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original url: https://nanolathe.gg

评论信号：I recently discovered Beyond All Reason, a spiritual successor to Total Annihilation. There have been several of these, but I think BAR is by far the best. It's open source, but looks nice and is polished. It has amazing quality-of-life features I haven't seen in any other RTS. And it supports insanely huge battles with hundreds of players and tens of thousands of units.150-player match: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQJujiZ-oz0https://www.beyondallreason.info/ reply: BAR has quietly become the best RTS to release in years and is a huge amount of fun. It really feels like the version of TA that my nostalgia remembers even though the game and units are a bit different.My group don't play competitively, we hop on for a bot bash once a week and the AI is a lot of fun to play against. I'm excited for them to finally release on Steam because that will lower the barrier to entry and increase exposure because the game definitely deserves success.

评论信号：Fair enough, but is there an advantage over the spring engine? Another clean room implementation that understands total annihilation data-structures, a project started 20 years ago.For what its worth, the Total Annihilation derived project with the most attention currently is is BAR https://www.beyondallreason.info/ They decided to make it legally distinct, but it was the balanced annihilation project which was total annihilation rebalanced for better pvp. I don't play too many RTS so this is not authoritative, but BAR plays better than any other rts I have tried, They really care about the fine details of user experience there.In fact, I consider Chris Taylor(Total Annihilation, Supreme Commander) to be one of if not the greatest RTS designers. His games don't have the fluff people appear to love(looking at you starcraft) but he gets the control design better than anyone else I have seen. reply:...

评论信号：I have been working on this for supreme commander!With modern tooling, libraries and such, many of supcoms old technical issues can be addressed. (plus it now works on linux and mac!)I think I'm close to a like for like version.And of course the performance is leaps and bounds beyond what supcom could do, you can see a 64,000 unit air fight, and I'm pretty sure i can get that going at 60fps plus!and end game vs the ai, is still 4x realtime, well beyond what supcom could do.and of course higher player v player battlesYou can see that all here and in the replies https://forum.faforever.com/topic/10451/supcom-moho-engine-r... reply: This is super exciting! Also would love to see the code when you share it

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original url: https://www.americanscientist.org/article/whatever-became-of-holography

评论信号：Dan Smalley's research lab at BYU is actively developing 3D volumetric holography technology.https://youtu.be/N12i_FaHvOUThe video is a bit old, but it has a few fun demos of the capabilities they've developed. reply: Strictly speaking that's not holography if I understood it correctly. Holography is based on interference created by a surface with a special pattern, and it doesn't require any matter other than the diffractive surface. Whereas here they say they move "particles" (what particles? dust? atoms?). Still pretty cool of course and a thing on its own.

评论信号：I wanted to pick up doing holography again, but I discovered that Integraf, founded by legend TJ ( https://www.integraf.com/about/tung-h-jeong ), stopped selling the film and supplies.Much of the supply chain for modern hobbyist holography was sourced out of Russia, and the ongoing wars have made those materials unavailable.There are some newer processes out there, but there were probably thousands of us that grew up using those HoloKit holography kits distributed by TJ. reply: You can get holographic film and kits from http://www.litiholo.com. These are not silver halide but are Covestro Bayfol HX photopolymer film which require no post processing.

评论信号：There are a few of us around who still make them. I do film photography and have my own darkroom already for that purpose. Adding holography on top of that is a relatively minor lift, and every once in a while the urge strikes and I'll get the equipment out.The main challenge is that there are, to my knowledge, only two remaining manufacturers of the plates - in France, and in Russia.

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original url: https://royfish.dev/fingerprints-are-the-new-cookies

评论信号：I've seen anti-fingerprinting plugins and browser configs, etc, but they all seem to make you more interesting for not being fingerprintable, or for turning off a lot of features used in fingerprinting.Is there any reason a browser or plugin couldn't just spoof the data used in fingerprinting to random values? So it emits different values for each page or resource you load? reply: Random is often going to be indirectly fingerprintable too, since some values are always the same (or the same given each browser version). Some values can't be set to be random or otherwise non-fingerprintable data without affecting the user, like viewport size.Spoofing 'Newly installed most recent version of Google Chrome on the latest version of Windows 11 in the US' without leaving any holes revealing something fishy is surprisingly hard, but that or 'Safari running on recent-ish iPhone running up to date iOS' would be the ideal target to blend in with the crowd.

评论信号：The problem is Javascript and its implementation. Plain HTML does not offer nearly as many fingerprinting opportunities. It's basically IP + user agent, both of which can be spoofed. Javascript grants websites far too much power over the user's browser, including disabling selection/paste, identifying hardware, time zone, language, etc. None of this should be allowed by default, and things like hardware acceleration and whatnot should be explicitly allowed on a case-by-case basis. reply: The scope and amount of information that browsers hand over without the slightest shred of consent from the user or indication it’s happening is crazy.

评论信号：I'm skeptical of this magic trick, maybe add a counter with the amount of times I logged in to the website. Or let me save some data to read it from another session. Otherwise lots of people can be identified by that hash, there's no proof that it is unique

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original url: https://cartographers-nk.wonyoung.so/

评论信号：Side comment: North Korea seems to be allowing tourists to take videos fairly freely now, and some of those videos are appearing on YouTube. While the tourists' movements still seem restricted, the videos offer glimpses into life in North Korea I haven't seen before. For example:https://youtu.be/HQEYB4QWCjMhttps://youtu.be/d7m8hZ67Bz0https://youtu.be/guZQNMEz9as reply: Tourism is open only for Russians. It's been closed for the world since COVID.My friends were there in 2017, and all photos and videos were looked at by a border officer before leaving back then. The border officer could ask you to delete a photo for any reason, including not putting a Kim in the center of the shot.With NK's population not having freedom of movement, and checkpoints between cities, it's safe to say getting a real picture of how North Koreans really live is hard.

评论信号：Opened the link just because I've always been mystified by how detailed that region is, and it ended up being a fascinating read. One more reason why OSM is one of my personal 7 Wonders of the Internet. reply: What are the other six ones ? :)

评论信号：Super interesting read; I especially found this letter from "P791" fascinating:> Hi, Wonyoung, I map North Korea to help North Koreans.I select areas that look like they might be good points to escape. In particular, the detailed mapping around Phungso-ri (풍서리) is almost entirely my work.I mostly map along the Tumen River, both on the North Korean and Chinese sides. It is important to map the fences, roads, and towns on the Chinese side. reply: Once in China, however, aren't escapees routinely exploited by organized crime?

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original url: https://jverzani.github.io/CalculusWithJuliaNotes.jl/

评论信号：I'm just picking up Julia for my DSP course at uni, and came across this nice intro. It's very well-paced for a first introduction to programming!