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by db48x 2y ago
That’s because it simply orders results based on distance from your location. That’s it. It just doesn’t have an ordering method that considers your route.
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by db48x 2y ago
But it is a very likable story :)
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by db48x 2y ago
It was available and widely celebrated, but there was no guarantee that these Windows and console developers had heard of it yet or that they could have used it if they had.
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by db48x 2y ago
There are proposed cpu architectures that work that way, like the Mill < https://millcomputing.com/ >. Where most cpus support multiple calling conventions the Mill enforces a single calling convention in hardware. Ther
695.
by db48x 2y ago
It’s good because they have spent hundreds or thousands of hours polishing and improving it. It’s paid off too, because stable releases never have broken data files any more. Any mistakes that do get made are usually found and fixed before
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by db48x 2y ago
I disagree. JSON is 25 years old, and SAX parsers are 22. A SAX parser is the opposite of “resource heavy”, since it is event driven. The parser does not maintain complex state, although you might have to manage some state in order to corre
697.
by db48x 2y ago
I disagree. Serde is not merely good, it is excellent. The only C code that I have recently interacted with uses a home–grown JSON “library” that is actually pretty good. In particular it produces good error messages. If it were extracted o
698.
by db48x 2y ago
Using a well–written third–party library would not increase the development time; it would in fact reduce it. No risk of missing Christmas there.
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by db48x 2y ago
You misunderstood. Game developers should use a _good_ third–party library, not a _bad_ one. At a minimum they should be able to read the source code so that they know it is good. Thus open source libraries should be at the top of the list.
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by db48x 2y ago
It was like crack. People put up with a lot of problems and bugs just because it was really fun just enough of the time to get them hooked.
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by db48x 2y ago
You’re not entirely wrong, but a library doesn’t have to be “heavyweight” in order to be bulletproof. And you can load the library during startup and then unload it after; it doesn’t have to stick around for the whole run time of the game.
702.
by db48x 2y ago
I remember that one too :) They wrote a JSON “parser” using sscanf. sscanf is not bulletproof! Just use an open source library instead of writing something yourself. You will still be a real programmer, but you will finish your game sooner
703.
by db48x 2y ago
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by db48x 2y ago
Yea, it wasn’t designed to scale that way. In principle you could use fiberchannel to connect a really large number (2²⁴ iirc) of disks to a single server and then create a single ZFS pool using all of them. This lets you scale the _storage
705.
by db48x 2y ago
Yep. Third party javascript was a big mistake, and rolling it back has proven to be a bit difficult.
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by db48x 2y ago
Starlink is amazing, but not as amazing as an actual fiber running to your house. If you can get actual fiber then you should. The primary reason is that it has very high headroom for future expansion. You might be getting 1Gbps today, but
707.
by db48x 2y ago
Agreed. Whenever he is describing the terrain somewhere it is either fairly generic or specifically a parody. Hence the plains around Ankh Morpork where all the farms grow brassicas and nothing else. Cabbages, broccoli, turnips, mustard, co
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by db48x 2y ago
That’s actually [the _last_ question]( https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~gamvrosi/thelastq.html ), not the first. I liked the DS9 episode where the mutants realized that the universe was collapsing into the Big Crunch, so they
709.
by db48x 2y ago
What you really want to do is put out the stars sooner then, and feed all the hydrogen into the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy. Dump in all the mass in the galaxy and all of its satellites and everything from Andromeda
710.
by db48x 2y ago
If only version control had been invented earlier. Some of the in–progress versions of the stories are quite hilarious. In the earliest drafts of the story of Beren and Luthien, Beren sets off to cut a Silmaril from the Iron Crown of Morgot
711.
by db48x 2y ago
It’s relevant, but it’s also wrong. It doesn’t help him make the case. But sure, make sure you attribute it to the correct idiot.
712.
by db48x 2y ago
No, it didn't. Go reread the decision. It states that the President has absolute immunity for any enumerated power. That's every power that the Constitution explicitly gives to the Executive branch instead of one of the others. If
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by db48x 2y ago
Agreed; Emacs is the gold standard for documentation. It comes with a reference manual (400k words), an Emacs Lisp reference (600k words), _and_ 64 other manuals for individual Emacs modes or features including one just for Calc mode (250k
714.
by db48x 2y ago
Whorf was an idiot. It’s not worth quoting him.
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by db48x 2y ago
I'm not convinced that it’s worth spending any time supporting most proprietary systems. Maybe not even Windows, but especially the really expensive ones.
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by db48x 2y ago
I’m always up for an engineerguy video! Hilarious that the patent lawsuits delayed the introduction of the improved bases by 20 years, by which time the patents had expired.
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by db48x 2y ago
Why would you grep for the emoji? The actual pattern you want to match is the standard format of the error message that proceeds it, which hasn’t changed in eons: my $line = "infinite-loop-linked-list.c:30:10: warning: infinite l
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by db48x 2y ago
They weren’t. They were using approved software preinstalled on the phones given to them by their IT departments. Signal was approved during the Biden administration.
719.
by db48x 2y ago
You think there’s some kind of universal requirement that gamers need to use a wireless mouse?
720.
by db48x 2y ago
Oh, nice find. I suspect that’ll be my replacement when this one finally gives up.

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