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by Tehdasi 6y ago
To add to the list of 'bugs that are now features', in SF2 'combos' were a bug, they were not intended to be part of gameplay. Their inclusion is arguably the basis of the 1v1 fighter genre.
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by Tehdasi 6y ago
"Fountain pens were messy and needed regular refilling" So the solution is to not make the refilling better and less messy, it was to invent landfill. Not only from having to replace the pen when it ran out of ink, but from high f
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by Tehdasi 6y ago
But ppl don't hate them for maintaining their old products.
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by Tehdasi 6y ago
Intel has been promising high-end graphics for decades, and delivering low end integrated graphics as a feature for their CPUs. Which makes sense, the market for CPUs is worth more than the market for game oriented GPUs. The rise of GPUs us
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by Tehdasi 6y ago
Or doing an ad where you are a self insert into 1984 and your competitor is big brother?
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by Tehdasi 6y ago
> OP specifically called out AGI as not requiring touch or taste, only text to beat the turing test. Erm, only text in the turing test? That's a pretty non-general form of artificial general intelligence.
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by Tehdasi 6y ago
The consequences of the decisions made by Microsoft Presidents and their ilk, since they are the ones who actually decide what software will look like. But still it would be good when MS gets found to do unethical things that a programmer c
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by Tehdasi 6y ago
Incidentally, the Australian equivilant of this (NPP) is going with ISO20022.
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by Tehdasi 6y ago
I agree, but Trump is not putting that frame on it. I suspect he doesn't have a problem with China's 'unfair' competition policies, he just have a problem that the US can't have it's own similar policies. A bet
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by Tehdasi 6y ago
I've always thought that a good way to do a practical interview is to get the candidate to do a fizzbuzz. Then tell them that the requirements have changed, they need to add feature x. Then feature y, and so on. I reckon this would avo
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by Tehdasi 6y ago
The problem is that your 'solution' is worse than the problem. It'll begin with a bloody war, which will create plenty of grievance against the invading forces, followed by an occupation which will be all able what is good fo
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by Tehdasi 6y ago
I dunno, I suspect that celebs with niche followings will be well recieved by fans. Ie. imagine Knuth doing one of these. Then again alot of smaller celebs will not have as much media training.
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by Tehdasi 6y ago
For a 30m contract, the streamers are not going to be swindled by the fine print. The contracts will have had break clauses if MS doesn't support Mixer enough or it discontinues Mixer. Prolly also have minimum revenue numbers for the
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by Tehdasi 6y ago
It does, but: "In the AKZO v Commission case,[79] the undertaking is presumed to be dominant if it has a market share of 50%. There are also findings of dominance that are below a market share of 50%, for instance, United Brands v Com
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by Tehdasi 6y ago
Hmm I wonder if the SomethingAwful reader app is liable to be hit by this. Since it requires a login which you do have to pay for, but the app is actually done by a 3rd paty.
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by Tehdasi 6y ago
"But, with SSDs, this changes entirely: new textures can be paged in within just a couple frames. Now, that paging can happen more on-demand." Erm, texture loading from RAM to the GPU memory already is critiqued in games, since pl
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by Tehdasi 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforc... US 30.4 vs Australia 1.7 So yeah, there are are issues with police in Australia, but the issues are far more extreme in the US.
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by Tehdasi 6y ago
Comparing Australia to the US, the difference is that in the US what happens is that the Supreme court rules on a law, and the ruling directs how the government implements the law for the next 50 years. In Australia the High court makes a r
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by Tehdasi 6y ago
From malwarebytes: "Spyware. Although it sounds like a James Bond gadget, it’s actually a type of malware that infects your PC or mobile device and gathers information about you, including the sites you visit, the things you download,
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by Tehdasi 6y ago
Top individual shareholders. Their holdings are tiny, the highest one holds ~10m compared to a market cap of ~100B.
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by Tehdasi 6y ago
Argueably MS already provide a complete language pre-installed in PowerShell. However would be nice if they more of a beginners IDE for simple programming.
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by Tehdasi 6y ago
Expectations of complexity were much less in those days. Like, a programming language that is limited to 40 character variable names would be considered amateur hour, but back in the day it was prolly considered luxuriant. Also given the me
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by Tehdasi 6y ago
There's less of point to developing industries if other countries will sell you the product of the industries for a competitive price.
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by Tehdasi 6y ago
The Bezzle, which I think has been on a HN post before: https://klementoninvesting.substack.com/p/the-bezzle
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by Tehdasi 7y ago
Or indeed, https://steamdb.info/
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by Tehdasi 7y ago
These things have been in Apple ever since the original Macintosh. In that case it was 'one mouse button, so simple'. Except to make the system usable as other systems with multiple button mice, they added a whole load of keyboard
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by Tehdasi 7y ago
The problem is that in the days before web UIs is also a different landscape in terms of the computing resources available, and the amount of security required. These were the problems that applications were focusing on solving. Because of
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by Tehdasi 7y ago
Early film cameras were hand cranked, so the actual speed of the film was all over the place. I assume it was just too much of a hassle to manually correct the speed of these films, so they didn't bother.
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by Tehdasi 7y ago
Not quite, there will be less fuel, but not less trees. The bushland of Australia has had regular fires baked into it's ecosystem, so the plant species all have coping mechanisms to deal with fire. A good example is are the Banksia var
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by Tehdasi 7y ago
Same way as 'French fries': 1) are not french 2) are not fried 3) have to be made of potato 4) are not 'frenched' 5) etc The author was prolly just picking a name that the mentality was most like.

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