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by OskarS 8y ago
That does make more sense than the size thing. Still wish Apple didn't do it, but that's a better excuse.
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by OskarS 8y ago
A bit disappointing to see that the storage is not user-upgradable. I guess it matters less on a device like this where you could more easily use external storage, but still. I wish Apple stopped soldering in stuff and just made things a c
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by OskarS 8y ago
I don't think so. I mean, maybe, but not that I've heard of.
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by OskarS 8y ago
I think there are a number of circumstances where separating by gender is perfectly fine. Sports is an obvious one: because of gender differences in physiques, girls and boys compete at different levels, so the separation makes perfect sens
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by OskarS 8y ago
I'm Swedish and grew up as a scout, and in Sweden scouting was made co-educational in the 1960s. I remember having my mind blown at finding out that this wasn't the case everywhere in the modern world. It just seemed like the most
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by OskarS 8y ago
The reason they want to do it is because they find it an appealing art-style, though obviously that's up to personal taste. I think the style really works for Dead Cells. You should check out the Gamasutra article on the graphics pipel
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by OskarS 8y ago
Yeah, the change of meaning is often very subtle, and people can sometimes disagree on the direction of the change. Usually though, the device is used to express a kind of understatement. Compare these statements: He's not bad looking
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by OskarS 8y ago
Doing it the "naive" way would be: for every object that needs to be rendered like this, loop through all the lights and find the closest 3 of them. That would be O(n * m) where n is the number of lights and m is the number of obj
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by OskarS 8y ago
The other way to do it which does work is to make both the normal maps and the diffuse maps from an underlying 3d model, and then render them out to make them look "pixely". That's how Dead Cells does it, the "source&quo
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by OskarS 8y ago
It's a perfectly valid rhetorical device. It's called "litotes", and it often conveys a distinct meaning compared to "collapsing" the negatives into a single positive. It's been used liberally by figures s
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by OskarS 8y ago
Sorry, I honestly didn't mean to be snarky. It was a genuine question. I couldn't really see the real-case justification for testing a clock that slowed down, sped up, or went backwards. But you're right, malfunctioning clock
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by OskarS 8y ago
This proposal implements clock offsets, but does it support continuous time scaling? One clock-handy use case would be to run your programs really slow or fast (or backwards!), for testing purposes. What use-case would you have for this?
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by OskarS 8y ago
If you want to test the mettle of a computer, try opening a large Photoshop file and doing anything in it. This, right here, is why it's an indictment of the software industry. It SHOULDN'T be impressive that Photoshop doesn&#x2
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by OskarS 8y ago
No! It's not! Not in 2018! You only think it's impressive because you're used to UI's being total fucking shit! That's why it's an indictment of the software industry! I'm not saying it's not hard: it
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by OskarS 8y ago
Maybe I'm being harsh, but I really don't think that it should be impressive that, on a device of this power, you can zoom in and out of a photoshop file without the UI lagging. Note, btw, that the pixels aren't updating in r
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by OskarS 8y ago
There's a point in the press conference where the presenter went "And you can scroll the UI as fast as you want, and it doesn't lag! We have 8 cores in our CPU!" (or something: not literal transcription) and the entire a
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by OskarS 8y ago
What's that saying? "Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp." Apparently applies to the compilers now, too!
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by OskarS 8y ago
So, slightly off topic, but one thing from C that I really miss in other languages is subroutine-local static variables. It always annoys me in Java or C# that you can't really make a static variable that's scoped to a single meth
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by OskarS 8y ago
I mean, it's just my view, I don't speak for anyone else, much less "this site". I personally don't think it's realistic to require these companies to totally stay out of the Chinese market, that's just no
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by OskarS 8y ago
I agree, and you can also tell that Apple is on the right side of this because of that FBI phone unlocking case. Apple fought the government tooth and nail, and they made it literally impossible to do for later models of phones. That whole
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by OskarS 8y ago
47. Keep death daily before your eyes. Oh, don't worry SQLite, I do. I fucking hope it's satire. Even so, this page should be nuked from orbit. It's shocking that SQLite would allow such a page on their domain.
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by OskarS 8y ago
If cache locality is a big concern, you should either think about implementing some variation of a B-tree, or do very fancy things like design trees with van Emde Boas layouts (which are cache oblivious and thus has excellent cache performa
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by OskarS 8y ago
Anyway, looking up max heap it's trivial, no idea what my benefit would be if I knew every variation of a tree structure somebody came up with by heart. It's not just any other tree structure. It's the tree structure that i
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by OskarS 8y ago
He writes that he's using a special type of IL for this technique, presumably he forbids indirect jumps in it.
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by OskarS 8y ago
Yeah, this is one of my absolute favorites as well. Such a neat idea. The analysis is also fun, where the complexity of operations is O(alpha(n)), where alpha(n) is the Inverse Ackermann Function. That function is just fun to contemplate. Y
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by OskarS 8y ago
If that's the case, why is that true for video games but not books, painting, art or cinema?
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by OskarS 8y ago
`pr` is part of the POSIX standard, so of course it still hangs around! Can't remove a thing like that! I don't think `troff` is part of POSIX, but since it used to be (still is?) the standard tool for typesetting man pages, it&#x
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by OskarS 8y ago
If you haven't read The New Yorker story about Cameron Todd Willingham, a man (almost certainly innocent) who was executed in Texas based on junk arson science, you should rectify that as soon as possible: https://www.newyor
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by OskarS 8y ago
When I first heard of this project I thought "Well, that's insane, it will never be finished, and will surely be abandoned in six months". Glad to hear that it's making good progress! I love it when I'm wrong about
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by OskarS 8y ago
You know who's awesome at Excel? Martin Shkreli. You know, the Wall Street asshole who's in jail now? A while back, someone told me "hey, dude, there are these videos on YouTube where Martin Shkreli uses Excel, and they'

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