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by megameter 5y ago
I think on some level, barring the "stuck-in-bed depression" cases, we all work hard, but the work is nothing like a startup or a coding challenge. It's more often things like going on a walk and identifying the birds, going
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by megameter 5y ago
Unfortunately, checkmarks aren't language agnostic - abstract iconography as a whole is a linguistic phenomenon. I'll just copy paste Wikipedia's notes(edit: HN breaks on the actual symbols so I'll link too): It is commo
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by megameter 5y ago
If we are speaking of C code, it's not quite so bad as it looks to have somewhat fat structs across multiple arrays, since you can fit 64 bytes in a cache line on contemporary desktop CPUs, and that sets your real max-unit-size; the CP
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by megameter 5y ago
Last I checked, field declaration order still mattered to structure size and cache usage because the defacto packing and padding rules preserve the order. I admit that I haven't done any C optimization lately so I am curious. It is pos
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by megameter 5y ago
With every market there's a timing element and a large part of it revolves around exactly those kinds of marketing considerations. The right product at the wrong time won't get traction because they're taking a space already
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by megameter 5y ago
I suspect that transportation is not the issue, because any way you slice it, building materials come with large footprints. The footprint can be in the factory or on site, but you need big trucks moving stuff around in all cases, and every
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by megameter 5y ago
Just about anything can be turned into a nerdly pursuit, a game of building a benchmark and then optimizing against it, if you want to. And when you look deeply at "how do people feel content with themselves", it's because th
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by megameter 5y ago
Cursors are one of the most useful conceptual abstractions for information processing. Besides the concrete aspects of position and seriality, they form the building block of stateful selections which is a must-have for non-linear editing.
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by megameter 5y ago
There are oodles of games that started as free games and then made a commercial release later on. It's not really unique to web or "instant". Further, there's a huuuge dropoff in interest once you do go to a paid release
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by megameter 5y ago
The 90's dot com gold rush is the rhyme to the crypto gold rush. Lots of talk about ecommerce, revolutionary tech, etc. The 2000's saw the sobered outcomes: ads, ads, ads. All the apps were just conduits to adtech - very wide mark
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by megameter 5y ago
There are basically three forms of working a job: 1. Shuffling around credit between people and projects 2. "Getting by" enough to not be fired 3. Studying something of interest through the work At competitive companies it's
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by megameter 5y ago
It makes me think that actually, the war had the same imposition of "stiffness" to all its biggest players. The US, Japan, the nascent EU and even the former Soviet Union all had a defined "place in the world" in the pos
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by megameter 5y ago
TVTropes uses "Cape" and "Cowl" to distinguish those kinds of heroes: Capes fly in for the photo op like Superman, while Cowls like a Zorro or Batman slink around with limited official support.
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by megameter 5y ago
There's definitely been a move towards social media promoters making sports, versus yesteryear's slower moving partnerships of manufacturers, league bodies, and sponsors. "Esports", though it has various early history, h
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by megameter 5y ago
That's nice, but most of us here are version control consumers, not version control professionals. We need something that has very few knobs to turn because our job is focused around delivering value through other tasks. Git is highly
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by megameter 5y ago
Haxe is a great piece of technology on its own, and I am often working in it as a default, but I always caution potential users that it is more like a building block than a comprehensive package: if you want to do complex cross-platform thi
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by megameter 5y ago
Haxe is hard to document because its scope is large: "accommodate everything all these other languages do". So there isn't a one way of documenting it that will accommodate all users and workflows. It would help if you outl
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by megameter 5y ago
As a graduate of the high school in question, I support the idea of selectivity everywhere , not just as a "magnet school" or "honors track". There is a major downside to selectivity as it's done right now, which i
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by megameter 5y ago
Most trackers, Renoise among them, could be characterized as a standalone sequencer instrument with some DAW features. Renoise specifically is sampling-first. It has the gamut of typical sampler features and built-in effects, plus you have
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by megameter 5y ago
My parents are boomers on the cusp of being silents, themselves, and there's definitely some difference between what they percieve and the younger generations. It's hard to say how far back it all goes, really - while the depressi
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by megameter 5y ago
There's definitely some latent potential for video editing to be redefined along broader task-and-genre lines. That is, in essence, the difference between "consumer" and "pro", because a pro is burdened by having t
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by megameter 5y ago
Inside the bubble, this is just called "morale". It's very visible as a phenomenon in gaming. What gets pitched in new games is not rules and assets, but a whole set of beliefs and values: there are games where you are spurre
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by megameter 5y ago
The prison experiment example already has a volunteer playerbase, it's called "Jailbreak mod" and versions exist for various iterations of Counter-strike and probably other FPS games, and almost certainly Roblox. It is role-p
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by megameter 5y ago
It speaks to the contradictory nature of software development as it's currently practiced, I think. "What does the software do?" "What do you want it to do? We can add that." "Well, I want to be able to access
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by megameter 5y ago
There's definitely a wave of late entrants trying to muscle their way into the PoS game, and I see Solana as one of those; one of the more credible ones, but with its distribution engineered to make it very controlled from the beginnin
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by megameter 5y ago
It was always speculative that it would be the "next big thing". The basic claim of this tech is that a higher bandwidth screen experience is a better experience - and that's always had practical constraints, like, I'm n
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by megameter 5y ago
I've gradually come around to the side of PoW being important as layer 1, because it's as close as we're likely to get to Lockean labor theory of property being directly manifest rather than built on a legal-deeds-and-titles
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by megameter 5y ago
Well, how little volatility is needed to be called stable? Over a few years, large swings can happen with major forex pairs . Take GBP/USD for example: High of 1.71602 in 2014. Low of 1.14926 in 2020. It currently trades around 1.4. S
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by megameter 5y ago
There is a very similar problem in advice-giving for technical questions, the problem of "Why do you want to do that? You should do this instead." I've seen others recommend trying to ask binary yes/no questions ("I
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by megameter 5y ago
The kind where the user has to chase dependencies.

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