creshal

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2581.
by creshal 12y ago
> so I wonder if APNG could produce more efficient compression for video with a good encoder. It's hard to not be more efficient than GIF.
2582.
by creshal 12y ago
This isn't a new idea either. The German Green party did the same… during their first few years in office. Now they're as corrupt as the others.
2583.
by creshal 12y ago
> No, they are actually quite decent people. For now. They wouldn't be the first people to be corrupted by power.
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by creshal 12y ago
The German pirate party is in the peculiar spot where communists, nazis, feminists, men's rights activists, liberals and conservatives are all convinced they're too radical. That does not leave many potential voters.
2585.
by creshal 12y ago
Good thing we get header compression with HTTP/2, isn't it? /s
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by creshal 12y ago
Yet another Chromium reskin, with semi-mandatory "social" features? No, I don't think I'm the target audience.
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by creshal 12y ago
Take a look at Caesar 3. It's "only" hand-drawn, high-resolution 2D, but the amount of detail is impressive. People enter the map carrying their belongings on hand-drawn carts, erect tents, go to work, walk around on the stre
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by creshal 12y ago
> On the other hand, I bet a tech savvy company can do vastly better at predicting what the actual bus schedule will be It's mainly traffic issues, or a single wheelchair/baby carriage clogging up the exits and requiring more t
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by creshal 12y ago
> The latter being the type you attempted to describe. From the schematics it seems that all Cherry keys have the same "mechanic" internally, the tactility is added with external plastic latches – unlike buckling spring keys, w
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by creshal 12y ago
They were patented when Cherry invented them, rather. The patents are long expired.
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by creshal 12y ago
If you have a Windows XP VM lying around somewhere, take a look at Caesar III (should be on GoG). Agent based simulation done right, in 1998.
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by creshal 12y ago
> 2. SimCity 5 with a pure agent-based simulation model (it had flaws though, especially traffic), but again the series pioneered a new way of creating games in this genre. It irks me how SimCity 5 is praised for that. The Caesar series
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by creshal 12y ago
> That's still an electrical keyboard; it just has switches that click. Not even. Cherry switches are linear, they only have a plastic latch glued to them to fake the clicking sound of a buckling spring switch.
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by creshal 12y ago
> Despite all the evidence to the contrary? It's fast in benchmarks… but it's either single-threaded or has horrible locking. One slow script somewhere will not just block the tab, but the entire browser. Good luck hunting it
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by creshal 12y ago
From my experience (with one app published in that time frame) it's… meh. The review process is fast, granted (<1 business day), but the enforcement of rules is as arbitrary and byzantine as with Apple, with no useful appeal process
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by creshal 12y ago
I wouldn't say that. I know I'm bad at conversation, and I'm always mildly awed when I see e.g. my parents striking up a half-hour long conversation with random strangers in trains. I still have no idea how they do it, and