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by djtango 3y ago
So I live in Singapore and wanted to watch Lord of the Rings legally, offline on my Linux machine and I have no idea how to do it. And after dedicating quite a bit of time towards trying to figure it out, I also wasn't really sure why
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by djtango 3y ago
Don't have much to add, but this article was so pleasing to read. Those diagrams with the light dispersion really tickled me - is that spectrum real or is it a render?
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by djtango 3y ago
in other words there's a spread between what employees will take as pay and what employers could pay but usually employers are arbing that spread because employees lack price transparency.
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by djtango 3y ago
first, there's a definitely a stamina to it - I worked in an XP team for best part of 3 years and have at other jobs done a lot of full-time pairing (sometimes months at a time). Second, there's a chemistry element. When there&#x2
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by djtango 3y ago
was looking for this comment. If their core website is anything to go by, I doubt they can run an ecommerce business. I've never felt more nervous about using an online service than when I had to internationally Fedex my passport to ge
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by djtango 3y ago
Yeah but a £5 charge per spam email would also ensure good compliance.
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by djtango 3y ago
when do you have in mind? In recent modern history, we saw periods of high social mobility - competition works well in positive sum environments where the pie is getting bigger for everyone. Feels less good when the pie is getting smaller..
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by djtango 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
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by djtango 3y ago
In the context of this article and GP post I think the teacher trying to coach students that the act of trying something/anything has the probability of the solution snowballing out of your head. But often students give up before tryin
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by djtango 3y ago
The brain is incredibly plastic. Chinese is spoken by 1.7B people and ostensibly most of them can read Chinese. If you listened to accounts of Western learners' experiences learning to read and write Chinese, you'd probably believ
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by djtango 3y ago
I've always wondered why games didn't implement that but now that I think about it, I can't imagine a neat solution (in 30 seconds) Imagine a 3rd person action game. A and B split up and have two perspectives. They end up fac
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by djtango 3y ago
yes - perhaps other systems can can capture the simpler cases, but standard music notation has been battle tested against many instruments and multi instrument. And iterated on for literally centuries. It's fine to acknowledge there is
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by djtango 3y ago
I have an X240, I don't think I'll ever be able to love it as a true ThinkPad when Lenovo came up with that abominable trackpoint without physical buttons. My current gen P14s has awful keyboard keys. There's barely any trave
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by djtango 3y ago
thanks for this, it wasn't immediately obvious to me why the headline example was traversing a list but doing that fast without GC is cool
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by djtango 3y ago
appreciate it's still in beta but save from browser will probably finally break my curse of 1000+ chrome tabs... (most of which are old HN threads)
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by djtango 3y ago
would be interesting to know how this was before/after Shorts and how it's changed (and how notShorts have performed since Shorts launched)
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by djtango 3y ago
I'm surprised that anything like this exists. I considered what it might be like to build some analytics for something like YouTube but figured that I would be killed or copied by YouTube the second the project got any traction
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by djtango 3y ago
I recently read the book DotCon. It's quite an enjoyable read because the author adopts a slightly mocking tone of voice about big predictions like "The Internet will replace print media and even TV". Seemed ridiculous and ye
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by djtango 3y ago
what are some games from the past that have absolutely nailed it for you?
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by djtango 3y ago
where does all the copper and lithium come from to enable this mass electrification and storage of energy? Let's hope we don't need too much cobalt too?
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by djtango 3y ago
I heard that in Japan they will almost never fire someone, for various reasons. So when it's time to go there are stories of peoples desk being moved to the cupboard for example.
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by djtango 3y ago
you have to put on a cantonese English accent though. Makes less sense if you elongate the vowel and pronounce the r but yes quite fun
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by djtango 3y ago
the hard ones are unsolved research problems? I haven't read the book, so he poses research questions as exercises to the reader...?
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by djtango 3y ago
interesting. Teochew people eat a lot of (from my anecdotal experience) and we don't have the same culture of charcoal burning our meat. I wonder whether a similar comparison could work for South East vs other parts of the Chinese dias
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by djtango 3y ago
there are tiers of fidelity when delivering communications. The highest is one on one. The lowest is a short whatsapp. The lower the fidelity the easier it is for the same message to be misinterpreted. I don't particularly like sitting
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by djtango 3y ago
Agreed was a little unsure about shooters at first but the same period covers Half Life/CS. Though it took consoles to catch up with that multiplayer experience for shooters. Was goldeneye as good as PC shooters like CS or Quake? That
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by djtango 3y ago
not just kids! I still fondly remember that mechanic and I've only just realised the genius of why thanks to your comment. Even though I devoured games like FFT, I still think of mechanics like the gunblade trigger so fondly
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by djtango 3y ago
I grew up in this era so really try to keep my bias in check but that really did feel like the golden age of JRPGs and many other games at the time. Arguably certainly action games and shooters peaked later but late 90s Square was something
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by djtango 3y ago
it's funny people are talking about secrets. Yoshi P of FFXIV and FFXVI has lamented the poor ROI on secret content. Eg Yuffie and Vincent will not be optional hidden party members in the VII remake. I understand the thought process be
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by djtango 3y ago
how does SoM compare to FF:CC?

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