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by clevernickname 10y ago
Came here to post that documentary (the entire series of which is freely available, btw[1]). I think you misinterpreted it slightly, however. The documentary presents evidence (strongly denied by the Norwegian social scientists interviewed)
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by clevernickname 11y ago
Came here to post this. The other advantage of cache over explicit control of the on-chip SRAM is that it allows code to be inherently forwards and backwards compatible, rather than tying the code to a specific machine with a specific amoun
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by clevernickname 11y ago
I get where you're coming from, but I'm pretty sure in most of the cases I'm thinking about. Say, with women I was close enough to that we could have a great time privately talking shit about other professors, yet when it cam
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by clevernickname 11y ago
The opposite absolutely exists. I've had female bosses, professors, etc. that all the women loved and admired, while all the men agreed she was out to get them.
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by clevernickname 11y ago
If the socially awkward male stereotype is to be oblivious to hints and the way your actions are interpreted, then the socially awkward female stereotype is to be misinterpret and overanalyze everything people do and think you're being
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by clevernickname 11y ago
From what I've heard, cheaper SGI Indys were the most common dev machines for the N64.
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by clevernickname 11y ago
>My memory isn't brilliant, but I seem to remember it had major problems moving textures around, so all textures ended up being half the resolution of the PS1. IIRC because of the way the Saturn did texture mapping, all texture coor
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by clevernickname 11y ago
>We're simply not going to have women succeeding in tech and entrepreneurship until we break down the construct of women existing solely as objects that are parts their society. Women are taken very seriously (helped and protected)
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by clevernickname 11y ago
Very true, and a huge part of why, say, game engines have a reputation for being efficient, and, say, web software has a reputation for being inefficient. Performance clearly matters (or should matter) to both (dictating what a game can do,
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by clevernickname 11y ago
This is a big part of Trump's health care plan: Tax-free "health savings accounts" with no limits, that can be freely shared between family members, and are transferred to them at no cost as part of your estate when you die.
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by clevernickname 11y ago
I played on Nostalrius for a bit. The sense I got was that the community was mostly populated by older people (by internet gaming community standards, at least) who quit WoW years ago and wanted to relive the experience. So the baseline of
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by clevernickname 11y ago
I've been had. Ironic timing on their part, at least.
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by clevernickname 11y ago
Suddenly Blizzard's April Fools tweet seems cruel. Re-Live the old worlds of warcraft with our legacy servers coming this june! Starting with vanilla! https://twitter.com/Blizzard_EN/status/716004308043624
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by clevernickname 11y ago
There's a very good Norwegian documentary series Hjernevask ("Brainwash") that tackles this issue in its first episode. "Why do girls tend to go into empathizing professions and boys into systemizing professions? Why doe
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by clevernickname 11y ago
Good projects can be infiltrated by overzealous politickers. The @freebsdgirl debacle is a particularly good example of this, as she was also responsible for a certain block bot.
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by clevernickname 11y ago
Yeah, I understood what you meant, I've used wrappers like that before. My contention was with your original comment, >It's possible to target everything from SSE and NEON to AVX512 with what is essentially a single code path.
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by clevernickname 11y ago
The idea that compiling your code for 68000 or MIPS can reveal bugs in your code does not change the fact that x86 and ARM are pretty much the only relevant CPU architectures that all but the most entrenched of government contractors could
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by clevernickname 11y ago
Realistically the vast majority of C and C++ codebases today will never touch anything more than x86 and ARM, and I wouldn't be surprised if most never even get past x86, so I don't buy the portability argument. Portability betwee
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by clevernickname 11y ago
Donald Trump's trade policy in a nutshell.
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by clevernickname 11y ago
Popular version control takes natural, insignificant, almost unconscious modifications and turns each into an explicit diff that must be entered into the system and documented forever. If you are a solo developer, version control is literal
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by clevernickname 11y ago
A tradeoff that few consider is that dynamic linking can lessen the motivation of library developers to reduce code bloat and complex dependency trees. Who cares about 20 megs here or there if there is only one shared library instance? Who
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by clevernickname 11y ago
Help I Violated My Boyfriend's Privacy
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by clevernickname 11y ago
about fucking time common sense caught up with academia
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by clevernickname 11y ago
Came here to post about this. The elephant in the VR room is that porn, both recorded and semi-interactive 3DCG, is easily the most immediately interesting use of the technology to the vast majority of consumers. It's also a huge part
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by clevernickname 11y ago
Props to The Telegraph for somehow finding a way to blame Microsoft and tech gender politics for this. If anyone from Microsoft Research is reading this, it might be fun to try training Tay to produce clickbait.
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by clevernickname 11y ago
I'm replying to two people upset about the ridiculous resource usage of simple modern programs. Bring it up-thread if you want to defend against literal waste, I'm just talking about why it happens.
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by clevernickname 11y ago
1024 x 1024 * 4 bytes per pixel = 4MB. Ok. There's no software engineering problem there, just bafflement at wanting almost as many pixels as would vertically fill a 1080p screen, for a fucking icon.
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by clevernickname 11y ago
Because the vast majority of these people don't have the slightest clue as to how computers work. No troll, no bully, no malice. They don't know and they don't want to know. They deliberately wish to remain ignorant, as evide
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by clevernickname 11y ago
Windows Key then type. No need to create a Chrome instance just to launch a program.
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Proposal for an open standard instruction set and its ecosystem [pdf](agner.org)
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