batty_alex

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by batty_alex 5y ago
And really, it's all a balancing act. Inflation is good sometimes and bad at other times. It's... complicated, yo
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by batty_alex 5y ago
No need to wonder, it's not the first time something like this has happened: https://tedium.co/2016/11/24/1988-ram-shortage-history/ https://www.theverge.com/2012/4/19&#x2F
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by batty_alex 5y ago
It's not a math equation you run through a computer and get a legal result out the other end. Congress (or whatever) could use this measurement as a tool to drive investigations so you can stomp out anti-competitive behavior before it
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by batty_alex 5y ago
> To be honest, I still don't understand why they needed to shut the storefront. I'd guess the cost of maintaining contracts to distribute licenses for games that publishers otherwise don't want to sell anymore. > Not t
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by batty_alex 6y ago
> However, ecocide is going to be a political tool to bully countries to toe a line or face severe penalties. Other countries performing ecocide, as long as playing ball, won't face charges. This is an incredibly pessimistic view yo
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by batty_alex 6y ago
> C++ is nowhere near as dominant in that space as it was in the early nineties. You’re rewriting history here, friend. Hardly anyone was writing embedded C++ in the 90s. Even nowadays I bump elbows with Developers that refuse to make th
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by batty_alex 6y ago
Reading this sort of stuff will just make you bitter and resentful. It’s a step away from using a slur to describe journalists they don’t like.
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by batty_alex 6y ago
How about they study, or work in, the field in which they want to be CEO? Damn. It’s not like history is some useless knowledge. Software engineering is still the new hotness. Give it time and the headline will change to why meteor engineer
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by batty_alex 6y ago
I find it fascinating how okay you are with your employer tracking you. We aren’t to the life contract part of the dystopia yet, quit trying to skip ahead and give away your freedom so easily
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by batty_alex 6y ago
Please don’t run a kerosene heater indoors without an amazing ventilation system.
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by batty_alex 6y ago
> A big piece of career advice I have for any folks that feel like they're in dead-ends or are just getting started is that, in modern society, you should be constantly expending time and energy to ensure you're in the most per
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by batty_alex 6y ago
I hear Barbados offers a 1 year remote-work visa
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by batty_alex 6y ago
It's similar, but not the same. There's chemical differences and some HFCS is a lot more fructose than sucrose. But, yeah, I also haven't been able to find any conclusive evidence that it's any worse with your garden-var
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by batty_alex 6y ago
Willow on the NES was also hilariously long and did a whole lot with 18 character passwords. Underrated game, too
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by batty_alex 6y ago
Be fair, I’m not suggesting that experts don’t change their opinions. In fact, just like you say, that’s a sign that someone has stopped learning. I’m suggesting that hand-waving away information because someone has some strong opinions is
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by batty_alex 6y ago
> When weighing people's opinions, expertise should be rewarded but commitment should be penalized. This is straight paranoia, unless you plan on only talking to people about their job or topics that don’t interest them. You’re clea
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by batty_alex 6y ago
Person your responding to isn’t asking about that particular color space. They’re asking for some real-world examples. This is a very theoretical piece about color spaces that intersects with a very particular use of color spaces. YCbCr was
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by batty_alex 6y ago
I was thinking the same thing. My guess is the author’s background is in games and that’s where this research is focused. It did give an impression that, to someone who works with color spaces, the author is operating in a different doma
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by batty_alex 6y ago
The confederate flag isn't a national flag, though. The Confederacy isn't a religion. It was, at one point in history, a nation that lost an ideological war over a state's right to allow for the ownership of slaves It deserve
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by batty_alex 6y ago
> However, I've never seen anything to suggest a huge difference between the number of programmers who know C++ and the number who know Python Anecdotal evidence here but, I hire for both and it’s definitely easier to find developer
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by batty_alex 6y ago
I still like to pour one out for workstations, myself. With the cloud, we’re back to paying a big company for their time share machines in the sky.
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by batty_alex 6y ago
> While the Analogue Duo contains an SD slot, it's only designed for firmware updating, and they specifically call out "does not play copyrighted ROM files". While I respect that decision, I think their goal of preserving
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by batty_alex 6y ago
Considering the number of large, established places that don't even do code reviews - I'm okay with this being a thing.
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by batty_alex 6y ago
That can definitely be a problem. Using handles makes it easier to swap out your allocation mechanism if you ever have to optimize your cache efficiency. Hell, projects that need to squeeze out that level of performance will typically have
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by batty_alex 6y ago
> We'd not only have less 40yo ranting at some 15yo project, because they used React, but also the quality of our work would improve drastically. I’m not sure what you have against people in their 40s but, it might be worth it to sp
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by batty_alex 6y ago
I feel like a lot of people here are missing the point of professional agreements or organizations like this: protecting the engineer from the consequence of saying "no" to something unethical. Almost every software engineer I tal
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by batty_alex 6y ago
The problem is that you don’t want to treat every cancer like it’s potentially life-threatening (many aren’t) because you can cause other problems with detection/treatment. I’d want any early detection to be pretty damn solid if we’re
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by batty_alex 6y ago
> In my opinion, once-objective mainstream journalism is now about writing content to please target audiences and catch trending topics on social media, as well as keep fast cycles going to appease the algorithms on news aggregation site
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by batty_alex 6y ago
I feel like the irony of your comment might be lost on you
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by batty_alex 6y ago
Which era in history are we referring to here? I feel like you’ve covered a couple.

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