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by eropple 2y ago
The problem is that "cheap video" still costs a lot of money to ship to consumers. Things like PeerTube get around this by just doing a bad job of it, but if you want things like traffic steering and adaptive bitrate (and you do,
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by eropple 2y ago
These are platforms with worse availability and worse affordances, ranging to nonfunctional once you're on a mobile device. Adblocking technology isn't going to make them better. Making them better is going to make them better, bu
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by eropple 2y ago
It's been a while, but as I recall, DirectX introduced a hardware abstraction layer from the get-go, but support was pretty spotty for the first few years. DirectX 7 was a pretty big step forward, and coincided with a lot of pretty imp
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by eropple 2y ago
I think that's a great idea, and when I've been in a leadership role I've at least tried to have important things done at least twice. ;) And you're right, I was pretty much just outlining what might be called "a go
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by eropple 2y ago
You're right, in the case that it was known to be a problem . There are lots of places where the "<= or <" decision can be made, some long before some guy opens a text editor; in those cases, the unit test might not ca
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by eropple 2y ago
Intel's literally-everything will make you feel much worse about switching.
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by eropple 2y ago
If anyone reads anything Matt Levine writes about GME and goes "ooh, I want that", they have conclusively failed at literacy, both media and mathematical.
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by eropple 2y ago
In this analogy, game journalists are your Hitler equivalent? I guess there's an epistemic closure where it certainly wasn't The Gamers who decided to have a pretty massive case of "any woman in gamedev must be a slut and f
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by eropple 2y ago
It's a berserk pack, jeez . Rampage is by Midway. ;)
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by eropple 2y ago
I don't think that's nearly as universal an assumption as you're claiming. Like--I made $X,000 dollars last year, but I also have a mortgage and like to eat food.
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by eropple 2y ago
I guess it's true, if somebody is making the kind of money necessary to justify the cost outlay, that those use cases are indeed "powerful". Just not, you know, good for either the user or society at large. "Just let the
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by eropple 2y ago
You have to survive being a midsized company in order to become a large one.
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by eropple 2y ago
...I'm...agreeing with you?
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by eropple 2y ago
Sure--if you're looking to do that, you're probably not taking VC and almost definitely not using YC. VC does then choke out nascent companies in the "mid-sized, actually employs people" space if they think there'
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by eropple 2y ago
Wow, I had a hell of a moment there. I think I multiplied 25mm-per-inch (woodworker rule of thumb, I work in metric in the shop and .4mm isn't a big deal) and flipped it around in my head. This is why you measure twice, cut once. Gonna
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by eropple 2y ago
Should, but don't. OAuth2/OIDC implementations tend to be way more transparent about the asks being made between an IdP and SP. It can be confusing. (I agree, however, it's the right path.)
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by eropple 2y ago
We converged on a system that protects the commercialization of copies because, in practice, "the first copy costs $X0,000" is not a viable way to pay your rent. If we want art to be the province of the willfully destitute or the
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by eropple 2y ago
Yeah, this is what I was expecting. I have no love for Disney et al but I think that this is dire (aside from UBI, which would be great but is fictional without a large-scale shift in American culture). "Everybody else gets paid for th
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by eropple 2y ago
Interesting article, if on the advertising side of things. I've done some hobby work with some basic composites and they're really neat to play with. Even so, I itch at the idea of bolts made out of composites; there are plastics
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by eropple 2y ago
This is all true, and in a vacuum I agree with it. There's a pretty core problem with these kinds of assertions, though: people have to make rent. Never have I seen a substantiative, pass-the-sniff-test argument for how to make practic
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by eropple 2y ago
Their definition is >20 years, as it happens.
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by eropple 2y ago
This post is a fantastic example of Poe's Law. You had me for a second.
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by eropple 2y ago
Most databases eventually have a human typing an INSERT statement or the moral equivalent. It's not duplication to have your correctness functions protect that, too.
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by eropple 2y ago
Well, there are a decent number of those use cases, but the one I find most compelling is storing an exact record of what another service sent me in case I need it later. I pull out and store in my typed schema the relevant bits of, say, an
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by eropple 2y ago
> As it stands today, the only credible names in ARM SOC GPUs seem to be Apple (M chips) & Nvidia (Tegra chips). I've been out of this space for years, so my knowledge is definitely stale, but have Mali GPUs fallen out?
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by eropple 2y ago
One indeed could. Excuse me while I channel Kermit the Frog and take a long sip of my tea.
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by eropple 2y ago
That's getting into perfectly-spherical-cow territory, though. Investors aren't logical and neither are founders, and there's a real chance that an investor-fair deal isn't going to get any bites. The BATNA for most foun
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by eropple 2y ago
> That doesn’t matter for things like 3D printing and CNC machining It absolutely does. But great, let's look forward to Printables being ruined by off-model nonsense.
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by eropple 2y ago
`default(Boolean)` is false, so you can load an old object and it'll substitute the default, rather than having to throw an error on a missing property. You could do the same with, say, a new Int32 field, so long as it should default t
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by eropple 2y ago
Two of those are dead and the third has coded several times over the last ten years. Amazon, on the other hand, is one of the world's biggest businesses.

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