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by chc 3y ago
If Microsoft buys Activision, wouldn't they then be funding Activision's development? The major difference here appears to be looking at a deal in foresight vs. hindsight.
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by chc 3y ago
So what you're saying is it would increase competition by selling more of the currently-less-popular platform rather than reduce it by eliminating the dominant platform? That sounds like an argument in favor of the deal.
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by chc 3y ago
I think it's meant to imply the solution given in their username ("idiomatic Rust").
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by chc 3y ago
"Transformative" in copyright is a much stronger word than the word "transform" is in computer science. If your "transformation" could be used in many of the same places as the original, it is most likely not t
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by chc 3y ago
> I often get the feeling that in these circumstances people derive first principles from specific desired outcomes. That's a pretty normal way derive principles, isn't it? You start with an observation, and then you recursiv
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by chc 3y ago
Reddit actually has added a couple of features since then (e.g. polls), but they just didn't update the API to deal with those, so the API still remained completely stable.
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by chc 3y ago
I think you're confusing the term "social contract" with "oral contract." An oral contract will usually be superseded by a written contract, but saying a written contract supersedes a social contract seems like a ca
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by chc 3y ago
The original point of this thread is that they'd like to be able to get an M2 PC like that. So that's the problem.
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by chc 3y ago
It's to allow them to get apps. I wouldn't describe being able to run apps without being involuntarily tracked by a third party as "having your cake and eating it too." It's just a basic expectation of privacy. As i
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by chc 3y ago
There have been many proposals along these lines, but Republicans in Congress don't like it because they believe making it painful to file taxes will win support for their generalized opposition to taxes.
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by chc 3y ago
I felt kind of the same way — but as an alternate perspective, it was only 530 years ago that most of Europe didn't even know the Americas existed.
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by chc 3y ago
Is there a reason you think people should lend your opinion more credence than that of the archaeologists who studied the site?
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by chc 3y ago
Do you believe it is possible for one person to understand multiple topics in different fields as well as the experts in those fields? That seems like a massive unspoken assumption in your point of view here. If not, it seems like some leve
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by chc 4y ago
It's not good, but only looking at the bad half of a tradeoff will always look bad. Without diving into the glibc source code to understand what it's doing, it is hard to say if this is actually wrong.
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by chc 4y ago
How is it ad hominem to say that somebody's comment is excessively harsh to somebody, but not ad hominem to say that somebody's comment is attacking somebody? They're extremely similar sentiments, and I personally wouldn&#x27
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by chc 4y ago
Mario Galaxy was not even 20 years ago, and that was the point of comparison, so I think you're stating your case a bit more strongly than is fair.
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by chc 4y ago
I would say the same about middlebrow dismissals like the one that comment was responding to, but apparently if you make a comment like yours toward them it's a bad thing.
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by chc 4y ago
If parallax mapping is more expensive than just rendering the equivalent polygons, doesn't that imply that the Spider-Man games are being wasteful with their texture-based building interiors? I thought it was supposed to be an optimiza
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by chc 4y ago
If the least few months have taught us anything, it's that Elon Musk is not big on testing things before they go to production.
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by chc 4y ago
Somewhat paradoxically, PyPy always uses more memory for programs with small working sets, but can use less memory for programs with large working sets. 1/6 is a lot more extreme than I would have expected, though.
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by chc 4y ago
It's a nit-pick because it's ultimately just a gripe about ambiguous phrasing, not because the implications of what the phrasing means are unimportant.
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by chc 4y ago
1. It currently only compiles a subset of Python, which is presumably why they said it was based on Python rather than Python. 2. There are lots of good developers who aren't capable of making any statements in English.
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by chc 4y ago
I tried doing the same thing with the Radeon R7 250 (an old GPU that was weak when it was introduced) and got essentially the same answer, so it doesn't seem like it's just regurgitating praise. What impressed me just as much abou
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by chc 4y ago
I tried asking ChatGPT easy but completely off-the-wall questions and it consistently got the answers surprisingly right. For example, I asked it "Which is more powerful, a DEC VAX or a GTX 1070?" and it both noted that this compa
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by chc 4y ago
The OP doesn't appear to be complaining. The conclusion of the article is basically that the field is full enough of bad actors to justify drastic action like this.
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by chc 4y ago
And I hope you see that you've demonstrated why "recall" is a poorly chosen word for that, since the word's normal definitions have nothing to do with "documentation," "customer awareness" or "fi
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by chc 4y ago
> Whether or not you have to drive to a dealership, if it's OTA, if someone at a dealership needs to plug a specialized device to your car's OBD port, or the car is unfixable and needs to be melted to slag and you get a new on
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by chc 4y ago
I think it's referring to partial server-side renders. SSR is usually used to refer to statically rendering pages, while the "new" thing is to dynamically update pages with chunks of SSR-created HTML.
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by chc 4y ago
That was their point, yes. These tools treat anything they see malware do as a potential signal of malware, without any consideration of what the activity is. Obviously they're not actually going to flag "running on a CPU"
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by chc 4y ago
If you're just looking to run trusted scripts locally, there isn't much point. If you're running a system that uses wasm, this means you can now easily support Python.

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