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by TillE 3y ago
Just to underline that, Microsoft has been using "x64" for about 20 years; the architecture was supported on Windows XP and Server 2003. It's probably the clearest term to use when you're talking specifically about Windo
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by TillE 3y ago
Same experience: if you're trying to do something unusual (an obscure library, or a task that has minimal documentation and few usage examples in the wild), the results are usually bad, and it will very frequently try to call functions
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by TillE 3y ago
It fits very comfortably into the category of "time management" game, which was a fairly popular casual genre 10-15 years ago. Cook Serve Delicious is probably the one notable example which is still going strong. Definitely distin
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by TillE 3y ago
Londo's arc by itself is remarkable, walking a tightrope between comic relief and villain and sympathetic protagonist. And it all works , it's never trite or forced. He's a great character because he's all those things
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by TillE 3y ago
The only real complaint I have about Firefox on macOS is that fullscreening a video takes forever. Safari does it twice as fast and with a smooth animation instead of blanking the screen. Otherwise I find the experience on Windows and Mac v
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by TillE 3y ago
Game console emulators are surprisingly popular on Android. Even with a bluetooth controller, it seems like a terrible experience with a tiny screen that's even tinier if you're playing retro games with a 4:3 aspect ratio.
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by TillE 3y ago
Google is fine if you're searching for restaurants or a Wikipedia article. I'm sure they handle the vast majority of their mundane queries well. It's awful, much worse than it used to be, if you're looking for some speci
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by TillE 3y ago
I think tests like "can this LLM pass an English literature exam it's never seen before" are probably useful, but yeah there's a lot of silly stuff like math tests. I suppose the question is where are they most commercia
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by TillE 3y ago
I think maybe this was changed quite recently, but for a long time Windows 10/11 would send you periodic notifications that Defender had done a scan and found no threats. Pointless and briefly alarming; I do not expect to get AV notifi
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by TillE 3y ago
Arch is unusual in that it's x86-64 only, so going from 1 to 2 is probably a lot harder than other distros just adding the nth new architecture.
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by TillE 3y ago
I agree that you should always be ready and happy to discard or refactor code as needed. Requirements change, your assumptions may be wrong. But in practice I've more often seen the opposite problem, where organizations end up stuck on
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by TillE 3y ago
It's not a risk or anything, but it does waste power compared to using the HLT instruction.
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by TillE 3y ago
Homebrew version of yt-dlp works fine here (Sonoma public beta, fwiw).
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by TillE 3y ago
It is remarkable how easy they've made it to cleanly pirate Windows recently. You don't even need to run your own KMS thing, there are several public servers, and you just type in three terminal commands. Totally different from th
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by TillE 3y ago
Yeah the "insane pilot error" crashes always get me. American 587 is another example where, in response to normal wake turbulence, the pilot mashed the rudder back and forth so hard it broke the stabilizer.
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by TillE 3y ago
An equivalent generic sort function in C would, at best, require a bunch of additional distracting cruft. This is exactly what C++ templates are for.
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by TillE 3y ago
By "we", The Verge really means "the rest of the media". They've generally done a good job of covering Musk and Twitter; Nilay and crew are smart people writing for an audience of people who know what's up.
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by TillE 3y ago
Google's Fuchsia is still the best bet for a genuinely new OS that may at least find a niche. Capability-based microkernels have been exciting research projects for decades, and Google has apparently made one that achieves acceptable p
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by TillE 3y ago
This isn't a particularly meaningful paper because they failed to produce any kind of partial levitation. This one which finds substantial ferromagnetism and minimal diamagnetism is a far better reason to doubt that LK-99 is a supercon
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by TillE 3y ago
Civil aviation is not a life-or-death necessity. This is precisely the purpose of sanctions.
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by TillE 3y ago
C++/CLI really just exists for creating .NET bindings to C++ libraries, right? If you've got a C interface, LibraryImport in C# is sophisticated enough to get the job done on its own.
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by TillE 3y ago
They did a major redesign of the interface maybe ~8 years ago, and ever since I don't know where anything is. Lately I'm particularly baffled by the bar at the top, which is a way to search without typing. I click "Transit&qu
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by TillE 3y ago
The Ultimas were (mostly) wonderful, especially Ultima 7, but I don't think there's anything particularly valuable about the "IP". It was really about Garriott exploring innovative ways in how to translate the tabletop R
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by TillE 3y ago
Sure there's no general formula, but it's really not a surprise that the first big D&D videogame in a long time would be a huge success, after several years of tabletop D&D skyrocketing in popularity.
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by TillE 3y ago
I've been primarily using SourceTree since way back when it was an indie app, and have continued to do so because the alternatives just don't present the information I want in a convenient way. Lazygit is the only other UI I'
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by TillE 3y ago
Pimpl is basically my default C++ style, with exceptions made when the teeny tiny bit of overhead might actually matter. It just feels great to be able to totally refactor the implementation without touching the header.
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by TillE 3y ago
> and your games are guaranteed to work PC games "not working" hasn't been an issue since maybe the early 2000s. Everything has been standardized for decades. Unless you've got really old hardware that doesn't su
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by TillE 3y ago
It's incredibly annoying to be searching for a thing, and get a result from Pinterest that's just a bookmark of that thing. As far as I know, this is more a failure of Google's inexplicable algorithm than Pinterest doing anyt
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by TillE 3y ago
Yeah I've experimented with caching vertex arrays in a scenario very similar to ImGui. It's gotta be faster when there's thousands of frames with zero changes, right? Turns out, not really. It's very easy to make perform
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by TillE 3y ago
I buy paper books when I have to, but e-readers are fantastic. No reason to avoid them for the vast majority of novels which don't have weird formatting or tons of footnotes.

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