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by frontfor 2y ago
For one, id software is still making great big budget single player experience, see Doom 2016, Doom Eternal, and the soon-to-be-released Doom the dark ages.
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by frontfor 2y ago
I think the idea that Airbnb is to be blamed is not valid, or at least it doesn’t explain much. Keep in mind that property prices have been rising massively in many parts of the world including the oft-forgotten East/Southeast Asia i
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by frontfor 2y ago
Your commented is directly contradicted by the article. > To make multimedia processing fast. It’s very common to get a 10x or more speed improvement from writing assembly code, which is especially important when wanting to play videos i
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by frontfor 2y ago
This is a very black and white thinking. Autocracy and democracy lies on a spectrum. Just because China doesn’t lie on the extreme end of Autocracy doesn’t mean it’s a democracy.
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by frontfor 2y ago
I want to caveat that the “horror stories” you hear about have two biases built in: 1. Happy users don’t talk about their experience on the internet, while unhappy users do. 2. You only hear one side of the story, and it’s always negative t
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by frontfor 2y ago
This is simplistic. China famously ended the COVID lockdown after protests broke out. Would you call that a democracy?
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by frontfor 2y ago
This is an ignorant statement to make. Most of East & Southeast Asia aren't religious extremists. Malaysia and Indonesia are exceptions rather than the rule. It's clear you're making statements about a large swarth of the
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by frontfor 2y ago
This is stating the obvious, but LLM is not the only use case for a data centre.
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by frontfor 2y ago
The cost of living is rising everywhere, not just Singapore, so I’m not sure how relevant that factor is. Do you have evidence that MNCs are net moving out of Singapore?
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by frontfor 2y ago
How do you know that?
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by frontfor 2y ago
Stop referring to them as “China”. It’s as ridiculous as referring to Meta as “America”.
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by frontfor 2y ago
You’re completely missing the point. The point being made isn’t about “are we implementing someone else’s idea”. It’s about the complexity and trade-offs and tough calls we have to make in a production system.
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by frontfor 2y ago
It should be obvious that not liking something does not implying being boring.
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by frontfor 4y ago
No one is arguing AI isn’t useful. So your analogy failed completely.
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by frontfor 8y ago
I think the OP meant that it should compile to native code, which is not supported today.
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by frontfor 8y ago
At this point you’re just pretending like you don’t know why people degoogle. The number one reason would be privacy. And the fact that you’re a customer to Apple and not a product.
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by frontfor 8y ago
Or maybe it's just that: it's a well written article and the subject matter is interesting. An article doesn't need to have "new facts" to "stand above the news media noise". Plenty of submissions on HN do
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Debouncing and Throttling Explained Through Examples(css-tricks.com)
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by frontfor 8y ago
People have raised valid points about their disagreements with the recommendations -- whether you agree with their points or not. You're being overly sensitive and attributing malice prematurely and calling other commentators "idi
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The most complicated watch ever made(reference57260.vacheron-constantin.com)
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What is “:-!!” in C code?(stackoverflow.com)
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How modern languages will save the text editor(yann.hodique.info)
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Trump was right about TPP benefiting China(theintercept.com)
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The abandoned buildings of the Eastern bloc(bbc.com)
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Tchaikovsky's voice(en.wikipedia.org)
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by frontfor 11y ago
Interestingly, Half-Life (released in 1998) uses a slightly more complex table-based generator: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/halflife/blob/master/dlls/u... Note that this is only used for certai
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Test functions for optimization(en.wikipedia.org)
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Wikipedia: Replies to common objections(en.wikipedia.org)
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ZPAQ compressor and archiver(mattmahoney.net)
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by frontfor 13y ago
File system traversal can be quite slow on traditional hard disk drive, it requires a lot of random disk access which has much higher latency than sequential access (think about the moving parts in the disk drive). So I guess that being wri

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