ashleyn

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601.
by ashleyn 9y ago
This again? Remember the Euclideon engine? The main problem is that you can't animate models composed of voxels. Every one of these "atom-based engine" projects runs into that wall and rides the funding until the hype runs ou
602.
by ashleyn 9y ago
Can it pass C10k?
603.
by ashleyn 9y ago
I'm sitting here wondering, "How did centuries of autopsy miss an entire human organ?" It looks more like they found behaviour of something already known that meets the definition of an organ.
604.
by ashleyn 9y ago
Reminds me of when someone ran "rm -rf /" at Pixar and deleted all of Toy Story 2. The backups were crap and the only reason it survived was because someone took a server to work from home. When all was said and done, they ne
605.
by ashleyn 9y ago
This must be how data leaks/vulnerabilities happen.
606.
by ashleyn 9y ago
Or, if they're on the other side of the political aisle, accusations that the government is sterilising minorities.
607.
by ashleyn 9y ago
Or assume the government has unlimited resources to throw at a problem, and not commit crimes. Most of these headlines describe something that would require nation-state resources to crack. If you wanna hide paying for something legal, it&#
608.
by ashleyn 9y ago
HyperCard together with Qbasic both fell into that forgotten realm of democratising programming; making it so that even your aunt could write a simple program herself. A lot of people ended up learning programming because of these simple la
609.
by ashleyn 9y ago
Sounds ridiculous until you realise they probably weren't given the proper time to ever fix it. What's better at that point? Restart it until it doesn't crash at a significant performance penalty, or just leave it broken?
610.
by ashleyn 9y ago
Glass/gradients was a baaaad trend in visual styles. Very plastic, cheap looking.
611.
by ashleyn 9y ago
Couldn't they just....use the map as a map? They probably didn't know how to use it.
612.
by ashleyn 9y ago
Reminds me how the Russian Buzzer UVB-76 works. Hams listening to the station determined it was literally just a microphone in front of some tone generator, because occasionally you'd hear conversations between soldiers in the backgrou
613.
by ashleyn 9y ago
I could hear the Looney Tunes factory music in my head just reading this.
614.
by ashleyn 9y ago
I looked up ERP software in google images. Holy poor UX, Batman! There's a great market opportunity there for something that doesn't spew out everything at once onscreen.
615.
by ashleyn 9y ago
Funny you mention NASCAR Racing. Was this the 1994 MS-DOS title? How were threads even done in an OS like DOS? I'm guessing this was something DOS/4GW gave or along those lines.
616.
by ashleyn 9y ago
If I had to guess, it was a hamfisted way of doing JS-style objects in C++. They could just slap properties onto objects, etc, and the build process will determine what each class needs. Clever, but terrible.
617.
by ashleyn 9y ago
Mr. Robot wasn't bullshitting.
618.
by ashleyn 9y ago
I recall reading somewhere that Stephen Hawking's original voice was a DECtalk, specifically a voice included with it called "Paul". I'm guessing that, in order to keep this voice, someone had to dump the samples from a
619.
by ashleyn 9y ago
I dunno what it is about the gaming industry relative to other software-related industries, but they have a horrid reputation for effectively treating employees as disposable. Not coincidentally, a lot of games end up having technical pro
620.
by ashleyn 9y ago
Uber's self-driving program seems to be one of the most unethical, most poorly-run in the entire industry. There were plenty of reports before warning us of the questionable quality of their research: cars changing lanes suddenly, blow
621.
by ashleyn 9y ago
I think the watershed moment was the election of Donald Trump. While it may not have been the determining factor, the deluge of fake news claiming Trump is the only one who could save us from Obama the secret Kenyan Muslim certainly couldn&
622.
by ashleyn 9y ago
My thoughts exactly: "The network management software interpreted the empty field as a 'wildcard,' meaning that the software understood the blank field as an instruction to block all calls, instead of as a null entry. This ca
623.
by ashleyn 9y ago
Perhaps not but already I'm wondering if it could enhance the effect of conventional HRT for transgender patients. Certainly something worth further investigation.
624.
by ashleyn 9y ago
The same way anything else becomes fake news: a headline that is seemingly the product of a mental function that optimises for the most sensational emotion under the loosest possible construction of the facts (and sometimes even looser than
625.
by ashleyn 9y ago
"Diversity" is a problem that can only be solved supply-side. If you want particular demographics in your field, the solution begins in early childhood, it begins in the home and the school. This preserves the still-essential meri
626.
by ashleyn 9y ago
OG Pentiums are still used in embedded systems and space applications
627.
by ashleyn 9y ago
DirectFB was great for small embedded systems projects where you didn't want the full weight of X. Unfortuntaely I don't think there's any alternative to X any longer for these kinds of projects, probably because the cost of
628.
by ashleyn 9y ago
Compounding the issue, maybe not for Google's devices but certainly others', is locking the bootloader so you can't even install an aftermarket ROM derived from open-source projects that are up to date security-wise. I won&
629.
by ashleyn 9y ago
They die with me; all encrypted. If there's something others need, I'll arrange for that beforehand.
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by ashleyn 9y ago
I had to reread this headline a few times, believing "Electric Truster" to be the esoteric job title of someone recently fired.

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