RetpolineDrama

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by RetpolineDrama 3y ago
Our entire global economic order is built on top of infinite-growth, and the young outnumbering the old. Negative slope population will lead to mass economic instability and eventually war.
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by RetpolineDrama 3y ago
The 3D belt + train + everything else integrations are why Satisfactory appeals to me so much.
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by RetpolineDrama 3y ago
>I just wish go had proper sum types. It's by far my favorite feature of Swift. Enums + Payloads + switches are incredibly simple yet so effective. You can make a simple state object, isolate it with an actor, then stream it anywher
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by RetpolineDrama 3y ago
The new screen savers were bumped up the priority queue because Apple has a bunch of QD-OLED computers coming next year and they're worried about burn-in.
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by RetpolineDrama 3y ago
>The gfx are rather good except the faces Mind elaborating? The graphics are sub-par for a 2023 game, if I had to rate them they're ~2017 AAA levels. The textures are garbage, the lighting is garbage (no raytracing in 2023?!), the f
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by RetpolineDrama 3y ago
>The normal development process is that it's hard to get things to compile, and then it Just Works. That's great! I hate using a debugger, especially on concurrent programs. Yes, sometimes you can get stuck for a day, trying to
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by RetpolineDrama 3y ago
>Clearly putting the NSO group on the Commerce Department blacklist didn't go far enough Somewhere in a nondescript subterranean hangar north of vegas an unacknowledged aerial platform is getting an itchy nose
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by RetpolineDrama 3y ago
>How come NSO isn’t yet designated as a (cyber-)terrorist group worth hunting down and extinguishing? Answering this would violate HN guidelines/moderation policy.
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by RetpolineDrama 3y ago
>And zero-day spyware is usually targeted towards important individuals, Yeah but have you ever had someone ImportantTM's old phone number? What about their IP?
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by RetpolineDrama 3y ago
>most atmos mixes are just upmixed from the stereo mix and provide no benefit whatsoever. There is a large library of _freakin incredible_ made-for-spatial-audio tracks on Apple Music. It makes for a great demo when people come over, the
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by RetpolineDrama 3y ago
> This is such a scam. Atmos content sounds dreadful Complete nonsense. Maybe on _your_ setup this is true, but that has nothing to do with ATMOS. It's funny because the absolute highest commercially-available quality out there at t
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by RetpolineDrama 3y ago
>A soundbar cannot benefit from Atmos and it should have never been put there in the first place. ATMOS is a new way of doing things, where the object's position is recored and your hardware can adapt to it based on its configuratio
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by RetpolineDrama 3y ago
>Atmos sucks. Everything mixed for shows these days sucks at home. You can never hear what people are saying and then you get blasted with 10-20db higher music or sound effects. This is certainly not true in the generic sense, and is lik
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by RetpolineDrama 3y ago
>Atmos isn't very compelling without overhead speakers. Why does this myth persist? ATMOS is substantially better than hardcoded channels even with a barebones 5.1 system. Obviously more is better, but object-based spatial audio is
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by RetpolineDrama 3y ago
>As long as it ships and barely works, it's good enough. Rails in a nutshell.
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by RetpolineDrama 3y ago
All I can say is that the archives of these threads/comments are going to be _highly_ entertaining to our future-selves (hello future people reading this!). The amount of ignorance on display is overwhelming, and a lot of people who fa
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by RetpolineDrama 3y ago
Absolutely uninformed take. - The (democrat) senate majority leader mentioned "non human intelligence" - Rubio _is_ worried about "ET", per multiple interviews where this is presented as a likely explanation for the obse
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by RetpolineDrama 3y ago
First high-quality comment in this thread, and you absolutely nailed it.
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by RetpolineDrama 3y ago
Extremely misleading comment that I'm happy to see has already been broken down in another reply. Frustrating to see this at the top.
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by RetpolineDrama 3y ago
Ouch, this is going to get a lot worse isn't it?
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by RetpolineDrama 3y ago
Their decades of failure and continued under-development of GPU with the transition to Apple Silicon says it all. A few developer tools that the suits probably have never heard of don't change that.
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by RetpolineDrama 3y ago
This isn't going to improve until Apple gets a leadership overhaul. Look at the current executive team, it's all a bunch of boomers who think "gaming" is candy crush and farmville.
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by RetpolineDrama 3y ago
I find it offensive to conflate the very real possibly and serious topic of Alien life existing with Astrology.
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by RetpolineDrama 3y ago
>Speaking of stereotypes, if anyone takes astrology seriously I agree. One potential rub though is the time of year you're born impacts your relative age to your peers when entering school. This absolutely _would_ shift things subtl
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by RetpolineDrama 3y ago
It's likely worse than that, because I suspect this study is biased towards flame retardants being effective. It is true in a very narrow range of conditions a flame retardant can prevent combustion, but it's like an airbag that w
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by RetpolineDrama 3y ago
Did they say what for?
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by RetpolineDrama 3y ago
Yet another wonderful gift given to the world by cigarette smokers, as if the butts/trash everywhere and toxic second-hand smoke wasn't enough. For those unaware, smokers would get drunk and pass out with lit cigarettes that would
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by RetpolineDrama 3y ago
You brought this on yourself when you signed up to work at $bigCo. There's a whole wonderful world of startups out there that don't work this way, and it sounds like you'd be a lot happier there.
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by RetpolineDrama 3y ago
>window tints sufficient to block inspection of the passenger compartment of the car by an officer standing next to the car are already effectively illegal Which is absolutely preposterous, given how hot it is getting. Window tint laws n
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by RetpolineDrama 3y ago
>If you keep selling securities while not following the KYC FWIW KYC "laws" are unconstitutional garbage. The government should not be able to force private companies to do the work of LEA. And before you inevitably reply about

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