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The Meaning of Life
  • That’s not really ” meaning of life”. You’re making the circular argument ” the meaning of life is to create more life”. Yeah, and why are we supposed to create more life?

  • The Meaning of Life
  • In some sense it’s true. If life wasn’t intentionally created (by some God), then there’s no meaning behind the existence of life. How can something have a meaning if it wasn’t intentional?

    Is the meaning of life important? I don’t think so. What’s important is to find fulfillment in life, which you can find without a meaning of life.

  • Microsoft should be terrified of SteamOS
  • Microsoft has already lost the console wars, and now it starts to look like they might even lose the PC wars. Is there any future for Microsoft gaming? It feels like the only thing they got going for them is Call of Duty.

  • How to define lines and check on click which body is clicked?
  • Adding to this: if you can’t use a polygon library, it’s quite easy to check if a point is inside a polygon. Just count the number of polygon edges is above the point (have a separate count for each polygon).

    If the number is odd, then the point is inside the polygon. If it’s even, then it’s outside.

    If there are multiple candidate polygons (which will happen with A in the example), pick the one with the closest edge to the point. Alternatively, pick the smallest polygon.

    See ray casting algorithm in this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_in_polygon

    Just beware of floating point precision when implementing the algoritm.

    But use a polygon library first and foremost.

  • StackOverflow has lost 77% of new questions compared to 2022. Lowest # since May 2009.
  • Notably, it refers to answers, not the invalidity or duplication of a question.

    I think it’s too much to close a question just because a different question happen to have the same answer. There might be a future answer that might apply to one, but not the other.

  • Good guy clippy
  • What’s different between Vscode and other editors like Vim is how easy it is to make it a fully fledged IDE. Usually a notification pops up about analyzers being available, and if you click accept it’s done. Just one click of a button.

    With Vim it’s not that easy. You need to install many separate plugins just to make it a fraction of an IDE.

  • Biden Says He Would Have Beaten Trump if He Stayed in the Race
  • His last debate against Trump was awful. He made Trump look sane in comparison.

    The problem with the Democrats is that they’re lame. Their entire stick was ”we’re not Trump” and ”more of the same”. Biden wouldn’t change that.

  • VIDEO: Why is Nintendo 64 emulation still a broken mess in 2025?
  • Not only that. Emulators must often ”cheat” to achieve high speeds. This means emulators doesn’t try to achieve a 1:1 replication of what’s happening inside the hardware, but something that’s gives close enough results and better tailored for modern hardware.

    The reason why N64 is particularly difficult is because each game must be optimized individually (due to the heavy reliance on microcode). The emulator must replicate the hardware at a much lower level for an accurate emulation of all games. Emulator developers can apply optimizations on each individual game, but it’s incredibly time consuming to do so for every game in the N64 library.

  • VIDEO: Why is Nintendo 64 emulation still a broken mess in 2025?
  • The video says that emulation has always worked better on popular games. But if you try to emulate a less popular game, you will run into major issues. This is because the emulation must be tweaked for each game specifically due to how N64 hardware works.

  • Mario Kate update
  • I like DS for what it is: the first fully 3D Mario Kart on a handheld console. Played quite a lot of it back in the days. It was also the first one with online play.

    I think the missions was a fun addition as well. It’s the only Mario Kart game that features boss battles (to my knowledge).

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