay for a yearly subscription even if I only get a few weeks use out of it.

lfowleson Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.

Looking at the survey it asks "How much, if anything, have you heard or read about QAnon?" I'd be interested to see how many are aware of QAnon conspiracy theories but don't necessarily know the origin.

lfowleson Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2020)

Location: Kansas, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Unreal Engine, C++, Python, Linux, Git, Plastic SCM

Résumé/CV: Available on website http://lfowles.org

Email: See website or use hn@lfowles.org

Other Links: http://github.com/lfowles https://linkedin.com/in/lfowles

Looking for game development or tangential with Unreal Engine. I've spent the past three years working with Unreal Engine. I have a short highlight reel on Twitter[0]. Previously spent 5 years writing software for x86 and ARM embedded Linux radio testing equipment. Even if I'm not what you're looking for and you just want to chat about any of my projects, send me an email!

[0]: https://twitter.com/PartlyAtomic/status/1315876939438215168

lfowleson The 212-story skyscraper in Melbourne, Australia

That's really interesting, I'm currently installing it.. minimized and my GPU fans immediately spun up with utilization at 100%!

lfowleson Apple removes Fortnite from App Store after Epic attempts to bypass fees

> Doesn’t Epic take a cut out of every single purchase made of a game built with Unreal Engine?

Only those that make >$1mil lifetime gross.

lfowleson Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study

Oh no, confusing median vs mean is a very specific interview question I've bombed in the past so hard that the interview almost immediately stopped!

lfowleson Ask HN: Can't focus when writing code in dark mode

Additionally some dark modes are just bad. I've got a couple of programs that I can only stand on light mode.

lfowleson Wi-Fi over Coax

I've heard similar stories at my old job, except with military radios. Needless to say the other end of the line was very unhappy about interference :)

lfowleson Custom Game Engines: A Small Study

> Back in the earlier days of Unreal there was an industry joke that Unreal was great if you were making a single player third person space marine game on Xbox or PC

Heh! In the process of implementing custom movement similar to F-Zero, I'd have to say it's still heavily optimized towards character based games.

lfowleson Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2020)

Location: Wichita, KS USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: C++, Python, Unreal Engine 4

Resume: https://www.lfowles.org/files/landonfowles_resume.pdf

Email: hn@lfowles.org

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I'm a software engineer with 8 years experience that has taken the last 3 years to work on game development. I'm interested in both contract and fulltime positions, especially interested in getting back into a team environment :)

lfowleson Vim rendered on a cube for no reason

Whatever happened to the promise of cube desktops with wobbly windows?

lfowleson The Best Hike in Every State (2019)

"The Elk River Hiking Trail will make you swear you’re not in Kansas anymore."

So for the best hike in Kansas you want to pretend you're not in Kansas? :P

lfowleson L-systems

It'd be interesting to see more information about L-systems that aren't strictly branching structures! I played around with them for procedural level generation on a dead prototype.

https://imgur.com/a/dtmQcHt

That image shows 9 generations of the following system:

Symbols:

* Rect(Corner, Dimensions) [black]

* Room(Corner, Dimensions) [green]

* Hall(Corner, Dimensions) [blue]

Rules:

* Rect(Corner, Dimensions) => Room(Corner, Dimensions) if Dimensions matches the size of a predefined room (so I could easily place preconstructed rooms)

* Rect(Corner, Dimensions) => Hall(Corner, Dimensions) if either X or Y dimensions are 100 (1 meter width)

* Rect(Corner, Dimensions) => split at a random distance along either X or Y axis to replace with two Rects()

I'd love to see any examples that are more elegant :) One of the few posts I found was about dungeon generation[0] although I've been assured they're used all over game dev for things other than plants!

[0]: https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/OsamaAlsalman/20180827/32531...

lfowleson Oxide Computer Company: Initial boot sequence

Right now all three accounts of this are adjacent news items on HN. Heh.