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by deaddodo 1y ago
Knowing Carmack, and the market, not much would change about this. Windows still rules the roost, though it wouldn’t be referred to as Win32 today for various reasons. Linux is even more important today, given the Steam Deck and Proton; but
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by deaddodo 1y ago
Yeah, I took a look at the posting and it’s a bog standard job posting. I assume they’re referring to the no-salary aspect and (based on their speech style) are in the US. But, even in that case, it would only matter if the posting were tar
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by deaddodo 1y ago
Concentric circles around a central figure, with a wedge to allow entry is a pretty obvious design pattern.
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by deaddodo 1y ago
I literally started off my comment saying that it's not bad. That means it's neutral-good, by definition. I can easily develop on both, I prefer developing on Linux. Thus, it is "more good" (IMO), if you prefer.
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by deaddodo 1y ago
I don't agree with OP's sentiment that macOS is a bad dev environment, but surely I prefer Linux+KDE as an overall dev environment. I find that all the tools I need are there but that I'm fighting the UI/UX enough to m
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by deaddodo 1y ago
They didn’t just keep resubmitting it. The first four times, changes were made (mostly around language and Saddam Hussein/the Devil). The final time, they felt the changes were arbitrary (it was just more language censoring) and so an
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by deaddodo 1y ago
I'm confused why this would be a problem. UTF-8 and UTF-16 (the only two common unicode subsets) are a maximum of 4 bytes wide (and, most commonly, 2 in English text). The ASCII representation you gave is 6-bytes wide. I don't kno
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by deaddodo 1y ago
I've never had that issue with Python. Now, languages with common / short names? All the time. Go, C, C++, D, etc; even Rust (especially since all the libraries have similarly ambiguous names related to iron oxide).
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by deaddodo 1y ago
Yes.
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by deaddodo 1y ago
There are a lot of gray relations out there, but there’s almost no way you could morph the current US/SK relations to one of hostility; beyond a negligible minority of citizens in either being super vocal for some perceived slights.
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by deaddodo 1y ago
Or you can just join the conversation in the middle instead of seeing all of that addressed in the replies: > even with LDTs, segments will not function with the legacy 16-bit wraparound; nor can you run 16-bit code segments. [...] <
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by deaddodo 1y ago
Building PDF directly (unless you're creating documents, especially fillables) is non-intuitive. Most PDFs are people trying to capture live data in a cached manner. If not, using a preliminary format like Markdown/HTML/LaTeX
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by deaddodo 1y ago
Yes, for a public company. We’re literally discussing the difference between public and private companies. Dividends don’t exist for private companies. The dividend is the profit.
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by deaddodo 1y ago
> The idea that people should be content with an investment that has 0% real return in a very risky environment I literally outlined the return. You are receiving the profit from a very profitable firm, which compounds year over year. Li
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by deaddodo 1y ago
You seem to be fundamentally misunderstanding capital and capitalism. A “stagnant” company isn’t a failed one. It’s profitable. But perhaps it has saturated its market, or otherwise has no other avenues of growth without handicapping what i
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by deaddodo 1y ago
Not necessarily. Private ownership can give you the benefit of operating at a stagnate revenue since it still represents a positive income stream for the owners. This is an impossible status for public ownership as people don’t want a stock
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by deaddodo 1y ago
> The last EA game I played was the excellent C&C remaster - and EA's main contribution was getting out of the way of the project. Not only did they get out of the way, but they actively hired the studio that sprung up from the
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by deaddodo 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45391654
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by deaddodo 1y ago
The problem isn’t enough designers, it’s too many. There are conflicting design goals throughout the UI. All could be good/great with a cohesive system, but there is none. To answer your question, the same people that wanted the system
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by deaddodo 1y ago
Funny you gloss over the most important part: > Legacy applications that run in Virtual 8086 mode or use hardware task management will not work in this mode. That being said, this isn't worth arguing over. If you can provably run la
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by deaddodo 1y ago
The truth is that the GNOME community probably has the most designers and UX-focused members in its community. The problem isn’t lack of designers.
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by deaddodo 1y ago
Just because someone wants a single app to have a full screen (video, game, an IDE, etc), doesn’t mean they aren’t using their other screens/desktops for work.
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by deaddodo 1y ago
Cool, if you read to the last paragraph you would see that I also addressed that point. They weren’t making them throw away software. Even at the inception of 64-bit Windows, 16-bit software made up a fraction of a percentile of use cases.
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by deaddodo 1y ago
Neither the AMD nor Intel TRMs agree with you. Both confirm that, even with LDTs, segments will not function with the legacy 16-bit wraparound; nor can you run 16-bit code segments. Fairly critical for most 16-bit software. Not to mention a
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by deaddodo 1y ago
Executing 16-bit code in Compatibility Mode (not Long Mode) is possible, that's not the problem. The problem is lack of V86 allowing legacy code to run. So Real Mode code is out wholesale (a sizable chunk of legacy software) and segmen
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by deaddodo 1y ago
NTVDM requires Virtual 8086 mode in the processor. This doesn't exist in the 64-bit modes, requiring a software emulator. That is why OTVDM/WineVDM exist. You can see all of this explained in the README for the very project you
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by deaddodo 1y ago
Nitpick: The author states that removal of 16-bit in Windows 64 was a design decision and not a technical one. That’s not quite true. When AMD64 is in one of the 64-bit modes, long mode (true 64-bit) or compatibility mode (64-bit with 32-bi
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by deaddodo 1y ago
Clearly using the term “Pokémon” on its own refers to the series in general. If not from the obvious context, but from the sheer fact that there was never a game in the series titled simply “Pokémon”.
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by deaddodo 1y ago
SoCal Edison was as low as .06usd/kwh when the nuclear plants were operating. As soon as they started shutting them down it shot up to ~.25-30usd/kWh.
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by deaddodo 1y ago
The actual patent goes into specifics about the covered mechanic they are patenting and it focuses much more on the pokeball/swapping mechanics. That being said, if they ever tried to hit anyone with the entirety of that, other than in

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