midnightclubbed

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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
Established tech companies can and do pay their engineers to stay using stock grants. The upside to the company is they can modify those grants based on market forces and performance, the compensation is not (entirely) a fixed bottom line
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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
Born and raised in Coventry and still have family there. Coventry has fought (as I see it) 2 major issues which have held it back. Firstly as the center of the UK car industry and the Detroit of Britain its economic successes and failures h
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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
Removing the paywall seems unfair. If a site has a paywall I'd like to know before I click on the link - that way I can chose if I want to respect their paywall (and potentially pay) or avoid the content completely. I am assuming the
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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
Largest SOLAR desalination plant in the US. The article doesn't seem to list the numbers but this article https://www.businessinsider.com/california-waterfx-solar-des... seems to indicate the next step up from their d
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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
That's a good point. You definitely have to dig a little deeper on Aliexpress, my experience has been that AliExpress components/boards generally work fine but you have to dig for things like data sheets unless its a very standar
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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
This is a great insight. Thank you! Most of the immigration process is simple paperwork as far as I can tell. Certainly simpler than filing US taxes. But as you note it is all in the details, and a good lawyer will know how to ensure app
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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
Yes it is great that Peter gives his time here but don't imagine this is for charity. Being on a forum like this (with hundreds of potential clients) is a great way to grow his business. I had the misfortune of using a bad immigration
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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
Why the hate on Amazon? I can understand why you may want to discourage shopping from Amazon in general but is there a reason why they are particularly bad for electronics? As a hobbyist (with an EEE background) I seldom have an order that
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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
I think it depends very much on how much engine you need. A simple renderer (in 2d or 3d) is a fairly low time investment assuming you are a strong C / C++ programmer. However every thing you add on top of 'draws stuff to the scre
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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
Do you have a source for that? Wikipedia (and the game's credits) have a core development team of 8 (plus audio, production, testing etc).
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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
His wife was probably already flagged on the SEC system as having access to Amazon financials. It seems fairly likely the trades were marked as potentially suspicious and once the volume hit some threshold they were escalated to a human in
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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
Curious which city you live in? Plenty of walking down here in Oceanside (north San Diego county). 2 large parks within a 5 min walk from my house, walking trails across the street from my office in SD.
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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
I would also be curious how it compares to Perforce which is widely used for version control of binary art assets (pretty much ubiquitous in the games industry).
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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
Can definitely see the usefulness of this for artists, especially if there is integration into the various art programs. Unless I am mis-understanding this is only a solution for organizing local files? Ideally there would be a distributed
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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
It's not that bad at all, and stops when you are not moving. I'd say it has maybe a 20m range so it's not like people can hear you from the other side of the mountain. I do agree it adds noise to (potentially) tranquil trail
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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
I think there may be a thought a bell isn't cool enough for mtb bro's? Or maybe it's just that they aren't fitted to mountain bikes as standard (they should be) and so people don't think to pick one up.
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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
The bell I recommended isn't one you ring - it's like a cowbell that rings constantly (while you are moving) and lets people know you are coming before they can see you. Basic trail etiquette. I have nothing against hikers (would
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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
More importantly that bar ends is the comment "Today, you have a higher chance of seeing a bell on a modern mountain bike than a set of bar ends"... If there is one thing every MTB rider should have on their bike it is a bell. Wi
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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
Back in the days of 26" hard-tails you definitely needed weight over the front wheel to keep it on the ground - there was a fine balancing act of keeping enough weight over the front to not lose control while keeping that back wheel fr
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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
Another thing to note is that with the introduction of the dropper post you can have geometry that is both friendly to climbing (rider seated directly above the chain-ring with full leg extension) and going downhill (rider out of seat and w
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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
Yes and no. You can write c++ code that handles memory in a safe and consistent way. Or you can write code which silently leaks and corrupts as it goes. The language doesn’t care and unfortunately even if you do everything correctly anot
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by midnightclubbed 6y ago
Did you look at Unreal engine? The entire source is open to examine and modify (registration required). Resource management can be a really big chunk of the core game engine. One reason there is less documentation is that there is general
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by midnightclubbed 6y ago
I wonder if this will negatively impact mid-tier bike sales in 2-3 years time? Some of those riders would have bought a $500 bike, realized how much fun they were having and then upgraded. A $2500 bike is unlikely to be upgraded for a goo
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by midnightclubbed 6y ago
While supply struggles to catch up with demand (and with 'regular' order levels) the used bike market will command high prices. Unless those people who spent $6k on a bike 'need' the money they'll be looking for a
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by midnightclubbed 6y ago
Maybe on road bikes but MTB brake pads are definitely a non lifetime part. Replaced my rear pads at the weekend, maybe 0.2mm remaining after around 800 miles or so of riding. Getting oil on pads is also fairly easy to (accidentally) do. L
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by midnightclubbed 6y ago
There is a value add from going to a bar. I'm paying for the social experience. A local bike shop repair has two benefits over doing it myself - experience and convenience. Unfortunately for bike shops the people who are most in need
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by midnightclubbed 6y ago
Of all the RAD offerings Telemetry is the most special. It lets you record millions of CPU profiling events (thousands per frame) with extremely low overhead, and then shows those events in a hierarchical timeline. For game optimization it
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by midnightclubbed 6y ago
Absolutely. Massaging video codec settings to exactly match the console hardware requirements and feeding video data in/out of each console's propriety video API is a royal PITA. My feeling is that big budget games are prepared t
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by midnightclubbed 6y ago
PS2 had hardware to decompress DVD quality video with very low cpu overhead. Rad's bink video compression (at the time of the PS2) was slower and more dvd bandwidth heavy, only reason to use it was if you didn't want a separate s
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by midnightclubbed 6y ago
In fairness the artists were probably editing and rendering assets that also required them to have very high spec machines too.

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