gamacodre

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by gamacodre 5y ago
I am 100% sure I will never be asking for that. Now, figuring out how to get a containerization platform running in there might be a different matter...
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by gamacodre 5y ago
> They want to do things their way... Hard to wrangle them This can happen when the software group is seen as incapable, unresponsive, or even just slower than "business speed". I'd suggest talking to the individuals and t
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by gamacodre 5y ago
You were (unintentionally) trolled. My first post up there was alluding to the legend that Bill Gates once said, speaking of the original IBM PC, "640K of memory should be enough for anybody." (N.B. He didn't[0]) [0] https:&
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by gamacodre 5y ago
Huh, I guess that was as bad an idea as the 640K one.
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by gamacodre 5y ago
Why 1TB? 640GB ought to be enough for anything...
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by gamacodre 5y ago
Ofttimes Sony's "input" isn't much more than "your licensing message needs to stay on-screen for another 0.5 seconds to pass acceptance test X.X". Maybe they're doing more for non-AAA devs these days? They
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by gamacodre 5y ago
> A random bloke on the Internet just is trying to optimize for 1 problem, getting the right answer Most random folks on the internet seem to be optimizing for dopamine hits, not correct answers. Anyone with an audience is optimizing for
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by gamacodre 5y ago
I was responding to a comment about making money from ads, but a similar line of thought works for banking services, I think. Suppose that your use of the water service was creating public lashback against the water utility for "suppor
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by gamacodre 5y ago
This bugs the crap out of me, it sounds like "waaaahhh I can't rake in ad money being a provocateur". So deal with it. Get a day job. Accept that large chunks of society will hate you (that's the goal anyway, right?) and
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by gamacodre 5y ago
Back in the 80's and 90's, working on consoles in very tight space constraints, there were times we’d go with a horribly inefficient implementation of something like sort, because we only needed to sort 8 things and the savings in
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by gamacodre 5y ago
The issue here is that this outage was a result of all the routes into their data centers being cut off (seemingly from the inside). So knowing that one of the servers in there is at IP address "1.2.3.4" doesn't help, because
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by gamacodre 5y ago
My anecdotal experience matches yours. I work for a smallish business in an active growth phase, and the onboarding process for every employee starts with "Welcome to the company, here's your laptop."
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by gamacodre 5y ago
> News should not be entertainment. News should not be for profit. But why ? If "news" isn't profitable or entertaining (and FWIW I agree those shouldn't be preconditions for quality news), then it will have to be su
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by gamacodre 5y ago
Sometimes it's the battery (system) even when the battery is fine. My son spent something like $1200 chasing the ghosts of electrical issues in a Ford Expedition with multiple mechanics. And they did in fact replace the battery at some
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by gamacodre 5y ago
Who will decide what curriculum to invest in? QAnon adherents are in some cases aggressively campaigning for positions on school boards. This scares the shit out of me.
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by gamacodre 5y ago
I read that as "request authentication", i.e. some way to sign or HMAC the content of the request, with keys given only to the things that need to interact with the service. If users are involved, then yeah you also need some kind
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by gamacodre 5y ago
"Fantastic for customers" is an overstatement IMO. A well-informed customer can stretch their budget without too many compromises by selectively shopping there. But that's exhausting, it's much easier to just run down yo
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by gamacodre 5y ago
That makes a lot of sense. Taking it further, you could also introduce a sliding scale for comment volume, like $1 for <10 comments/mo, $5 for up to 30 comments/mo, or the $100 "troll package" for up to 80 comments&#x
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by gamacodre 5y ago
But that’s the point of what I was trying to say. Their policies and more particularly their actions seem inconsistent from the standpoint of [science/politics/research/reason] because they’re based on [revenue/regulator
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by gamacodre 5y ago
My guess would be that a "platform" for serious video content could not be financially viable on today's internet. It would need be able to alienate advertisers over points of principle, effectively argue those same points wi
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by gamacodre 5y ago
Let me rephrase: It's the wrong platform for the discussion of anything controversial. Their ToS can pretty much be boiled down to "If you make trouble for us, we'll punish you. Or just delete your account." And "tr
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by gamacodre 5y ago
Eh, I'm not sure I agree. YouTube is manifestly the wrong platform for serious discussion of anything. All their incentives are are geared toward engagement volume, not quality. The very best you could possibly expect from them is to
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by gamacodre 5y ago
In the doc, they claim: > Antikernel is designed to ensure that following are not possible given that an attacker has gained unprivileged code execution within the context of a user-space application or service: ... or (iv) gain access t
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by gamacodre 5y ago
The Palm devices were great, I had one of the originals, then Samsung had a flip-phone version, and Treos followed after. I used the heck out of all of them, and even wrote some code for the platform. It was really sad that they lost their
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by gamacodre 5y ago
AR is probably in its "hovertank" era right now, after years of interesting but largely useless demos. Someday we're going to wonder how anyone managed to navigate or buy things in shops without realtime vision markup.
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by gamacodre 5y ago
It depends a bit on the engine too. A long time ago I designed & built a multi-platform 3D game engine that used quaternions internally for many things, but exposed Euler PYR angles for most "game-level" object controls. We (t
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by gamacodre 6y ago
I'll sometimes read TFA as "the featured article," but I don't know whether I picked that up along the way or invented it to make internal sense of nice things said about TFA. RTFA derives directly from RTFM ("Read
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by gamacodre 6y ago
What? You only put in one load balancer? What were you thinking ?
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by gamacodre 6y ago
Yep. ZX81 BASIC had 26 string variables (A$ through Z$) and 26 floating point variables (A through Z). No integer variables per se, but you could POKE and PEEK to get at 8-bit values anywhere in memory - which typically maxed out at 16K.
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by gamacodre 6y ago
I think it's useful to distinguish between types of trust. You might trust a mill operator with $5 million worth of automated equipment that has a well-documented UI backed with years of training and industry support. However, you migh

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