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by m12k 5y ago
As someone that uses both Mac and Windows regularly, I find the quality of the software I use on Mac to be generally higher. Cyberduck (FTP), Transmission (bittorrent), Charles Proxy (packet sniffing), Sourcetree (git gui), Pixelmator (imag
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by m12k 5y ago
I wasn't talking about Zaphod. https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Ruler_of_the_Universe
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by m12k 5y ago
I like the solution from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Elect some random person as president of the galaxy, but don't tell him about it. Just have conversations with him to find out what he thinks about things, but don't
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by m12k 5y ago
I really hope they make another "Snow Leopard"-style release. Minimal new features, just bug fixes and performance enhancements.
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by m12k 5y ago
Looks like the move from 3G to 4G also meant going from "real speeds are 1/5th of theoretical max" to "real speeds are 1/10th of theoretical max". I wonder if that's due to congestion at the phone-to-tower
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by m12k 5y ago
I'm increasingly coming to realize that in programming, flexibility is something you pay for in performance, whether you use it or not. Data being mutable even if you never mutate it. Automatic bounds checks for data that you've a
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by m12k 5y ago
If you're interested in this, you should also check out this GDC talk[1] by Asher Vollmer, creator of indie mobile game Threes (2014), that got a lot of credit when it came out for having a very smooth tutorial. [1] https://
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by m12k 5y ago
You can read more about the technique here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_and_recapture
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by m12k 5y ago
My condolences, that doesn't sound very nice. Unless you're a frog, in which case, congratulations!
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Right, if you're measuring long enough that predators eating some of the flies could be an issue, then you'd want to mark them with something only visible under a blacklight, or similarly "neutral", so it doesn't in
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by m12k 5y ago
In my statistics class we were taught a technique for estimating the number of flies in a barn. You capture a fixed size sample of flies, e.g. 100, and give them each a little white dot on the back, then release them all back in the barn. L
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by m12k 5y ago
When you think about it, it's insane that metascience isn't studied more. We're going to question every little detail about the universe, but we're just going to take on faith that peer-review and publication in journals
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by m12k 5y ago
It seems to already support that - see the section "Working with generated and conditional content"
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I wonder if they've drawn inspiration from SwiftUI?
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> That’s not why they code, nor are the skills of writing good documentation even vaguely similar to those for writing good code. Strong disagree on that one. Writing good code is all communication - with the computer, with your colleagu
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by m12k 5y ago
I made a handful of ruby scripts to automate exporting subscription transaction data for my SaaS from Stripe, piping it into my accounting tool and reporting to the authorities. There's a script to validate that all paying customers ar
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by m12k 5y ago
I guess the "gameplay" is somewhat self-balancing in the sense that as soon as one strategy becomes dominant, there's that much more incentive to come up with a strategy that counters it. For that reason alone, in nature, and
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by m12k 5y ago
Hey, it's only debt if there's someone around that needs to pay it down. Once the skeleton crew that was left to crank out DLC's moves on to pastures greener after half a year, nobody's ever touching that shit again.
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by m12k 5y ago
In general the problem in the game industry isn't that people don't know better ways to structure their code, but that they are under extreme pressure to ship and get absolutely no time to refactor. Between GDC presentations and p
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by m12k 5y ago
It seems to me that this phenomenon of "representational drift" fits well with the results that show that every time a memory is remembered, it is essentially deleted, and re-recorded. Given what we know about how memory and exper
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by m12k 5y ago
I went to the site, felt puzzled, watched the video, decided it was probably satire, then went to the comments here, and now I'm not sure what to believe anymore. It seems to be a fast way to create Celery Man[1]-type GUIs. You can put
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by m12k 5y ago
A lot of countries have laws requiring companies that sell more than $X annually to their citizens to register as a foreign company and apply local VAT.
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by m12k 5y ago
No need to cook the books if the government already gave you everything that you'd otherwise have to lie to obtain!
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by m12k 5y ago
I'd love for Ireland to withdraw from the EU - that would make it much, much likelier that the rest of us could get a consensus on anti-profit-shifting tax reform with the biggest tax haven out of the union.
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by m12k 5y ago
Agreed, trying to get the whole world to agree on a single tax rate (0 or otherwise) is unrealistic, and completely ignores the sovereignty of countries to design their tax system as they please. What needs to happen is a modernized way to
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by m12k 5y ago
Yep, the current corporate tax laws basically punish single-nation companies, while giving multinationals a free pass. International tax laws desperately need an overhaul.
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by m12k 5y ago
I'm currently porting a slackbot to Teams. Even with the backend logic and architecture mostly re-usable, the Teams bot is already taking at least 3x as long to code, simply because their documentation is so obscure. It feels like dete
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by m12k 5y ago
I think if this is to be used by emergency services, then the time it takes to go "Let's try that again..." could mean the difference between life and death. I'd rather the system were designed in a way not just to make
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by m12k 5y ago
Sounds like they need to prune the word list and/or group together possible mispronunciations, misspellings and misreadings. If "correct horse battery" is a location, then "correct hose battery" and "correct ho
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by m12k 5y ago
Objecting to abuses of power by a super power is totally reasonable. Using it as a reason to say "oh, but this other super power totally wouldn't do that" is at best naive and at worst shilling. Looking at gp's comment h

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