mjevans

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by mjevans 3mo ago
If steam ever goes up in smoke, there will be infinite justification to never trust download only ever again.
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by mjevans 3mo ago
I have on at least two occasions forgotten my phone in my car at highly inconvenient times... One of which was just before a flight, for a vacation. I was amazed it had any battery life at all when I got back. Yes, this stuff does happen t
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by mjevans 3mo ago
The natural unit of measure for integrated circuits is a power of 2 since that's what the systems operate in. It's so natural that early 9 and 36 bit architectures were squeezed into 8 and 32 bits as it just works so much more ef
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by mjevans 4mo ago
Those sucked so hard, were extremely finicky to plug in, and I was in constant terror of breaking it. Even the popout jack things were horrific in that respect. I'm 1000% for wired connections where possible, but for laptops too thin
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by mjevans 4mo ago
I think I'd be OK with the idea of a 'First Print' edition that sold for 4-5x the markup, shipped a month earlier, and maybe came with better limited time decorative plate options. They'd only sell 1 to 2% of them total
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by mjevans 4mo ago
Triplication tends to be where it becomes more clear what the correct thing to abstract or de-duplicate is. It's of course possible to functional-ize segments of logic, but then the question of state mutation must be brought up. How i
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by mjevans 4mo ago
TL;DR don't make everyone prove they're an adult (and thus who they are). Put the kids into the daycare if that's what you want the law to be. -- Don't let the kids wander Las Vegas / the adult section of town (the
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by mjevans 4mo ago
Yes, it's that. Xcode is the only reason I've ever touched an Apple account.
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by mjevans 4mo ago
Have you seen the user of median (average) intelligence? That's who you seem to describe. The users of even lesser intelligence make me question the survival fitness of our species.
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by mjevans 4mo ago
As a feature, the games that refuse to work under Linux tend to be the type that sell cosmetics or other things you probably don't want to deal with anyway. Or infuriating salty MOBA types.
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by mjevans 4mo ago
Mathematicians vs Computer / Systems Engineers. The machine only has so much space, so it's best to imagine every value also has a corresponding error range attached and that managing the growth of that error range so that it rem
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by mjevans 5mo ago
I'd really like some version of E.G. Librewolf configured to spoof the exact SAME information no matter who's using it. Like standard resolution for a 1080p monitor, the same GPU profile, Allow device timing stuff to work but wit
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by mjevans 5mo ago
How kind of them to require 2FA without requiring the governments to issue real 2FA tokens for use in signing / interacting. No doubt this will require some rootkit 'authenticator' app on the consumer's purchased mobile
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by mjevans 5mo ago
My approach to the first 100 Euler eventually involved a bitmap of possible primes (only odd numbers, there's only one even prime) which was initially seeded by a 'magic number' set representing the lowest primes and would gr
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by mjevans 5mo ago
For reference, Dialup Internet (E.G. ~2-3KByte/sec transfer) was NOT uncommon even into the early 2000s. In 1994 even dialup internet connections were rare and most software distribution occurred by floppy disk (encased in hardshell pl
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by mjevans 5mo ago
Offhand, the maintenance costs are something similar to a scalar that is the square of a vehicle's weight. Rather than indirectly taxing via fuel it would be more proper to do so by said maintenance scalar (weight based) and the distan
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by mjevans 5mo ago
I'm more fine with schools banning frivolous use of tech devices on school grounds during school hours.
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by mjevans 5mo ago
Some of them want to create a monarchy with them in charge... Remember to be on the lookout for that trend too.
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by mjevans 5mo ago
I'm willing to buy on Steam, however not with intrusive DRM. Nor with 3rd party store requirements (like EA games on Steam). E.G. I'd like to own a copy of the modern Persona games. I'm in no particular rush. If the studios
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by mjevans 5mo ago
The mandatory labeling should express: - Intended maximum safe Power Delivery\* - Intended maximum link speed * in Watts; optional voltage / current --- Gbit/sec '1/2' as rounding for 480mbit, permissib
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by mjevans 6mo ago
Democracy requires informed thoughtful voters to function. Public education was supposed to deliver that. This is a dream that has failed in the US. Possibly the most lacking tools are Critical Thinking (not directly taught as a subject AF
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by mjevans 6mo ago
I do strongly agree about specific kinds of relaxing. * Clear and concise approvals process * No more NIMBY BS * Impact based assessment (similar to Japans) * Possibly goals to encourage desired types of use (but not hard LIMIT be
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by mjevans 6mo ago
This is my major problem as a renter in the US. The minimum code really is too minimum. The city ordinances also enforce high limits on walls in ways that preserve a baby boomer childhood era view of suburbs. It'd suck less if it fel
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by mjevans 7mo ago
The correct nuance here is... * Classifying accounts as child accounts (moderated by a parent) * Allowing account moderators to review content in the account that is moderated (including assigning other moderation tools of choice) In call c
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by mjevans 7mo ago
Could be an external keyboard state thing.
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by mjevans 7mo ago
I disagree. The government SHOULD be able to force people to do things to be up to standard for the good of society. Attending a basic level of public education? Maintenance of hygiene? REASONABLE actions to prevent the spread of diseas
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by mjevans 7mo ago
The US is allergic to taxes. Maybe it's a marketing thing. Benefits paid for by society. Maybe a department of Return on Investment. See what those taxes pay for. Contrast to buying private versions of the services at the same SLA
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by mjevans 7mo ago
It's more of a thinker if you get past the very well done and entertaining first layer of 'slop'. (Content warning: there's some offensive potty humor and LOTS of violence in that first layer!) The movie considers poten
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by mjevans 7mo ago
Society absolutely needs to more correctly incentivize smart people to 'get together' to form child creating and raising units (families). Maybe society should focus on supporting high quality environments for raising children wel
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by mjevans 7mo ago
I'm reminded of wish-granting genies, and then of 'undefined behavior' and compilers...

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