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by daemin 5y ago
For a lot of technical people they start applications by hitting the Windows key and then typing. If you do this quickly and accidentally mistype something you'll most likely end up doing a search.
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by daemin 5y ago
I put this on par with Google automatically signing you in to Chrome when you log into any one of its services, or even the mandatory Windows Online account that you need to install Windows 11 (and to a lesser extent 10). Just user hostile
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by daemin 5y ago
For that first quote I thought they were being sarcastic since http:// and https:// are exactly an open, stable, and forever supported API.
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by daemin 5y ago
I guess I'm old because I've written loaders and savers for at least 3 of those formats listed there. Granted it was when I was still learning, but many of those formats are pretty simple to code up a good first approximation load
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by daemin 5y ago
I read through the report a bit but stopped when they said there is not enough Coal to meet demand, they showed a graph of Coal supply in China but didn't acknowledge anything about why it is low. They say "environmental regulatio
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by daemin 5y ago
I still haven't gotten used to Visual Studio 2019 as I haven't done enough development at home and we've only just switched to using 2019 in the office. Some features do look nice and interesting so I suppose I could try it o
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by daemin 5y ago
Once you need to load any parts of a file into memory you might as well compute the hash for all the bytes that you've loaded into memory. The act of loading the bytes from permanent storage (even NVME SSD) is likely to be many orders
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by daemin 5y ago
Realistically hashes are used during the development of a game to detect when a file or asset hash changed, and therefore it will trigger regeneration of assets that depend on it. For some long or slow build steps it is better to rely on a
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by daemin 5y ago
It's actually getting quite difficult to buy Raspberry Pi's at the moment, they are out of stock in most places. So people are buying them, but I know that's not what you meant in the context of this conversation.
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by daemin 5y ago
In this case Australia, one of the largest coal exporters in the world.
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by daemin 5y ago
I think in some countries it should be "What if we had subsidised Nuclear Power like Coal Mining".
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by daemin 5y ago
Exactly. The central menu is a good idea for ultrawide monitors, but forcing grouping seems to go a step backwards, especially if you cannot move the taskbar and you're on said ultrawide monitor.
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by daemin 5y ago
If they're disabled then they will proliferate even if they are turned into errors. Better to be visible and culled promptly than disabled in code and hidden away.
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by daemin 5y ago
I have worked at (and are currently working at) places that treat warnings as errors, and if the warning is not trivial to fix it just ends up disabled. People do notice it during code reviews but it usually goes through as someone "wi
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by daemin 5y ago
Yeah, but push comes to shove during shipping, people leave, and the pragmas remain in the code in various places. At least if they are scrolling by then people can get fed up with that and take some initiative to fix those warnings. Or the
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by daemin 5y ago
I never said it was easy, it does require the team to have some discipline about it, but it doesn't sweep the issue that the warning was about under the rug, hidden from view. If you have a lot of warnings then you have a lot of issues
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by daemin 5y ago
Well it will require a behaviour change either way. I think that keeping warnings as warnings will at least make it visible how much debt there is to fix in the project rather than hiding it behind warning disabling pragmas.
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by daemin 5y ago
Yes you should only disable them locally, in as small a region as possible. Though in a lot of cases in my experience this isn't so. They're generally bulk disabled before including external third party headers, they're disab
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by daemin 5y ago
I'm sticking by the principle that warnings should be warnings and errors should be errors, and that you shouldn't "promote" warnings to be errors. I can't remember who said it but I think it was in a conference vid
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by daemin 5y ago
There is that joke about the University Professors talking about the best high level language, throwing out various languages until one just replied with "Grad Student". It does make a lot of sense, you describe the problem in a v
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by daemin 5y ago
I just saw this video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvLFEh7V18A ) on why vintage video games cost so much money now. It's almost an hour long piece of effectively investigative journalism by someone in the speed ru
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by daemin 5y ago
The startup sells a dream of immense future profit. Altium has spreadsheets full of sales, income, and expenditure which pretty much indicate what the future profit will be.
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by daemin 5y ago
I think Ha-Joon Chang said it best, that a Free Market isn't actually free because every market has rules that the buyers and sellers have to follow for it to function at all.
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by daemin 5y ago
Well right now big companies can just move profits offshore by saying that they make no profit in any given location. I think in either case big companies aren't going to be challenged much, the trick is what will be the better outcome
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by daemin 5y ago
This is the whole difference between a revenue tax and a profit tax. I don't actually know why exactly a revenue tax isn't more popular, say 1% revenue versus supposed 30% profit tax. (As if any corporation actually pays that tax
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by daemin 5y ago
Have a script which downloads, installs, and builds dependencies. Have a script which generates build project/solution/script files for the actual build. These scripts can use whatever tools your organisation is most comfortable w
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by daemin 5y ago
What a sturdy bag it is!
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by daemin 5y ago
For some people "some old laptop" is all they actually have. I don't imagine a lot of students have both a desktop, a laptop, and "some old laptop" that they can use, so the software will get installed on the single
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by daemin 5y ago
I think that's a key trade-off in duck typing and reopening classes and objects. You get immense power to do "cool", powerful, and useful things like that, but at the cost of debug-ability. It's been a while since I real
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by daemin 5y ago
Yes, the landlord is paying for those things out of the rent, but as another commenter has stated my point is that you cannot make a direct Rent to Mortgage comparison. As there are many other costs you end up paying as a home owner which y

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