entropicdrifter

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1. 451.▲
   by entropicdrifter 3y ago

   Meh, still worse than a 2020 M1 Mac Mini
2. 452.▲
   by entropicdrifter 3y ago

   Agreed. I've been "the backend engineer who works with the data engineers" for several years now and I've seen their general trend of re-inventing the wheel the hard way a number of times. I've spent the majority of
3. 453.▲
   by entropicdrifter 3y ago

   It's a slow burn but a solid mystery/drama. The end of the season has some edge-of-your-seat moments that wouldn't hit nearly as hard without all of the smaller moments from the middle of the season
4. 454.▲
   by entropicdrifter 3y ago

   It's both a high quality drama about the characters' lives and a detailed, well researched alternate history story with interesting differences in politics and technology as it goes on. Let's just say it doesn't shy away
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   by entropicdrifter 3y ago

   At this point I'd say it's more the situation that the industry has consolidated into few enough companies (WB/HBO/Discovery, Disney, Paramount, Comcast(NBC/Universal), Netflix, and Apple) that they're able to
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   by entropicdrifter 3y ago

   >Effectively, what typically is happening due to entropy (decay, latency, quality, dirtiness) will start to move in the opposite direction due to automation and background AI. Which of course begs the question, "Where's all tha
7. 457.▲
   by entropicdrifter 3y ago

   I don't think they're arguing against the use of citations in general, but just pointing out that anyone with sufficient motivation acting in bad faith can find something official looking that seems to support their opinion. In ot
8. 458.▲
   by entropicdrifter 3y ago

   Assuming that the full 32 bits are used, that means there can be up to 4,294,967,295 chunks. 4,294,967,295 * 2 = 8,589,934,590 KB So, around 8.5 TB. Unless your hypothetical VCS is for a large library of videos, you should be fine
9. 459.▲
   by entropicdrifter 3y ago

   Ah, my bad. Source-available, not Open-Source
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    by entropicdrifter 3y ago

    GameMaker is a 2D game engine used by a number of highly rated indie games like Undertale, Hyper Light Drifter, Katana Zero, and Risk of Rain. RPGMaker is a piece of software that lets you make top-down JRPGs generally in the style of the 2
11. 461.▲
    by entropicdrifter 3y ago

    Isn't the Build engine also FOSS now? Edit: it isn't https://steamdb.info/tech/Engine/Build/ IdTech 1-4 are all also FOSS these days: https://steamdb.info/tech/Engine/idTec
12. 462.▲
    by entropicdrifter 3y ago

    > And it's got to compile all the shaders EVERY time you launch the game, no caching. Man, I've never been happier to use Steam on Linux. Since every game's shaders are transpiled to Vulkan, the Steam Vulkan shader cache
13. 463.▲
    by entropicdrifter 3y ago

    >I didn't really have a way of listening to music portably without Youtube music I mean, you can for sure still buy a cheap MP3 player like you could back in the day. Sure, they're less popular but they definitely still exist.
14. 464.▲
    by entropicdrifter 3y ago

    >Naturally, in a country with a deep history of skepticism of centralized government authority, people don't view public-sector unions very favorably. This feels contradictory to the sentiment in the preceding statement at first gla
15. 465.▲
    by entropicdrifter 3y ago

    You're correct, but the person you replied to is correct as well. ChromeOS is GNU/Linux. Android is Linux but not GNU/Linux
16. 466.▲
    by entropicdrifter 3y ago

    At that point you're re-inventing Flatpak, to a large degree
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    by entropicdrifter 3y ago

    LFE is an industry standard term for the subwoofer channel. It's the ".1" in "5.1","6.1","7.1" etc
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    by entropicdrifter 3y ago

    I did that my senior year. I was focused on my extra-curricular studies of music and philosophy, so I only took 2 AP courses instead of the 4 or 5 the school wanted me to take so that I'd have more free time.
19. 469.▲
    by entropicdrifter 3y ago

    The illegal part wouldn't be putting the chems into your body, but selling or giving such chems to someone when you know they're planning to ingest them
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    by entropicdrifter 3y ago

    Communication is NP-hard and the difficulty scales exponentially with each added layer of complexity. On top of all that, people in specialized roles tend to invent jargon, then use it as an excuse to treat others as inferior or outsiders i
21. 471.▲
    by entropicdrifter 3y ago

    I pay $90 a month for 1Gbps up/down fiber to the home. To pay $70 a month for 25x that speed is ludicrous. I imagine I could pay half of what I do or less to get the same speeds.
22. 472.▲
    by entropicdrifter 3y ago

    I'm having the same issue
23. 473.▲
    by entropicdrifter 3y ago

    I have never wanted to move to Switzerland more
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    by entropicdrifter 3y ago

    libro.fm is the website I use for audiobooks. The library is signficantly smaller but it's 100% DRM free, you can support a local bookstore with your purchases [1], and they have a subscription that gives you credits you can spend on a
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    by entropicdrifter 3y ago

    They can , but then you're talking about a totally different physical scale of computer. Transistors are useful because we know how to shrink them to a scale of nanometers, in particular we know exactly how to do that with transistors
26. 476.▲
    by entropicdrifter 3y ago

    So superconductor supercapacitors
27. 477.▲
    by entropicdrifter 3y ago

    Just like with nukes, it's an international 200+ actor version of the prisoner's dilemma
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    by entropicdrifter 3y ago

    Ooh, I like that. `just build` feels like a good plea to make to the Rust compiler lol
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    by entropicdrifter 3y ago

    I lucked out and got FIOS installed on my street about 6 months before the Xfinity caps went into effect in my area. When they asked me why I was canceling I tore them a new one
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    by entropicdrifter 3y ago

    I agree that the human eye can see higher than 60Hz, especially in the peripheral vision where VR research shows we need at least 90Hz to not get sick and 120Hz works better. That said, there is something to be said for modern applications