T-hawk

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But there's nothing special about the 1k signal either, because a second is arbitrary. The original signal might have been 878 Hz instead (or equivalently 1000 cycles / 1.139 seconds which is no more or less privileged than 1000
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I had a previous job where the testers would always do that, just report "broken" or "doesn't work" for just about everything. I eventually figured out that they didn't actually want bugs fixed. They wanted
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by T-hawk 10y ago
Popular Mechanics isn't a science journal. It's the dead-tree version of clickbait.
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> "News" is often like fast food And don't forget, engineered for addictiveness, not for utility.
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Recruiting works like any other sales job. You just keep ignoring any "no"s in the way (such as "don't contact me") because that's how you get to a yes.
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"Feed in energy" - that energy has to come from somewhere. The point of this subthread is where does that energy come from thermodynamically? The answer is orbital or rotational kinetic energy via tidal forces, which of course d
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His point is that commentary on the cost of living tends to oversimplify. Different regions don't just have a linear multiplier that applies to all expenses, but that's what these surface-level shallow surveys tend to imply. What
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Pluto wasn't considered minor at the time the element was named, of course.
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Yes. It comes from the orbital kinetic energy of Io and the other moons. The same happens in the Earth-Moon system. The Moon causes tides on Earth's oceans, which increase friction between water and land and therefore produce heat.
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by T-hawk 10y ago
Webcams record faster than 60 Hz. Sound perturbs the recorded image every scanline, not just every frame. The techniques that reconstruct audio from video do it by looking not frame by frame, but line by line. 60 Hz times 720 vertical re
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by T-hawk 10y ago
You didn't get your photo. You got a worse rushed photo that's only sort of like the one you wanted. That's not the same thing. The Port Authority's intimidation worked. We need a name for this fallacy: "We are e
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by T-hawk 10y ago
I'll me-too your me-too. I had that exact same situation on a job and left because of it. The only question I ever heard from my boss was "Are you billable?" She didn't care anything about technical quality, career de
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The more reliable parts of the industry didn't get there instantly on day one like we seem to expect games to do. They got there by refining their process over plenty of time. Every large system that works developed from a small syst
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I find that's exactly where the debugger is most useful. I know I'm trying to reach or examine a state that my binary can't achieve. That's the problem. The debugger lets me poke around to figure out what exactly
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by T-hawk 10y ago
You guys are arguing from opposite directions. Doom-to-Quake was a bigger technological leap, going from a hacky 2.5D raycasting engine to a fully polygonal 3D environment and renderer. But Wolf3D-to-Doom was a bigger gameplay leap. Do
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by T-hawk 10y ago
Perhaps. If one is a socially incompetent developer, it's quite possible that one might find advice from another socially incompetent developer to be more relevant and actionable than advice from a socially competent developer.
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Microsoft didn't force that, they reflected it. Microsoft just made their software facilitate what users actually wanted to do. They don't care about all that tedious effort to scroll and selectively trim and indent and format q
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by T-hawk 10y ago
The internet interprets adblocker-rejection as censorship as damage, and routes around it.
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But, statistically speaking, it probably is an imbecile. These systems aren't optimizing for someone like you trying to be clever. They're trying to handle the more common cases of someone typing a street address in the wrong f
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by T-hawk 11y ago
Another Round 42 fan here from way back. This was one of the first of original PC games to start failing on newer hardware; even most VGA cards weren't compatible with that funky CGA mode. I wonder if Dosbox can handle it at all...
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by T-hawk 11y ago
For programming, words-per-minute typing speed isn't so important. Just typing characters is a small fraction of your input. You're doing all sorts of other operations - moving and pasting expressions and lines, adjusting indent
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by T-hawk 11y ago
LinkedIn's "shadow profiles" are absolutely horrific. I deleted my LinkedIn account over five years ago, and hunted down every "no, really delete" option I could find on the site and in their emails. It didn't
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by T-hawk 11y ago
Your first concern often comes up in Dropbox threads. Of course they could easily offer a plan at 0.5TB / $5 or some such. They just don't want to. They'd lose more revenue from existing customers dropping from $10 to $5 t
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by T-hawk 11y ago
This actually hit my previous company in a software context. We would number hotfixes sequentially. Customers would be notified when hotfixes were to be deployed to their sites. One savvy client noticed the hotfix numbering sequence and w
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by T-hawk 11y ago
Yes What happens is that blocks dropping from above a cleared line counteract the parity problem created by the odd number of T's. 5 blocks (an odd number) switch parity by moving one position orthogonally. More generally, any odd nu
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by T-hawk 11y ago
And this is exactly the difference between Scrum and Kanban. Scrum fixes the time periods and allows for adjusting scope, by cutting stories and features. Kanban fixes the scope while allowing the time period to be open-ended. Which meth
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Even if it did, it would be more of a drag chute rather than a parachute. The Mach 30 velocity of orbit is horizontal to the ground, not downwards.
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So the core of this trick is to point the stack pointer into video memory, because pull/push instructions can deliver faster throughput than traditional load/stores. The Atari 2600 has hardware designed to take advantage of such a
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> Solving arbitrary puzzles someone else has set in front of you, in order to get a job, is not a fun programming challenge. Except this is how actual jobs work. Real business value-creating requirements tend to resemble an arbitrary pu
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by T-hawk 11y ago
Hairdressers, doctors, and baristas operate in a market of free choice. Their motivation to be polite is that customers will go elsewhere if they don't. Police officers have a monopoly in their industry. If you're being detained

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