meddlepal

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by meddlepal 6y ago
Bingo. This is a problem every time scientists run to the media to explain the latest new bad discovery.
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by meddlepal 6y ago
Indeed, this was one of those undocumented but everyone sort of knew features in Quake-engine based games. Everyone just learned it through asking usually in the multiplayer chat.
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by meddlepal 6y ago
Green fielding on a new language is really not an option for the vast majority of software. To that point you are not really a target user for this if you can just up and switch stacks like that.
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by meddlepal 6y ago
The annual Google bit my hand thread. I just cannot recommend anyone seriously use GSuite or GCP until Google starts treating customers better.
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by meddlepal 6y ago
The apocalypse scenario is unlikely with the population having some resistance to the virus after vaccination even if new variants possibly render the vaccine less effective. We obviously do not have enough data yet to understand the vaccin
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by meddlepal 6y ago
Havent you basically just described a lease with no down payment and a flexible cancellation policy?
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by meddlepal 6y ago
I think Parents point was that eventually we will have to give up on panic mode and accept deaths from this each year.
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by meddlepal 6y ago
As others mentioned, not owned by Nintendo, but also Rare was sort of spent as a creative force by the time they were purchased in 2002. They lost a lot of developers to Free Radical. I'm not sure what Microsoft acquired with Rare beca
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by meddlepal 6y ago
Define successful in your second paragraph? Are you only considering traditional VC unicorn-type startups successful or something else?
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by meddlepal 6y ago
This is what I don't understand... why didn't we run several parallel studies for different dosages and time frames? I highly doubt there was a shortage in the pool of people willing to sacrifice themselves.
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by meddlepal 6y ago
You might enjoy NewCity on Steam
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by meddlepal 6y ago
Check out NewCity on Steam if you want a pretty cool advanced SimCity-esque builder. Its quite advanced for early-access.
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by meddlepal 6y ago
Neither, just a minor character of low plot importance.
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by meddlepal 6y ago
Perhaps this isn't appealing to a certain mindset, and I'd probably go crazy myself, but I definitely know plenty of engineers that would love this and work for these kind of companies. Low effort, highly stable pay. Exceeding the
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by meddlepal 6y ago
Sure, with probably very different stability and risk profiles as well as entrance requirements.
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by meddlepal 6y ago
Theres worse things to be than a highly paid assembly line robot that also likely has vacation time, health insurance, a 401k and the option to walk away from one factory to work at another.
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by meddlepal 6y ago
And... a reminder that I should go reply Golden Sun as I found my GBA SP while visiting the parents for Christmas.
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by meddlepal 6y ago
Perhaps, but it's a practical observation. It's the same for most of the major Northern cities including Boston and Chicago.
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by meddlepal 6y ago
I like Comic Sans. I'm still waiting to run into someone who uses it for their IDE/editor/terminal font.
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by meddlepal 6y ago
Terraform is free and opensource? Or are you making a metacomment about Terraform being painful at times?
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by meddlepal 6y ago
I leased a 2020 Mazda 3 precisely for this reason... I want tactile feedback from my car's controls so I can keep my eyes on the road.
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by meddlepal 6y ago
PC here, agree it's fun and I think some people are definitely expecting GTA from a developer that has absolutely no experience making something like GTA. GTA is GTA because Rockstar perfected the formula and the engine over several it
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by meddlepal 6y ago
I used to be a Java developer now turned mostly to Go and this is one of the things I dont miss at all about Java. So much abstraction and often not for good reasons. Theres a lot of stuff I miss about Java but the culture of layers is not
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by meddlepal 6y ago
Article kind of hints at it but I suspect RHEL is going to get a new licensing model to capture the CentOS crowd under the RHEL umbrella. Once that's done it will be easier to upsell support contracts since they'll have the users
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by meddlepal 6y ago
Cutler's a legend and only because he didn't design an open-source OS is he basically forgotten by everyone except OS architects.
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by meddlepal 6y ago
Unlikely.
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by meddlepal 6y ago
It won't pass the Senate floor. Absolutely pointless.
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by meddlepal 6y ago
Every time the EU does something like this it makes it even more attractive to not run a business there.
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by meddlepal 6y ago
WSL1 is _not_ deprecated. it is just recommended you use WSL2 since theres a wide range of incompatibilities in WSL1 with various Linux tools. However if all you need is a basic toolchain in some ways it’s superior to WSL2 because it doesn’
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by meddlepal 6y ago
You're replying to a troll

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