m12k

71 ms·

721.
by m12k 6y ago
> There are plenty of societies that don't respect intellectual property and copyright. And those societies don't innovate at the rate as those who do. That's not necessarily so - for example, during the industrial revolut
722.
by m12k 6y ago
I don't think it's being in nature that causes you to get into the non-pleasure-seeking mindset. Rather, if you develop a non-pleasure-seeking mindset, then nature will be where you feel most at ease.
723.
by m12k 6y ago
You seem to misunderstand my comment. My point was that the West only fought a war with Germany because they invaded Poland and other neighboring countries. Had the Nazis not done that, the West would most likely not have fought them, even
724.
by m12k 6y ago
The sad truth is that the world would most likely not have done anything about the holocaust if Nazi Germany hadn't also invaded their neighboring countries. Killing people at home is just frowned upon, but killing people next door is
725.
by m12k 6y ago
The problem with the shift to flat design wasn't that it stopped being "fun", the problem was that there was a whole bunch of things being communicated to users by the previous, non-flat designs that got lost in the transitio
726.
by m12k 6y ago
I get why an engineering department might want to do something, anything to help combat injustice, and apparently this was the best they could come up with. But there's an almost comedic disproportionality between the scale of the prob
727.
by m12k 6y ago
Yeah, it's probably closer to things like fiddling with assembly, manual thread syncing and rolling your own crypto - it's not that you should never do it, but unless you're very, very sure what you're doing and why, it&
728.
by m12k 6y ago
I'd say thermodynamics and entropy describe the woes of our time quite well: Ecologically, we've seen that releasing sequestered carbon into the atmosphere in order to extract its stored energy is a form of entropy that leads to a
729.
by m12k 6y ago
Books that fit that description, and that I've heard good things about are JavaScript: The Good Parts (but maybe not quite up to date anymore?) and Eloquent JavaScript.
730.
by m12k 6y ago
What do you mean? One of the points of government funded health care is that you get rid of several layers of needless indirection and profiteering. You basically vertically integrate a big chunk of the industry and have it work together to
731.
by m12k 6y ago
Can anyone comment on how this compares to Ferdi?
732.
by m12k 6y ago
In my university physics course, we did a project where we made our own physics models of car crashes and compared with crash tests and statistical data about real-life crashes. Our conclusion at the time was that crash test results matched
733.
by m12k 6y ago
The experience of receiving credit card payments for a SaaS subscription sucks badly, even if you disregard the inflated payment processing fee. Banks can allow the charge to happen the first five months, then on the sixth charge, randomly
734.
by m12k 6y ago
> People often deploy new features deactivated, then, when the whole fleet is updated, activate features to different groups and monitor for breaking behavior change. Even better - then they shouldn't even need to make another deplo
735.
by m12k 6y ago
I'm sure their deployment process is way more complex than mine. I'm also sure that unlike me, they have engineers dedicated to managing the complexity. GitHub is a company that has blogged about how easy they have made deployment
736.
by m12k 6y ago
What I don't get is how they can be down for hours on end. If I make a deploy that turns out to be buggy, I'll roll my site back to a stable previous version within minutes. Sure, that's not always possible if I've made
737.
by m12k 6y ago
Global illumination is orthogonal to photo realism. In fact, GI and lighting in general can help indies get away with untextured and/or low-poly models and still achieve a pleasant look (check out The Witness or Superhot for some examp
738.
by m12k 6y ago
While reading your comment I had this weird sense of Deja Vu - I've been reading a book about the problems brought on by globalized trade, and there's a surprising number of parallels. Local companies shuttering. Transfer pricing.
739.
by m12k 6y ago
FWIW the DK2 made me queezy within minutes, but the Valve Index I recently got never does even after hours of use. They've really come a long way.
740.
by m12k 6y ago
That reminds me of a saying I heard when starting to learn the game Go: "Lose your first 50 games quickly"
741.
by m12k 6y ago
At one point I had a big realization that perfectionism was keeping me from ever going outside my comfort zone. This meant that for decades I had only really been growing in areas where I was naturally gifted and experienced (logic, math an
742.
by m12k 6y ago
The author might be interested in trying out Eco. It plays like a mix of Minecraft and Factorio, but with ecology and economy added in - you need food and other resources from nature, which you can preserve or cultivate, and pollution cause
743.
by m12k 6y ago
I'm honestly pretty excited to see what Apple can deliver. The A12Z is passively cooled, yet is on par with the 10th gen i5 in the new 13 inch MBP: https://browser.geekbench.com/macs/macbook-pro-13-inch-mid-2... J
744.
by m12k 6y ago
There's no indication that the A12Z will be the chip that ships to consumers at the end of the year. So honestly it'd be a bit out of character to boast about the specific performance numbers of a pre-release dev kit chip - especi
745.
by m12k 6y ago
I highly recommend Path Finder as a replacement anyway
746.
by m12k 6y ago
Elements of chance can both make a game more accessible to beginners and raise the skill ceiling fro pros at the same time. It's more accessible, because a beginner player might still get lucky and win through pure chance. But it also
747.
by m12k 6y ago
The app store ecosystem only works for me because I stopped being interested in new apps as a consumer, and as a dev I long ago gave up on making mobile apps with any hopes of making money on them. The lack of viruses due to the locked down
748.
by m12k 6y ago
Yup, it's very similar to what happened with Windows Vista. Those security dialogs were annoying as hell, but the real issue was that most applications were used to running with way more permissions than they really needed. Windows 7 d
749.
by m12k 6y ago
I think you're right. I remember reading a 'bit flips can and do happen' war story about server crashes that only occurred at a client located at a high elevation.
750.
by m12k 6y ago
This seems to be a fundamental economics issue: Things are only valued when they are sold. It's much more profitable for companies to sell me the same thing over and over again every couple years, than to sell me something repairable t

More ›