mrec

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811.
by mrec 9y ago
Cryptocurrencies aren't remotely trustless. You may not need to trust that the central bank won't fire up its printing press, true. But you're absolutely trusting that someone somewhere will want to exchange your bitcoins f
812.
by mrec 9y ago
...Rindfleischetikettierungsueberwachungsaufgabenuebertragungsgesetz
813.
by mrec 9y ago
Hmm, apparently I was misinformed while living there. (About the points, not about being Naz...)
814.
by mrec 9y ago
I thought you could get points on your driving license, and potentially lose it with enough violations?
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by mrec 9y ago
> ericaceous (acid loving) plants Not to be confused with erinaceous (pertaining to hedgehogs) plants. Cacti, perhaps? English vocabulary can be weird.
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by mrec 9y ago
Not a field I know anything about, but you might try https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/57963.pdf page 58
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by mrec 9y ago
Yes, mostly cleared with fire around the start of the Bronze Age for crop farming and livestock grazing. The soil's too acidic now to be good for much except looking scenic. Hipster Britain: we were Brazil before it was mainstream.
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by mrec 9y ago
Aren't you assuming one display list per leaf element, which kind of negates the whole benefit of batching? If DOM node X hasn't rotated but one of its grandchildren has, a display list representing the whole of X will definitely
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by mrec 9y ago
I think vbuffers/ibuffers/textures are a red herring here - the browser equivalent there would be re-requesting CSS files or images every frame, which nobody has ever suggested. And yes, reusing unmodified GPU command buffers is
820.
by mrec 9y ago
Not quite the same - I remember using GL display lists, but once you'd compiled one it was set in stone. There was no way to mostly reuse it but with a few changes here and there.
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by mrec 9y ago
Interesting post. It feels quite closely analogous to the virtual-DOM diffing approaches that have dominated client-side JS frameworks lately. Is there any history of this technique being used in game engine design? Or is that more concerne
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by mrec 9y ago
> the fact that Whedon wrote the screenplay for "Alien: Resurrection" tells me that Whedon is not world-class I think that's a bit unfair. Joss wrote the original screenplay, but it was butchered en route to the screen.
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by mrec 9y ago
Is the Harris hawk also known for being unusually trainable? I've seen them used in London for pigeon control, despite them not being native to the UK.
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by mrec 9y ago
I can't think of any case where a good director has made a good movie out of a bad screenplay. At best they can distract you with style and spectacle, e.g. Gladiator .
825.
by mrec 9y ago
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." -- Edsger Dijkstra
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by mrec 9y ago
Is this intended/expected to work on desktop setups with discrete GPUs too? I believe Optimus et al were always laptop-only, but some desktop users might care about heat/power/fan noise.
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by mrec 9y ago
That's an excellent point. In the same way that Tarantinoverse airlines don't bat an eyelid at passengers having a katana as carry-on.
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by mrec 9y ago
Interesting; I'd seen that speech before, but hadn't spotted the deliberate echo of Rupert Brooke in the last line [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soldier_(poem)
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by mrec 9y ago
Nobody's claiming it's flawless. I'm just objecting to the claim that it's untested .
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by mrec 9y ago
Why does it need to reload? Why not just have the votey button hyperlink to a dummy fragment URI like "#upvote_comment_1234", and something like a ping attribute [1] to send a request in the background, and a CSS rule like a.v
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by mrec 9y ago
It reuses the existing Javascript security model, which has been tested pretty extensively in the wild.
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by mrec 9y ago
I'd never used userContent.css before, but just tried it and it works fine. 57.0.2 (64-bit) on Win7. I'd suggest raising a bug.
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by mrec 9y ago
Agreed. The more sensible forms of debt jubilee I've seen proposed would give money to everyone equally, but with the proviso that if you have debt you have to use the money to pay that off first .
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by mrec 9y ago
Yeah, Windows 3126. May have been fixed, but definitely not just me: see https://forum.sublimetext.com/search?q=console%20uk
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by mrec 9y ago
Yeah, in a native app you'd use something like MapVirtualKey [1], but I don't think there's a web equivalent yet. You still see native apps getting this wrong, though. On a UK keyboard Sublime Text's view menu says that
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by mrec 9y ago
I hadn't seen KeyboardEvent.code before, but after a quick skim I can't see how you'd use it in practice. Being able to recognize physical key positions is nice and all, but how do you map those to the character printed on th
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by mrec 9y ago
I'm suddenly having flashbacks to reading On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines [1] [1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.10987.pdf
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by mrec 9y ago
Not badass-plane exactly, but Bill Weaver's story is another cracker. His SR-71 disintegrated around him (no ejection) at Mach 3.18 and 78,000 feet. He was back in the cockpit two weeks later. https://theaviationist.com&#x2F
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by mrec 9y ago
And how do you get your spacecraft up out of the gravity well and out to the asteroid, so you can move it into orbit and start recycling it into elevator? It sounds suspiciously like you're solving the bootstrap problem by tying string
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by mrec 9y ago
Building a space elevator involves getting a substantial amount of stuff into orbit, i.e. the cable and counterweight, so this sounds a bit like pulling yourself up by your bootstraps. Maybe you could launch materials and construction robot

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