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by mrec 8y ago
> most people are treating Labour as if it were the Remain party. This confuses me. Yup. Treating May as some sort of extreme "hard Brexiteer" is even more hilariously silly. Labour is the nakedly opportunistic promise-everyt
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by mrec 8y ago
> despite losing so many seats she needed a coalition afterwards, which in a democracy ought to be pause for thought Worth pointing out that the Labour opposition in that election had also pledged to respect the referendum result. Over
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by mrec 8y ago
Thanks for the pointer, but I'm afraid I have zero knowledge of ML and wouldn't be any help. I have to say I'm a bit sceptical that this approach can work purely based on win/loss conditions - an attacker victory in pa
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by mrec 8y ago
> look for pieces to capture in any given turn Not as a general rule. If you're playing as the attacker, you don't always want to take defender pieces even if they're "free" - they're more useful boxing thei
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by mrec 8y ago
Yeah, I did the same (VanillaJS) a couple of years back, and started thinking about implementing a computer opponent, but it's really not clear what the evaluation function should be.
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by mrec 8y ago
It's an interesting game, mostly because unlike most modern games it's massively asymmetrical. Goals, strategies and attitudes are very different for the two players, and despite the numerical lopsidedness in pieces it's muc
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by mrec 8y ago
WebGL as a proxy API is implemented by the browser, yes, but the thing it's proxying (the graphics driver) is well outside the sandbox and is arguably too complex to be secured by parameter validation and the like. If the driver has an
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by mrec 8y ago
Thanks, but that doesn't answer the question. It's showing percentages, not absolute numbers.
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by mrec 8y ago
Is that an absolute decline now, or just relative? (I'm asking about usage, not sales - I know the latter have fallen off a cliff since Moore's Law topped out.)
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by mrec 8y ago
Not GP, but I think the ossification of WebGL has little to do with security concerns and a lot to do with the fact that the GL model is a poor fit to the direction hardware has taken over the past couple of decades. Realistically, any succ
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by mrec 8y ago
Carmack said it best: "Putting anything that gets benchmarked in a position of security responsibility is very, very dangerous." https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/395927588108918785 I think the
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by mrec 8y ago
> If you browse without JS it still works! How does it, given that all the markdown is inside that <xmp theme="united" style="display:none;"> block?
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by mrec 8y ago
I've been using phombie in my head for quite some time now.
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by mrec 8y ago
I'd think it would make sense to do this as an LLVM backend so that everyone could use it. This used to exist [1], but I don't think it's maintained, which suggests there wasn't much demand for it. [1] https:/&#x2F
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by mrec 8y ago
I'm sure it is too, but IMO Humble Bundle should refuse to carry books with those restrictions.
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by mrec 8y ago
If it's like previous times I've seen this, the ebooks themselves will still be DRM-free, HB just won't sell some of them to you i.e. they won't be included in the bundle you get.
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by mrec 8y ago
Is UWP/Store actually taking off? I was under the impression that it was another flop. I run Windows at home, but wouldn't if it went Store-only. For me, an open platform is the only thing Windows had going for it.
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by mrec 8y ago
Brilliance (also Amiga) was even better than DPaint. I haven't found anything to compare for just the plain fun of noodling about, since moving to PC.
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by mrec 8y ago
I'm pretty sure intervals weren't a thing in Shakespeare's day; he certainly didn't write with them in mind. Which isn't to say that nobody was selling pasties, of course. Theatres were very much public spaces back
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by mrec 8y ago
Shakespeare's Globe in London did full OP productions (on the main stage) of Romeo and Juliet (2004, [1]) and Troilus and Cressida (2005, [2]). David and Ben were advisors. Highly recommended if you ever get the chance to see somet
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by mrec 8y ago
I haven't heard the term "collection singular" before; I'd call that a mass noun or non-count noun. (Which I agree "data" has become.)
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by mrec 8y ago
According to the Venerable Bede, Pope Gregory I drew the same parallel in ~595: " Non Angli, sed angeli – They are not Angles, but angels. Well named, for they have angelic faces and ought to be co-heirs with the angels in heaven. &quo
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by mrec 8y ago
Is this the old "hot" front page, or the new default "best" front page? The latter is complete and utter garbage, and favours newness above all other criteria.
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by mrec 8y ago
Depends what you count as China; the Yangtze, Yellow River and Mekong all originate in Tibet. They're probably the primary reason why China is so absolutely adamant that Tibet is and has always been part of China; losing that water w
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by mrec 8y ago
There's also potential trouble brewing wih Egypt over Ethiopia damming the Nile, on which Egypt is completely dependent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Ethiopian_Renaissance_Da...
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by mrec 8y ago
I couldn't agree more; I too get frustated by the degeneration of most public debate. Personally I was very much on the fence, leaning net Leave on the meta level (major constitutional change should not happen without a popular mandate
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by mrec 8y ago
Somewhat ironically, as a (UK) Leave voter I rather like it.
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by mrec 8y ago
That sounds backwards to me. Mainland European legal systems are based on civil law, which heavily emphasizes letter rather than spirit. (As opposed to the common law traditions found in most of the Anglosphere.)
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by mrec 8y ago
I'm not sure how that helps with the problem we're talking about. The value proposition of something like TiddlyWiki is that your site is just a file . For local use you don't even need a webserver. Making Node or similar a
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by mrec 8y ago
> To save a note just store it on disk (cmd/ctrl+s). What's this supposed to do? On Firefox/Win it just saves the initial blank page as you'd expect, which is not very useful. Removing the `contenteditable` attribut

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