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by mrec 6y ago
Not by default, definitely. Unless you count via WSL, but WSL isn't installed by default either.
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by mrec 6y ago
I think you have a very rose-tinted view of how these restrictions would be applied, and by whom. The power to decide what counts as "disinformation" would be the most valuable political real estate there is.
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by mrec 6y ago
I assumed it was a play on the Yeats poem from which that novel took its title. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Second_Coming_(poem)
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by mrec 6y ago
I suspect self-driving is much, much easier when you get up above ground clutter.
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by mrec 6y ago
My favourite example of the thousand-yard-stare horror of web specs is Manish's "Font-size: An Unexpectedly Complex CSS Property". It's awful and hilarious and just keeps getting worse and worse and worse. https:/&
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by mrec 6y ago
By "Mozilla/Servo" I meant "the Mozilla Firefox codebase along with Servo as its research testbed", not just Servo itself (which AFAIK was never intended to be a generally-shippable browser). Could have been clearer
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by mrec 6y ago
Microsoft might have done. Picking Chromium as the basis for their new Edge a couple of years ago, instead of Mozilla/Servo, was a disappointment at the time and I suspect will look even worse in future retrospectives. MS also seem to
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by mrec 6y ago
That's an interesting observation, although it does depend on the benefits landscape where you live.
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by mrec 6y ago
Oh gawd, I remember that. Fortunately I managed to return it for a refund. It's easy (and somewhat justified) to criticize the creators here, but I don't think they're the root problem. The root problem is that gaming media a
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by mrec 6y ago
For AAA titles, sure, but there's a long tail of indies, game jam entries etc. For something retro-styled like Dwarf Fortress or Baba Is You , I can absolutely believe that asset size is relatively minor compared to e.g. a Unity bas
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by mrec 6y ago
Some don't, some do. Users living out in the sticks with poor satellite connectivity care about binary size. The HTML5 platform, which I see becoming increasingly important as things like wasm and webgpu mature, cares about binary size
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by mrec 6y ago
Great start here and a very compelling intro post. A couple of things I wondered about and didn't see answers to: 1. How ambitious is Bevy as an engine? Do you see it as aimed squarely at the casual-game space like ggez, or do you thin
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by mrec 6y ago
If you're recommending A Deepness in the Sky , you should also recommend A Fire Upon the Deep by the same author (Vernor Vinge). A very different take on alien intelligence, and possibly more relevant to the octopus model in that it
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by mrec 6y ago
I'm disappointed they didn't name it FuzzBizz.
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by mrec 6y ago
Sad truth: http://cowbirdsinlove.com/comics/46/engineer.png
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by mrec 6y ago
I don't think that applies to conditional rendering, does it? You can't speculatively execute a graphics API command buffer submission and then dash after it shouting "wait, come back, I didn't mean it". Same with a
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by mrec 6y ago
I think mostly because having scads of clever conditionals all over the place greatly increases the risk of subtle and hard-to-reproduce bugs. From a 2007 Carmack email [1] : > The way we have traditionally measured performance and op
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by mrec 6y ago
One bit I left out: after taking his order they ended with "...and would you like a small cookbook with that?"
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by mrec 6y ago
I hadn't heard that Walmart story before, but it fits with my experience. I'm a Brit, and Brits are nowhere near the US's level of fake positivity, but the German retail culture was still a surprise to me. It's not tha
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by mrec 6y ago
"Nutpicking" is a very satisfying (and much easier to type) term for this phenomenon.
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by mrec 6y ago
TFA does acknowledge that view, but the striking thing for me about it was that its discussion of "the rich" is overwhelmingly focussed on the urban mercantile classes and financiers, rather than the aristocratic landowners. A new
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by mrec 6y ago
Those figures don't look like they're adjusted for population. US pop is about 5x UK's.
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by mrec 6y ago
I think they're looking for something that searches content. Calbre search only covers metadata. Need to clarify re ebook format though - if it's DRMed then any third-party tool is going to be out of luck.
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by mrec 6y ago
See also the XF-85 parasite fighter concept for a manned version. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_XF-85_Goblin
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by mrec 6y ago
So much this. I've tried multiple times to grok it and it just slid straight back out of my brain leaving me with the same puddle of syntax soup I started with. I've never encountered anything else even close to this bad. Not to m
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by mrec 6y ago
Space advocates seem to have been going off the idea of that over the past few years. I'm not sure how much of that is due to a better appreciation of the downsides, and how much is due to the very rapid improvements we've been
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by mrec 6y ago
This sounds like it ought to be a job for pixel-density media queries [1] in CSS. I doubt this happens often if ever though, because designers. Anyone seen this approach in the wild? [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US&#
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by mrec 6y ago
Oh, I thought the name looked familiar. I've used his JavaFastPFOR library; very performant and a pleasure to work with.
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by mrec 6y ago
Is your TTS process necessarily ahead of time, or can it be done at runtime with all the flexibility (templating, generative text etc) that brings?
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by mrec 6y ago
Could you expand on what you mean by "moral value" here? Something like job satisfaction, self-actualization etc? "Moral" as a descriptor seems likely to derail the argument here. There's nothing immoral about deliv

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