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<flatwhatson>sneek: later tell Zarutian_iPad what about sticking with latin, something like "una pura" (disclaimer: my latin education is google translate)

<sneek>Got it.

<mfiano>I do too, though the author of the Unum article already did.

<mfiano>I'm hoping one day we'll get real hardware support for the other Unum

<flatwhatson>mfiano: you might have the order of who overloaded who backwards

<flatwhatson> http://erights.org/elib/distrib/unum/index.html

<flatwhatson>source claims "last modified on Saturday, October 03, 1998 04:19 PM"

<flatwhatson>> Unums (universal numbers) are a family of formats and arithmetic, similar to floating point, proposed by John L. Gustafson in 2015.

<mfiano>That is fair. I admit though, I have heard of the number representation many times, and didn't know what that one was until today :)

<RandyFarmer[m]> https://twitter.com/arstechnica/status/1617634686104133649?t=ktOra6eSMASPllvJPKOjgQ&s=09

<jfred>ouch

<sneek>Yey! Zarutian_iPad is back :D

<Zarutian_iPad>sneek, botsnack

<sneek>Welcome back Zarutian_iPad, you have 1 message!

<sneek>Zarutian_iPad, flatwhatson says: what about sticking with latin, something like "una pura" (disclaimer: my latin education is google translate)

<sneek>:)

<Zarutian_iPad>flatwhatson: and not have the opertunity to hit you with this? calcUNAtor!

<Zarutian_iPad>not as vocabulary or spelling insidious like octect

<Zarutian_iPad>hmm… a interesting idea for netcode programming

<Zarutian_iPad>lets say we are using the Croquet model but over udp but the inputs from each participant is timestamped

<Zarutian_iPad>(timestamp by a local clock at each participant but synced nettime style)

<drakonis>an actual project for goblins would be to implement a message queue project and or something transparent like erlang

<Zarutian_iPad>we then use the rewind and rerun model of netcode. (Like how many beatem up or streetfighter)

<drakonis>rollback netcode is very good to have though

<drakonis>the problem is whether you could use this with games

<Zarutian_iPad>this means that some interpolation of the outputs between last version and retconned version is required

<Zarutian_iPad>rollback was the term that had escaped me

<drakonis>it is very popular in multiplayer fighting games

<drakonis>largely because it minimizes latency issues

<Zarutian_iPad>it could look a bit wonky sometimes. The retcon interpolation

<drakonis>ggpo is the most common implementation if i remember correctly

<drakonis>might be worth a look

<Zarutian_iPad>but the interpolation only needs to happen on the output side of the CroquetVMs

<Zarutian_iPad>btw a CroquetVM is basically where the game state and the (changeable) game rules live.

<Zarutian_iPad>a CroquetVM deterministically runs the same way given the same state and inputs

<Zarutian_iPad>so the problem of the above netcode idea reduces down to simulating with rollbacks!

<Zarutian_iPad>the total order of the inputs from the participants.

<Zarutian_iPad>s/!/,/

<Zarutian_iPad>bbl

<sneek>Zarutian_iPad: Greetings :)

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