mrec

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   by mrec 7y ago

   Sweeping generalization is sweeping. Not even 50 here.
2. 542.▲
   by mrec 7y ago

   I don't return them (except in cases of technical brokenness or blatant false advertising), I just stop playing them. And I don't quite understand why "reviews not covering the aspects of a game which determine my enjoyment o
3. 543.▲
   by mrec 7y ago

   Well, I've been playing them for about 35 years now, so pretty sure. Of course, obvious side-effects of advanced fogeydom include having less free time, being harder to impress with novelty, and losing the reflexes needed for some genr
4. 544.▲
   by mrec 7y ago

   I don't find reviews to be a substitute for demos; there's always a strong element of "if you like games like this then..." I pretty much only buy Steam games on sale now, not (just) because I'm a skinflint, but bec
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   by mrec 7y ago

   That only tells you what functions got called on that run , for that run 's sequence of inputs. https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2012/04/08/metaprogramming-for... Taster: > In the menu at the start, c
6. 546.▲
   by mrec 7y ago

   There seems to be an opportunity here for platform vendors like Microsoft or Apple to be a bit more aggressive about "this application is what's slowing you down" notifications. (With the ability for the user to say "yes
7. 547.▲
   by mrec 7y ago

   When I tried Blender a few years back there were lots of tutorials, but they were all in video format. For some people that's great; for some people that's useless. Has there been any improvement here? Even aside from personal lea
8. 548.▲
   by mrec 7y ago

   Is that 2+1GSoC team focussed purely on druid, or is it the xi team working on druid as part of that project?
9. 549.▲
   by mrec 7y ago

   I don't know about France, but domestic AC is almost unknown in the UK. I wonder if "heating water" implies that coolant is being plumbed through buildings to heat them, which could be dangerous to the occupants of those buil
10. 550.▲
    by mrec 7y ago

    > Yet they do pay off in Rust because of my favourite Rust feature: the ability to refactor large-scale software without breaking anything I think crater also deserves some credit here - given how much Rust source is in Cargo, it'
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    by mrec 7y ago

    BTW, were you aware that links to your older blog posts (e.g. [1]) were broken? Looks like you just removed "/blog" from the path, but you don't seem to be doing anything else with it. [1] http://pcwalton.gith
12. 552.▲
    by mrec 7y ago

    I'm devil's advocating here a bit, but how do you make money showing ads when the people those ads are targetting can't read, have no money and don't own a computer?
13. 553.▲
    by mrec 7y ago

    The benefits are global though, while the impacts on beaches are local.
14. 554.▲
    by mrec 7y ago

    This answer strongly reminds me of Joel Spolsky's BillG review story [1]. It's confidence-inspiring that you've already spent time looking into these things. [1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06&#x2
15. 555.▲
    by mrec 7y ago

    It's good timing for the consumer market too, with Win7 about to go unsupported.
16. 556.▲
    by mrec 7y ago

    Interesting. House sparrows are native in the UK, and were extremely common here when I was a kid, but have been declining for decades to the point where they're now on the conservation red-list.
17. 557.▲
    by mrec 7y ago

    What's wrong with Sitka spruce?
18. 558.▲
    by mrec 7y ago

    Bit like Dartmoor - looks spectacularly wild and romantic, but used to be forested until Bronze Age farmers cleared it for agriculture and the soil turned acidic.
19. 559.▲
    by mrec 7y ago

    Yes I know, but I thought Foundation does a lot of less-techie things outside of Corp?
20. 560.▲
    by mrec 7y ago

    Note that donations go to Foundation rather than Corp though. It's not clear how much - if anything - goes to dev projects like Rust.
21. 561.▲
    by mrec 7y ago

    I didn't quite grok this bit: > The ability to return values from if expressions and blocks is awesome and I don’t know how I’ve managed to live up until now without it. Instead of conditionally assigning to a bunch of variables it
22. 562.▲
    by mrec 7y ago

    True, but persistence hunting evolved in a hot climate. (Which is why we have other adaptations such as mostly-hairly skin to facilitate sweating.) Persistence hunting in the Arctic without the coat you're trying to catch would be a
23. 563.▲
    by mrec 7y ago

    Nitpick: it's Wootz steel, not Wootz's steel. It wasn't named after someone called Wootz.
24. 564.▲
    by mrec 7y ago

    "They" had analogue computers [1] and steam turbines [2] two millenia ago. Power hammers a few centuries ago seem pretty mild by comparison. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism [2] https:
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    by mrec 7y ago

    There's an entertaining LindyBeige video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrZ5IE-1GJ4
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    by mrec 7y ago

    I suspect the point is that all this image processing adds latency, which is fine when you're watching a movie but not when you're doing something interactive. Same reason I understand these TVs have a "game mode" that d
27. 567.▲
    by mrec 7y ago

    I'm pretty sure the comment you're responding to is just a switcharoo-format joke. Unless the last sentence is missing an "un" before "pleasant".
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    by mrec 7y ago

    I don't think the clustering needs to be geographic; isn't NaNoWriMo based on essentially the same principle? Seeing how far along your peers are can be a useful kick up the fundament when you're lagging behind.
29. 569.▲
    by mrec 7y ago

    If you ever get a chance to see Abbi Patrix tell this kind of tale live, grab it. He's great. (Web presence is mostly French, but he sometimes performs in English too.)
30. 570.▲
    by mrec 7y ago

    Well, the "changing very fast" should slacken off now that it's hit 1.0.