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by ehvatum 6y ago
Perhaps he’s an ambitious person with both great successes and great failures, and people admire that?
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Driving with autopilot off certainly requires driver attention.
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Wait until you write your first win32 program! WPARAM and LPARAM! Integer or pointer or unused?
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Identifying me by cell number instead of my Google account is a good start for Google Pay, but it leaves open the possibility that, if I lost my phone, I could get another with the same number. Google should use IMEI to identify Google Pay
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by ehvatum 6y ago
The attitudes, outlook, habits of the Blender development community are healthy. Dwelling in that scene and bringing something of it with you to mundane work will make you something special.
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Some of my common CNC manufacturing runs use jigs with screws to hold odd-shaped products cut from large plate stock. I’ve tried many different styles of screws. Philips is great if you match the driver to the screw. The wrong driver will s
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by ehvatum 6y ago
For example, SQLite is excellent for making an email client. Even on old embedded Arm devices with 64MiB memory, it’s fast enough to handle a gigabyte of messages and an address book with thousands of entries, provided the SQLite DB is loca
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The right to protest should be important to you, regardless of your political persuasion. 2020 saw a very great many more violent protests, including the construction of autonomous zones that rejected the authority of all elected United Sta
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by ehvatum 6y ago
There is room for 3rd party app stores. Epic will argue that Apple does an absolutely ghastly terrible job of curating the Apple app store, as Apple really has little incentive not to suck completely. The EU court will agree. Apple will spe
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I can offer a somewhat unusual perspective on Tesla and SpaceX, from the manufacturing POV, because I never did sign their production NDAs, although I have made parts for them. Producing for Musk companies is a fucking shit show. Specificat
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Wow, still using rc.conf, X11, ifconfig, and it’s absolutely wonderful!
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> Google could make Stadia better for casuals, but that means doing something less prestigious, no Google engineer will go for that, and they obviously don't understand the business model. There are also many prestigious and lucrati
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I blame the popularity service degrees. My great great grandparents were gilded age robber barons. Their children earned service degrees (doctors, lawyers) and split things up and sold them off. Their children earned service degrees and wor
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I don’t have a gasoline pipeline to my house, but I do have electrical service.
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> But let's say someone steals $10 of food from a grocery store If you allow that, you will soon enough be without grocery stores!!!
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Will we invest in nuclear power? No.
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by ehvatum 6y ago
Let’s keep 80s music out of this ;) Looks like I need to resort to ASM for visual c++. Might do.
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by ehvatum 6y ago
Neat! x86_64 has CMPXCHG16B. Learn something new every day.
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“You are overestimating the difficulties of porting old stuff to wayland” The same is true for moving away from win32 GUI API. How many times has Microsoft tried? I have experimented with wayland and considered submitting patches for variou
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by ehvatum 6y ago
It’s not within Xi Jinping’s personality inventory to make good strategic decisions for his nation.
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EU: “These are serious accusations, so it is not done lightly. I am not saying that there is a problem but if there is a problem and that we have favoured other destinations, other countries – for example the UK over us – then we will defen
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The Tesla supercharger standard is open and the license fees owed to Tesla for implementing that standard are zero. https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you Tesla offered access to their supercharging n
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> If you own infrastructure you have some responsibility to share it. Inasmuch as GM had responsibility to help build Tesla’s supercharger network, I agree.
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“ When 50000 houses need each 20KWh each night at almost the same time they will destroy the local power lines which were not designed for this.” What, you think a grid used to cool homes at 5pm can’t charge vehicles from 9pm-5am? Are you
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> Compared to non-users, regular cannabis users were more likely to ... not be in a relationship at age 35 In 20 years of various relationships, the only girlfriend who didn’t request that I quit smoking weed was extremely naughty and ex
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Not all small businesses are stores. A local brewer needs new tooling for their canning line; I’m currently 3d scanning various components and designing replacements that I will machine from stainless and Delrin. I do a lot of this kind of
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“In recent years the United States has seen more severe acts of political violence and deadlier riots than the events at the Capitol—but American guarantees of free speech apparently should not survive the shocking image of Nancy Pelosi’s o
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Great - so if I’m dependent on a patented product, it’s going to get exponentially more expensive and all that money will be funneled to the patent office. This helps nobody.
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Some said that Apple laptop anorexia finally progressed to such an extreme that any magnet sufficiently strong to hold itself in place against gravity could also drag the laptop off any table.
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I’m very glad I read through this. Somehow, I didn’t know about __builtin_prefetch or the msvc equivalent, _m_prefetch. Thank you!

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