mherkender

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by mherkender 3y ago
ALPS makes the hardware for the joysticks the major console companies use. They are cheap and work great -- except they have a really really short half-life. Even the Xbox Pro Controller (which is like $200) uses them which is crazy. I&#x27
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by mherkender 3y ago
I made a Doom "renderer" (no game but you could run around Doom maps) as a side project one summer. This was 20 years ago and in Flash so it was a novelty. Later I applied for an internship on a whim. I assumed I wouldn't get
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by mherkender 3y ago
I dunno, a lot of those 80s rock stars slept with their underage groupies. Harvey Weinstein used his power to pressure young Hollywood actresses, am I supposed to believe that a professor sleeping with his students is a completely different
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by mherkender 3y ago
3D is one area where the FPGA model of emulation doesn't seem so good. The N64 is pretty low-resolution and low-FPS compared to modern devices, which is grating in 3D even though it has a nostalgic charm in 2D. Maybe it's enough t
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by mherkender 3y ago
Shut-in would be more accurate, NEET is basically unemployed. There's overlap sure but someone on a job hunt is a bit different than someone who doesn't leave their home.
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by mherkender 3y ago
Why not both? I've been using vim for ages and I'm very "masterful" with it, but at the same time I try to look for tools to solve unsolved problems I deal with. It's true that novelty doesn't generally deliver
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by mherkender 3y ago
It is very much a game influenced by depression, I recall you played a solo alien with a destroyed planet and no knowledge if any of his kind was left or where they would be. It was a really magical game from the pre-iPhone era of the web,
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by mherkender 3y ago
I respect what the author is getting at -- Pixar movies sometimes favor adult expectations instead of being kids movies and get stuck somewhere between. I can agree to an extent, I felt Soul was really guilty of this. But the author is a vi
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by mherkender 6y ago
Don’t forget the calls for Total War and Trial by Combat from his son and lawyer.
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by mherkender 6y ago
It’s myopic to assume that other countries have identical values and that their news souces wouldn’t be influenced by those values.
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by mherkender 6y ago
I really hate this hand-wringing over supposed censorship. The Internet has had to deal with trolls and cheaters from day one. If someone sends a packet that indicates they got a headshot in a multiplayer FPS, they could be cheating so we i
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by mherkender 9y ago
I don't think anything you're saying is untrue, but I do think you're ignoring how shady and unethical Facebook is when they feel like it. For example, they downgrade YouTube videos in people's feeds. There's no rea
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by mherkender 10y ago
Le Pen is France flirting with authoritarianism.
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by mherkender 10y ago
I think it's the bad kind of impressive, one where ATMs still run COBOL.
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by mherkender 11y ago
Blaming culture is easy, because it lets you ignore history. Islam was once the height of civilization, but it fell apart because the Mongol empire was within range.
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by mherkender 11y ago
Calling me dumb is out of line. You're making a lot of assumptions that could also be explained by saying that risk-taking is the logical choice for men, for those exact same reasons. We didn't evolve big brains so our genes could
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by mherkender 11y ago
It is easy to put the blame on "black culture" then to look at the very complex socioeconoic factors that lead things to where we are today. You're the one oversimplifying.
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by mherkender 11y ago
Maybe it's just cultural. I don't see why risk taking favors men millions of years ago.
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by mherkender 11y ago
Maybe. If the pixels are being interpolated they'll be less likely to be completely white or completely black. I'm not sure how much that matters, but if you're going to leave this site on for a while it seems like you might
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by mherkender 12y ago
I guess I just don't understand why any of that couldn't be chalked up to conflicted feelings. Couldn't all the things you're saying be true, and yet Kliener Perkins be guilty of discrimination? Why does her imperfect be
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by mherkender 12y ago
Having consistent behavior for NaN means that I can write "<math operation> ? x : y" and know that "y" will be the result when "<math operation>" involves NaN. It's useful. Not saying it's
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by mherkender 12y ago
Open-sourcing helps though. Also, relying on ISO for the standard (which has been sketchy in the past when it comes to Microsoft, see also OOXML) was probably not a good idea. Microsoft doesn't have a great reputation for security eith
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by mherkender 12y ago
Not really, the only secret the trusted root has is their private key, not an entire stack of software/hardware/etc.
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by mherkender 12y ago
I can't speak for everyone, but for me it was more about the growing divide between the rich and poor. I don't think a healthy/happy society with room for upward mobility can exist if things keep moving in this direction. Thi
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by mherkender 12y ago
This reminds me of that time that Microsoft caught up to a competitor years too late to have any impact.
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by mherkender 12y ago
It's not my only bad experience with Radio Shack, but they ripped my Mom off by not accepting a valid coupon for a cellphone. They stalled for a while, then told her to buy it anyway and redeem the coupon the next day. My Mom is the ty
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by mherkender 12y ago
I agree. It's bound to fail for one thing -- nobody's gonna get blackballed in the programming industry for being too open about programming fundamentals. Worse yet, controlling information to secure your position is a special kin
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by mherkender 12y ago
I give up, you're a troll. You're not really saying anything at all.
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by mherkender 12y ago
You not understanding me is not ironic. He's not a member of a primitive tribe, he's an anthropologist. If I visit a country and they tell me I should hate homosexuals, knowing what I know about homosexuality means that doing it w
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by mherkender 12y ago
You don't know what rape is. The modern interpretation of rape isn't just when people force themselves on others, it also includes things like coercion, and abuse of power. I'm not sure I can think of a more obvious example o

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