SkeuomorphicBee

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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
Minecraft is just pixels in space. The world is built with a sort of very low resolution voxels. Yes, the 1m x 1m blocks that make up everything are voxels, they only have position (discrete, aligned to the 3D voxel grid) and "colour&q
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
Nothing unfair about it, the truth is everyone got that question wrong (because there was no right option available), so they didn't fault the test takers, instead just annulled that one and scored everyone based on the actual question
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
That is not a fair way, for two reasons: 1. You can't award a bonus question to a subset of people, that is not a fair way of running a standardized test. You can't score some people as x/154 and some at x/153. 2. The ol
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
There is precedent that copying to another format for the original use is not copyright infringement. Like copying your old CDs to your phone to listen the go. So the IA should have a strong case that digital lending is such legit copying f
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
This is a problem, out of band communication is always a second titer and always overlooked, always incomplete. We as developers see this every day with documentation running out of date in relation to code. The same way the out of group co
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
That is quite an unetical move by Harvard, they are the ones that made the information public, and then punished those who viewed it.
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
I disagree, "w3" doesn't have any official connotation, it is literally the name of the thing they are teaching (or the alternate spelling of the abbreviation, but same thing). It is a common pattern for a school that teaches
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
Anyone knows a similar aggregated source for the opposite, for the good patterns?
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
Out of curiosity, are you sure about #1 ? I all because a long long time ago I worked with some raw NAND on embedded devices and I remember doing small writes, in fact I could do single byte writes (write only, the erase was in big blocks a
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
Different strokes indeed. As a very happy apartment/flat/condo dweller, the suburban home life feels to me like being trapped in a tiny deserted island (the cartoon ones, with a single coconut tree), just a tiny personal plot surr
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
One small caveat: the "came out" date is irrelevant, the relevant date is the date an alternative appeared. In this case the real info is the replacement came out ~5 years ago (or ~4 depending on the definition). And the situation
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
Sacrificing customer comfort and customer goodwill is the new forefront of business optimization, and it is reaching levels where every interaction with every company always leave a bitter aftertaste for the customer. It all started with th
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
> Like, using u8 or i32 instead of the standard uint8_t or int32_t might save a few keystrokes [...] It is not about saving keystrokes, it is about reducing sensory load when reading it. Sorry, I know it may sound like I'm splitting
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
> It has become a dominant view in the philosophy of time that Einstein’s Theory of Relativity showed that the passage of time is an illusion, and that in fact the past, present, and future all coexist. The first paragraph is already tro
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
I gather that everyone who actually knows their stuff consider the F35 very capable for its price, but still the number of reports of it crashing seems quite odd to my civilian ear, is this much crashing just normal for military equipment?
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
The sensor wouldn't wait for the whole travel and hit of the hammer, instead it would measure hammer position/velocity at all times and replicate that, so the latency could be fairly small, I would be curious if small enough for a
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
Just an interesting first person anecdote: In the south of Brazil (close to Argentina) we normally have well defined seasons, but almost like clockwork we always had a famous "mini-summer of May", an unusually warm week in an othe
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
> Also, it's not the voltage that kills you, it's the amperage. A bit off-topic but I never liked that saying, it is kind-of-right but also soo wrong in so many levels. Amperage is not a thing that happens on its own, it is alw
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
I hate the prevailing sentiment around here that if you are not paying then you deserve all harm to comes to you. If I get free food sample from a brand I fully expect that it should comply with the same sanitary/health standards as a
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
> I hope this is not as bad in medicine and health related research. I have friends and family working with medicine and health related research, and I don't think it is bad. In fact I'm a bit amazed at how good the Medicine ac
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
A bit off-topic, but what's with all the 404 links in that about page? With all the missing pages it felt like a treasure hunt to find any information about what the language actually looks like. Literally the first four links in the A
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
Depending on the use case that is a big plus. E.G. My homeoffice desk has a hidden cable gutter in the back, to hide all the power and data cables, and I just leave all the power bricks there as well, so for me a small mini-pc on the desk w
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
That is even worse when you consider that tech brands often design their full lineups with the buying-power of rich countries in mind, their lowest option each year often being way too expensive to the lower classes on developing or poor co
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
I find it super interesting when a new efficient technique breaks into professional sports. As it is described in the article, there is always push back from the establishment, with even accusations that the new technique is cheating, then
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
That is so interesting for amateur play, it will be a revolution for casual players with low grip strength. The way he performs the whole swing while holding the ball with the palm of both hands, instead of just gripping with your dominant
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
Also 200mL, and if you go into older standards (sometimes needed to read a grandmother's cookbook) it could also mean 180mL, or 175ml.
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
I remember differently, I remember visual studio 6 bringing my PC to is knees (although to be fair I was a broke student and my PC was a potato).
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
I'll have to agree to disagree. In my experience IDEs are the one type of software that were always slow, Eclipse is two decades old, and it's slowness was on a whole different level.
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
> First, it's not always easy to map every object operation into either an open read or write. Now a days people are mapping everything to JSON, and it works. The Plan9 directory structure was basically the JSON of the 80s, a hierar
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
Mega was a re-thinked Megaupload trying to accomplish the same thing but they are very different as Mega is built with a different tech/business architecture to try avoid crossing the lines into illegality that Megaupload crossed. The

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