lentil_soup

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by lentil_soup 8d ago
American as in the continent, US the country has nothing to do with this
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by lentil_soup 16d ago
because you don't know the number of images before running the code so no number to do the mod part
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by lentil_soup 18d ago
on the other hand, they'll be taking care of us when we're old :(
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by lentil_soup 18d ago
I never tried to dispute the fact, I'm disputing the idea that we should be free to opt out of benefits that have been agreed as the minimum requirements to do business in a society. I would actually go further and argue that allowing
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by lentil_soup 18d ago
> But the worst is that I must pay for those benefits whether if I want them or not that regulation acts as a lower bound on what it takes to do business in the place. You also pay for companies not dumping toxic material on the streets,
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by lentil_soup 22d ago
According to FixIt Fairbuds are the best ones for repairability, not just battery: https://www.ifixit.com/Device/Fairphone_Fairbuds Do you know how the Sennheiser's compare? I'm looking for some for using at
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by lentil_soup 1mo ago
for the end user, potentially niche, yes. I would argue it allows for anyone to hack around with the file which is a positive in my book for development though, I'd say it's quite useful. I work in a 3D editor and having data in a
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by lentil_soup 1mo ago
> About needing SQLite client, it's real but it's roughly the same size as an XML parser. what I like about it being XML is I can just open it with any text tool and inspect it. It's human readable so I can edit and debug
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by lentil_soup 1mo ago
> Using XML+ZIP in this day and age is also a strange decision I agree with you that SQlite is overkill but honestly curious to know why you think xml+zip is strange? what would you use instead?
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The weekend is 100 years old(theguardian.com)
223 points by lentil_soup 1mo ago|155 comments
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by lentil_soup 1mo ago
I've read this comment many times and still don't understand your point, there's no experts in kidnapping countermeasures? first hand experience doesn't count? kidnappings are not real? something about refugees for whate
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by lentil_soup 2mo ago
you can, but you can also just reduce it, you can eat say half the meat/milk. Eat more vegetables and grains. Not only massively reduces the impact but pretty good for your body too
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by lentil_soup 2mo ago
>a “good” workday, engineers spent 18 percent of their time “coding” (not including bug fixing, testing, etc.) that's such a weird metric, why exclude bug fixing and testing? depending on the phase of the project I might spend 100%
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by lentil_soup 2mo ago
> The difference is that sports—just sports—are the institution in America. What does this mean? I'm really trying to understand what you're saying but I don't get it. Are you saying that other countries don't have a
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by lentil_soup 2mo ago
It's just a lot of work. You need to build the engine/tech, need to support various platforms including building a rendering pipeline (so Vulkan, DirectX and Metal). You need to support animation (probably just 2D?), audio (includ
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by lentil_soup 2mo ago
Caracas
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by lentil_soup 2mo ago
Was born there. It was Caracas in the 00s
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by lentil_soup 2mo ago
I don't think you really know what you're talking about and I'm struggling to answer to your dumb "joke". I was sharing a rough anecdote as an example of how technology fails when designed in isolation and your answ
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by lentil_soup 2mo ago
> you may have to think both about protecting your data by technical means, and about not angering the agents more than you plan to That's the same problem with technical solutions to crime. I come from a very dangerous city and I u
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by lentil_soup 2mo ago
and completely unnecessary in that example, it's a string, type string, makes it way easier to understand
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Fenris Creations (FKA CCP Games) Opens Carbon Engine to the World(fenris.com)
2 points by lentil_soup 3mo ago|0 comments
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by lentil_soup 3mo ago
I think people are misunderstanding. This is a car for Mexico, nothing to do with the US. On the website it says it's a car "designed in Mexico for Mexico" https://www.olinia.auto/
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by lentil_soup 3mo ago
Because it's not so cleanly cut. Editing a level might touch several files without you realising, you might move a mesh file which causes 100s of references to update across 100s of files. For example, you want several people collabora
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by lentil_soup 3mo ago
No, I meant the locking. Being able to branch a lock so you can edit an asset in a feature branch and then discard it (or force a merge)
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by lentil_soup 3mo ago
to be fair, that's just the desktop client. You can use or build on top of the CLI they do say they will open source it, but who knows: "It isn’t open source yet—it currently depends on some proprietary components, including Epic’
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by lentil_soup 3mo ago
don't think it supports branches it's also tough when you have 1TB of data, over 1mm files and you might want to lock hundreds files in one go
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'The Antarctic is the last frontier': the quest to save Shackleton's Endurance(theguardian.com)
5 points by lentil_soup 3mo ago|0 comments
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Microsoft weighing up spinning off Xbox(gamesindustry.biz)
4 points by lentil_soup 3mo ago|0 comments
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by lentil_soup 4mo ago
Some festivals work just like that, you upload some ID when buying your ticket which they see when you enter the venue. Feels really nice and stress free.
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by lentil_soup 4mo ago
will depend on how it's implemented, you could end up paying via a QR code, contact less NFC, a phone number, the web. I think it could open up a lot of innovation

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