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A Simple Entity Component System (2019)(austinmorlan.com)
66 points by lordleft 4y ago|35 comments
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by lordleft 4y ago
I have yet to buy a single thing, let alone a single useful thing, with a cryptocurrency. I also don't understand how a cryptocoin is supposed to be a rapidly accumulating asset for investment, while also being stable enough to functio
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For years, I had assumed that the Peter Principle was named as such because it was alliterative, and because someone named Peter exemplified it. I had no idea a real Peter who had theorized it existed.
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Princess Mononoke is my favorite film of all time. Whisper of the Heart is a close second.
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No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as any manner of thy friends or of thine own
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One thing I love about Tolstoy's War and Peace is how it describes how individuals can cycle through absorbing worldviews, philosophies, causes and projects across the arc of their lives. They feel adrift, then find some great cause to
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To generate value for the shareholders, silly.
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I'm a bit worried that this will trigger some kind of move to measure productivity in increasingly crude ways -- i.e. exhaustive, invasive telemetry that tracks every mouse click and keypress.
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by lordleft 4y ago
Hope that I remember Assembly from my Computer Architecture course.
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Interesting write-up that acknowledges the benefits of cloud computing while starkly demonstrating the value proposition of just one powerful, on-prem server. If it's accurate, I think a lot of people are underestimating the mark-up cl
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This is where my mind went and I was incredibly confused, as good as it is to decry modern slavery.
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This is Water, by David Foster Wallace [pdf](metastatic.org)
3 points by lordleft 4y ago|0 comments
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Apart from the abstract conviction that we should not indict the cultural output of a country that is under the thrall of an oligarch, I'm a bit baffled at the notion of decrying Tolstoy of people -- a Christian anarchist who radical
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Sadly, even a small, concerted group of violent actors can terrorize a society. I don't think the paramilitary core of the Nazis were a particularly large part of German Society, for example. That doesn't mean that an outright civ
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One of the great blessings of the roguelike genre, especially in its purer-ASCII expressions, is that the barrier to create a complete and gripping game was considerably lower than games that required lots of art assets, animations, etc. It
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Flânerie: The Art of Aimless Strolling(samwoolfe.com)
200 points by lordleft 4y ago|125 comments
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by lordleft 4y ago
My family is what is called St. Thomas Christian, part of a (fairly) endogamous and ancient community in South India. Though there is a lot of denomination diversity in the community these days, the most ancient denomination is Syrian Ortho
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I just want to say that whatever one thinks of Austin, I appreciated the author's thoroughness. I wish more essays like this existed for major cities.
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by lordleft 4y ago
Beautiful typeface. Clear writing. Passion and humor seeping out of every page. The author has also kindly made a web version of his book freely available: https://craftinginterpreters.com/introduction.html
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by lordleft 4y ago
What are some alternatives to JIRA? Also, how much of the hate directed towards JIRA buried resentment towards Agile and other project management paradigms?
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Can we take a moment to acknowledge her incredible presentational ability? She was charming, wry, slightly subversive, and still conveyed a really cool scientific concept in one brief talk.
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The Three Types of Happiness(etiennefd.substack.com)
8 points by lordleft 4y ago|2 comments
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Interesting. I'd like to see more action against the financialization of many other industries / domains, like healthcare and even housing, that I feel are not well served by a purely-market driven perspective. One wonders what th
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by lordleft 4y ago
Is Grade Inflation really a problem at a top school? Why is it surprising that driven students at an elite institution are probably going to do well most of the time? I'd take this over moronic experiments like grade deflation at Princ
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A baroque space opera CPRG. Baldur's Gate, but in a sweeping interstellar setting.
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Morrowind is my favorite game that I've never completed. I've started it a dozen times, devoured the lore, savored its truly unique setting, but I cannot get past some of the more outdated mechanics. Still, I love Morrowind noneth
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This is an almost breathtaking documentation site.
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From Tristram Shandy: "Well, you may take my word, that nine parts in ten of a man’s sense or his nonsense, his successes and miscarriages in this world depend upon their motions and activity, and the different tracks and trains you pu
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by lordleft 4y ago
I can listen to -- or rather read -- Bourdain's takes on literally any topic (especially his expertise, the restaurant industry).
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Spinoza's Religion(blog.apaonline.org)
40 points by lordleft 4y ago|45 comments

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