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by jandrese 1y ago
Why would you turn green space into solar farms when there are hideous and heat island creating parking lots right there ?
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by jandrese 1y ago
One thing that GTK lost in the transition to GTK2 was working well over slow Internet connections. I remember how even on a dial up modem you got pretty acceptable performance out of a GTK1 app, so long as it wasn't shoving big bitmap
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by jandrese 1y ago
Xaw was also really awful to program in. When I tried using it once I ended up reverting to just plain Xlib and was much happier, even having to build my own widgets out of low level primitives.
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by jandrese 1y ago
Reminds me of the enormous negative prompts you would see on picture generation that read like someone just waving a dead chicken over the entire process. So much cargo culting.
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by jandrese 1y ago
Depends where you want to draw the line. You could trace the lineage all the way back to Rogue with its grid map where the player is fixed to the grid and moves in full block increments. Then you had those 3D maze games where you were sti
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by jandrese 1y ago
The "following" feed helps, but replies to almost any topic still attract outright white supremacists on X. They have seemingly endless time to fill the site up with their talking points.
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by jandrese 1y ago
It's not the concentration of wealth, it is the concentration of power. Communism doesn't solve that problem. The less centralized your power is the more efficient your economy works. Pushing decisions down to the edge means th
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by jandrese 1y ago
To be clear those business won’t be punished except for having to find more workers.
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by jandrese 1y ago
The Navy isn't in the wiretap business.
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by jandrese 1y ago
Just because the Hyperloop is a boondoggle doesn't mean public transit is bad.
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by jandrese 1y ago
The infill stations don't make much sense because they're also low density housing. The fundamental problem with mass transit in CA is the insane insistence to remain low density despite the overwhelming demand for housing. It&#
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by jandrese 1y ago
Especially if they're lane splitting in a crowded city street to speed through traffic jams. That's incredibly dangerous. https://i.redd.it/rviipp7czy131.jpg And the rail fatalities are only that high because of
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by jandrese 1y ago
As a developer I always see "came from Google" as a yellow flag. Too often I find something mildly interesting, but then realize that in order for me to try to use it I need to set up a personal mirror of half of Google's tec
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by jandrese 1y ago
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" -- George Santayana
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by jandrese 1y ago
> Was this a deal breaker for any company? It's not the money, it's the bureaucracy. You can't just buy software, you need a justification, a review board meeting, marketplace survey with explanations of why this particul
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by jandrese 1y ago
There is no need for the decryption to double the needed size. You can chunk it to something reasonable and effectively rewrite the file in place.
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by jandrese 1y ago
The thrill of discovery lies in the details of the mundane. It's like being a kid again and finding fascinating new facts around every corner.
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by jandrese 1y ago
MS-DOS was more of a clone of CP/M. The sort of thing that was mostly possible because CP/M is so minimal that one person can rewrite/port it in a just a few weeks. MS-DOS also cleaned up some of the rough edges of CP/
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by jandrese 1y ago
She does a bunch of social media stuff with her girlfriend on top of that, so “limited social life and no other hobbies” may not be a good description.
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by jandrese 1y ago
Apple doesn’t contribute back to the community.
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by jandrese 1y ago
Is there really a concern that the datacenter is going to drink up all the water in Louisiana? I was much more concerned that it will be expensive to cool because it's situated in a state with a lot of hot and humid days.
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by jandrese 1y ago
I understand where they are coming from. Otherwise you will definitely have people who take a metric ton of copper and slap a sticker on the side and declare that they are shipping stickers around to avoid the tariff. Of course a sane pol
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by jandrese 1y ago
I still think Intel missed the boat when they had the dominant process in focusing entirely on their own chips and not taking customers for third party fabbing. Samsung and especially TSMC have demonstrated conclusively that the real money
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by jandrese 1y ago
The problem is when importance is not reflected in the quarterly profit margin.
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by jandrese 1y ago
> The latest was a slow loris approach where it takes forever for robots.txt to download Applying penalties that exclusively hurt people who are trying to be respectful seems counterproductive.
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by jandrese 1y ago
It’s not quite that simple. Often the most expensive chips trade off raw clock speed for more cores, which can be counterproductive if your game only uses 4 threads.
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by jandrese 1y ago
So you launched /b/?
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by jandrese 1y ago
A traditional bubble burst is when there is a major sector-wide selloff of an overinflated asset. When there is a race to not be one of the suckers left holding the bag.
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by jandrese 1y ago
I think that's going a bit too far. The big thing is to have the AI spit out small digestible modules, check those for correctness, and then glue them together. The same way a person normally writes code, you are just having the AI d
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by jandrese 1y ago
Every time I see an article like this a quote comes to mind: "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent." -- John Maynard Keynes Predicting when a bubble is going to burst is close to impossible.

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