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by ashleyn 7y ago
Conventionally, I always figured if one were that smart they would realise crime wasn't a good cost-benefit balance in the first place.
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by ashleyn 7y ago
Although the worst of the doomsday predictions are not scientific, it doesn't exactly mean we can continue to ignore carbon emissions.
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by ashleyn 7y ago
Read about "German physics". Third Reich Germany's scientific community suffered greatly because they had purged all Jewish people, many of whom were highly qualified and disciplined. Fortunately for the rest of the world, th
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by ashleyn 7y ago
Almost 15 years later I can still remember that number from the TV commercials.
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by ashleyn 7y ago
Lineage for cars won't happen, too many questions surrounding roadworthiness/safety/security.
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by ashleyn 7y ago
Neither of my parents are particularly "bright" and today I work as a computer programmer. I'm skeptical of this premise.
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by ashleyn 7y ago
That "god forsaken war" was both started by, and ended, white fascism in Europe. I can name you plenty of examples of "bullshit wars." The Allies' effort in WW2 was a noble fight.
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by ashleyn 7y ago
Climate change is nothing to sneer at but it seems like it's now acceptable to make dubious claims about weather disasters and link every single one to climate change in some fashion. When really the picture is more nuanced; there&#x27
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by ashleyn 7y ago
Three Mile Island and Chernobyl were practically PR disasters for the nuclear industry and all within ten years.
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by ashleyn 7y ago
It's also likely it was done by an intelligence agency.
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by ashleyn 7y ago
It bears mentioning that this same judicial philosophy is extolled by hotly-controversial and recent appointments to the US Supreme Court.
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by ashleyn 7y ago
The first example of this I can remember was the endless stairs music from Super Mario 64.
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by ashleyn 7y ago
Didn't seem to work very well when Russia banned "gay propaganda." Russian constitution doesn't really seem worth the paper it's printed on and more or less is run by conservative-democratic mobs.
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by ashleyn 7y ago
So there was an element of truth to Frank Cross's allegation after all. "No, no, you're not a ghost, you're a HALLUCINATION, brought on by alcohol! Russian vodka poisoned by Chernobyl!"
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by ashleyn 7y ago
When I was growing up the general assumption was that you'd have to program the computer in order to use it. Learning BASIC was touted as a new household skill like setting the time on the VCR. That never really happened because of adv
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by ashleyn 7y ago
Law maybe not, ethics definitely. Although a cursory understanding of IP law is probably essential for wearing many hats at a job.
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by ashleyn 7y ago
Far less than half, I'm actually pleasantly surprised.
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by ashleyn 7y ago
Part of this problem is that Congress has simply stopped functioning for the past ten years or so. They're pretty much just keeping the lights on while social conservatives refuse to compromise with anyone else. When's the last ti
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by ashleyn 7y ago
Inheritance is so natural to a GUI data structure. UI in Rust is incredibly painful. Probably a reason behind the CPU-wasteful "immediate mode" fad.
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by ashleyn 7y ago
I wonder if this will help make housing more affordable due to reduced foreign investment.
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by ashleyn 7y ago
I'm just thinking right now about how we have terrible knowledge silos at work and how screwed we'd be if these people won the lottery. I'm pretty sure NASA had the same problem and we can't rebuild a Saturn V even if we
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by ashleyn 7y ago
Windows has gone from operating system to value-added-service driver. No wonder they yank shit like Microsoft Store from GPOs and move others into the Enterprise level only.
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by ashleyn 7y ago
I question why Windows continues to need increasingly demanding and intrusive anti-malware when Mac and Linux get along just fine without it. The architecture of Windows must be aging terribly if the only way one can keep it safe is by humo
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by ashleyn 7y ago
Programming your own GUI in an "engineless" plain-OpenGL/DirectX graphical project or game. I rolled my own GUI for my C++ game because all existing examples were either very badly designed (think singletons everywhere), obsc
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by ashleyn 7y ago
How I got started: the "big kids" at school showed me how to play Qbasic Nibbles on our school computers, circa 1999-2000. I remember the first things I did was try to add "cheat codes" to Nibbles, and then use PRINT&#x2
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by ashleyn 7y ago
Part of the appeal Qbasic had to me as a kid, was that I read that it was occasionally used in a professional capacity. So this easy-to-learn, easy-to-use language had the added cool-factor of being "real stuff". I don't thin
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by ashleyn 7y ago
This is an interesting view into Qbasic's longevity; your posts are from 2007, long past its release date of 1992. The suite itself predates popular use of the Web by a handful of years and yet the community's size seems to have p
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by ashleyn 7y ago
There's never been anything quite like Qbasic. Bundled with the OS, providing clear and relatively foolproof syntax, with an ability to get graphics onscreen extremely quickly. Plus, an amazing and decently large community of amateur g
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by ashleyn 7y ago
Windows Defender's realtime protection in Windows 10 is also terrible. Practically monopolises an entire core at all times. To make things worse, you cannot permanently disable it without a GPO. And Microsoft is known to keep taking GP
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by ashleyn 7y ago
That probably has something to do with Apple's abysmal support for OpenGL. They have even deprecated it for their proprietary Metal API. From Blender's perspective supporting a proprietary API is not worth it.

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