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by kbolino 2y ago
This might explain (or be related to) why when I installed an Amazon app through Amazon's store it would get hijacked by the Play Store version eventually.
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by kbolino 2y ago
The KGB was dissolved, along with the rest of the Soviet Union, over 30 years ago.
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by kbolino 2y ago
I guess I see that more as single-player vs multiplayer rather than PvE vs PvP. But I think your point is that the emphasis shifted from an entirely developer-created experience to one where other players are a major/dominant part of t
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by kbolino 2y ago
Doom had deathmatches, where you fought each other instead of the enemies. PvP in general is as old as FPS multiplayer (talking about PvE in single-player is redundant).
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by kbolino 2y ago
This feels more like a planning/governance problem than an innate property. I've lived in SFH on the edge of a major city and on the edge of farmland and there's a wide gulf in the level of infrastructure that they had access
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by kbolino 2y ago
Asian media has absolutely exploded. China, South Korea, Japan, Thailand, and Taiwan have all put out a lot of good TV and movies in the past few years. It's definitely given me a refuge from the increasing proportion of American and B
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by kbolino 2y ago
This argument has long ceased to have any real substance. We are talking past each other and just get more and more disconnected with each volley. Practically speaking, the number of people alive today who have had the opportunity to sit at
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by kbolino 2y ago
You're right, and for some reason I thought that solution had been ruled out.
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by kbolino 2y ago
Good to know! It certainly looks like all the necessary pieces are there for FreeBSD at least.
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by kbolino 2y ago
Despite the disdain of ivory-tower academics who had access to resources well beyond their individual means, practical computing for the masses was only made possible with the "wrong" parts and the "wrong" number of bits
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by kbolino 2y ago
This is good to know. I'd be interested to see a comparison in performance of the same (recent) game on the same hardware with Windows vs. Linux vs. FreeBSD; I assume there will be a small penalty from Windows to Linux (in general) and
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by kbolino 2y ago
You could also have N channels, one for each argument, and use reflect.Select to receive the results as soon as available, waiting to print any result until all of its predecessors have come in. You could also have a mutex-guarded block at
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by kbolino 2y ago
BSDs are off the table because Proton, the set of extensions to Wine for playing video games, uses Linux-specific system calls. Also, the major graphics hardware vendors don't release their first-party drivers for anything other than W
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by kbolino 2y ago
I don't know what issues others have had with it, but for me one notable thing is that html/template strips all comments out. This is by design, but it's not documented anywhere. I've proposed making this configurable, b
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by kbolino 2y ago
But the designers of early micros did need to limit themselves, and they proved that those limits were not insurmountable. The luxuries afforded by kilowatts of electricity and cubic meters of space were beyond the reach of early micros. Yo
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by kbolino 2y ago
Both the EIC and its Dutch equivalent VOC were eventually dissolved by their respective governments. This disarms people from viewing even rampant corporations as truly dangerous; even corporations that fielded armies and waged wars ultimat
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by kbolino 2y ago
This seems like a stronger argument that Fahrenheit 451 has failed in its purpose than that Nineteen Eighty-Four did.
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by kbolino 2y ago
In a similar vein, inodes can run out. On most conventional Linux file systems, inode numbers are 32 bits. For many, this is not going to be a practical problem yet, as real volumes will run out of usable space before exhausting 2^32 inodes
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by kbolino 2y ago
It is not clear to me that large and/or publicly traded corporations must maximize short-term profit. The seminal case of shareholders vs management concerning the Ford Motor Company in its early days shows that the objectives and in
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by kbolino 2y ago
Plenty of older microcomputers got by just fine with only 8 bits in a word. That's enough room to fit two binary-coded decimal digits and thus perform all the common arithmetic operations one or two digits at a time. Many quite good ha
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by kbolino 2y ago
They had no term limits, a well whipped supermajority, and an immense amount of political capital. Nowadays, Presidents are term-limited, majorities are transient and fickle, and political capital is diffuse and quickly spent.
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by kbolino 2y ago
A majority of the shares in most publicly traded corporations are held by retirement funds, both "private" (BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street) and public (FERS, CalPERS, ...). These entities, generally, have no appreciable interes
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by kbolino 2y ago
Yeah, I've read it multiple times. Every time, it says to me "somebody somewhere else can package these things together, it just won't be Zig". There must be something about Andrew Kelley's communication style that
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by kbolino 2y ago
You're the second person to post a link to a comment that's prominently highlighted on the issue I already linked. Yes, I've read that; nowhere do I see a statement like "Zig will always ship Clang with it" and in
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by kbolino 2y ago
I raise you https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/20875 It is not entirely clear what any of this means for the future, and in any case, it keeps changing all the time. The promise to maintain LLVM support ju
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by kbolino 2y ago
Whatever the issue was, it seems to have been resolved sometime after I last checked.
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by kbolino 2y ago
I think it does. If you want Clang, install Clang.
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by kbolino 2y ago
Zig is divorcing itself from Clang: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/16270
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by kbolino 2y ago
It's blocked for me too, but only on my home Internet (Xfinity), not my phone (Google Fi/T-Mobile).
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by kbolino 2y ago
AUR is not a source of system packages. It is a community-maintained source of package build scripts which each user must download and build themselves.

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