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by balaam 6y ago
I don't really want robot weapons but I would love to see a firing range demonstration with one, just to see what's possible when you get super-human aiming. I don't see a future for humanoid bots in war. Missiles and drones
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by balaam 6y ago
In most cases the server code is home rolled, especially for realtime networked games. Handling multiplayer at scale is hard to solve in house, especially for popular titles and that's usually handled by third parties such as Multiplay
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by balaam 6y ago
C++ fills a niche and probably if you use it all on your own you don't even see the problems. But if you use it at scale with multiple developers you can see it's layers of leaky abstraction laid down since the 80s that can never
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by balaam 6y ago
This is the best way to use twitter. You get a clear stream of useful, relevant content. Unfortunately this also gets framed as a "filter bubble". I want a filter bubble. The problem in practice is that twitter actively fights y
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by balaam 6y ago
For me, Windows 10 is where I felt like I was no longer in control of my own computer. Microsoft doesn't do discrete OS updates anymore but I definitely feel like it might time to give Linux another go next time I upgrade my hardware.
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by balaam 7y ago
Orbital Operations by Warren Ellis http://www.warrenellis.com/orbital-operations-a-new-newslett... Various musings from author Warren Ellis - comic books, script writing, weird fiction are probably the mainstays but it can
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by balaam 7y ago
I agree with this. A basic income program could have an unexpected dividend of a new innovation boom.
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by balaam 7y ago
> You need very good practices to make C++ compile fast. I would reframe this as the design of C++ makes it hard to write code that compiles fast.
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by balaam 7y ago
That makes mse think that are probably a lot of easy wins in the funnel of getting people successfully through the course.
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by balaam 7y ago
I think you sometimes need a new word or term to better capture an idea. I quite like the idea of mircomastery. We'll have to wait and see if it's one that survives though.
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by balaam 7y ago
I don't see why edit couldn't save the previous tweet and make it accessible from the edited one. That way you can link to the original if someone said something they're now trying to obscure. The replies could also be linked
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by balaam 7y ago
I've only ever had horrible experiences with Vaio and it would take a lot for me to consider trying one again. (The screen broke with a month, then I spent 3 months in a horrible support hell before finally getting refunded which wasn&
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by balaam 7y ago
Humans do this to a different degree than other animals but other animals also shape the environment; beavers can redirect rivers, some bird purposefully spread wildfires and so on.
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by balaam 7y ago
> the dev's takeaway was "Don't show them any gameplay." The average developer has almost no input into what is and isn't shown at E3. They can present some source material but E3 decisioss like these are made b