DrBazza

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by DrBazza 5y ago
Looks like a 2mb initial fluctuation - any idea what Krakatoa was, that circled the world (at least) 7 times?
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Art student politicians that don’t understand tech, plus Hanlon’s razor, and MI5, MI6 and the Met whispering in the cabinet’s ears and we get this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
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by DrBazza 5y ago
I can think of several recent releases without even searching: Melkhior's Mansion was released this week, Slipways earlier in the year, and Midnight Fight Express coming soon. I don't know if that's representative of indie
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Don't forget about this abomination: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinavia "Why has my playback gone silent?"
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by DrBazza 5y ago
> > Ex-Colleague: Pay is great. Not a lot going on. Not a lot of fuss on the job. I easily own a house and pay a mortgage and have a lot left over. Definitely put in less than 9-5 worth of effort. Probably can retire early at this rat
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by DrBazza 5y ago
As said on that thread - in many countries, if you're working 4 jobs it's likely fraud or breach of contract, so "hopefully" this person is contracting instead. Still, it's not "unusual" to outsource your
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Some people like the lie that is 'convenience' of moving history and bookmarks between devices.
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Don't trust the people that report the science though. The gutter press has to sensationalise stories to sell the newspapers and get viewers. It's a race to the bottom. A quarter not vaccinated!!! vs 75% vaccinated so far. Gue
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Yeah, that's what I meant. Long day... :D
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by DrBazza 5y ago
> why is sign in to chrome a thing? Because your personal data and browsing habits can be monetised. "They" sell it under the guise of conveniently taking your browsing history from one device to another (your PC to your phone
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by DrBazza 5y ago
> Though I do not like monopolies, how did Google reach this position? Is there any kind of abuse going on? Or it is just a better product? tl;dr REST, competition, the shift to devices, and explosion in "web apps". The mark
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by DrBazza 5y ago
The govt has rules for borrowing from the capital market, and that's (mostly?) for national infrastructure projects. It will never (hopefully) borrow from the capital markets to fund the NHS, and then continually pay it off. That leav
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by DrBazza 5y ago
> It sounds like you are disputing empirical evidence as well as standard economic theory regarding monopsonies. When there are multiple sellers of generic drugs , you're correct. When there is one seller of a non-generic, life sa
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by DrBazza 5y ago
> You've got that exactly back to front. NHS's immense buying power lets them negotiate lower prices for drugs, exactly as medicare used to (before pharma lobbying stripped them of that power). In principle, you're correct
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by DrBazza 5y ago
> The NHS (despite fairly extreme under-funding) has better health outcomes for patients than in the US. It really isn't underfunded. It's grossly inefficient, which is what happens to most if not all publicly funded bodies.
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by DrBazza 5y ago
> Please no. Agreed, but how else would you release a "free" version of a movie that funds itself as per the parent comment? Watermarks are probably the optimal solution, but people are used to advert funded TV/movies.
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by DrBazza 5y ago
It's not just propaganda, it's also the fact that a lot of what is portrayed in films is outside the realm of experience for regular people. People just can't tell what is realistic and what isn't, because many people j
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by DrBazza 5y ago
> How are films supposed to get funded if people get them for free? > What is your model for how films should get funded? The same way free-to-air TV pays for itself - adverts. Either a couple of ad breaks in the film, or rotating wa
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by DrBazza 5y ago
The Acorn Archimedes [1] in 1987 was a 32bit 8Mhz machine. It had "just about" enough power to decode a jpeg "in software" when the format came out ('93 according to the article). I can remember the few jpegs that
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by DrBazza 5y ago
100% agree with number 2. A PhD is a job. 5 days a week, 9 to 5, or you’ll never finish in 3 years. Fastest I saw was 2 years, which was a guy that put in all the hours. Slowest was a guy that took 8 years, ‘full time’, though he was neve
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by DrBazza 5y ago
> A lot of good comments in this thread mention that you should write comment about intention (“why”), not implementation details (“how”) Erm, that's what I said above. I don't believe that's controversial. And neither is
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Comments are often a sign of code smell. If you have to explain the code, is it too long or too complex? Short functions, better naming, and so on. Other than that those rules seem reasonable. Specify intent over implmentation. The cod
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by DrBazza 5y ago
That article had the most click-baity title. Here's why.
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by DrBazza 5y ago
"There's been a big rise in monitoring workers at home" Which operating systems can the monitoring be installed on? I understand the principle of wanting to ensure that if you pay someone to do 9-5, they actually do it, but
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by DrBazza 5y ago
That reminds me of the (current) top-most comment in the `drgn` thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29537594 "just keep rebooting to solve the problem, rather than fix it"
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Standard rust marketing, it's a bit tedious tbh, and I don't think anyone who is honest is surprised any more. Everything is "lightning fast" by default just because it compiles to native. I thought we were past that.
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by DrBazza 5y ago
It entirely depends on what type of game you enjoy. Triple AAA MMOs and movie tie ins? They'd likely become worse, or just boilerplate drop-in graphics to WoW into Star Wars or Star Trek or whatever. Or some of the extremely high qua
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by DrBazza 5y ago
But Mark Watney did 'science the shit out of this'.
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by DrBazza 5y ago
I came here to ask the same thing. So if Apple don't make a rackable M1 server, what do they themselves use? It seems a bit unlikely Apple would have racks of minis as well.
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by DrBazza 5y ago
I'm really having issues with Microsoft now. It just seems to be one dark pattern after another in Windows 11. They're not wrong about it being based on on the same renderer as Chrome, but that's about as far as it goes. T

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