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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
Regarding the first part, I'm pretty sure that Steam had an offline mode from the start. Perhaps it required an initial connection to set up an account, though. I was lucky to be in an area that had very early access to DSL, so it wasn
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
HL2, Portal, CS:S. Valve really hit it out of the park in those days. I wonder how much of Steams success can be traced back to it. Just the Valve catalog alone carried it for me and my friends.
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
I'm more talking about opinions framed as "how could anyone do that" or arguments beginning with "I would never". A good example is malicious actions by companies. You could probably follow the entire decision tree
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
Sometimes it feels like people are confused about the nature of themselves. We have this idealized version of ethics and rationality that maps poorly onto reality. Yet everybody (especially on social media) talks as if this idealized versio
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
Video compression is typically not about "take each frame, and make it as small as possible". Video compression revolves around cleverly making use of deltas and segmenting the image so that you can reuse as much data as possible
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
I agree, there are probably a lot of advantages. It would be interesting to see a boilerplate structure for this workflow. Maybe it already exists in some form.
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
In my experience, for regular libraries, you usually want to pin version ranges and not always use the latest of every library. But when the main business logic and a whole team is dedicated to one of the "service libraries", whos
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
Well of course. That is one of the primary benefits of the cube rule. Finally we can all be that which we desire. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOsWfzzvlkU
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
You can use a conveyor belt style toaster to toast your mobius toast. What's even better is that you can toast it forever.
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
What is makizushi? Is that some local variant of maki? Traditional maki (with seaweed on the outside) seems to be sushi indeed. California rolls though (inverted maki, rice on the outside) are arguably salads.
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
You never look at every single character while reading, your eyes only dart between select tokens. Your peripheral vision and your brain fills in the blanks. I think the idea is to aid your brain quickly parsing these tokens. A nice side ef
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
I wonder how messy it would look to combine the two? BeeLine really works, especially in cases where the designer has disregarded the need for reasonable column widths. I feel this works too, but as with BeeLine the visual appearance is a b
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
I suppose that's true in a way. There would have to be some serious scaffolding for it to work though. For a web service, for example, libraries would have to be able to register route handlers and such that they handle independently.
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
Alright, I agree completely. But I still don't see how it causes the same issues as microservices does. It is definitely conceptual crack (which is a genius term btw), but it isn't an ominous foot gun the same way the allure of mi
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
I find the organizational arguments to be pretty convincing, but surely there must be a way to reap these rewards in a monolithic infra setup as well? Maybe someone should develop a "monolith microservice architecture" where all t
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
I've been at a place where a single person is juggling twenty microservices to power a product with barely any users. Just the infra cost alone makes it insane. "But one day, when we get massive growth, it will all be worth it&quo
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
How do you mean that this causes 'nightmarish complexity'? I guess it's true if you measure the amount of complexity that powers the framework, but the visible API's, the resulting project structure and the implementatio
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
The reasons for the immediate action might be logical, but looking at the medium term consequences it breaks down completely in my mind. The only two possibilities I can see going forward is either a forever-war as in Afghanistan, or a fore
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
I read an incredibly thorough book about Putin a year or so ago, and what stuck with me is how political his career in the KGB was. In those final years of the USSR, everything was in shambles, and any position of power became so through-an
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
Is that true though? I was under the impression that two surfaces with the same perceived brightness would bombard your eyeballs with the same amount of photons. Regardless of whether or not the surface is emitting or reflecting light. On t
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
I'm not dismissing it having an effect. But isn't it probable that the light profile would be somewhat different for an actual monitor and a back/sidelit eInk dislay? If so, the effect may differ as well.
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
Shade throwing would be justified in my opinion. "E-reader" isn't normally used to describe tablets. The light profile of a dynamic LED screen is probably very different from the ambient steady backlight on a Kindle.
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
I wonder if the type of illumination used for traditional book reading is relevant. I.e. would a bedside lamp with cold light provoke the same effects?
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
The VAERS reports might be the most malicious and poorly used data set in existence.
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
> Could you sustain a development team capable of creating this with a limited market and revenue stream? Market wouldn't be limited and potential revenue streams would be huge. So yeah. Just as a reminder, this is still assuming th
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
In most cases the underdog is running on investment funds, and has handed over a significant amount of the company control to investors. When a buy is proposed, those investors have to weigh the really quick (probably really large) profit o
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
I think you misread the comment thread. You are just restating my point. I agree with you. I was talking about the current (previous?) situation, where US and EU companies are on equal footing on the european market.
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
A big reason is that competing with them on equal footing is a monumental task. You are working against network effects, heavy duty marketing, integrations into other products and a whole army of developers. Developing the product itself
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
Microsoft has done the leg work for this already. They currently have a completely contained Azure environment in Germany. I think it was deployed to ensure compliance with german/EU health data protocols. I have first hand experience
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
Europe isn't drained of talent by a long shot. It has surely been tapped to some extent by the bay area exodus, but there's plenty of tech success stories and talented people here still.

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