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by drittich 4y ago
I think the Clooney film is excellent, and can be enjoyed without knowing anything about Lem's book. And it just might be enough to make you want to dig in to the source material.
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by drittich 4y ago
This feels like a strawman argument. I suspect the person you are replying to would agree with your last sentence. Can you think of any ways the two things might be perceived differently?
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by drittich 4y ago
Please go on - I'm a novice at game dev and this kind of lore is gold and like gold, hard to find.
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by drittich 4y ago
I remember reading about that...does not seem available for streaming.
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by drittich 4y ago
A Gormenghast movie/series could be incredible.
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by drittich 4y ago
Queries are compiled, i.e., a query plan is created and then executed. Depending on various things that plan may get re-used the next time the query is run. So what you are talking about exists. Databases can examine the plans, database sta
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by drittich 4y ago
I use DDNS with Cloudflare, which offers free DNS. I built an open source Windows client for this (could be cross-platform, just haven't bothered yet). https://github.com/drittich/DnsTube
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by drittich 4y ago
Formatting is annoying in Teams but I've mostly learned to work around the issues. My number one annoyance, that doesn't seem to be mentioned that often, is that there are many places where you can't get a direct link to a me
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by drittich 4y ago
I really enjoyed reading that, it's always a pleasure to get a window into the thought process of other developers as they evolve their ideas. Just curious, did you consider using event bubbling so you can declare event handlers right
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by drittich 4y ago
You learn something new every day! I have written JavaScript off and on for years and did not encounter that.
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by drittich 4y ago
What interests me here is that both your version and the else if version perpetuate the error in the original code which is the case where a is greater than b, which is handled once by a "greater than" comparison, and then again b
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by drittich 4y ago
It's not necessarily about locking, it's a way to control what order joins get done in, which, at least in MS SQL, is up to the query engine to decide. By writing to a temp table you can override the query engine's plan, ofte
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by drittich 4y ago
I've long been surprised at how pervasive bad eyesight is, and often at a very young age. It seems like an adaptive trait. Why is it so common to have poor eyesight? What other aspects of human development suffer so much that seem so i
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by drittich 4y ago
We do this in SQL Server by running a SET CONTEXT_INFO command every time we open a connection. This makes the current user ID available to any SQL that runs.
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by drittich 4y ago
Same experience here. I work my machine hard. It runs 24x7, hosts many sites, databases, Plex, and I do some pretty heavy development work on it daily. It pretty much "just works". The last time I had to routinely reinstall Window
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by drittich 4y ago
Forgotten Depths sounds really cool - I can't figure out when it will be available though!
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by drittich 4y ago
Yes - my only attempt was in the early 1980s when I started to develop a language implemented on top of interpreted BASIC. It was called MAL (My Attempt at a Language). I wish I still had it - I have no recollection what my design goals wer
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by drittich 4y ago
I would add 4) documentation to that list. A wiki full of docs is the closest analog I've seen to a monolith ball of mud codebase.
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by drittich 4y ago
That's a wonderful definition, I'm still turning it over in my mind a day later. I like how it provides a "why" for culture, with a pretty grounded reason. I tried to locate the origin of it, but just found a bunch of pa
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by drittich 4y ago
Here's the first that blew my mind, from the early 1980s: It was a BASIC "AI" program that would guess what animal you were thinking of just by asking a few questions. "That's crazy," I thought. And, it learned
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by drittich 4y ago
This is exactly how I first learned to program. Waiting a whole day to find out you had a bug was just way too frustrating for me so I completely wrote it off, as much as I enjoyed writing code. Once the first PCs came on the scene, though,
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by drittich 4y ago
If you read "slow and chill" as an imperative, not adjectives, then it works just fine.
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by drittich 4y ago
>The fraction 355/113 is incredibly close to pi, within a third of a millionth of the exact value. This level of accuracy is far beyond its rights as a fraction with such a small denominator, and it causes various oddities elsewhere
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by drittich 4y ago
Yes, but if you DO lose a byte or two, it may render the whole thing unreadable, at least without getting into forensics.
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by drittich 4y ago
I joined a group of vintage computing enthusiasts recently, dedicated to a specific platform. During a recent online meetup, I watched as one of the members attempted to archive newly discovered cassette tape copies of previously unavailabl
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by drittich 4y ago
Perhaps I'm an outlier. But, I thought I'd post my thoughts in case others get dissuaded from trying the show based on all the negative feedback. Note, I've only watched the first episode. I watched the show with two other pe
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by drittich 4y ago
I agree - I have looked into a 2 or ECS implementations, and they either seemed awkward, or brought in a bunch of other concerns I did not care about, and in the end decided to roll my own for some games I was building. It was pretty simple
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by drittich 4y ago
I have a similar feeling, but have not converted that feeling into building production code that way yet, partially because it conflicts with a large amount of existing code that I work on in terms of design. It definitely has tradeoffs, bu
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by drittich 4y ago
Even as a media server I personally find it too expensive to buy one that can handle 4K transcoding, frequently needed for subtitles. I just use Synology to server the files and run Plex on a separate machine.
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by drittich 4y ago
I like Synology a lot but mainly use it for storage/backup. It's a very expensive way to host containers IMO. I would look to a Mac Mini for something like that.

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