AlexMax

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by AlexMax 9y ago
> Why is OpenGL necessary for a text editor? Why not? Modern desktops are all hardware-accelerated anyway.
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by AlexMax 9y ago
Does this game use bots at all? The magic of paper.io disappeared when I found out that I wasn't playing against any human players.
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by AlexMax 9y ago
> I just immediately leave those sites that don't function unless I disable it "Your terms are acceptable." I think that is precisely what those sites want. They would probably prefer not to waste bandwidth on a user they
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by AlexMax 9y ago
I don't think wage stagnation has much to do with inflation. If the USD stayed steady or was deflationary, I imagine that nothing about your purchasing power would fundamentally change, the numbers would just look a little different.
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by AlexMax 9y ago
The timescales involved are much larger, giving you ample time to spend or invest the money you have. It's only a problem if you stuff money under your mattress.
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by AlexMax 9y ago
> WebRTC is only there as a substitute for UDP. I knew that this was possible in theory, but my experience with messing around with the available serverside WebRTC libraries gave off a similar first impression to the one you mention in y
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by AlexMax 9y ago
They do not need the web to distribute their content online.
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by AlexMax 9y ago
Very well put. Ultimately, as long as the big content companies have content that people want to consume, they will have leverage. They want DRM, they will get DRM, or else they will take their content elsewhere, to alternative platforms t
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by AlexMax 9y ago
I have no first hand knowledge, but it is my understanding based on what others have told me that IDA Pro is actually kind of difficult to crack and pirate. I don't know how true this is, but it makes logical sense - the developers of
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by AlexMax 9y ago
> Anecdotally it doesn't seem to me that python usage in "industry" has grown that dramatically in the last five years, but there could be other factors involved such as education. Or my biased gut instinct could be comple
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by AlexMax 9y ago
What about web clients talking to dedicated browserless servers over a unreliable UDP-style datachannel? That's something I imagine could be quite useful for gaming applications.
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by AlexMax 9y ago
I actually signed up for a mastodon and thought it was a pretty nice and funky environment for a week or so. Then, I realized the full ramifications of federation and I realized that Mastodon was likely to go the way of IRC if it ever &quot
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by AlexMax 9y ago
Faster how? In my experience, VSC's cold boot startup time is just as bad as Atom, and it's not immune to interface jank - for example, when unfolding the "tree view" on one of my projects, I can actually see the folders
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by AlexMax 9y ago
I think this gives too much credit to blacklist-driven policies and not enough credit to attackers. Back when IRC was new, open federation between IRC servers was the norm until bad actors forced the networks to only federate with known goo
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by AlexMax 10y ago
> Git doesn't need an equivalent of Mercurial branches and bookmarks, because git branches do everything both of those mercurial features do and more, in a far more lightweight and efficient manner contained in a clean, singular fea
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by AlexMax 10y ago
He seems to have changed his mind in recent years: http://theundefeated.com/features/michael-jordan-i-can-no-lo...
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by AlexMax 10y ago
Have they added the ability for projects to have more than one root folder yet?
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by AlexMax 10y ago
Why is this upsetting to so many people? This seems to me like a simple request to add platform-specific code, and in the end there was a decision to take a different approach to solve the problem. Seems to me like yet another systemd two
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by AlexMax 10y ago
Considering how effective 419 and cat-fishing scams are, I doubt ransomware will ever die. No matter how unreliable it becomes, there will always be another sucker.
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by AlexMax 10y ago
But inflation of a currency is a good thing. Hyperinflation and deflation are the things you want to avoid.
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by AlexMax 10y ago
Out of the hands of politicians and bankers and right into the hands of a script kiddie when the box that stores your wallet - be it locally or an exchange - gets hijacked and your wallet depleted. Or where nobody can get to it after you s
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by AlexMax 10y ago
Extrapolating the analogy, this leads me to believe that there will eventually be a company that uses the blockchain to deliver a killer app, but it won't be Bitcoin.
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by AlexMax 11y ago
> How this isn't considered a horror story is beyond me. Because I generally open Atom once every morning on login, at the same time that there's so much disk thrashing that pretty much everything else is loading slowly too, an
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by AlexMax 11y ago
> Perhaps, if you like the thing so much, you could explain why I am an avid Atom user who acknowledges how slow the thing can be. None of the slowness on my end approaches any of the horror stores in these threads, but for me, opening
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by AlexMax 11y ago
I remember seeing a similar complaint in the 1.4 release thread complaining about memory usage, and when I compared my own Atom memory usage with a project with about a half-dozen files open and it wasn't anyhere close to that. Wonder
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by AlexMax 11y ago
As a paying user of Sublime Text 3, I finally jumped on the Atom bandwagon a few months ago and have overall been pretty happy. It's certainly a slower editor - I have found that opening it, creating a new window, and quitting all take
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by AlexMax 11y ago
> or is it that only certain political views get the privilege to be "triggering? Yes. Above and beyond things that are horrifically traumatic, those groups who have been marginalized in society ought have that privilege. When you
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by AlexMax 11y ago
> Indeed, there is great power in words. That is both why the First Amendment exists and why some seek to curtail speech they find discomfiting. But their power is also why the first amendment only applies to the government not being abl
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by AlexMax 11y ago
> Words cannot hold guns, knives, or other weapons. Yes, they can be unpleasant. Yes, they can be upsetting. Yes, people who have been abused can be triggered. Words can't act, but they can compel, coerce, and intimidate. It absol
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by AlexMax 11y ago
I don't get what this is. Is usage of either blacklist compulsory in some way?

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