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by kevingadd 1y ago
I once debugged a production issue that boiled down to "A PCI compliance .dll was messing with floating point flags, causing the number 4 to unserialize as 12"
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by kevingadd 1y ago
If you ever sign into a Microsoft account - i.e. when setting up your PC since it's nearly mandatory - Windows turns on OneDrive automatically even if you explicitly opt out of it during the setup wizard because apparently user consent
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by kevingadd 1y ago
From looking at the blog post I suspect the explosion of generic instances could be a serious problem for code size and startup time, but that's probably solvable somehow. The performance certainly seems impressive. The way LINQ curren
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by kevingadd 1y ago
I believe they're referring to the stack allocation improvements, which would ideally allow all the LINQ temporary objects to live on the stack. I'm not sure whether it does in practice though.
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by kevingadd 1y ago
If you're using DisplayPort, try switching to HDMI. (Really.) For me it made the freezes much shorter. It's a bug in their driver related to the connected monitor(s).
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by kevingadd 1y ago
This should not have been downvoted. It's true that the GIL does not make python code thread-safe implicitly, you have to either construct your code carefully to be atomic (based on knowledge of how the GIL works) or make use of mutexe
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by kevingadd 1y ago
When your hiring pipeline is so obliterated that you decide to fire about 400 of your employees. Makes sense.
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by kevingadd 1y ago
For web apps I can imagine good uses for notifications, like how I have a Google Calendar tab pinned and it's useful for it to be able to alert me that I have a meeting in 15 minutes. But for websites? Can't think of anything.
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by kevingadd 1y ago
I'm quite certain Apple would have continued their browser engineering and security efforts with or without Google. In the first place, Chromium was a fork of WebKit (which itself is derived from the work of the KHTML team). Apple valu
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by kevingadd 1y ago
Optimal performance in a vector algorithm typically requires optimizing around things like the number of available registers, whether the registers in use are volatile (mandating stack spills when calling other functions like a comparer), a
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by kevingadd 1y ago
You should carefully check the license of each font on Google Fonts. They're not all under the same license. Yes, many of them are permissively licensed, but that doesn't mean you have the right to redistribute the ttf/otf fi
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by kevingadd 1y ago
Part of the motive behind variable width SIMD in WASM is that there's intentionally-ish no mechanism to do feature detection at runtime in WASM. The whole module has to be valid on your target, you can't include a handful of inval
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by kevingadd 1y ago
The fonts loaded on one machine are typically not loaded reliably on all machines, so you need to distribute fonts with your application. Doing this is probably a violation of the license that all those "free fonts" were distribut
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by kevingadd 1y ago
If you're writing code that needs to behave deterministically and not have side effects, you could use this to make violations of determinism/side-effect-freeness fail fast, I guess?
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by kevingadd 1y ago
Though I'll note that (AFAIK) WASM environments don't expose access to uninitialized memory. When you grow your Memory object the new space is zeroed, and when you allocate it initially it's zeroed. This can actually show up
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by kevingadd 1y ago
> But because tick() and render() involved async database calls, sometimes a new interval would fire before the previous one finished. This is a tricky one when writing games using async APIs. The game I've been working on is writte
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by kevingadd 1y ago
I sincerely believe everyone should learn at least one other language. At least make the effort, you'll learn a lot in the process and it can be quite fun. It also enriches your understanding of your primary language once you've s
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by kevingadd 1y ago
"I want the original language to punch through a bit and be celebrated especially with idioms." is asking for a compromised, incompletely translated work, no?
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by kevingadd 1y ago
For a while basically any mobile or browser freemium game you tried would have progress timers for building things or upgrading things and they'd charge you Actual Money to skip the wait. That's kind of out of fashion now though s
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by kevingadd 1y ago
Don't you want to appreciate the book at its best, as it was appreciated by readers who read it in its original language? Why demand a compromised work? If you want to soak up untranslated idioms, you can just learn another language.
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by kevingadd 1y ago
I think the obstacles there are distribution and IP rights. I think we will see content like that find widespread appeal and success but actually turning it into $100m in revenue requires having the copyright (at present, not possible for A
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by kevingadd 2y ago
Who pays for the tariffs if not the taxpayer?
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by kevingadd 2y ago
There are many possible criticisms of Israel that don't have anything to do with Jewish self-determination, though... or is the idea that because it's the only Jewish state they get a free pass on all their conduct? I'm not f
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by kevingadd 2y ago
There are plenty of graphics researchers not in NVIDIA's pocket cooking up stuff that doesn't require vendor-specific features, so I'm not worried that graphics research is being suppressed, if that's your theory. Intel
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by kevingadd 2y ago
Sadly, I just accepted having worse productivity. I didn't really have a choice, their bugs were actively breaking my workflow, like causing builds to fail. It definitely made me more frustrated and less productive on a day-to-day basi
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by kevingadd 2y ago
Business was good in those days if you had an audience and could distribute your game to your customers more or less direct. Retail was very expensive, but if you were selling shareware your distribution costs were really low and you were
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by kevingadd 2y ago
The current administration refers to inclusion of PoC and women as "DEI", so when they talk about ending DEI, that's what they mean. See https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/17/defe
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by kevingadd 2y ago
The retail experience now is not necessarily the same as it was when you were a kid though, is it?
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by kevingadd 2y ago
That doesn't seem like a #2 scenario, unless you're okay with your centered divs not being centered some of the time.
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by kevingadd 2y ago
Yeah the lowest option on some point of sale systems now is 20.

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