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by jungler 8y ago
It's not the compile times that keep C codebases slim, it's the primitive build system. There's no notion of modules, so every project has to cobble together an equivalent thing, generally relying on make, autotools and its
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by jungler 8y ago
As a kid I did get an imposing/pretentious vibe out of many of these logos and some others. Apple Garamond comes to mind as one that felt cold and unfriendly, like Apple were saying "Mac users are better and that's just how i
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by jungler 8y ago
With the restricted diets, compliance is extremely hard to achieve in a lot of cases. If you go to social events, work in an office, etc., it will always come down to being offered restricted foods and having to forcefully reject them. F
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by jungler 8y ago
Audio apps have been the red-headed stepchildren of consumer operating systems since forever: the APIs aren't tuned towards latency, and they often stop providing functionality once "decode an MP3" works. And audio programmin
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by jungler 8y ago
They aren't literally doing "GPU acceleration," though. The GPU is a possible target for the language, but not an ideal one. Their prototype is compile-to-WASM, which is by itself a good move as a portability concept. A ful
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by jungler 8y ago
Speaking as someone who made a decent pile in cryptocurrency: 1. Don't ride on the stocks forever. You'll feel it as a windfall now, but it's an investment. You invested in the company, and it paid off, so you should probably
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by jungler 8y ago
Asserting that "sprawly apartments" have the same cost as SFH is not compelling unless backed up by TCO figures, since it runs up against the metric of "geometric efficiency". If I have more destinations nearby, I spend
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by jungler 8y ago
The pleasing-the-parents issue is one that affects every family, since there are all kinds of hidden sociocultural expectations that tend to start being confronted near the end of the educational years and the start of career building and f
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by jungler 8y ago
That makes it like finance, then: good at hiding the bodies.
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by jungler 8y ago
My only question is: Which century is Empire "the game of"?
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I think there is an underlying root cause to how we treat Open Source, and it's similar to the IT "cost center vs value creator" problem: Open source packages are treated as consumer goods, and creators in turn will engage wi
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by jungler 8y ago
Forth was used for a few commercial games in the 80's(e.g. Starflight), but game programming tends towards getting knee-deep in a statically allocated global state with a large, bespoken update procedure, both of which run contrary to
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by jungler 8y ago
Discussions of older effects work always make note of the high manual labor effort. But increasingly I'm not convinced that we really have things that much different in the CGI era. Certain things can be done in a commodity fashion(e.g
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by jungler 8y ago
I find that people understand "linearized" concepts easier than other kinds(DAGs included). When elements are left-to-right or top-to-bottom, you can read what is going on at a glance. So the next major step in VCS technology wil
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by jungler 8y ago
Rust is good at solving certain scaling issues in large applications: Servo, the lead usecase for Rust, can safely take many parallelizing optimizations that would be unfeasible to debug anywhere else. That does not make it a defacto winner
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by jungler 8y ago
It's actually indefinite by adding more slave blocks, the spec example shows how this works up to 60 blocks, but the algorithm holds beyond that.
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by jungler 8y ago
There's definitely an element of performativity in food that strikes me every time I see cooking shows. It can be great food, but you're going to poop it out the same as anything else. So what are you paying for, when you get ab
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by jungler 8y ago
I had the pleasure of being assigned Ashe's memoir, Days of Grace , during a summer school class(I don't even remember what the class was supposed to be about - some district mandated requirement) and certain of its images have l
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by jungler 8y ago
Check all the small stuff and see what you can do there. I swear by vitamin D3 for cutting down my mood swings. For some people sleep might be the issue, or noise pollution, or any number of persistent modern life issues. It all adds up, an
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by jungler 8y ago
I think the reviews would have had two major issues with it: * Black and white * Too short and easy Although reviewers would talk up raw tech specs, when it came time to assign scores they were and still are more likely to consider the whol
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by jungler 8y ago
I'm in the process of evaluating Go-raylib for a fantasy console project in lieu of Love2D. The basic rationale is: * I only need inner loop high performance - it's a fantasy console, and intentionally limited. It will have some C
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by jungler 8y ago
Here are some common techniques: 1. Hue shift your complements towards the primary instead of trying to use the full range. This mimicks what we experience in different lighting conditions: under a red light, everything looks red. 2. Create
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by jungler 8y ago
Most folks would disagree and say that blue is actually the least sensitive to changes and green the most, and allocate precision accordingly. See remarks here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_color
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by jungler 8y ago
All bridges follow similar designs, even if their implementations are original. Digital systems tend to fail in original ways all the time, because the design is something intentionally new. If it weren't, you'd just copy the exis
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by jungler 8y ago
Last I checked Zig is more concerned about overflow conditions than Rust(numeric overflow, stack overflow, OOM etc.) and boasts features in that vein - so it competes, but not in the same territory. If you are writing a kernel it's hi
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by jungler 8y ago
In the consumer space it touches a number of fronts. When you have a game people want to mod, you end up with a dev/community line of interaction where someone ends up with the most popular mod/tool/forum/etc. and sudden
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by jungler 8y ago
I would liken any status in software to superstardom in sports. If you're in demand for exactly the right thing, all the doors open. But if your real calling is something with no extant "pro league", you are viewed as a hobby
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by jungler 8y ago
SF native. Would be happy to see this sort of "tech" start departing. Most of these companies are marketing-driven and provide low or negative social value in the process of moving money from distant lands into their pockets while
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by jungler 8y ago
This is a problem that is somewhat well-known: If you send your message in esoteric terms it will be read by the great majority as a face value validation. Even some very direct statements tend to be read preferentially. Whether this is pro
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by jungler 8y ago
As someone who basically feels that they "get" Alan Kay(although some talks have repeated content admittedly) this sounds like the response I'd give. He isn't in the business of peddling specific answers, but in encourag

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