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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
I think people that pretend to be offended by things like this, unwittingly infantilizing the people that they are trying to support, do far more to discourage minorities from tech than pictures of women's faces.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Open source graphics? Intel (they actually have an open source driver team), then AMD (they at least provide decent hardware documentation), then pretty much everyone else ships binary blobs and doesn't document anything.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
My Ivy Bridge i7 with 16 gigs of RAM is not exactly resource constrained. I'll take your word for it that you can disable features to get the resource usage down, but it's kinda sad that the default config can't run without s
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
To expand a bit on "bloat," DrRacket does use a lot of memory for a text editor (don't have it installed ATM but I remember 100s of megabytes of memory in use in a typical light session of 1 file + 1 REPL), crashes somewhat f
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Every time I see if (index < 0) { /* error */ } I die a little inside.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
An interesting related tidbit was that the BCD implementation was the only part of the 6502 that MOS patented. As you could not copyright an IC mask at the time, Nintendo/Ricoh were able to clone the 6502 without paying license fees si
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Yeah, the "game" part of Minecraft is shallow enough as it is, and it only gets shallower when you cheat. On the other hand, when almost everyone is using those cheats, it levels the playing field a bit.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Oh, people have tried. It never lasts. http://minecraft2b2t.thecomicseries.com/comics/104/ EDIT: Looks like I've gotten sucked in again. Feel free to message me if you want to try.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
The latter. The admin takes a completely hands-off approach to running the server (I'm not even sure if he plays on it). So the condition of the spawn is purely because many people over the years thought it would be funny to make it as
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Surely you meant this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV_3Dpw-BRY
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Interesting. How do you plan to keep coverage unbiased? A lot of bias manages to sneak into Wikipedia articles on current events in spite of their community guidelines and moderation.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Oops, my mistake.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Nintendo allows games like Senran Kagura to be published on the 3DS, even outside of Japan, so while I'd be happy to be proven wrong, I really doubt that they had any kind of moral dilemma about The Binding of Isaac. I think you guys
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Various reasons. Most importantly, Nintendo makes their own hardware primarily for the sake of their own games. Taxing other developers to publish on their platform is a bonus , not their main source of revenue. They're structured suc
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
That was definitely true in the 90's and early 2000's. I don't think it's true anymore. Totally normal non-geeky people use absolutely enormous amounts of bandwidth on services like Youtube and Netflix these days. Unless
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
"Average" programmers had much more practical reason to learn assembly in the days of 16 and 32 bit x86, of DOS, Win32, and software rendered games, than today when the average programmer writes Javascript or some other dynamic la
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
My family is conservative and holds more traditional views about sex, family, and religion than most, yet is caught up in the obsession with healthy eating just as much as its liberal counterparts. That's what makes this interesting fr
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
It might be tied to the increased rates of immigration many European countries have seen in recent years.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
>I stopped reading halfway through on the assumption that the author was a Republican I am impressed by the open-mindedness you display.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Ugh, I swear I searched for that numerous times with various search strings, having sworn I had seen the article on here before, and only the submission with 4 points came up. Maybe I'm crazy, but I seem to have this problem fairly oft
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The Truth on OpenGL Driver Quality(richg42.blogspot.com)
3 points by ANTSANTS 12y ago|3 comments
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Well, except that I'm pretty sure it's very difficult, very suspicious, and possibly illegal for a random person to own a school bus, but anyone with enough money can own a Mercedes.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Or you could just, you know, let them do what they want at home/in the neighborhood and trust them not to spontaneously combust if they're alone for 5 minutes.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
I used to deal with shitty, unreliable internet all of the time (oh wait, I still do, I have TWC...), so wget was really useful for ensuring that I could keep documentation and other reading material handy when I inevitably lost my connecti
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
My guess is that, in light of the insanely limited memories of the machines they were working with, they had to leave out any feature that wasn't absolutely necessary. Maybe the benefits of coroutines weren't as obvious then, or m
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
For me, elementary started at 9AM, while middle and high schools started at 7:30AM. The buses would arrive at school a good half an hour before school started (why, I could not tell you), so in practice you had to be up before 6AM to catch
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
>1. In typical situations, 256 shades of brightness of a single color hue are the most we can distinguish and will form a smooth gradient without banding. This is less true than you might think. You rarely have a gradient from pure black
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Oh, my apologies then.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
I'm sorry for your loss, but I'm not sure you did the right thing with her MMO accounts. Even if I've never met them IRL and probably never will, if one of my gamer friends died, I'd sure as hell want to know. I still fi
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Hence the ellipsis ;)

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