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by dbrueck 4y ago
I don't know how Valve will behave in the long term, but so far this has been one of the best things about Steam (other great things include auto management of updates and making multiplayer Just Work). Our Steam games library goes bac
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by dbrueck 4y ago
Ha, what timing: literally yesterday I went down the rabbit hole of researching Pis for NAS and wound up ordering a NUC.
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by dbrueck 4y ago
I'm a daily user of UE but not a game dev, so my perspective might be skewed, but nearly everything in UE targets high end dev (even the clunky parts, haha). The materials and rendering stuff are stellar, but also things like their ass
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by dbrueck 4y ago
> My claim is that there is no additional information that Python provides as opposed to C that would make it faster Ok, but that's not what they are claiming - their claim (at least based on what the article is saying) is more abou
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by dbrueck 4y ago
I must have misunderstood what you were objecting to then, my bad. What claim are they making that is so impossible that it borders on being unethical? I mentioned JIT because it seems to be based on a similar principle at least, that of op
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by dbrueck 4y ago
Pretty much every JIT-enabled language has this as at least a theoretical advantage over C. So not impossible and therefore not unethical.
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by dbrueck 4y ago
I dunno... that choir has sung at inaugurations and similar events for both parties. It's always had elements of being a victory lap, sure, but for a long time it really was a celebration of things like the peaceful transition of power
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by dbrueck 4y ago
> Dude, I live in Springville. Hey, neighbor, me too! > You'll forgive me for believing that my neighbors strongly believe otherwise. Oh, I know exactly what you mean, but how come what they think trumps (see what I did there, ha
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by dbrueck 4y ago
I'm not the OP, but the slap on the wrist punishment seems appropriate for the violation. See VLM's comment about the form in question, for example, but the summary of events is basically: SEC: Hey, the way you're filing thos
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by dbrueck 4y ago
"The Choir’s participation in these events is not an implied support of party affiliations or politics, but rather a demonstration of its support for freedom, civility and the peaceful transition of power."
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by dbrueck 4y ago
Another perspective: https://www.thetabernaclechoir.org/about/choir/history/histo...
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by dbrueck 4y ago
Actually, the church's policy is to help everyone regardless of their religious affiliation, and anyone can get food and other help from the storehouses mentioned in the article. The help sometimes includes even cash, but it's far
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by dbrueck 4y ago
I agree. Overall it seems like the fine was small for a couple of reasons, including: (a) The SEC raised a concern about how stuff was being reported in 2019, so in 2019 the church changed how stuff was being reported. (b) It appears that a
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by dbrueck 4y ago
Two things to consider: it seems reasonable for any organization - including a non-profit - to save some for a rainy day, and anything that doesn't get used immediately and doesn't get invested loses value just by sitting there
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by dbrueck 4y ago
One unusual hurdle for Nim right now is that on Windows, many of the anti-virus vendors out there are overly aggressive in flagging as bad any executable that was written in nim [1]. Don't know if they've made much headway lately,
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by dbrueck 4y ago
I feel bad for the people being laid off, but I'm floored by the size of these companies. I know there are always lots of people in sales & support, and some "overhead" positions, and you multiply by some factor for an in
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by dbrueck 4y ago
Yeah, that was it. Thank you!
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Some late night TV show (Jimmy Kimmel maybe?) used to have a recurring bit where they'd find an innocuous photo and then blur out parts of it in a way that suggested that the original was naughty. I can't remember more so I couldn
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by dbrueck 4y ago
Best of luck! If you do care to revisit the topic, I urge you to start with focusing on what racism actually is and isn't. Specifically, a racist act or thought isn't non-racist just because there is a "good" argument fo
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by dbrueck 4y ago
You're conflating racism with the reasons for racism. It doesn't matter how good or bad your reasons are: once you are feeling or expressing prejudice simply because someone is a member of a particular ethnic group, that's ra
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by dbrueck 4y ago
"Authoritarian mindset" indeed! Anyway, you seem to have misunderstood by initial and subsequent comments, so other than rereading them in good faith until you believe me when I say that I was neither disagreeing with the comment,
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by dbrueck 4y ago
> You, as a white person, have been a victim of racism? Have I been told to leave somewhere because they don't want "whiteys" there? Yes. Have I been yelled at for being a "honky"? Yes. Have I been told things li
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by dbrueck 4y ago
> You no doubt have any number of other things you could be doing, but you’re in here. Might be worth thinking about why that is. Obviously this applies to you as well. Maybe you've taken what I wrote as some sort of disagreement or
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by dbrueck 4y ago
This is a discussion site, so not every comment needs to fit neatly in a 'agree' or 'disagree' bucket. That said, I'm in agreement with the comment I was replying to, and not actually defending anything at all - I m
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by dbrueck 4y ago
> The best you can offer is sympathy. > I can almost guarantee that you have not [experienced racism] - especially if you are American. My goodness! How can you honestly make such an assertion? I am American, I've visited every
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by dbrueck 4y ago
The point was an answer to this question: > Do you know VIRULENTLY anti-black (or woman, or gay) these communities were? I can't begin to describe it. The answer is: "in a somewhat limited way, yes, yes I do". I can't
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by dbrueck 4y ago
Hmm... this sounds an awful lot like, "because you're responding to a comment made by a black person, the only acceptable response is one of total agreement". I think you might want to reflect for a minute on the importance o
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by dbrueck 4y ago
> I've yet to hear of anyone actually _hiring_ under-qualified candidates for the sake of a quota. My experience is the opposite, unfortunately. Big companies know where the legal line is and are careful to not cross it too often,
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by dbrueck 4y ago
Not disputing your bad experiences, but do you know how virulent some of those communities were to just about everyone? :) Speaking of 2 things being true at once, what's amazing about BBSs/USENET/IRC/etc. especially in
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by dbrueck 4y ago
Do some fun projects on the side. Or switch to a small company. I did both and am much happier now.

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