Drakim

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by Drakim 11y ago
Only though strict regulation and law against ad-blockers can the free market capitalism of democratic online publishing survive.
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by Drakim 11y ago
You assume that every app developer is out to make money. This is not more true than that every PC application developer is out to make money. Some people make free software and gives it away for free. That's not a race to the bottom,
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by Drakim 11y ago
Your comment makes a weak case for this special symbol need, since it uses the :) smiley rather than the "Unicode Smiley"
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by Drakim 11y ago
Ah, that makes a lot more sense! I thought we had people sitting around talking about what funny picture to put in Unicode next. It's much more understandable if it's something that already exists that's being "ported in
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by Drakim 11y ago
I've never quite understood the emoji thing, can somebody explain it to me? Why are "funny" symbols and pictures being put into the Unicode standard? I thought the point of extending the standard with symbols is to accommodat
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by Drakim 11y ago
> 64-bit unsigned longs > resource-constrained environment (NES etc.) While it's a cool technique, the NES could definitely not do it. It used an 8 bit architecture (so no 64-bit unsigned longs), and didn't have nearly enoug
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by Drakim 11y ago
Hopefully as WebGL gets more and more uses there will be more effort in supporting it properly driver wise. I suspect the reason support is so inconsistent right now is because there hasn't been enough demand to bring focus on it.
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by Drakim 11y ago
Especially since the original Xbox was infamous for randomly dying. Thirty years from now there will still be working NES consoles, but will there be any Xbox ones?
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by Drakim 11y ago
> a site with great content should not be penalized for the site's own choices on ads Yes it should! If those ads are hostile to the user they should definitely be penalized no matter how great their content is.
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by Drakim 11y ago
It's not just that people have to stand in line. They also have to go between a bunch of different stores since Milk producers have an exclusive contract with Walmart and Bread producers have an exclusive contract with 7-Eleven. Furthe
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by Drakim 11y ago
How can it determine dead code for such a dynamic language like JavaScript? Is it limited to obvious stuff like things after a "return;" statement that cannot run? Because I don't see how it could remove unused functions when
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by Drakim 11y ago
Because JavaScript doesn't give you the option of programmatically messing with the user's clipboard. The best you can do is present a selected string in a textbox for the user to press Ctrl+C
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by Drakim 11y ago
There is clearly a conflict of interest if the producer is the one who gets to decide if your testing has flaws or not. There would be nothing but their own integrity preventing them from simply labeling any test with poor results as being
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by Drakim 11y ago
Sure, I mean, but, anybody can say that. "We'd rather not you publish your review of our product, it's so easy for the reviewer to make a mistake and say something negative about our product. So, you are not allowed to publis
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by Drakim 11y ago
I have a hard time understanding the reasoning for this. What argument do they have as to why people shouldn't know about the performance?
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by Drakim 11y ago
Note though, that this extra restriction isn't a technical limitation of the NES, rather, it's a choice by the developers of Legend of Zelda for the purpose of shrinking the amount of bytes needed for each "screen" of th
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by Drakim 11y ago
When it says "Vulkan driver for PowerVR Rogue GPUs", does that mean I can only use Vulkan when the user has a GPU that supports it? ...Because that sounds like it could be a really long wait, if it happens at all. I guess it could
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by Drakim 11y ago
If I taped the content on my old VHS, and then fast forwarded past the ads, and they argued that I shouldn't be allowed to do this, then sure, I would argue they should pay for my electricity for showing that ad, since apparently they
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by Drakim 11y ago
If so, I'm gonna start charging them for my CPU usage. If what's going on in my computer, using my electricity, isn't under my ownership, I'll be darned if I'm gonna pay for it's execution.
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by Drakim 11y ago
Sometimes it's like we live in a parody of the real world. I feel that the online video ad situation is akin to advertisers blasting loud commercial jingles in the middle of the night, while complaining that people are getting sound is
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by Drakim 11y ago
That quote instantly makes me lose any credibility in the author. Is he/she really that ignorant of basic biology, or am I misunderstanding something?
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by Drakim 11y ago
Treating ideas the same as physical possessions can give some pretty odd results, when you think about it past your own immediate gain. Somebody else came up with the idea that you can put letters on paper. Another person came up with the i
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by Drakim 11y ago
This actually not as strange as you'd think: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence
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by Drakim 11y ago
It's pretty crazy, it's in their best interest to me negligent, lest they be responsible.
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by Drakim 11y ago
Hmmmm. Optimal would be if it was made to be expensive when used in mass. If somebody sent a single lone take-down request for my work, in genuine mistake, I would not begrudge him at all, and would not seek to penalize them. To err is huma
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by Drakim 11y ago
Not true. While you should indeed not eval the string, once you have properly parsed it, you get a structured collection of objects and arrays that is very regular JavaScript structures. XML cannot offer the same, you get some much more abs
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by Drakim 11y ago
The one idiot they technically elected (or at least allow to control the wheel). Ultimately, it's the people's right and responsibility, not one man.
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by Drakim 11y ago
While it's true that the price of labor, production, transportation, etc, would affect the cost of the Big Mac, it's still ultimately up to McDonalds to set the price, deciding what sort of margin they want from the product, maybe
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by Drakim 11y ago
Markov chains need lots of training data to be useful. If you feed it just one comment, it pretty much reproduces that exact comment, maybe switching around or repeating a phrase somewhat.
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by Drakim 11y ago
Let's just hope that function doesn't end up being the one that's invoked to adjust for leap years.

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