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by fsloth 3y ago
N700 was underwhelming. N950 was a complete badass in all the ways it was not and in a bette world we would have a vibrant ecosystem on N950 successors. Sadly is was not to be.
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by fsloth 3y ago
Weirdly the reverse is true as well - as a rule of thumb hardware companies seem to be abysmal at software (lots of industry examples). I wonder what causes this hardware/software incompatibility.
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by fsloth 3y ago
Yes. Un-wise super intelligent programmers are the worst. They come up with the most amazing roundabout way to achieve even the most mundane tasks, and consider complex code a mark of honour, rather than a pathology to be purged. At some po
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by fsloth 3y ago
Yes! This! The code should be so boring it's never a point of discussion. This implies several things - for example when bringing in a new person, it should be straightforward to teach them how to work with codebase. Other implications
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by fsloth 3y ago
No, a product is a completely different thing from a computer language.
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by fsloth 3y ago
Oh, super interesting from point of view of market segmentation. Where do you live? Urban or rural? It does seem the prices of unorganized mounds of blocks is quite cheap nowadays (10-20 EUR/kg seems to be the going rate via quick ebay
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by fsloth 3y ago
"That's why you should always try to reuse instead of buying new." I totally agree. I disagreed with targeting specific companies especially when their product is very long lasting with robust resale market (meaning the chanc
578.
by fsloth 3y ago
This is a fairly generalizable rule in any engineering, unless you really are running the Apollo program (then when divide-and-conquering should probably remember this rule).
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by fsloth 3y ago
"It still consumes a non renewable resource..." As does most of our current industrial processes. I really can't see beyond blind value signaling why anyone would want to single out Lego. "It's a really familiar bra
580.
by fsloth 3y ago
"mom threw out all of my Lego once I left home" I guess she wasn't aware of the vibrant resale market?
581.
by fsloth 3y ago
”that will probably end up in the environment over time.” A few brick here and there, for sure. I have 40 year old Lego blocks in my house. Unless the quality has degraded severely that plastic will be used for decades. The problem with pla
582.
by fsloth 3y ago
”Lego makes thousands of pounds of new plastic toys every year.” There is nothing inherently wrong about plastic. Plastic waste is the problem. Cheap plastic waste. In general Lego - is used for decades - is not cheap Plastic has it’s
583.
by fsloth 3y ago
No, really, using arrays for internal storage of trees, graphs etc is much better from performance point of view. Among other things, allocations and finalizations are considerably faster. When a non-trivial payload is construed mostly of l
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by fsloth 3y ago
Our native multiplatform c++ code uses wstring (win, mac, android, wasm). It’s not the worst option. AFAIK There is no 100% method to have single codebase tackle the differences in platforms. My recipe for keeping sane is to have single
585.
by fsloth 3y ago
Ah, I see. IMO indices are a good way to implement all data structures, gc or no gc. I.e array for storage, indices for links. Referring the array via indices is not slower than following pointers.
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by fsloth 3y ago
”dynamically updated graphs are nearly impossible to write in Rust” Can you expand on this? I’ve taken only a cursory look on Rust and it’s not obvious to me what are the specific constraints that would cause this.
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by fsloth 3y ago
"It isn't safe in general" Disagree. Use whatever is the most simple and boring option for the problem's solution. Also, the standard library has so much stuff that will give you pain in runtime, that avoiding sprintf re
588.
by fsloth 3y ago
"let it end half of humanity" You do realize that would be mostly the half whose nations had nothing to with this mess in the first place, right? The rich well of nations of northern hemisphere will not suffer dramatic population
589.
by fsloth 3y ago
Given this is a discussion forum with global reach your suggestion on implementing change to global industrial policy via voting may or may not be viable (not everyone gets to vote, and most of the countries lack global impac. US is really
590.
by fsloth 3y ago
I agree with most of what you wrote above. The ludicrous amount of resources used for growing animals for food is totally non-value adding and harmful to the environment as a whole. That said I'm not a vegetarian - my diet is based on
591.
by fsloth 3y ago
In general the argument for man-made global warming is composed of 1) Humans have increased the carbondioxide content of atmosphere 2)Atmosphere with more CO2 stores more heat 3) Storing more heat results in rise in global temperaturea All
592.
by fsloth 3y ago
“Human-caused climate change is a myth.“ What makes you think exactly the global scientific consensus would be wrong in this matter?
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by fsloth 3y ago
‘Fables’ is excellent :D Others my favourites: Alan Moore, ‘V for Vendetta’ Alan Moore, ‘League of extraordinary gentlemen’ Alan Moore, ‘Watchmen’ Neil Gaiman, ‘Sandman’(series, but packed into albums) Frank Miller, ‘Give me liberty’ Mike M
594.
by fsloth 3y ago
I would guess Bill does get a share of that money though? This was the impression I got from Bill's explanation of his contract?
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by fsloth 3y ago
Don Rosa, who has drawn fantastic Donald Duck stories for Disney is a tragic example of this. The fans identify him with his work, but AFAIK Disney of course does not reward him in any way beyond the original contract terms.
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by fsloth 3y ago
Fables is an excellent work of fiction by any metric, not just as a comic. Some of the protagonists are among the most memorable characters in any fictional work. I warmly recommend it to anyone.
597.
by fsloth 3y ago
Well, this went full-on-HN quickly :D Getting pulse racing for a few minutes is the easiest things ever and does not require anything else. It does not need skill, monitoring, strategy, motivation or external consultation. Just few minutes
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by fsloth 3y ago
"Is there any alternative?" Try exercise. May or may not work, but a quick high intensity exercise only for few minutes gives me usually energy for the next few hours. Run stairs, do pushups and squats or whatever.
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by fsloth 3y ago
"In the non-game development world, almost all of the best tools for development are free and open source." I think part of the equation is that in that space most of the hard problems have been solved for the past 50 years - so w
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by fsloth 3y ago
For sure. Also, should have invested heavily into fission power via any method necessary (state subsidies etc).

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