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by _gabe_ 2y ago
If that’s the case why do the Celsius thermostats I used while on vacation in Canada use 0.5C increments? The decimals are used, because the change between 25C and 26C is actually pretty big :) In my old apartment, the difference between 73
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by _gabe_ 2y ago
They do know the difference[0][1][2]. I feel like gamers are notorious for complaining about fidelity issues and frame rate issues. I’m not sure why you would think they don’t understand the difference. The reason people complain about swit
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by _gabe_ 2y ago
There’s a very big difference between ultra realistic PBR graphics and running games at 60 FPS at 1080p.
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by _gabe_ 2y ago
Is the FTC unbiased enough for you?[0]. This is a real problem. Many landlords use the same software to determine how much to charge, this software is intended to maximize rent by fixing the price. [0]: https://www.ftc.gov/b
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by _gabe_ 2y ago
> It seems that memory bugs carry a higher risk of being completely invisible except in deliberately contrived situations. Do they really carry a higher risk of being invisible though? You don’t need to “contrive” situations either. My
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by _gabe_ 2y ago
This “curation” is what is killing SO. Software is soft. It changes. There is no “one true answer for all time”. It’s honestly sad how many times I search for an answer, only to see the exact question I’m looking for closed as duplicate, th
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by _gabe_ 2y ago
Race car drivers . They are pros. Professional drivers. They definitely know how to drive a car much more efficiently than I do, or anyone that’s just into cars. I assume the race car engineers are the pros at rebuilding engines. And as
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by _gabe_ 2y ago
It’s funny that you mention this. The most helpful research papers I’ve read have been written by private companies. Here’s a couple off the top of my head[0][1]. Short and straight to the point. [0]: https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.
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by _gabe_ 2y ago
For what it’s worth, I was also thinking this is a very wordy article. It has lots of asides, and seems to get distracted from the main point. It gets distracted enough that I have a hard time following it, which is not conducive to what an
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by _gabe_ 2y ago
In addition to what CyberDildonics already said, C++ is also an (almost) superset of C. You can also inline assembly. If you find particular hot loops that need to be optimized at any point while profiling, it’s trivial to drop down levels
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by _gabe_ 2y ago
That’s not the definition of invention. > a: something invented: such as (1): a device, contrivance, or process originated after study and experiment (2): a product of the imagination especially : a false conception[0] Studying, experime
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by _gabe_ 2y ago
For real. I love how they can even call feathers the greatest invention without ever wondering who the inventor was. You can’t claim evolution is the inventor. Evolution is a description of a process, and anthropomorphizing it doesn’t
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by _gabe_ 2y ago
I misspoke in my comment and must have used Swing more than JavaFX (I’ve used both, but forgot which one I primarily used, this was 8 or 9 years ago and a short job). Either way, I really don’t like when only a subset of the language is sup
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by _gabe_ 2y ago
> Meanwhile, more than one web developer has communicated to me in private that they hate CSS and barely understand it after years of using it professionally to make money They barely even understand it?? I think the biggest problem wi
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by _gabe_ 2y ago
The patty doesn’t get in my fridge unless I put it there… after I’ve gone grocery shopping and picked it up. On the other hand, I pass McDonald’s everyday on the way home from work anyways.
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by _gabe_ 2y ago
> It is true, however, that Jobs was hot tempered, could easily start shouting at his employees and calling their work shit, and reduce them to tears. But he was not just cruel and brutal: he could also be a total charmer and make his co
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by _gabe_ 2y ago
I don’t have a horse in this race, but the author of this post sounds insufferable based on their email responses and fediverse thread. They post a public email on their public website (I assume for people to reach out to them) and then get
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
I see. It’s not a prerequisite, I 100% agree. But by building a game you will most likely, maybe even unintentionally, develop a strong math background :D The grandparent comment was talking about how all the different subjects in school ca
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
> I disagree even though math was my favourite subject in the school. I think I truly only enjoyed math and physics. They were the only subjects I felt like I could actually problem solve and not have to memorise facts I can't relat
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
I worked at a grocery store for 5 years. A couple retirees worked there because they had to, but most of them just wanted something to do and health benefits.
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Meta, OpenAI, Intel, Nvidia, AMD, Netflix just to name a few.
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
It’s not though. My company partners with several other Apple sized and larger tech companies. Some are better than others, and we have running jokes about the ones that like to try to throw around their weight. Because, as you might expect
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
Can it transfer the photos you have in iCloud? Or the passwords that Apple will “conveniently” store in its internal password manager? Or the bookmarks you have on safari? Or the messages you have on iMessage? Or the notes you have saved in
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
> The largest problem is the over-dependence on the use of "Gesture Navigation" which is invisible and thus non-existent to them. This is uniquely an iPhone problem, not a smartphone problem. It’s been one of my biggest g
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
> there is a large cohort of not that great web programmers who don’t know much I think you mean “programmers” not just “web programmers”. I’ve worked with plenty of bloated over-engineered Java and C# codebases that take several minute
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
It is putting the significance in the foreground. An if statement is a semantic part of the language. Highlighting that is calling out that there is a higher level of programming going on there than a sequential list of instructions. No pro
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
Why should a refund even be necessary? What’s the point of Apple’s highly selective review process if they let apps like this through? The only reason that I can fathom is it’s because Apple will gladly take a 30% cut of that revenue. And t
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
My dad had installed a QR code reader app on his iPhone that was a monthly paid subscription. He was wasting hundreds of dollars every year for something his phone already did automatically for free by just opening the camera. Apple will ha
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
Yes. Because it’s impossible to write a malicious program in Rust, Python and Java, or pick up bad programming habits in any of the above languages /s
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
This is why I stopped using PayPal. My credit card company allows me to issue chargebacks with typically very little friction because of my credit history. PayPal once put me through the wringer for an order I cancelled and never received a

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