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by m12k 6y ago
Right, and most of the consumption is being served from linux servers. So Microsoft is trying to use their strength on desktop and in production to stay relevant in that ecosystem, even though it involves other platforms than Windows - henc
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by m12k 6y ago
Could you explain to me what you think an Extinguish step would look like in that sequence? Because I don't think there is a realistic one, and I don't think Microsoft thinks so either.
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by m12k 6y ago
Look, I'm not saying saying we should "trust" Microsoft not to Embrace, Extend, Extinguish if they could - but they can't and they know it, so that's not their strategy. EEE was hinged entirely on the dominance of W
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by m12k 6y ago
I've found this is easier after changing jobs a couple times. At some point you'll look back at what you did at your previous job, and most likely you'll barely remember exactly what it was or why it was considered important.
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by m12k 6y ago
Yeah, I think "blog theme" is probably the best it can be described.
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by m12k 6y ago
We're standing on the shoulders of giants - so many giants in fact, that it's quite possible to spend a lifetime just climbing upward these days. By comparison, in Leonardo's time, a curious mind would almost certainly have t
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by m12k 6y ago
I mean, it doesn't take more than a model where the same area of landmass anywhere on the globe has the same chance of birhting a civilization with a need for clocks, for the northern hemisphere to become the most likely candidate to d
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by m12k 6y ago
To play devil's advocate - games with this kind of production value require a huge investment in asset production, which means they tend to be very conservative when it comes to gameplay, because they want to be damn sure it doesn&#x27
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by m12k 6y ago
I don't know if you noticed that one of the use cases I mentioned was level artists. 9 times out of 10, a level artist isn't trying to optimize some specular highlight in a vase, they are trying to see if this room is lit in a goo
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by m12k 6y ago
If nothing else the tech allows 3D artists and level designers to get instant feedback while they are tweaking a scene, without having to wait for a full render/lightmap bake - having iteration time go from minutes to seconds is a game
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by m12k 6y ago
Does this work together with a build cache? My dream setup for dealing with building huge code bases is a file system integrated with the version control system to only download files when they are accessed (which sounds like what this does
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by m12k 6y ago
One way to improve both frameworks and libraries (but is especially needed with frameworks) is if they create 'safety valves' - places where it's possible for the programmer to just break free of what the framework/libra
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by m12k 6y ago
I wish browsers worked in a way where placing a cookie on my computer came with a permission dialog like sending notifications, or using my location, microphone or camera does. I guess the browser could have some logic around detecting logi
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by m12k 6y ago
There's a world of difference between projecting onto a non-living entity the properties of an animal, or those of a human - so I don't understand why you think what I did was an anthropomorphism. And I find the analogy to animals
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by m12k 6y ago
I think the notion of trusting any company over a certain size is crazy - I wish people would stop anthropomorphizing companies that way. Basically, I can trust specific people if I feel that I know their character, and by proxy I might tru
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by m12k 6y ago
Ugh, I was afraid of that. I've been clinging to my 2013 MBP, waiting for an upgrade with a bearable keyboard, and then when the 2020 MBA came along I thought I might have the ideal machine, but then I started hearing about the thermal
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by m12k 6y ago
Are you coding on it? I'm a bit worried about the thermals, and whether I would get fan noise when I'm compiling or running my 3 minute test suite.
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by m12k 6y ago
I'm so thankful that big corporations tend to be lumbering, clumsy giants like this - otherwise there wouldn't be room for any smaller companies, and we'd already be at the point where all the commerce in the world was owned
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by m12k 6y ago
It isn't the best proxy though, because it's not even trying to simulate the conditions under which real work is done (e.g. in real work, most developers will often look up details, and it's no problem at all - what matters i
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by m12k 6y ago
I honestly don't think being able to write 'a < b < c' is worth making the language bigger and causing weirdness and gotchas like this. 'a < b && b < c' isn't that much longer and is instant
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by m12k 7y ago
Fewer airlines means lower supply, making air travel more expensive, which will make fewer people choose to buy it.
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by m12k 7y ago
My impression was that unlike influenza, the common cold actually mutates very little, but that the immunity loss comes from the body 'forgetting' the antibodies for it after a while - I'm no doctor though.
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by m12k 7y ago
Dunno, making a bunch of airlines go bankrupt and teaching people to do meetings online might have lasting effects on how much people fly in the future too. One way or another, the world after the corona crisis is going to look rather diffe
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by m12k 7y ago
Decade-old then, not decades-old
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by m12k 7y ago
I honestly thought that was the case already (that highlighting is happening client side, and that my client receives each stream separately). So what you're saying is that currently a central server is performing the task of merging t
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by m12k 7y ago
How come this is hard to do with 100 participants? Not a crypto or video encoding expert, but I'd have thought each participant would have a decryption key for their stream, and this key they would transfer to others by encrypting it s
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by m12k 7y ago
I'm not much of a graphics programmer, so take this with a grain of salt, but from talking to people who are, the impression I've gotten is that OpenGL is stuck in this weird middle state where it still has two ways of doing thing
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by m12k 7y ago
As an outsider reading this, it sounds like OpenGL vs DirectX all over again - an open API is good, but a good API is better.
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by m12k 7y ago
Something like this is interesting, but I find it's missing a lot of the info that I care about. For example, here in Denmark, because our underground is chalk instead of rock, our water has high amounts of calcium - this makes the wat
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by m12k 7y ago
Not a Rust dev, but from what I understand, the lifetime tracking of Rust means you can safely give out references to stack allocated memory without worrying about corruption/segfaults/use-after-free errors or the like, because th

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