MikeBVaughn

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by MikeBVaughn 4y ago
"...working late on a Friday evening, organising the annual team-building trip to Slough or volunteering to supervise the boss’s teenager on work experience..." --- I could do that, or I could go home and work on writing a novel,
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by MikeBVaughn 4y ago
I was wondering about that. When you go to the Our Machine web page, it shows the EULA having been updated yesterday, which immediately made me suspicious.
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by MikeBVaughn 4y ago
"... all licenses are terminated as of 14 days after the date of this notice, and you are requested to delete The Machinery source code and binaries." "We hope we have been helpful in some way to your development needs."
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by MikeBVaughn 4y ago
The modeling in iRacing is really striking in that way. It's good enough in practice that driving in the sim is extremely convincing, which makes the odd methods of exploiting the physics model that much more striking. I saw a video a
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by MikeBVaughn 4y ago
They're all over Kurosawa's filmography. Check out Yojimbo for some striking examples. Really, just check out Yojimbo; it's a lean, fun, funny samurai-noir romp. (As a side note, I always liked the sly nod in The Last Jedi to
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by MikeBVaughn 4y ago
Naturally! "This is bizarre" is referring to the commercial decisions leading to this point. They seem to have chosen a hard market to crack, and then cornered themselves before even reaching the starting line.
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by MikeBVaughn 4y ago
The weird thing is, even at the worst, I didn't really have trouble getting my hands on a GPU in that price range. I threw together a basic "play Red Dead Redemption 2 and racing sims" PC for my dad a year ago, and had no pro
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by MikeBVaughn 4y ago
This seems absolutely bizarre to me. If you're a) going to enter the low-to-middle end of market and b) do so decades after the major players, you really need to differentiate yourself positively. As a customer, getting "Good enou
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by MikeBVaughn 4y ago
What I find disheartening is this: I've entered a support chat with an actual, live, paid support agent - an employee of the company - and opened with something like "Hello! I'm having <issue>, I've tried <x>
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by MikeBVaughn 4y ago
Tone and semantic content are inseparable, whether we want them to be or not, particularly in damage control situations. I can envision ways of writing this article that I would read with a much less cynical lens. In particular, I find the
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by MikeBVaughn 4y ago
"We set a high bar for ourselves, and we didn't live up to those standards last week. We’re approaching this moment with a Growth Mindset, and squeezing every drop of learning from the unfortunate situation we put our customers in
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by MikeBVaughn 4y ago
That's incredible! I'm going to give that a look later this weekend! Thanks!
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by MikeBVaughn 4y ago
Glad to help! Posting about this inspired me to review all the calculus that I've barely touched in a decade, so I checked out a library copy of Apostol for myself :)
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by MikeBVaughn 4y ago
The tautline hitch is, after the square knot, probably my most-used knot outdoors. It's just versatile and adjustable. I know people say there are usually better knots for various jobs where you can employ it, but throughout all of Boy
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by MikeBVaughn 4y ago
There are lots of cool options, depending on what you want to do with it. If you're interested in rigorously proving how calculus works, starting from the structure of the real numbers, I hear nothing but fantastic things about Spivak.
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by MikeBVaughn 4y ago
I'm a big fan of Herstein's exposition. The text is plenty rigorous, without too getting bogged down in formalism, and he also manages to come across as personable and funny in a way that doesn't feel condescending. The peopl
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by MikeBVaughn 4y ago
"Topics in Algebra" is fantastic! It also is in print, if you don't mind paying roughly $240 for a print-on-demand paperback. It's an obscene price, but it is available!
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by MikeBVaughn 5y ago
Growing up with PC games, I was always fascinated by wargames as a genre. It seemed like its own little world, largely disjoint from the rest of PC gaming, likely owing to its genesis in tabletop gaming. My understanding is that pretty much
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by MikeBVaughn 5y ago
I mean, I'm the kind of guy to obsessively worry about diplomacy in professional communications, and my first impulse still would have been to respond with "no" and close the issue, so as far as I'm concerned, he's
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by MikeBVaughn 5y ago
Thank you for the info; I appreciate the transparency!
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Ask HN: Why the $200 Overhead on Dell XPS Laptops with Linux?
74 points by MikeBVaughn 5y ago|102 comments
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by MikeBVaughn 5y ago
Can you give a detailed model of how this would bring down a tower? I'm very skeptical.
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by MikeBVaughn 5y ago
I say this as someone who worked on another Eclipse SWT application that I think is very good, is still in use, and that I am very proud to have worked on, but the SWT UI is the one thing I absolutely hate about Ghidra. I feel like many asp
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by MikeBVaughn 5y ago
Thanks for catching that! The core point still stands, though, I think that approach is customer-hostile and entirely at odds with the sort of customer service I expect from a company offering a subscription.
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by MikeBVaughn 5y ago
I really like IdaPro, but this guarantees that I move to Ghidra. I think the worst part though is the bit about prohibiting future re-downloads for users who bought perpetual licenses in the past. The sort of company that pulls that nonsens
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by MikeBVaughn 5y ago
I mean, given the choice of two explanatory models: 1.) Even in cases of extreme poverty, people will put in significant effort and sacrifice to secure some degree of privacy, because it's a basic human desire (a desire I've seen
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by MikeBVaughn 5y ago
Anecdata: I'm not on meth and I strongly prefer an entire tent to a partial tent.
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by MikeBVaughn 5y ago
I think, based on the argument, OP means "mechanic" and "shop" in the colloquial "non dealer/manufacturer-affiliated" sense.
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by MikeBVaughn 5y ago
Yuck! I'm sorry! I hope it works out for you!
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by MikeBVaughn 5y ago
That's a good point; my VW GTI got one at a local shop under insurance a few years back. The turbocharger wasn't hooked up quite right the first time. It wasn't a severe issue - the engine was just noticeably less powerful. L

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