justinrstout

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by justinrstout 7mo ago
Makes a lot of sense especially in light of the chaos that the state of Kansas just inflicted onto its citizens this month.
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by justinrstout 2y ago
This article never takes up the cause of the minorities who are being harassed and killed on a daily basis, but spends a lot of time whining about having to show even a modicum of empathy by using more inclusive language. For this reason it
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by justinrstout 3y ago
FWIW we currently have this in the AV1 codec which is royalty-free and has a better quality/size ratio than h264.
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by justinrstout 4y ago
In fighting games we still have to worry about _network_ latency, as high ping will cause frequent rollbacks. A more accurate way to think about it is that rollback netcode enables very low _input_ latency which makes online feel more like
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by justinrstout 6y ago
In my city we can buy milk in glass bottles for a $2 deposit that’s credited when the bottles are returned to the place of purchase. This program is available at virtually every mainstream supermarket here.
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by justinrstout 6y ago
"Concurrency primitives" here is probably referring to Java's fundamental mutex system as used with `synchronized`, `wait()`, and `notify()`. Java's thread pools and concurrent data structures are built on top of these a
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by justinrstout 8y ago
This article makes a lot of unsubstantiated claims and is very light on actual data. For example a blatant assertion like "Amazon’s Kindle and other methods of online reading have revolutionized how Americans consume text." has no
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by justinrstout 9y ago
This feels like a natural extension of stories, where previously it was a sequence of short videos shot by your friends, now it's a sequence of slightly longer videos shot by a professional news organization. So in the short term I&#x2
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by justinrstout 10y ago
Technically, a "pump and dump" is the opposite of what's being described here. This would be a "poop and scoop". http://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/poopandscoop.asp
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by justinrstout 10y ago
Theodore Ts'o wrote about a similar Firefox issue back in 2009: https://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/03/15/dont-fear-the-fsync/
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by justinrstout 13y ago
I'm not sure it's very constructive to explain the editor wars in a short, non-technical blog post. This article provides little useful technical information and a lot of extraneous verbal fluff. The comparisons to various philosophical wor