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by mrec 8y ago
> The idea that people would wear glasses to watch a 3D movie is crazy when you consider that we already see 3D without glasses We already see 3D scenes without glasses. The problem is tricking ourselves into seeing 2D scenes as if they
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by mrec 9y ago
I found the same, and my eyesight's still mostly OK. The use of grey text on a grey background doesn't exactly help, and that kind of "design over usability" choice is a bit of a red flag for the product itself.
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by mrec 9y ago
> Is a disassembler for WASM a thing yet? Yes, it's part of the standard toolkit. See https://github.com/WebAssembly/wabt and specifically the "wasm2wat" tool.
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by mrec 9y ago
> And we are talking about brilliant minds with very positive personalities. Do you think "very positive personalities" were a plus in this case? Obviously you don't want homicidal sociopaths on the team, but someone who
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by mrec 9y ago
Having a browser installed isn't the problem. The problem is having a specific version of a specific browser installed because that's the only thing you've tested against. (I'm not condoning this, and haven't worked
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by mrec 9y ago
Ah, gotcha. Thanks for clarifying.
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by mrec 9y ago
> If you want to compile C code to include in your project, you'll need those tools. Just curious, but if you're already built on top of llvm, why not bundle clang for that? Licensing issues? I thought NCSA was pretty permiss
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by mrec 9y ago
> It'll be great to finally be able to experiment with LLD. Was the lack of lld the only reason for the Windows installer to depend on the MSVC build tools, or are there others?
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by mrec 9y ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding your categories, but why would a server care about the distinction between "static" and "client side dynamic"?
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by mrec 9y ago
This is actually an interesting open question, known as Peto's paradox [1]. The "hypertumors" hypothesis is especially fun - a tumor has to get really big to affect something the size of a whale, and a tumor that big needs
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by mrec 9y ago
Seconded. Despite the name it also handles things like EPUB and CBZ competently.
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by mrec 9y ago
I disagree. IMHO "area the size of Wales" is more commonly used. For everyday magnitudes the nanoWales [1] may be more convenient. [1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/page/reg-standards-conv...
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by mrec 9y ago
That's fair. I suspect we're both nutpicking at this point, facilitated by the abundance of nuts on both sides. I do think it's a little disingenuous to try to limit the mandate to just those four words. If both sides of th
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by mrec 9y ago
Agreed, but things like that attempted Lords amendment to legally require the govt to guarantee the rights of UK expats living in Europe - something not within the govt's power, and therefore sending them to a gunfight with a wooden sp
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by mrec 9y ago
> all criticisms of details of policy implementation are dismissed as defying the "will of the people" To be fair, quite a lot of them are.
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by mrec 9y ago
> a copper list that completely defines the display, microsecond by microsecond, scanline by scanline Sometimes even less. IIRC, some of the attempts to get around the chunky/planar problem for rendering Doom-likes took the approach
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by mrec 9y ago
Word choice is sometimes very slightly off, but grammar appears to be flawless. As you say, very very impressive.
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by mrec 9y ago
The Mote in God's Eye and its sequel are perennial faves of mine in this regard. Individual characterization is nothing special, probably par for the course for SF of that era, but nobody is stupid and nobody is evil and watching eve
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by mrec 9y ago
I second the Wendy and Lucy rec. I saw it not long after first reading Scalzi's Being Poor [1] and it really made everything concrete. It's a tough sell in some ways - "girl loses dog, girl finds dog, the end" - but
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by mrec 9y ago
/me fantasizes about non-permanent long-term depression...
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by mrec 9y ago
It's missing some really basic instructions, i.e. clicking cycles between "not marked", "marked as water" and "marked as ship". Just saying "Click squares to set where you think the ships are." i
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by mrec 9y ago
Yes. When I lived in Germany (circa 1996-2001) this was very noticeable. Germans, at least West Germans, talked about speed cameras the way Brits talk about the weather.
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by mrec 9y ago
There's an app called Machete that can do this, but it has obvious constraints - can only cut/paste at keyframe boundaries, video/audio streams must be compatible. In practice it's useful for editing one source video, bu
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by mrec 9y ago
I wonder whether something like this will happen to urban foxes - the ones in London are extraordinarily bold, sometimes happily trotting past humans a foot or two away. I particularly wonder this because of Belyayev's famous experimen
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by mrec 9y ago
Do you build up any kind of immunity after repeated exposure?
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by mrec 9y ago
> which shows that he is not utterly evil Oh, no, I certainly wasn't suggesting that. If you squint a bit you can almost see Angelo as a tragic hero undone by his own virtues; piety and self-restraint have always come so naturally
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by mrec 9y ago
Interesting comparison. Angelo's defining characteristic is his hypocrisy, which at times is really vile , but his fall does at least humanize him to the audience by contrast to his earlier presentation as an ice-blooded robot "b
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by mrec 9y ago
> That in turn led to the end of the British Empire I'd say that's a bit of a stretch, given that the British Empire lasted for more than a century after that. Certainly until after the Second World War, and arguably in rump
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by mrec 9y ago
If you missed it when it first appeared last September, the Cincinnati Enquirer's Seven Days of Heroin was a gruelling but phenomenally powerful read. https://www.cincinnati.com/pages/interactives/seven-days
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by mrec 9y ago
Maybe, but I think you're missing my point. When you buy Bitcoin (or whatever) you're betting that someone will want to trade you something else for it in the future. That "someone else" isn't a concrete entity, and

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