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by cdr 12y ago
0.2% is a huge number, really. That's 615,000 in the US alone.
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by cdr 12y ago
I'm not sure what this has to do with the Jacques's piece. Being an expert is orthogonal to people paying you to be an expert is orthogonal to being a "one trick pony". You don't need to be "in the top 0.001%&q
123.
by cdr 12y ago
First week/month sales are critical to most media, as I understand it. Being a "best seller" can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Stymieing the impatient pirates is all you can hope to accomplish anyway.
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by cdr 12y ago
> This doesn't seem to me to be evidence of deliberate anti-emulation features - just imagine a hastily written port by relatively inexperienced developers who don't know about these quirks If it were one thing, maybe, but six
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by cdr 12y ago
"Visual voicemail" moved me from strong dislike to being mostly OK with it. At most it usually requires tapping my phone twice - open app, play message. Still need to potentially transcribe, I guess, but there's too many peop
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Dolphin Emulator: Best Bug Fixes of 2014(dolphin-emu.org)
5 points by cdr 12y ago|0 comments
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by cdr 12y ago
Google Maps still does poorly in small towns, as far as I've seen. Not that you can really expect any better. The data in my hometown has clearly never been ground-checked (or even sanity checked by a remote employee), it's all cl
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by cdr 12y ago
If we're doing anecdotes, of the dozen plus SSDs I've bought for myself or helped other people select/install, I've never had a failure. This includes my ~2008 SuperTalent drive, which still works like it was brand new (
129.
by cdr 12y ago
Go look it up - recent patches have had massive increases in CPU and RAM usage not because of new features, but because of making the code prettier. Notch may not be an expert on lighting or chunk rendering, but he's pretty good at wri
130.
by cdr 12y ago
Very few organizations use git the way the linux kernel project does. Most organizations use github, gitlab, etc, which definitely have had scaling issues.
131.
by cdr 12y ago
You should be commenting on "the Mojang team", not Notch. Minecraft was way more performant when Notch was working on it. There were a number of blogposts in the recent past about how Minecraft maintainers rewriting Minecraft to b
132.
by cdr 12y ago
More likely just plain mozzarella. In most restaurants, you're likely getting a factory pre-made frozen and reheated product from a box - certainly that was the case at the chain pizza place I worked at in highschool. "Stuffed cru
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by cdr 12y ago
There are post-college PT players with jobs and other responsibilities that really do only play for 1-1.5 weeks before and during each PT, and maybe a couple GPs. Especially Hall of Famers who don't need to worry about qualifying.
134.
by cdr 12y ago
Stuff like this is pretty fascinating. I've only really played Minecraft singleplayer and intermittently. I almost always end up starting a new world with each update, too, since it bugs me not having the new blocks/structures&#x2
135.
by cdr 12y ago
The reputation as a "money sink" is somewhat undeserved. It can require a several hundred to several thousand dollar up-front investment, depending on how you play, but it's the only hobby I've ever seen where that inves
136.
by cdr 12y ago
Isn't it? There's no shortage of workaholics. Edit: > Edit: Feel free to disagree with me, but personally I wouldn't see WoW on a resume and think, "This person has experience doing hard work in the face of adversity
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by cdr 12y ago
It's interesting that pro-level Magic: the Gathering players seem to almost all go on to have pretty successful professional lives. Maybe just being a physical game draws more well balanced people. Or that it's a solo game, despit
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by cdr 12y ago
Much as in life, you aren't competing versus the game - you're competing versus the other players. If you only put the minimum amount of work in to level up, you're never going to stand out.
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by cdr 12y ago
There's the concept of passing: a minority group that might be discriminated against in one context is accepted as and afforded the privileges of a member of the majority group in another context, often to close ranks against a differe
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by cdr 12y ago
If you follow the (extremely well written) monthly progress updates on the blog, Dolphin has been seeing speedups in the range of 100% per month in some of the past few months. Pretty incredible. https://dolphin-emu.org/blog
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by cdr 12y ago
> However as some have noted, cost will keep it from being adopted. Let's face it, fastening is the last thing considered in a project and the last thing bought. Even for large projects it's at most a few percent of budget and
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by cdr 12y ago
Yes, I find parts of signs blurred out reasonably frequently. The only reason I could conceive of for that is face blurring false positives.
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by cdr 12y ago
In supermarkets it's not even the fish - there's little to no nigiri in the case, and the rolls mostly contain little or even no fish. They're mostly rice, slathered-on sauce, vegetables, and then maybe some fish (like breade
144.
by cdr 12y ago
Five Guys would fit much better.
145.
by cdr 12y ago
> Want sushi from your local Mr. Tuna in Colorado? No problem! I can't remember the last time I saw a grocery store without a sushi "counter". And they're all the same, west or east or middle, tiny store or huge. One
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by cdr 12y ago
Don't overestimate the progressiveness of young men. Look at how terrible so many of the HN comments are whenever there's a submission relating in any way to women.
147.
by cdr 12y ago
Nope, desktop browser. As long as I use it regularly, I never get signed out.
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by cdr 12y ago
At least according to past comment threads, "TwitPic" is literally one single person. Though I suppose failed "startups" being just one or two people behind a name might not be uncommon.
149.
by cdr 12y ago
It's not even 30 days necessarily. I use 2FA on gmail with "remember this device" checked, and I haven't had to sign in for a year or more.
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by cdr 12y ago
Intel NUCs are really interesting small form factor PC kits - a nice medium between completely from scratch (which can be a real pain in SFF) and completely prebuilt. i3/i5 Broadwell NUCs are announced for early 2015.

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