mntmoss

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One of the topics that comes up in article praise for cap & trade, pointing to the success of existing pollution laws. In practice - last I checked, and I admit to not having followed them closely - I don't think carbon credit sch
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It takes a whole chapter to explain rhythm because I have witnessed people spend literally over an hour stuck on "counting out a measure" with varying note lengths. This series is starting where a from-scratch musical education mu
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As restrictions go, I'm OK with this. I looked into doing some Atari 800(XL/XE) coding and for most any graphics application, you're bottlenecked by what you can keep around in main RAM, plus the limits of what you can progra
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It is actually still 8-bit aligned with padding - we are talking about a system with a 68000 and Z80 here. The way the graphics systems of the era accomplished color depths like this was generally to do one of two things: 1. draw them in &q
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by mntmoss 7y ago
The plight of the typical grad isn't just that they have overly general knowledge for any one task, but that they have just emerged from a system that filtered their thoughts for possibly several decades into completing assignments and
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by mntmoss 7y ago
One thing that tends to be excluded in most analysis of rent control is the preference of landlords to operate fewer, more expensive units. When you have more units, you have more to keep track of - more tenants, more staff, more maintenanc
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by mntmoss 7y ago
Game development eras and their style have a substantial correlation to locations and the teams assembled in them, but as you allude to, increasingly the demographics don't seem to matter as much as the culture, because the capital re
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With most categories of gear, there's a sharp quality threshold that hits below a given price range, and once you are above it, you need not go further to do professionally useful work. It's been a helpful rule of thumb for me.
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by mntmoss 7y ago
One of the big asterisks with most D3 bone density studies(and is applicable to this one) is that they are studying older adults specifically, vs, say, athletes. There are bodybuilders, for example, who swear by high-dose D3.
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Them being a gamer or developer doesn't actually add a great deal of value to their leadership abilities. Many are the examples of management justifying bad decisions as a "one of us" move. What EA and any company of that sca
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Everything does vary a substantial amount between districts and even individual schools since at the national level there are only a few guidelines(although standardized tests have crept in since No Child Left Behind), so even with the publ
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Yes, and this kind of issue comes up a lot in computing when trying to find deep optimizations: If you make a processing pipeline that drops information and reduces quality as it goes along, you can always turn that into a speed-up, but som
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I think your practices are fine - coding even a limited prototype reveals a lot of unanswered questions in a mental model. Once you have the model, you can apply it in a theoretical sense, but in my experience it takes longer to build on
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by mntmoss 7y ago
The world feels very uncertain for the middle-class these days, especially in an economic sense, which is one that strikes right at the heart of one's "locus of control". It doesn't offer the same kind of promise or oppo
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by mntmoss 7y ago
I would definitely recommend going for calisthenic training with an emphasis on isometrics around young kids, rather than weights(equipment and prep time) or intensive cardio(too much time-on-task). Holding a bridge, squat-and-reach, or a d
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It's a good illustration of the difference between consumer products and simulators. What reads as authentic to consumers is the moment-to-moment aesthetics like how guns handle or whether there's a percievable "stat" be
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The most accurate answer w/r to the thing you linked is: All binaries used to be much smaller, by a factor of 100x or more. And so on this aspect of performance we have had a kind of regression where most things have a bigger footprint
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Something that never seems to come up when one of Jeff's art defense posts come up is that an RPG has a considerably higher asset load than most types of games, not just graphically but all around. And historically, the genre has respo
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by mntmoss 7y ago
This feeling has swept over me, too. We didn't fully realize it at the time, but it was the twilight of our culture being transmitted through "big", tangible products with a distinct publishing apparatus like those demo CDs,
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I have a little landing page on itch.io which can be followed if you have an account (but the content is getting embarassingly out of date): https://triplefox.itch.io/galapagos Current release plan is to get some builds out
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I'm working on something like this, but as time has gone on I've made technical constraint less of a priority and focused more and more on the I/O and "bus" model itself, because that's where the ultimate bottl
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The raw throughputs are definitely better but there is concern regarding latency even at the lowest levels, since today's CPUs have complex cache, power state and frequency throttling mechanisms. You cannot guarantee that something wil
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The rules don't change because of the scale or timelines. You still iterate, from the smallest poem to the largest moonshot, but on big pieces of work, you iterate the most on the abstract bits of groundwork principles and process so t
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Some of XML's biggest achievements lie in written documentation formats(DocBook, DITA) where fine-grained markup control is needed and the presentation of the content is secondary to semantic features like footnotes, indexing, etc. The
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The main issue with rule of seven in an abstract field is that you can always invent more complex words and concepts, which chunk less readily: 1. Name ten types of animal 2. Now name ten programming constructs The first will surely come mo
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You make an argument for empiricism, which is only one way of evaluating the truth of arguments. For example, mathematics traditionally doesn't involve empirical study: It begins with a pragmatic premise instead, like "assume the
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I have to agree that it's a difficult read, and I'm someone who has done a fair share of looking at these different architectures. But the broad-strokes recommendations seem approximately like these things I would say(which are no
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The players of the video games made by Activision-Blizzard complain every day about trivial and inconsequential aspects of the products and how they play. We don't say about them, "oh, but that is just the way the game is made, yo
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It's not just that the raw encoding that becomes easier to relax with higher system resources - it can also be generically compressed using those same resources. I run my Windows machines with disk compression enabled, and that tames m
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Yes, this kind of "naive coding technique" occasionally pops up, and I think it's a good discussion topic, because its mere existence demonstrates that you can get extremely far in terms of delivering features with a minimal

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