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by clarry 8y ago
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by clarry 8y ago
The constant lawnmowers get on my nerves for sure. But even the families with loud kids and dogs and late night backyard parties never managed to disturb me as much as what I've come to expect as the norm in flats.
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by clarry 8y ago
> Don’t worry — I’m sure the scum feel pretty much the same about you. Quite possible, and that's part of the point I'm making. There's no communality, everyone just wants to have as little to do with their neighbor as po
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by clarry 8y ago
Ok, sure. Did you leave the vicinity of that small town because you were into reading? Or did you leave it to get an education & a job?
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by clarry 8y ago
I was going to make an example out of these interactions.. My experience is that in smaller towns you see the same store clerks, mailmen, and other service people again and again and they will recognize you. Some will have a little chat wi
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by clarry 8y ago
It is just mine, and I am European. I believe it is informative to spell it out in a discussion that points fingers at the (American) suburb.
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by clarry 8y ago
> Suburbs are structurally lonely My European perspective. I wouldn't blame it on suburbs in particular. I would blame most if not all forms of city living. Most people live in flats where nobody wants to have anything to do with
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by clarry 8y ago
I do not believe people are leaving small towns because they can't watch anime or whatever. They're leaving small towns because small towns are not the place to look for education and work. Idk what constitutes small in your book.
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by clarry 8y ago
I had an interview at a relatively secure place. Premises are walled and gated, the first thing you come to is a checkpoint with armed guards and security cameras. If you don't have an access card or your access card isn't permi
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by clarry 8y ago
That reminds me of when my (OpenBSD) software raid failed.. I think a power delivery issue took out the first disk for a moment, leading to degraded state and a long rebuild. I panicked and ran some smart self test on the other disk. This
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by clarry 8y ago
And if you obtain the knowledge required to solve it, the problem will start to look easy in hindsight.
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by clarry 8y ago
> Give them a mirror and once they figure it out they spend the next hour making faces and checking out their own ass. If you've good links, I'd be curious to see this.
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by clarry 8y ago
> Saying stuff like "you are not alone" while referring people to an unspecified "professional" is completely empty. I have to agree. It sounds and feels like saying "don't worry, someone else has it worse&
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by clarry 8y ago
Why, do you work on TMW? Like I said, it was years ago. If I still have the patch, it's got to be on one of these spinning rust disks sitting in my closet. I'm on a trip so I really can't look for it now. Assuming the clien
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by clarry 8y ago
They are as good as removed from C. No compiler I care about has had them enabled by default in more than two decades.
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by clarry 8y ago
There are stupid warnings about nothing to fix, at least in gcc. It's not making the software better. One warning I recently disabled on $workproject is -Wtrigraphs.
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by clarry 8y ago
This bug is still there in OpenBSD. With the 100Hz tick rate, sleep(10ms) turns effectively into 15 milliseconds, or -- more likely -- 20 milliseconds if the system is lightly loaded and the program doesn't spend much of its timeslice
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by clarry 8y ago
> Not only are perceptual uniform models like CIE Lab*, and the derived CIELCh or CIEHLC mindbending to understand and code Conversion from srgb to lab and back (through xyz) is a handful of functions, all under a dozen lines of javascri
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by clarry 8y ago
It can be difficult with a full time job too, unfortunately.
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by clarry 8y ago
It helps that the community is smaller and we've had the occasional meta thread discussing rules & phenomenons, with moderators and active posters alike present. We also have a somewhat tight knit community of active participants
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by clarry 8y ago
IMO the guidelines, moderation and mechanics all work way better on lobste.rs than here. Here the hivemind effect is pretty damn strong too, so it's going to be frustrating to try have a fruitful discussion if your opinion doesn'
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by clarry 8y ago
> Perhaps for some they feel economic growth is a zero sum game. Maybe not zero sum, but you can't have the rich without the poor. If you lose the race, you may very well end up among the poor.
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by clarry 8y ago
> Signals 9 and 15 and much more well known by their respective value than their symbolic name. They are everywhere in program output and log files I have never written a program that outputs a signal number to stderr or a log file. And
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by clarry 8y ago
The big companies that do this have no shortage. They can afford to be as picky as they want and people are still drooling for a job at these places. There's still genuine shortage around, but it's by no means universal. Smaller
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by clarry 8y ago
So where you work, requirements are actual requirements? In software, it's often the opposite. You see a fuckton of "requirements" that aren't requirements at all (or the company is looking for unicorns but inevitably e
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by clarry 8y ago
I mean, my point was that a few dozen light sources times a few hundred sprites isn't large amounts of math, unless they're doing something really fancy with each pair. Language speed definitely isn't key here. It's go
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by clarry 8y ago
>The problem “how to find the closest 3 light sources and to calculate the distance and an angle was solved with a script running in the Update() loop. > > Yes, it’s not the quickest way considering how much math is involved. If I
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by clarry 8y ago
It's funny that minecraft sold itself to me because of the graphics, not despite them. I saw a screenshot, and that's all it took. Had it looked like a modern big budget production, wouldn't even have wanted to know wha
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by clarry 8y ago
> it's still cool that more people than ever can do something like make a website or a game. I really don't know if it is cool. Seeing the market saturated with mediocre (and worse) creations is more depressing than cool for m
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by clarry 8y ago
I certainly had a lot of trouble finding my first real coding job, as someone who's mainly into C. The relative quantity of web jobs is frustratingly high, and while a few of these openly admit willingness to hire people without prior

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