mrec

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by mrec 6y ago
If you're willing to say, whereabouts are you? My impression is that the rampant illiberalism in tech is mostly confined to California/SV and companies headquartered there. Which needn't damn the whole sector, but is still
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by mrec 6y ago
Though worth noting that VLC + AnyDVD HD just works there. Even if you don't have a Java installation you can still play the main feature, without menus. I was pleasantly surprised by that.
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by mrec 6y ago
Good question, but pretty sure. Settings > System > About > Windows Specifications just shows generic "Windows 10 Pro" as the edition. Also, AFAICT the N edition doesn't have Media Player at all, it doesn't just
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by mrec 6y ago
Well, for one there may be VLC people on this thread who'd know whether this was an unintentional regression.
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by mrec 6y ago
Source? According to the Wikipedia entry it's a virtual machine designed to mimic a "fantasy video game console".
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by mrec 6y ago
Really? What format were they in?
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by mrec 6y ago
No idea. I'd been using Win 7 before that where Media Player mostly managed fine (probably with codec packs). VLC had audio glitching issues on that box but doesn't on the new one, so I quickly lost patience with trying to debug M
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by mrec 6y ago
I set up a Win10 box recently and was kind of stunned to find that the built-in Media Player is now b0rked to the extent that it can't play media. Practically any media. Even with codec packs installed it won't play any of my hu
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by mrec 6y ago
> I expect that, in the future, gl and d3d will be implemented entirely on top of vulkan I'm not sure whether you're talking about the "official" Microsoft D3D libs here, but I very much doubt that'll ever happ
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by mrec 6y ago
My handwriting is far too bad for physical notebooks ever to be an option.
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by mrec 6y ago
There's literally twos of us!
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by mrec 6y ago
I don't lump Reddit into the same bucket as FB/Twitter. It's perfectly possible to have a sane, even pleasant experience there if you stay out of the default subs and the obvious dumpster fires. And I think stable-but-pseudon
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by mrec 6y ago
Oh, I'm sure they will. And they'll end up losing elections as a result.
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by mrec 6y ago
Anybody not on them still gets to vote. If anything, I suspect that making these platforms increasingly unrepresentative will end up hurting pols who pay attention to them, by giving them an increasingly distorted view of public opinion. If
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by mrec 6y ago
> What they were talking about is giving up on smartphones and social media altogether That's incredibly encouraging to hear. It seems to be a common feature of "I quit Facebook/Twitter/whatever" accounts that
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by mrec 6y ago
> the theory that the immune system response to Oxford's virus vector is mostly negating the benefit of the second dose taken 21 days after the first Do you know if there are more trials underway to verify this? I'm guessing
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by mrec 6y ago
And Rust has https://play.rust-lang.org/ - not a REPL, but a chance to kick the tyres before downloading anything.
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by mrec 6y ago
> Too low of inflation is bad because it means less investment in the physical economy But why did this apparently only become the case after 2008? Positive real returns without gambling were acceptable before that, and we still got
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by mrec 6y ago
Apparently people have had success [1] with Wine, but that's presumably not ideal. It does have some customizability but probably not as much as you're looking for. [1] https://forum.sumatrapdfreader.org/t/sum
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by mrec 6y ago
Inflation is absolutely here. Assets are way up because "safe" stores of value - what money was supposed to be - haven't been keeping pace with inflation since 2008, so you have to either join the casino or watch your savings
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by mrec 6y ago
Pity, I hear it doesn't fail to not leave lots of doors unopened.
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by mrec 6y ago
What platform are you on? SumatraPDF handles most ebook formats and is nice and zippy.
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by mrec 6y ago
Solid start. The page layout options could use a bit more work: 1. It initially defaults to showing two facing pages per screen, but the selector shows "Read a chapter as a long scrolled page" as selected. "Fit 2 page side by
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by mrec 6y ago
> bubbles would rise higher and poop much bigger Please don't fix this, it's perfect.
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by mrec 6y ago
GPU texture compression formats would be the obvious example. With the additional constraint that they need to support efficient random access.
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by mrec 6y ago
I think you missed the double negative.
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by mrec 6y ago
Ah, OK; I didn't realize that change happened so early.
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by mrec 6y ago
> But this doesn't matter since you can choose to get graded again whenever you want! I don't think this was true in the original release of the game, which may be why early players felt pressured.
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by mrec 6y ago
Per the sibling comment to yours, no, they aren't referring to that. "The point" is attacking a strawman. As a general takeaway, "It actually feels absurd to type that sentence out..." can be a useful warning sign t
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by mrec 6y ago
You're probably thinking of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25690941 The statement was vague and ambiguous and touched a lot of raw nerves, but coming as it did on the heels of major layoffs at Mozilla it felt a b

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