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by cwyers 8y ago
Android doesn't support desktop OpenGL either (it supports OpenGL ES), and large parts of the Android install base don't support Vulkan either (anything before 7.x): https://developer.android.com/about/dashboa
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by cwyers 8y ago
This is really fighting the last war, though. Metal exists, and any game that is running on iOS (which it has to, to be in this) targets Metal. Who cares about anything else?
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by cwyers 8y ago
The one thing that I didn't see mentioned in there is customer service. Google seems to be pretty lousy at that.
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Right, but how much does it actually add over a decent upscaler?
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by cwyers 8y ago
Is there any evidence for this? Showing bad 480p DVD rips alongside 1080p upresed video isn't really a fair comparison -- comparing it to a real TV upscaler's output would be fairer. And honestly, even the unfair comparsion doesn&
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by cwyers 8y ago
You still have to do all the work of building the geometries for the art assets, are you really saving that much on not having to color/texture those assets?
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by cwyers 8y ago
> TextWorld requires Python 3 and only supports Linux and macOS systems at the moment. Truly, this is a new Microsoft.
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by cwyers 8y ago
More details are available here: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2019-hands... They have benchmarks and go into detail on how well it runs. I found this interesting: > "[It's] a complete
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by cwyers 8y ago
If I was a realtor, I probably would refuse to show FSBO as well. I bought a house about a month ago, and when I was looking at houses, it was fun to go to a neighborhood, see five houses for sale, and to try to figure out why the FSBO hous
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by cwyers 8y ago
Depends on your market. If it's direct to consumer, you're basically in the same boat as shareware/freeware back in the day, and it's a model that _can_ work. If your market is businesses, then no. There is no budget for
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by cwyers 8y ago
The new version (in preview) has better Python support: https://blog.rstudio.com/2018/10/09/rstudio-1-2-preview-reti...
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A Story About Piracy(maggie-stiefvater.tumblr.com)
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by cwyers 8y ago
> Is it impossible to make a laptop better than Dell or Apple? I don't know about impossible, but they've both been building laptops for a long time and they have large market shares, so if it was easy to build better laptops t
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by cwyers 8y ago
If you want a DRM-free version without Steam integration, they're also releasing on itch.io.
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by cwyers 8y ago
There's a lot of people in the thread who are saying that people are reacting the way they are to this study because of the "stigma" against mental illness. Well, maybe that's part of it. But there are other things going
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by cwyers 8y ago
I rarely see automation as increasing the amount of labor required so much as reducing the overall amount of labot but timeshifting it from "later" to "now." And sometimes you can't make that tradeoff, admittedly.
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by cwyers 8y ago
Probably, but given the relative levels of adoption of Nvidia graphics cards and Sway, I suspect that he's doing more to limit adoption of Sway than he is of encouraging Nvidia to change their behavior.
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by cwyers 8y ago
> ‘Engineers get sidetracked by things that make engineers excited, not that solve real problems for users’ — we’ve heard it all before. There’s no shocking revelation here (you are on Medium.com after all …). But there seems to be a per
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by cwyers 8y ago
At many employers you need to pass several screens before you can get into a position where someone is able to review your project that actually knows anything about how to evaluate it. Some places have systems that scrape text out of resum
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by cwyers 8y ago
So, you need some sort of credential. A bootcamp would do well, some sort of certificate of a course of study from Coursera or edX, a non-degree certificate from a university. Pick a tech stack that's both modern and enterprisey -- Jav
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by cwyers 8y ago
You're comparing the real-world implementation of something to a hypothetical. I bet that hot-swapping base machines into different form-factors like that will be just as ridden with technical problems as cloud storage is.
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by cwyers 8y ago
Because this isn't for those, this is for contempt of court.
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by cwyers 8y ago
In Windows, the name of the publisher in the cert shows up on the UAC prompt whenever the program asks for elevated privileges. That's the point of this whole thread -- the author isn't paying for a cert because he can't make
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by cwyers 8y ago
Yes, every industry has externalities. They exist. They're basic Econ 101 stuff. Which is why it's overly simplistic to say "nobody else should interfere in a transaction between two people." There's externalities,
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by cwyers 8y ago
That's not an externality. And honestly, your chosen example is rather unpleasant. An externality is something like "cigarettes produce smoke that contains a lot of carcinogens, and therefore cigarette smoking can contribute to th
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by cwyers 8y ago
Here's the thing. Economic transactions can have externalities -- costs to someone not a party to the transaction that are not reflected in the cost of the good or service in the transaction. The "sharing economy" has loads o
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by cwyers 8y ago
I mean, if someone is going to commit a crime, forcing them to leave a paper trail is going to scare at least some of them off. And if I'm installing Adobe Photoshop, and the cert comes from Bob's Software Emporium, Delaware, it r
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by cwyers 8y ago
> There are legions of people around the USA bribing doctors to prescribe expensive generics. Expensive... generics?
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by cwyers 8y ago
If you look at the bill of materials for a smartphone, the SoC is like... $20? Making the sort of interconnects you'd need and making them reliable enough probably costs about that much. For most people this need can be solved with sof
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by cwyers 8y ago
Medallions are an artificial constraint on supply -- the point of them is to shrink the market. Code signing provides a benefit -- it's a way for a user to ensure they have the right installer and that it wasn't changed by a nefar

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