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by lgl 7y ago
Of course, agree to disagree. But in particular, having to constantly perform glory kills and chainsaw attacks to get more than 5 bullets or having to snipe coordinates XY on enemy Z with alternate firing mode N to weaken him and only then
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by lgl 7y ago
Not exactly, Unreal the single player game is also from 1998. If you meant Unreal Tournament, it was released November 22nd 1999, just a few days before Quake 3 Arena that was released on December 2nd 1999. UT was also mostly a multiplayer
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by lgl 7y ago
The last "real" Doom imho. Although both Doom 2016 and the new Doom Eternal look and run amazingly well, the thing with weapon alternate firing modes and weapon mods are just not my cup of tea. I don't want a shotgun that fir
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by lgl 7y ago
This is wrong, Half Life was released in 1998, quake 3 arena in 1999.
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by lgl 7y ago
Love Iain Banks, but this was just a missed opportunity to the much better name Subby McSubface
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by lgl 7y ago
Yes, it's called evolution. But since this is hn, here're a few articles/papers on the subject. https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/news/071201_adenov... https://www.pnas.org/c
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by lgl 7y ago
If this whistleblower [0] is to be believed, then the Chinese may be downplaying this [0] - https://twitter.com/Terrence_STR/status/1221100970521829377
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by lgl 7y ago
The US is the world's largest weapons exporter and Saudi Arabia is the world's largest weapon importer. I'm not sure even a Hitler level calamity would make the US stop dealing with them. They're holding their hands an
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by lgl 7y ago
Seriously? Kids these days... :) All hail to the #1 FPS development powerhouse of the 90s: id Software/John Carmack. Hail !
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by lgl 7y ago
Both "The Last Question" and "The Last Answer" are fantastic shorts that I can't recommend enough to everybody. Don't let this version being a dud stop you from reading them. They're available in text form
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by lgl 7y ago
> For example, we have absolutely no idea what's going on inside a proton and we'll probably never know. We actually have a pretty good idea of what's going on inside a proton. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by lgl 7y ago
> I'm thinking of simply creating express routes (I'm using Node.js) and using JSON but it seems cumbersome. Or is that a common practice? Yes, it's common practice. As for being cumbersome, as cumbersome as creating confo
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by lgl 7y ago
I'm probably missing something here but why not just disconnect the TV from the ethernet/wifi? Are these things connecting themselves to the network?
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by lgl 7y ago
An Oculus (by FACEBOOK) exclusive
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by lgl 7y ago
Thanks everybody, pretty much all great and valid points. This is all usually very much glanced over and oversimplified in most online docs and tuts in the "web development" area which is unfortunate since it's usually all mo
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by lgl 7y ago
>I haven't seen a Foreign Key smartly implemented in a LONG time This has also been my experience as a web developer mostly. I rarely see any applications that make use of foreign keys constraints supplied by the database server. Us
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by lgl 7y ago
I had completely forgotten about this and honestly laughed out loud. Learn some more at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auqS6FR_RDE
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by lgl 7y ago
I've recently came across some articles by a guy that built and sold some io games. You can read some of what he wrote on his website: https://victorzhou.com/blog/creating-and-selling-io-games/
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by lgl 7y ago
"It's frameworks all the way down"
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by lgl 7y ago
I've recently developed a website using nuxt and got 100 lightspeed for both mobile and desktop (as long as I'm not using any kind of throttling as that will penalize the performance category). Admittedly it was more of a personal
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by lgl 7y ago
I'm not a trading expert but I guess smarter and richer people/entities will probably also run bots and a whole lot more complex trade monitoring and market making strategies or algorithms. In your example, somebody interested in
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by lgl 7y ago
Absence of evidence != Evidence of absence
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by lgl 7y ago
Patrick's channel is pretty awesome and he has an amazing deadpan sense of humor. For those who don't really know him, I suggest his "What do programmers actually do?" video [0] which is pretty hilarious. [0] https:&#x
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by lgl 8y ago
> A modern browser is effectively on par with an Operating System complexity-wise. I don't think this is even remotely true. Those same arguments (using apis, good security, good ui, speed, etc) could be made for any piece of non-tr
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by lgl 8y ago
I once also analysed a bunch of Linkin Park songs. No matter which algorithm I inputted into the discombobulator, the flux capacitor always overloaded and threw error messages about trash and crap. /me crawls back to reddit
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by lgl 8y ago
While I agree that roundcube is really basic when compared with Gmail, I'd say that if you follow the convention that Gmail is nothing more than a webmail client (i.e.: a place you access through a browser to receive, read and send ema
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by lgl 8y ago
We have a few of these Renault ZOE [1] around here with that feature and they sound very "spaceshippey" as well. Also, anybody else finds it funny the self-fulfilling prophecy where we're now actually projecting "hums&qu
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by lgl 8y ago
Agreed. For another great sci-fi audiobook narrator, check out John Lee.
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by lgl 8y ago
PHP was always simple to setup and use, the system package manager has all the extensions. Sorry if I misunderstood what you're trying to say but this makes no sense to me. It's still the same simplicity to install PHP. But what
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by lgl 8y ago
Aha, that was exactly it! Scary stuff.

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