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by jholman 6y ago
MacOS's broken-ass filesystem will no longer be allowed to cause warnings on other operating systems, that's a feature I'm keen about! (removal of the dependency on chokidar and fsevents)
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Next you're going to complain about NaN != NaN.
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What are the numbers "112" and "156" doing in the article?
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That's for one of several results, and the whole point of those words appearing is to imply that it contrasts with the other results. I mean, arguably reporting on things at this stage is super premature, the whole article shouldn&#x27
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Sure, here's the simulation. There are only six distinct cases, so we can "simulate" it exhaustively, and a Monte Carlo will approximate this. Let "A", "B", and "C" represent the prizes; A is va
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by jholman 6y ago
Re: the Java version having stutter issues, hmn, fair enough. I didn't notice any, way back when I last played Minecraft. Re: a rewrite to C++ for consoles and mobile, yeah, when you've got hundreds of millions of dollars for a g
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by jholman 6y ago
I don't want to be overly negative/critical, but an observation: Facebook's decision to require Facebook logins for all Oculus products seems like a very good reason to branch out support other VR devices ASAP. Mandatory Fac
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by jholman 6y ago
Why would you expect to perceive GC stutters? Much as I loathe Java-the-language, it continues to amuse me that the game that sold for $2.5B (and that's after extracting revenue from 60 million sales) was written entirely in Java. I co
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by jholman 6y ago
Project Euler is so wildly overrated. Not everyone loves number theory, almost nothing in programming is number theory, and yet a large portion of those problems are number theory. IMO, adventofcode.com/ is much more well-rounded.
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I agree, pliny hasn't thought it through. Smear peanut butter on the bread, NOW tear up the bread, and apply the peanut-butter-smeared shreds to the (peeled) banana. Still the same primary advantage as pliny's method, same primary
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by jholman 6y ago
> Lebanon had the second largest number of Syrian refugees after Turkey And the most, per capita. (1M Syrians to 7M Lebanese means 13% or so of the people in Lebanon right now are Syrian refugees; Turkey has 3.6M across 83M, or 4%) In b
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Indeed. It's in the top-ten listed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ammonium_nitrate_disas... , being close to as large as Beirut 2020. Note also e.g. Texas City 1947 Though I see different estimates of
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by jholman 6y ago
I certainly agree that "Normal PDFs are simple, reliable, and interoperable". And yes, virtually every PDF out there is designed to be printable first, and in that context they're pretty great, and the flaws that they do hav
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by jholman 6y ago
I think this is a pretty reasonable and balanced article, actually, and I think it straight-up admits what many instructors lie about: If you already can write a Hello World back-end in some other language/framework, and you're no
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by jholman 6y ago
I have no idea what TFA meant, but if they meant what you assume they meant (and I tend to agree with you) then the whole premise is broken. I'm not aware of "preventing SQL injection" as any particular advantage of Rails (n
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by jholman 6y ago
Isn't it the case that you can easily turn it off, in your own user agent? For example, in this case (Firefox), to turn this new behaviour on ahead of time, the article says you can go to about:config and set network.cookie.sameSite.
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by jholman 6y ago
Wow. You think that the Gates Foundation has complications and conflicts of interest, and you think that a mega-science project would be free of those ? I mean, first of all, mega-science is just as prone to grift and mismanagement as any
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by jholman 6y ago
The L really doesn't fit in with the others. It's super weird that people even try to compare it with the other "SOLID rules". The Liskov substitution principle isn't advice on architecture, it's a statement o
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by jholman 6y ago
panopticon is correct that this talk is sort of off-topic, because it's about game-dev gameloops, not game-design gameloops, which are not the same thing at all. And rishav_sharan is correct that it's nonetheless lovely, so thank
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by jholman 6y ago
Wait, what? You're saying that Americans preferentially use base-2 fractions (nearly) everywhere except on computers; on computers you preferentially use base-10, even though said computers are going to store the values as base-2? That
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by jholman 6y ago
> if you give someone lifelong trauma that the result should be lifelong consequences That is a terrible plan. There's no restoration there, only retribution. We can do better than an eye for an eye.
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by jholman 6y ago
Truly hate that I have to deal with deleting the .m off other people's links. It's so ugly, it has these disgustingly oversized fonts, and because all the sections are hidden by default, it works badly on mobile and even worse on
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by jholman 6y ago
> making more is cheap and fun A common quip, but deeply inaccurate. Making productive agents who will advance your community is not cheap (neither in money nor in effort), and while some parts are fun, many parts are extremely not-fun.
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How can something be 150% cheaper?
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What? Less than half a million deaths so far. Pretty serious, but definitely not the worst human catastrophe since WW2. There are a few dozen wars, civil wars, and genocides over the last 70 years that resulted in more than half a million
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I'm not sure quite how you got "tertiary", but, I mean, to some degree I agree with you. The qualities I pointed out are certainly not sufficient qualities for something to be engineering, and if I had to say which was more
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by jholman 6y ago
As a software engineer with a CS degree who complains about "bad languages", none of that is what matters. Software engineering, as practiced, isn't real engineering. When people say "actual engineers", they'r
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by jholman 6y ago
The (old, old) joke is... "You can always tell a Harvard man, but you can't tell him much."
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I think there's two separate things going on here. On the one hand, the world is full of horrifying inequality, which you highlight and indeed perhaps understate. Inequality within America, inequality within China, inequality between
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Well, I was there, and I say that while it might not have been the zeitgeist, it was certainly an idea and concern that was known and discussed publicly, both in political rhetoric and in fiction. You can debate until you turn blue, but i

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