This is really cool, and I saw the claim that it can "replicate the sun's spectrum". Do you have any measurements to share of the spectrum?

The memory layouts don’t work like this anymore

This list looks a bit dated, I'd recommend Heidi Howard's Distributed Consensus Reading List https://github.com/heidihoward/distributed-consensus-reading...

Tally is great, unlimited submissions https://tally.so/

When the end state changes over time, or there is no defined duration.

Stated dabbling with game dev very recently so I'm curious about this!

Couldn't we get the delta, or for some animations use modulo arithmetic? Maybe mix in some gradient noise into the animation to make it seem organic to break the looping.

It would be illuminating if you showed an example of what you mean by using modulo arithmetic, or getting the delta; otherwise we can't comment on your idea.

Now it will be absolutely impossible to accurately convey the artistic intent, when there's no way to know how it will look on consumer devices.

Consumer devices have never been known for color accuracy and goes back a very long ways. The running joke in broadcast was that NTSC stood for "Never Twice the Same Color".

I think we lost that battle with motion interpolation on consumer TVs

Very easy solution: start filming in 120fps and then the TV motion interpolation does nothing.

Already happened with brightness and contrast controls

I can't get any two computer monitors that are not the same model to give me the same color.

It cannot be construed as racism unless these judgements are applied on an ethnic basis, and the arguments put forth are unlikely to be repeated for Taiwanese citizens of similar ethnicity. It’s geopolitics.

Songs of Conquest looks like a very promising spiritual successor and modern take on HoMM, really nails the nostalgia for me. https://www.songsofconquest.com/

There's another indie game called Hero's Hour that's heavily inspired by HoMM. It has pixel art and the fights are real-time instead of turn-based.

Windows only. There's a free demo with a limited number of playable factions.

https://thingonitsown.itch.io/heros-hour

Thanks for that! Looks like an instant buy from me when it comes out.

OVH is really cheap and good. https://ovh.com

Agreed, but a word of caution if you're working with single VPSes.

When a VPS has problems don't waste time to open a ticket to their support. They were never able to fix anything on my VPSes the 2 or 3 times I had problems since I started using them in December 2010.

Try to reboot the VPS from the web manager. If that doesn't fix the problem create another VPS immediately and let the original one expire at the end of the period you paid for. I suggest to pay per month and to have an automated installation script. Make backups for the data and make sure they can be transferred to the new VPS.

OVH has other offerings such has cloud and private cloud services. I never used them so the support there could be better.

Another tip: don't ask for support via a ticket, but just call them. That works a lot better. (At least their German support does)

Looks like a lot of large social media companies are open sourcing their MySQL sharding & management tools lately. This is awesome! My favorite so far is Youtube's Vitess though, since it enables writing dumb clients. The vtgate proxy forwards queries to the right shard similar to Twemproxy. http://vitess.io

Can Vitess perform connection pooling? Such as aggregating connections from multiple threads locally into one connection to your master or replica?