Maken

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by Maken 8y ago
>hitting the super (Windows) key and typing the programs That's how Unity (Ubuntu's default DE) worked, until they transitioned to GNOME.
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by Maken 8y ago
I guess it is because nobody ever got fired for buying IBM.
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by Maken 9y ago
Only Yesterday is probably one of the most underrated movies from Ghibli.
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by Maken 9y ago
Those meshes are made by subdividing an octahedron. Approximating an sphere like that has the nice property that the triangles in each subdivision level have the same surface area, and you can use the same underlying texture for all the lev
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by Maken 9y ago
Cities: Skylines is a good example of artistic direction over raw graphic power. It looks nice because its Nordic design architecture and stylish GUI, despite running in a relatively old version of Unity without many bells and whistles.
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by Maken 9y ago
Look at the title bar.
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by Maken 9y ago
They kind of reintroduced it in the Rise and Fall expansion for Civ VI.
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by Maken 9y ago
I have come to think that the EU would work much better if the Council and the Commission got dissolved at once, were replaced by and actual "Government of the EU zone" and all the legislative power went to the EU Parliament.
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by Maken 9y ago
Except they adjusted UK's membership. Then Cameron returned to the UK and won a referendum which he was supposed to lost.
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by Maken 9y ago
>I don't see how it could "damp", yet in such good condition after such a long time. Can you provide other pieces of paper from the same time period so we can compare their state of conservation?
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by Maken 9y ago
IQ also correlates with education. What else correlates with education?
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by Maken 9y ago
I would argue that the Japanese justice system has either to accept that the hospital violated this man's right to enjoy his parents' money, or to rule against inheritances at all.
643.
by Maken 9y ago
Do you happen to work for the C++ committee? http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/algorithm/clamp
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by Maken 9y ago
> For instance, you won't find many if any papers in china on the effects of diversity within society and the workplace. Unlike here, they don't seem to be urgently researching in this area. Maybe, and just maybe, their resear
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by Maken 9y ago
The original article [1] does include a video of cockroaches running into the wall without even trying to avoid it, which is somewhat funny. [1] http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/15/139/201706...
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by Maken 9y ago
Oh, thanks everyone.
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by Maken 9y ago
So, do you happen to know who was that guy and have any link about his work? Now I'm really interested.
648.
by Maken 9y ago
When people in Poland earn as much as people in France, hence the local distributors can charge the same amount for a movie regardless of the country in which they are operating.
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by Maken 9y ago
>What if intelligence, both animal and machine, is purely random trial and error and "this thing seems to work"? Then you apply statistics. Which are the foundations of machine learning.
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by Maken 9y ago
Peer review is voluntary and done by other researchers in the field. Publishers mostly take care of editing the final text (basically typos and formatting) and uploading them to their servers.
651.
by Maken 9y ago
My guess is that these wood boards would have much less friction than a stone equivalent, unless you had enough money to pay for a polished one.
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by Maken 9y ago
Likely, after the first calibration you could keep moving around and updating your location, so as long as the system doesn't go down you always know your (relative) position as you travel through the galaxy.
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by Maken 9y ago
There is no point on reimplementing GDB yet, you need first a legacy debugger with proper Rust support until the new one can debug itself.
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by Maken 9y ago
> When some of them are corrupt, does it matter that the rest might be decent? That argument can be used to attack virtually any minority.
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by Maken 9y ago
I honestly believe religion to be mostly an instrument to convince people to follow a certain agenda. Which means, from my point of view, that there must be a real reason for the Egyptian religion to promote the construction of pyramids i
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by Maken 9y ago
You are thinking about this as a state-sponsored project, however it is more akin a governmental agency dedicated to building the Pyramids. People there (almost certainly all men) were likely not paid employees but instead people taken from
657.
by Maken 9y ago
They are just different approaches, "bundle every library with the binary" vs "make every binary load the system library". And I think it's mostly a distinction of a system designed for final users (Windows), where
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by Maken 9y ago
I have run into this kind of package dependency lock-down sometimes when installing updated graphic drivers and build systems (usually from non-official repositories), and I have been able to solve it by reverting the problematic packages t
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by Maken 9y ago
> For my Tarsnap online backup service I compile and cryptographically sign the packages on a system which has never been connected to the Internet. Before I turned it on for the first time, I opened up the case and pulled out the wifi c
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by Maken 9y ago
It's kind of buggy. It does restore tab hierarchy after restarting Firefox, but the tab tree is malforformed and expand/collapse doesn't work.

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