SeanDav

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by SeanDav 9y ago
MAME allows us to relive those moments. Biggest issue is controls, unless you invest in a proper control console. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAME
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by SeanDav 9y ago
If you are talking about typing, then I agree, 100ms lag after every keystroke, would be noticeable and annoying, but edits ? Surely you are not claiming to be doing 10 edits a second, where you might need to start complaining about 100ms
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by SeanDav 9y ago
> " By default Linux is set to over commit memory, so malloc always be succeeds even if you're out of memory." How does Linux handle 1 trillion mallocs of 1MB, on a 8GB system with 500GB hard drive, without failing? Ther
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by SeanDav 9y ago
I have said this multiple times, but I am going to say it again. I have always used Firefox and Chrome, side by side since Chrome first came out and I have never, ever, in all that time, even once thought that Chrome was faster than Firefox
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by SeanDav 9y ago
> "...then expect his life to get harder." Poor guy might be out of a job, would just have to get by with his few paltry billions. (I know what you are trying to say, but no-one makes billions without being smart, lucky and w
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by SeanDav 9y ago
> "That seems like somewhat of a weak ending, .. " I hardly think I gave the story justice, since it is based on my memory from something like 20 years ago or more and I am sure I am misremembering the specifics. But to addre
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by SeanDav 9y ago
A long time ago I read a Science Fiction short story about a society where everything was unrepairable, throwaway and came with expiry dates. Does not seem too much like Science Fiction nowadays... EDIT: I wonder if anyone might remember t
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by SeanDav 9y ago
Agree. This appears to be more a clever implementation of an algorithm generating "artistic" impressions. In some cases, creating artifacts which simply were not part of the original picture.
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by SeanDav 9y ago
Let's say you have your data secured with Ultimate Encryption Method . A couple of thugs appear at your door and mention that if you don't un-encrypt that data, they will send these very compromising photographs of you to very pu
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by SeanDav 9y ago
This really was not the main thrust of my question. It is completely obvious that the developers, or anyone else contributing can work on any aspect they choose. I am far more interested in a discussion about the merits of a Visual Scriptin
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by SeanDav 9y ago
Almost all of this is impressive and looks great, but personally I am not a fan of "VisualScript". https://godotengine.org/article/godot-getting-more-languages I have yet to see a "Visual" programmi
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by SeanDav 9y ago
I would sincerely hope not! i.e. Tracking.
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by SeanDav 9y ago
OT: > "Google would be an elephant while DuckDuckGo is a mosquito (this is not to emphasize; I’m actually making things better for DuckDuckGo)." Actually the Author is not making it better, in fact worse. From the numbers in
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by SeanDav 9y ago
Lower case "i" and "l" are just way to similar. In addition lower case "i" looks a lot like a "t" to me. This is not a good sign for a coding font.
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by SeanDav 9y ago
> "Meh, a 5 Mega Watt wind turbine kills less wildlife than the average outdoor cat." Do you have some sort of data to back this up?
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by SeanDav 9y ago
This is a good point. Perhaps the sound penetrates a distance into the water and you get scattering, returning a small signal.
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by SeanDav 9y ago
> "Do you think humans aren't animals...?" One has to be quite careful with type of comment. Of course humans are animals, but we are animals of a particular species and what one animal species eats or easily tolerates,
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by SeanDav 9y ago
> "The cure is ketamine? That's an animal tranquilizer." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketamine Ketamine has very important human use. From article above: "It is on the World Health Organizatio
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by SeanDav 9y ago
> " I used the data at this level from 2013 where I won $1,913.13 over 387,373 hands," This does not seem like a lot of money to earn for playing 387k hands! Not a criticism just an observation - but surely this amount of eff
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by SeanDav 9y ago
Since the subject of context has come up - in the context of water-living invertebrates, copper is poisonous in anything other than very low concentrations. This is why copper containing solutions are used to kill snail and slug infestation
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by SeanDav 9y ago
Almost any compound is poisonous in high concentrations and/or doses. Even water can be deadly if one drinks too much over too short a period. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication
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by SeanDav 9y ago
> "Large accumulations of mussels can weigh as much as 1,700 pounds per square foot." I really find it hard to believe that is a number based in reality. Disclaimer: I am no expert! EDIT: Even if the mussels were solid gold a
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by SeanDav 9y ago
My understanding is that within the scientific/academic community that taking time to write good code is considered to be a black mark as you are "wasting time" which could be better spent on your main project. So writing bad
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by SeanDav 9y ago
I like the list of potential projects to attempt, in order to learn a language. I would add a Battleships program to that list as I find that provides an interesting challenge to learn to program without being too complex in terms of data s
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by SeanDav 9y ago
> "...removing features from your build isn't going to improve the features you keep." Taken literally, this statement is true, but either deliberately or accidentally, is hiding the reality that removing features can
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by SeanDav 9y ago
Flat Interfaces: a brilliant example of Form over Substance. Usually a well designed UI should be easy to use, with important functionality highlighted in some obvious and consistent way. A Flat UI has no redeeming features, possibly other
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by SeanDav 9y ago
This site just went straight to my bookmark list, brilliant. Small criticism: Every time you move it creates new page entry in the back button list, so once you have moved around a bit you can't use browser back button to easily go bac
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by SeanDav 9y ago
DoW3: Dawn of War 3 CoH2: Company of Heroes 2 bots: Robots / Automated game play RTS: Real Time Strategy DotA: Good explanation provided at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dota_2 ... and just in case anyone is conf
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by SeanDav 9y ago
General comment and not aimed at this specific instance: Just because you are writing in assembler, does not mean it is going to run faster than the same code in a compiled language. There has been decades of research and who knows how many
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by SeanDav 9y ago
Pretty much this is the problem: > "Those who do put effort into producing good code risk being seen by their colleagues as time-wasters." Producing good code takes time and effort. It would seem a complete culture shift is r

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