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by mewse 3y ago
I think the post you're replying to was intended as a pun.
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by mewse 3y ago
As a gamedev who is running his own (small, indie) studio.. That "cost of setting up and running an MMO gamedev studio for 12 months" is absurdly low; it's at least an order of magnitude off and possibly two depending on h
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by mewse 3y ago
The question is whether you knew how that sentence was going to end when you started writing it, or indeed whether I knew that I was going to add this comma-separated adjunct when I started writing the preceding clause, and I cannot hones
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by mewse 4y ago
I have a "Permanent Resident" visa in Australia which expires every five years. Kind of funny that they have a "Temporary Resident" visa which is permanent! :D (the Permanent Resident visa can be renewed online in abou
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by mewse 4y ago
It's worth noting that if you go fifty years back or so, fountain pens and dip pens were a lot more similar to each other than they are today. Both typically had flexible nibs and the real difference between them was just whether the
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by mewse 4y ago
You can put anything in a texture these days; they're just generic pod arrays now and you can do pretty much whatever you want with them; they definitely aren't always images that get stretched over explicit meshes! In my game,
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by mewse 4y ago
The Wii (like the GameCube) was weird. It was more than fixed-function, but less than fully-programmable; you'd basically assemble a simple "pixel shader" by clicking together up to 16 operations from a hardcoded list, usin
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by mewse 4y ago
"Simpler" is maybe a bit of a stretch, since what's happened is that a lot of the data which previously existed in vertices has been moved to substantially higher-detail storage in texture maps. If you weren't using the
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by mewse 4y ago
I don't believe that's true; unused gold coins expire at the end of the same month during which you acquired them, one year later. (I believe silver/platinum coins are similar, but only last six months) So for example if yo
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by mewse 4y ago
As I said in my original reply, I think it’s most likely that Dow never received the sneakers at all; it seems entirely plausible to me that the resaleable-looking shoes were being diverted and exported by the contractors who had been hired
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by mewse 4y ago
I mean, the journalists put a giant hunk of metal and a battery in the shoes. There’s zero chance those shoes would ever have been allowed anywhere near the big expensive industrial textile shredders. If it’s a modern operation they’d be
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by mewse 4y ago
Interestingly, Zeno had said the exact opposite, a hundred years earlier -- that since a 'whole' could be divided into an infinite number of smaller 'parts', which themselves could be divided ad infinitum, that these inf
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by mewse 4y ago
"Nonsignificant" is the key word in that quote. Both times. (and in fact several other times in the linked article). So, it's not a strong enough or consistent enough difference between treatment and placebo to be certain t
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by mewse 4y ago
The "the only product known to have embedded unobfuscated Measurement Systems malware" phrase got used a whole lot, in the OP and in comments here as well as in the original email thread, but nobody really explained why that facto
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by mewse 4y ago
That quote actually isn't in the article; it's in a different article on the same site, which you may have followed a link to: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/18/the-gu...
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by mewse 4y ago
> There's some bad apples [caution: good-natured linguistic pedantry follows. Apologies in advance!] As a point of interest, this usage of "bad apple" derives from the old folk wisdom: "one bad apple spoils the bunc
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by mewse 4y ago
The PS2 was actually kind of ahead of its time in this regard, with programmable vector units right there in the middle of the rendering pipeline; you could actually write the equivalent of vertex shaders and even simple geometry shaders *
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by mewse 4y ago
@dang: This submission links to a PR site written by the company producing the product. As per the new policy introduced here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33884441 , should this url be replaced by a third-party sit
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by mewse 4y ago
On a Chinese 10 yen coin, even the largest of its faces has less than 50% of the coin's total surface area. On an American silver dollar, though, the two faces added together have more than 95% of the coin's total surface area. Th
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by mewse 4y ago
> The advantage of Vim is efficiency and speed. The disadvantage is that it has a longer learning curve. I'm not disagreeing with this comment all, just throwing my anecdata at the somewhat squishy "longer" word in that se
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by mewse 4y ago
I'm not sure I buy the popular "the internet is full of assholes" theory. I think it's more likely to be hanlon's razor. I suspect that a lot of people have just internalised social media as a way to casually chat
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by mewse 4y ago
Your quoted source has that backward -- messages you've received always appear in light grey bubbles, regardless of whether they came in via SMS or iMessage. It's only messages which you *sent* which appear in green or blue, to le
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by mewse 4y ago
NB: This article is about the $115 million Mango Markets hack of a few days ago, not about the $127 million exploit of Binance's blockchain from last week or the $160 million Wintermute hack from last month or the $1.2 billion-with-a-
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by mewse 4y ago
I'm not the original asker, but evaluating programmers based upon the number of commits per day is a lot like evaluating them based on the number of lines of code written per day -- it's a measure of activity, rather than a measur
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by mewse 4y ago
Back in those days when we couldn’t patch games post-release, our team felt it was much too dangerous to change anything for the release for fear of code layout changing exposing some bug which had previously been harmless and undetected
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by mewse 4y ago
But the journalists too are just following the incentives that are provided to them. Don’t they deserve some of that “but that’s like blaming the fox for killing the hens, instead of whoever left a hole in the hen house” blanket pardon you
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by mewse 4y ago
I was a believer in the "my code should never crash, no matter what" school of thought until I shipped a Dreamcast game with an out-of-date opening cutscene. It was an in-engine opening cutscene which was very nearly final; the f
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by mewse 4y ago
The counterpoint is that if you as the leader just do the work yourself, then: 1. You're not being as effective a leader for your team while your attention is on your own individual contributor-level work, and 2. Your people aren&#x2
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by mewse 4y ago
Yes, passed early last year and it goes into effect at the start of 2023. I’m not a big fan of your implication that there’s something wrong with discussing legislation while it’s still pending, though. That’s honestly the best and most
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by mewse 4y ago
If Microsoft asserts and represents that their tool doesn’t generate copyright-infringing code, then surely Microsoft is the party which should be liable, rather than the poor unlucky programmer who was lied to by the billion-dollar corpo

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