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Google killed Stadia’s AAA game studio and skipped Windows servers over the cost(9to5google.com)
3 points by cpeterso 3y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft exec was ready to ‘go spend Sony out of business’ to strengthen Xbox(theverge.com)
5 points by cpeterso 3y ago|1 comments
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Good point. It's unfortunate that HTTP Auth never become popular. I don't know if that was because the browser support or UX was bad or if web developers wanted more control over their sites' login flow or user information re
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Web UX designers need to find some alternative button label that users understand means both “Sign up” and “Sign in”. The site will know if your email address has an account and should then be asked does a password. Though users will still
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by cpeterso 3y ago
I wonder who the market for lab-grown meat would be. I bet that 99% of vegetarians (myself included) and maybe 90% of meat eaters would never eat it. Meat eaters will insist on “real meat” and vegetarians don’t want any meat.
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by cpeterso 3y ago
> The big one is designing the sub to travel to 95% of the expected maximum depth, leaving a 5% margin of safety. Wouldn't a a 5% margin of safety mean the sub was designed to survive at 105% of the trip's expected maximum dept
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by cpeterso 3y ago
The popular Python “requests” HTTP library doesn’t have a default timeout. There’s a 2015 GitHub issue asking for a default timeout, if even an opt-in environment variable to avoid breaking API compatibility. There’s a lot of comments on th
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Microsoft's Win16 memory allocator APIs (GlobalAlloc and LocalAlloc) also returned handles so the OS could move memory blocks to new addresses behind the scenes. Application code would need to call GlobalLock/Unlock APIs to acquir
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by cpeterso 3y ago
The timeline of Google’s domain registration business, according to Wikipedia: * 2005: Google became a domain name registrar. * 2015: Google Domains was publicly launched under a beta test mode. * March 2022: Google announced that Google Do
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Different people express and experience/receive love in different ways. You need to understand your loved one's personal "love language": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Five_Love_Languages
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Tcl may not be strongly typed, but it is "stringly typed". :)
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Pollen: How a £630M UK festival firm went bust(bbc.co.uk)
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Infinite Photorealistic Worlds Using Procedural Generation(arxiv.org)
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Rewilding the planet: An archipelago constructed of sand is bringing new life(nature.com)
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Who is the WordPress of forum hosting on your own domain and customizability? Someone that can make turnkey forums for nontechnical people to create their own communities.
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by cpeterso 3y ago
To find out what happened next, check out Diablo developer David Brevik’s postmortem presentation at GDC 2016: https://youtu.be/VscdPA6sUkc
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by cpeterso 3y ago
The irony is that there is no viable alternative platform for the mods to organize on, demonstrating that Reddit has the market position to set high prices if they want to.
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by cpeterso 3y ago
The article says “Apart from in articles that are specifically about AI”.
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Well Documented Code Helps Revive Decades-Old Commodore Project(hackaday.com)
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What Instagram’s upcoming Twitter competitor looks like(theverge.com)
2 points by cpeterso 3y ago|1 comments
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by cpeterso 3y ago
From 2022: Running Tide is facing scientist departures and growing concerns over seaweed sinking for carbon removal: https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/06/16/1053758/running-... > At least several
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Running Tide is facing growing concerns over seaweed for carbon removal (2022(technologyreview.com)
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by cpeterso 3y ago
That's the plot of Neal Stephenson's 2021 novel "Termination Shock": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termination_Shock_(novel)
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by cpeterso 3y ago
John McCarthy had the opposite experience: he originally planned to replace Lisp's S-expressions with a more ALGOL-like syntax called M-expressions, but other people liked S-expressions and he never got around to implementing M-express
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DeSantis attack ad uses fake AI images of Trump embracing Fauci(theverge.com)
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by cpeterso 3y ago
I heard that VMware’s coding style uses 3 space indentation.
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by cpeterso 3y ago
The email addresses for Lafayette, California’s police ”tip line” are random Gmail addresses: 94549Tip@gmail.com and 94549Traffic@gmail.com. How is that not a problem for government record keeping? At least the Gmail addresses won’t expire
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Wikipedia says ArcaOS has a license from IBM. Someone needs to continue to support all those ATMs and other systems still running OS/2.
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Edsger Dijkstra: Why numbering should start at zero (1982) [pdf](cs.utexas.edu)
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Link: https://janet-lang.org/

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