SkeuomorphicBee

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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
As an older programmer who deals with multiple languages, the very complexity of ASCII in a multi-language context does make unicode seems like a breath of fresh air. Seriously, multi-language in the 90s was a hell of half-baked incomplete
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
> In addition to being close to the Sun-Times offices, the bar came with an unexpected perk—a business broker who informed Pam and Bill he would help them cheat on their taxes and buy off officials. ... > [...] he was going to steer u
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
Some regions in India with wet and dry seasons have been successfully doing this for some time now. Interestingly, the very high precipitation during the wet season allowed them to achieve improvement without megaprojects, instead focusing
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
That is an option I haven't considered. It would be possible, but a bit pricy. I don't think Nintendo would go this route because they like their hardware cheap, but I don't completely rule out either. Yes, if they go this ro
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
Emulation is a lot nicer when it works, but it doesn't most of the time (most games have glitches, and a significant number don't work at all). It is OK for a third party emulator to not offer a perfect experience, not OK for Nint
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
> coupled with relatively experienced engineers I disagree. Nintendo has good engineers but so does many of the other studios. For me what sets Nintendo apart is not their code or technology, but their game design and game direction. The
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
There is a big problem with any switch upgrade plan: Current GPU architectures are too different to the original Maxwell GPU arch, so it is impossible for Nintendo to make a better console that is hardware compatible to the switch. The game
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
I'd like to also recommend his other work of speculative fiction: The Artificial Intelligence That Deleted A Century https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JlxuQ7tPgQ It is a great intersection of copyright maximalism and th
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
> Its users are the ones doing the influencing, not the company itself. That is absolutely not true. Telegram the company itself (not a user or users) mass-sent the propaganda message to all users of the platform in the country. That is
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
Also there should be increasing levels of archival and disclosure requirements: - before first renewal: no requirement. - first renewal: must provide a simple no-drm consumer-grade copy to an official archive (e.g. us library of Congress).
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
That is what pension or life insurance is for. The whole concept that copyright should be for the life of the author (or even life plus) came as a shoe in for pensions from a time where pensions weren't a thing.
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by SkeuomorphicBee 3y ago
> What's so good about having different documents/sessions in tabs instead of separate windows? Different hierarchical levels that I can use differently to organise stuff in my mental model: - Desktops/workspaces: complete
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4y ago
JPEG's design is brilliant, that is very true, but it also complicated. It uses a lot of CPU cycles to calculate the FFTs of the signal, and that is where the simplicity of QOK shines, by operating on the signal itself (instead of expe
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4y ago
The author gave just a simple example, the DVD animation, but it is much more than this, this technique is the industry standard in game art for all the background animations of a game, like the wind blowing the leaves and the grass, the w
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4y ago
The USA medical insurance system is missing a "stick" for such bogus rejections. Unduly denying a claim should result in a fine big enough to be felt in the company balance sheet, that is the only way to change companies' beh
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4y ago
> How is reprinting the final automated tally supposed to represent a "recount" of the original automated tally? If you want to detect tampering in the central totalling, then all you need is the end of day receipt of each ball
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4y ago
By looking at the receipts printed by the ballot machines. Ballot machines print either a final tally at the end of the day, or print every single vote and automatically drop it into a physical ballot, depending on the threat model of the c
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4y ago
> I was left with the impression that it is the paper records in this story that led to the unravelling of an attempt to forge the results. The manual tallying of paper records is what lead to the attempt to forge the results in the firs
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4y ago
First of all, hacking the electronic system is much much harder than hacking the paper process. In the case at hand the paper tallying process was the one hacked. And second, electronic systems can create a paper trail, just make the electr
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4y ago
I guess you haven't been following the news. The previous commenters clearly makes a reference to the rail worker's strike from a few months ago, which was the first strike in decades powerful enough to threaten a "wider disr
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4y ago
If all the police did was investigate, then their conduct would have been fine. But they arrested him, and that is not adequate conduct.
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4y ago
The social contract of email dictates that it is not a real time communication media. Some people do check their email in real time, but many don't, so you can't rely on that.
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4y ago
1. It doesn't separate program's config, data, and cache; so it is impossible to backup excluding cache, impossible to reset your config without data-loss. 2. It assumes home is infinite, if you are running out of space in home yo
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4y ago
Just to clarify, it is not just about "hidden" files looking good. There are many reasons one may want to move config/data/cache files to other locations, E.G. in my case I have a computer with home on a small partition
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4y ago
The 1987 Brazilian accident in Goiânia was horrendous because the caesium-137 capsule was breached and there was widespread contamination by radioactive dust. I get chilled to the bone when I read the descriptions of people innocently playi
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4y ago
While the first item in their "Why LaTeX?" list is "Separates content from formatting/styling", I would say that my biggest problems with Latex is it doesn't actually separates content from formatting/styl
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4y ago
Because you need proof, and proving that someone is a terrorist is a long expensive and not guarantied process, while the lying on a form thing is purposefully self evident.
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4y ago
I loved the insight of how the chronological method of organization took over the zeitgeist of the early Internet, pushing out the handcrafted lists/hierarchies into weird niches in the sidelines, and eventually leading to it being sup
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4y ago
I don't know when is "old days" for you, but I remember plenty of constant factor optimization talk in CS two+ decades ago. In fact the "ignore constant factors" mantra was only valid in theoretical CS, most practic
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by SkeuomorphicBee 4y ago
Yes, they are mutually exclusive. There are two different meanings of "middle class" being used in this kind of discussion: 1. The class of people who live of their work but owns their own means of production (e.g. independent pro

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