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by barrkel 3y ago
I thought it simulated reasonably well the dynamics of a lone gunman on a mission in a civil war. It seems to me the only way to navigate such warzones would be stealth or disguise. All the other FC games are stealth games too, BTW. The lat
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by barrkel 3y ago
I have seen assault rifles in the hands of police reasonably frequently in airports across Europe.
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by barrkel 3y ago
Hybrid solutions are possible; e.g. JSONB in Postgres, where you can still index and join with decent performance.
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by barrkel 3y ago
FC1 lost its fun with the mutants. FC2 never stopped being fun to me, because it was essentially a giant open world game of Thief: get from A to B without being detected (since enemy patrols respawned, there was no point killing them).
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by barrkel 3y ago
Far Cry 3 and subsequent games were pop fun with little replayability. FC2 was a game I've lived in, with a printout of the map, marked up for patrols, so I could navigate safely from A to B for each mission. Better? I'd rather sa
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by barrkel 3y ago
If you have 10-15% of items with food stuck on them after a wash, you need either a better dishwasher, better detergent (there is a noticeable range in quality) or both.
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by barrkel 3y ago
Russia denies air supremacy with a spectrum of anti air defences, not air superiority fighters. IIRC Russia is at 99% air defence effectiveness vs the start of the Ukraine war; i.e. it has not been materially degraded at all, despite HARM a
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by barrkel 3y ago
Part of it is justifying the ad load by comparison with American broadcast TV (up to 18 minutes of every hour), while not recognizing that that level of ad load is not well known in Europe, for one thing.
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by barrkel 3y ago
All I ever really use the assistants for is: - get a weather forecast for today - set an alarm or timer - control smart light bulbs - play a song IMO a huge input space is a negative feature. Either the input space should be ex
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by barrkel 3y ago
One of the points of the article is that duplicate messages are a side-effect of error recovery, which is external to the queue itself. Even if your queue guaranteed exactly-once delivery, the thing which processes the delivery may fail, wh
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by barrkel 3y ago
Re-running failed jobs should be automated wherever possible. Expected, routine failures should not require manual intervention. If you don't have this attitude, toil will gradually increase over time until all anyone ever does is put
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by barrkel 3y ago
Maybe a case for -V, aka version or natural sort. ~$ printf '2 foo\n2 bar\n1 one\n10 ten\n3 three\n2 foo\n' | sort -un 1 one 2 foo 3 three 10 ten ~$ printf '2 foo\n2 bar\n1 one\n10 ten\n3 three\n2 foo\n' |
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by barrkel 3y ago
Stable Diffusion takes 3.9 seconds to produce 8x 256x256 images (so about 0.5 seconds each), or 2 seconds to produce 1x 256x256 images. That's with DPM++ 2M Karras sampling with 20 iterations on a 3090.
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by barrkel 3y ago
I have never, in my 40+ years of life, been to a restaurant with "happy hour", ymmv.
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by barrkel 3y ago
Tintin is a superhero whose superpower is luck. It's hard to suspend disbelief when reading the stories without adding this pinch of salt, IMO.
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by barrkel 3y ago
Most restaurants with bars are closed between 3 and 7, finished with lunch and busy prepping for dinner.
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by barrkel 3y ago
What kind of park has a biking path, I wonder to myself. I personally have never seen it; generally, paths are either mixed use or pedestrian only. Mixed use is fine, for people who go at an appropriate pace when in proximity to pedestrians
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by barrkel 3y ago
Compilers generating stack probes for large stack allocations has been a thing for decades. It was required in Windows 95 for 32-bit applications, and you'd do that on a page (4k) granularity. I am still in the dark as to what the bug
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by barrkel 3y ago
Parks should not be inappropriate places for children.
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by barrkel 3y ago
Bikes do annoy people with small children because some people try to ride bikes fast where not appropriate, and this is dangerous when small children change direction unpredictably.
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by barrkel 3y ago
It's clear that the rule is broken by emergency vehicles. Whether they need to follow the rule is a different question and not the one asked.
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by barrkel 3y ago
SQLite would describe this as a feature, because it's a PITA do that type of query otherwise - window functions with rank() or row_number(), or a self-join. (Obviously this specific query could be done with ORDER BY salary DESC LIMIT 1
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by barrkel 3y ago
To be fair, wealth taxes are a pretty unworkable idea in the large.
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by barrkel 3y ago
https://www.statista.com/statistics/945415/gilets-jaunes-app... Those in favour went from 70 to 50% over the course of 5 months, opposition tripled, strong support went from 50% to 20%.
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by barrkel 3y ago
And of course Tsar & czar, also from Caesar.
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by barrkel 3y ago
That's not far from the CRUD of a database, or POST/GET/PUT/DELETE of HTTP. It's also not far from what you'd expect at the transport layer of an RPC / IPC mechanism. The metadata around files - ownership,
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by barrkel 3y ago
Large companies normally (unlike Twitter) have achieved strong product market fit and are all about tweaks that deliver marginal revenue. Given that they already have a big slice of the market, the multiplier on marginal revenue makes what
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by barrkel 3y ago
My work Logitech G502 wired mouse is in its 7th month of light use (only used on in-office days) and the cable has already split where it connects to the mouse. Mass manufactured devices - particularly when they're mature - have the co
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by barrkel 3y ago
I would think a class action suit would be more favorable to Twitter (and lawyers) and less favorable to the ex-employees. Every time I read about them, they seem to sum up total damages which are less than the individual damages, and membe
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by barrkel 3y ago
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