danielbarla

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by danielbarla 2y ago
Not the person you responded to, but there are a number of changes they have banned, arguably for being too effective. Aerodynamic covers are not usable, recumbents are not usable (especially not ones with a cover, which are significantly f
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by danielbarla 2y ago
Really? I had almost exactly the opposite experience with a 16GB RX 6800 AMD card, which I would hope would be up to the task. It was painfully slow, taking several minutes to do anything, and crashed multiple times. As much as the idea int
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by danielbarla 2y ago
My take is that both have spectacular edge cases / failure modes that are essentially laughable from the other's point of view. It's hard to compare the two, when all we're doing is cherry picking scenarios. I could poin
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by danielbarla 2y ago
There are a few more categories of people who often do stupid shit, many of which are fairly mundane and far less easy to disregard (such as: momentarily distracted / semi-permanently fiddling with their phone / dangerously incomp
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by danielbarla 2y ago
You're right (though it is actually spelled krupp in my language, and I assumed it would be the same in others, as it has no inherent meaning).
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by danielbarla 2y ago
I can confirm from personal experience that traumatic experiences seem to transcend the mind-wipe that happens in mid-childhood. At a very early age, I had a form of Krupp, and some of my earliest memories are not being able to breathe, and
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by danielbarla 3y ago
Aside from what afiori said, I do tend to think that it's not really necessary to have a post at this point. However, not having a post is slightly different to having one where we (hopefully) agree that it's too early to really d
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by danielbarla 3y ago
Just a reminder / plea: please wait for the investigation and report before theorising about what happened, what is wrong, how that can be, allocating blame, etc. There will eventually be a full report with real facts and lots of detai
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by danielbarla 3y ago
Also, that is the net energy expenditure of the body, but not the input required. We use a relatively antiquated form of the internal combustion engine to turn food into energy, which seems to be around 25% efficient, at best. It's als
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by danielbarla 3y ago
I'd be interested in giving this a try, however it seems to be completely resistant to the tiling window manager I use on macOS, Amethyst. It's fairly odd; I have not encountered another app that does this.
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by danielbarla 3y ago
I find it excels as a "rubber ducking" partner, as a replacement for "tldr" on esoteric utilities whose documentation is either lacking or overly verbose, and most especially as a non-technical tool for generating concep
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by danielbarla 3y ago
I think this article is actually a pretty good example of long-form journalism; the jump it makes to reveal the context is fairly small, and relevant from the first few words. In many other articles, however, the context switch is almost no
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by danielbarla 3y ago
DynamoDB is _fantastic_ for certain scenarios. But, you also need to know your access patterns upfront and more or less end up hardcoding your indexes into the "table design". It's not a 1:1 replacement for a typical relation
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by danielbarla 3y ago
> They discovered the immobilised kitten's visual processing did not develop normally whereas the mobile kitten's did, suggesting that it's not just the sensory input, but it being feedback to some internal agency within t
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by danielbarla 3y ago
I recently ran across Juno: New Origins [1] (formerly SimpleRockets 2), which is a game where you build your own rockets / cars / drones / etc. Not only is it a great introduction to basic physics and maths concepts, the game
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by danielbarla 3y ago
It's not that they were simply smart and didn't de-duplicate identical songs; at some point they simply replaced instances of various recordings of songs with a single one. I could not be further from being an audiophile, yet I st
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by danielbarla 3y ago
Is there a reason why helium would be preferred over hydrogen? I know very little about the topic, but would have guessed hydrogen to be cheaper and easier to obtain (never mind replace), and should offer higher performance. Doesn't se
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by danielbarla 3y ago
I absolutely love the CDK's typed approach. Having said that, I still would choose Terraform over CDK mainly because of the way they handle drift detection / drift resolution. Basically, with CDK and the underlying CloudFormation,
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by danielbarla 4y ago
Your specific example highlights the performance difference between VS Code and Atom very nicely, and VS Code is an absolute gem of engineering. But, for large files, I am not sure it has much to do with Electron in this specific case. Note
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by danielbarla 4y ago
> Enthusiastic artists always get fucked over and exploited by self-serving business people, that is the way things have been since the dawn of time I tend to think of this in terms of the economics of supply and demand - if the job is c
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by danielbarla 4y ago
I'm not an expert on the topic either, but from similar discussions I've followed, the answer tends to be that out of the box and with the base settings, an engine like UE5 will be optimised for certain use cases. Different genres
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by danielbarla 4y ago
Yes, I suspect you are right! In these types of desktop, single-user use cases I would default to SQLite.
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by danielbarla 4y ago
Fair enough, but it's no Engi B :) That said, I think most players will find it interesting that the weapon they started out with is generally considered to be strongest in the game. One can argue details about Flak I or beams, but the
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by danielbarla 4y ago
Interesting, I didn't know it was C#. One thing that immediately poked my eye is that it's also using MS SQL Server, and I am wondering why it'd be picked over various open source alternatives. My main guess is 'familiar
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by danielbarla 4y ago
I'd also add: - Meta-progression where (most of) the unlocked ships are strictly worse than the starter ship To elaborate on this, most games tend to have unlocks or game modes that are overpowered, giving you a "victory lap"
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by danielbarla 4y ago
It was Cygnus Editor, of course! :) Your experience is interesting, and oddly I have almost the opposite experience. My guess is that it's somewhat tied to the respective phases of life we might have been in at the time. I was 5 when I
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by danielbarla 4y ago
> The show was successful because I micromanaged it—every word, every line, every take, every edit, every casting. That’s my way of life. In which he takes sole credit for the success of something a fair few people had a hand in. Not to
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by danielbarla 4y ago
The regional pricing cannot be overstated - when I lived in a country with a PPP ratio of 0.5 (vs US), Steam always felt to have realistic local prices while other stores were 2x or more expensive. It really drove the normalization of non-p
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by danielbarla 4y ago
Another way to read the ad might be "we prefer people who are good at their job, rather than being good at IQ tests during the interview", which might be a positive interpretation. I don't disagree with your points, I just ha
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by danielbarla 4y ago
I see a lot of negative connotations in the comments so far. But honestly, the first thing that popped into my head was the relatively recent book "Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance". In it, the author argues that succes

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