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by mrec 7y ago
I haven't used glfw, but from the docs it leaves you in control of the main loop, whereas glut takes that over and only offers you callbacks. When I used glut (many many years ago) that was sometimes annoying. glfw doesn't seem to
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by mrec 7y ago
The name does have a certain https://html9responsiveboilerstrapjs.com/ vibe to it, yes.
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by mrec 7y ago
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_Emporium_of_Benevole... (Which I also discovered via Scott, as it happens.)
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by mrec 7y ago
This comes up sufficiently often in the excellent /r/AskHistorians sub that it made their VFAQ [1] list twice. Both linked answers are worth reading. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/v
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by mrec 7y ago
And I've encountered some leftists who, while they don't use the term "SJW" amongst themselves, are comfortable describing themselves that way to others since (as far as I could make out) everyone has a pretty good idea
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by mrec 7y ago
> more people on HN agree with you on a topic than disagree with you They don't even mean that. There's a (500?) karma threshold for being able to downvote, whereas anyone can upvote.
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by mrec 7y ago
Ignorant question: at what point does the limiting factor for useful zoom become stabilization rather than optics? I looked briefly into ridiculous-zoom-level compacts a while back and consensus seemed to be that while the tech specs look g
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by mrec 7y ago
A large proportion of work is aimed at housing, but for entirely the wrong reasons. Housing costs in first world countries these days generally expand to consume available income, via land price inflation. Actual build cost - "producti
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by mrec 7y ago
Why does leisure have to mean consumption? And isn't consumption necessarily limited to the amount produced? I wasn't particularly impressed by TFA, but I don't understand this criticism of it.
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by mrec 7y ago
I don't know about Win10, but the default Win7 media player is still a steaming pile of poo. Can't play many formats, stupid and uncustomizable keyboard shortcuts, occasionally decides to display some videos as audio+visualization
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by mrec 7y ago
No Latin American countries have nukes, and despite spending most of the 19th century beating the stuffing out of each other on a regular basis [1] there's been almost zero inter-state violence since WW2. Modern Russia is also nowhere
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by mrec 7y ago
Which principles do you think they compromised on?
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by mrec 7y ago
> grandiose squirrel shenanigans Maybe not "grandiose", but squirrels are known to lie. They'll often pretend to be burying nuts in order to reduce the chance of surreptitious squirrel spies stealing the nuts they actua
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by mrec 7y ago
It's riffing on the old Unix Koans [1], which in turn were riffing on the traditional Zen Koan format [2]. [1] http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by mrec 7y ago
Fine for me, same exact version, Win7. Gorgeous and silky smooth at 1920x1080 on my 8-year-old laptop's crappy Intel GPU. This is really beautiful work.
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by mrec 7y ago
Interesting; I hadn't seen that list before. Annoyingly, most of it goes directly against arguments I have seen [1] about how best to reduce animal suffering in the human food chain without everyone going full vegetarian, since one s
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by mrec 7y ago
I've never understood why people get excited about the Kardashev scale. It's a proposal for classifying civilizations which has no place for the one and only civilization we actually know of. Doesn't that make it kind of sill
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by mrec 7y ago
I'm in London, England, so probably not.
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by mrec 7y ago
Similar thing here - the only time I now encounter video-ads-making-noise is at the cinema before a film, and it's becoming unpleasant enough there that I've largely stopped going to the cinema. It's not (or not just) that th
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by mrec 7y ago
It sounds like a gradual transition to me, not replacing all packers overnight. > A key to its goal of a leaner workforce is attrition, one of the sources said. Rather than lay off workers, the person said, the world’s largest online re
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by mrec 7y ago
If you found that depressing, steer clear of Scott's Who By Very Slow Decay [1]. It's an extraordinarily powerful piece though, and an interesting stylistic counterpoint to Moloch 's oneiric ramblings. [1] https:/&#x
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by mrec 8y ago
Not sure I follow. You're not going to suddenly discover after two days of writing that you need a top-level header for the whole document, but you might very well discover that one of your "leaf" sections needs to be broken
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by mrec 8y ago
Counterargument: you don't always know when you start writing a document how many levels of heading you're going to end up needing. A rough outline is inherently top-down, not bottom-up, so keeping your granularity options open ma
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by mrec 8y ago
We get squirrels too. (Squirrels are awesome.) Rabbits, never.
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by mrec 8y ago
> We even get visited by some beautiful red foxes from time to time It's funny how urban adaptation affects perceptions of rarity. I live in fairly-central London and you can hardly set foot outside after dark without tripping ove
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by mrec 8y ago
Or Hamcrest ( http://hamcrest.org/ ) Still have no idea what they were thinking with that one. Apparently it's an anagram of "matchers". Ooooookay.
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by mrec 8y ago
OK, I'm calling a severe case of Cake Derangement Syndrome and revoking your cake privileges. For the sake of both your mental health and your incipient diabetes.
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by mrec 8y ago
> But maybe new parties that actually correspond to positions on Brexit would be better than the incredible muddle that currently exists Maybe on Brexit. But Scotland's recent experience suggests that single-issue independence par
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by mrec 8y ago
I think you're deeply confused about who believes what. 1. May is not and has never been a Brexiter. I honestly can't understand how anyone still thinks she is. 2. If by "hard-line Tory Brexiters" you mean the ERG, they
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by mrec 8y ago
I'm curious that you say "May's deal is dead" but then say that a customs union (presumably tacked on to May's deal) remains an option. Surely they're effectively the same thing? May's WA already leads to

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