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by Maxatar 2y ago
I suppose I assumed you were objecting to the article saying that PCs were not designed to run games. No one is disputing that games did run on PCs, but PCs did not have the kind of hardware nor the kind of architecture that computers at th
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by Maxatar 2y ago
Absolutely if you bought a PC in 1993 it would have been suitable for gaming, but that was not the claim I replied to which claimed that PCs had always been suitable for gaming and that games were always a significant part of the PC market.
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by Maxatar 2y ago
I doubt that.
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by Maxatar 2y ago
I think you're now shifting from your original claim that games were always a part of PC sales, which I disagree with, and a cursory review of market share supports my stance, to now focusing on 1993 and beyond. To that end I think the
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by Maxatar 2y ago
I think people have a huge misunderstanding about what a wrongful termination is. Unless you're part of a union or work in the state of Montana, which most software developers do not, then you can be fired for any reason or no reason a
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by Maxatar 2y ago
Can't say I agree. I also remember the late 80s and early 90s and PCs were simply not well equipped to run video games. Home computers that did run video games had special hardware dedicated for it, like the Commodore 64, the MSX, and
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by Maxatar 2y ago
It's often far cheaper to fire someone immediately and pay out full benefits than it is to keep someone on payroll on a PIP. The cost of keeping someone on PIP isn't just salary, it's also the management and maintenance assoc
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by Maxatar 2y ago
In many ways it still is just a think tank.
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by Maxatar 2y ago
I don't know of any government department in Canada, Mexico, the UK, France, Germany, Australia that target U.S. law makers with fake social media accounts. Do you know of any? Can you cite them?
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by Maxatar 2y ago
The Dragon Crew has physical backup controls. The touchscreen allows for a more interactive UI that you can try out here: https://iss-sim.spacex.com/ But the controls themselves have physical buttons in addition to the touc
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by Maxatar 2y ago
Apart from one flagged comment I find the comments to be quite profound and interesting, we even have a cool visualization demo of the Riemann zeta function: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40571995#40576767 Your comme
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by Maxatar 2y ago
It's a weak form of the Goldbach conjecture not the actual Goldbach conjecture itself. The weak form also has a proof that does not depend on the Riemann hypothesis.
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by Maxatar 2y ago
Right, but one can imagine a popular film about AI casting a voice actor not because the voice actor has an appealing or soothing voice, but because the actor is themselves very popular and will draw a large audience. Perhaps say Arnold Sch
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by Maxatar 2y ago
Because it's not obvious and just using that word over and over again doesn't make it true. Did OpenAI want to use a similar voice to Scarlett Johansson's specifically because it's her, and they want to capitalize off of
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by Maxatar 2y ago
The article mentions that Meta also shut down Iranian bots.
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by Maxatar 2y ago
Sure if you think of it strictly as binary as in degree vs. no degree. A better consideration is spending a significant amount of time and money going to one college versus spending significantly less money going to a community college whic
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by Maxatar 2y ago
Actually it's more like shirk, originally a nautical term referring to a ship that avoids or evades enemy detection or engagement.
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by Maxatar 2y ago
I don't want to give to much credibility to the benchmark OP posted because it is quite flawed, but MSVC performs absolutely terribly on that benchmark, far worse than GCC or clang with a 58x slowdown when compiled in 64-bit mode. I ca
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by Maxatar 2y ago
Your benchmark supports the position that exceptions should be used instead of return codes for better average case performance, at least for GCC. If your function throws an exception 9% of the time, then it outperforms error codes. That&#x
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by Maxatar 2y ago
Most voxel engines end up rendering triangles. The voxels are used to represent the world to allow for cool physics, in particular destruction.
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by Maxatar 2y ago
You could embed the binary data in a Python string and then have the installer dump that string to a file.
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by Maxatar 2y ago
Yes, words do evolve over time. Hack originally meant to cut with heavy blows, like with an axe. It then came to mean a clever and unexpected or unorthodox solution to a technical problem. It has since been generalized and adopted by the ge
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by Maxatar 2y ago
I mean, changing your eating habits is absolutely a form of hacking in pretty much every sense of the word and it can be used to significantly change your life.
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by Maxatar 2y ago
This looks like some kind of spam, I'm even tempted to say AI generated.
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by Maxatar 2y ago
Barriers can induce blocking behavior though. A store barrier followed by a store operation can result in a blocking operation until the store buffer is flushed, and similarly for a load barrier.
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by Maxatar 2y ago
>I doubt this movie will ring true with the bulk of audiences. This should be the least important quality of a film, and ironic that you mention this quality along with Batman Forever, which did ring true with the bulk of audiences and w
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by Maxatar 2y ago
Nim is not memory safe and doesn't technically claim to be. What they claim is to provide memory safe features, but then so does C++ and a lot of other languages.
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by Maxatar 2y ago
But you just proved the point. You might not care to be signed up for some random Trump org, Scientology, or whatever, but other people do care and if you want to author a website that responsibly uses people's emails without subjectin
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by Maxatar 2y ago
>whatever it is that causes these kinds of comments on this specific website Clearly it's quantum mechanics that causes these kinds of comments.
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by Maxatar 2y ago
>Are you calling just allocating memory you’ll never use leaking? It is not. Yes it is, by definition a memory leak is any memory that has been reserved but won't be read from or written to. If you allocate memory into a data struct

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