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by mrec 9y ago
BDD test definitions are the one that really annoy me. As far as I can tell, they're written in "natural language" (i.e. a blessed set of specific parameterizable phrases) purely so that they can be written by PMs rather than
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by mrec 9y ago
> the rearguard was almost exclusively French troops Bit of a stretch for "almost". The entire 51st Highland Division stayed as part of the rearguard, and few if any of them made it home. [1] Possibly apocryphal: "One Hi
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by mrec 9y ago
Are there slam-dunk arguments why 64-bit is always better for applications ? If so, I haven't seen them, and neither have various people I follow who seem to know what they're talking about. Example: https://blogs.msdn
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by mrec 9y ago
> I don't think that these games were available for anyone coming from either my generation (in my 20s, now) or any of the previous ones. S.E.U.C.K. [1] was published in 1987. RPGMaker [2] was first published in 1992 and is still
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by mrec 9y ago
Yes, the article seems to be mostly a roundabout restatement of Kleiber's Law [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleiber%27s_law
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by mrec 9y ago
Depends what you consider significant. The UK's Financial Services Compensation Scheme, which handles depositor protection, paid out over 26 billion pounds in the 2006-2011 period. At the same time, though, the govt did push Lloyds TSB
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by mrec 9y ago
> You can achieve the same thing with two young children that spend a lot of time together e.g. twins. Sometimes taken to extremes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptophasia
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by mrec 9y ago
What would baking them into the language add that a library solution couldn't? I'm not keeping track of Rust very closely these days, but it supports arithmetic operator overloading and the Copy trait. What's missing? I agree
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by mrec 9y ago
If anyone's interested, this is the (epic!) discussion thread for "Getting explicit SIMD on stable Rust": https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/getting-explicit-simd-on-s... It still wouldn't compete wi
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by mrec 9y ago
Notepad is "weak" for a reason: it aims for absolutely minimal dependencies so that it can still be used for system recovery when everything else has gone to hell in a handbasket. Hard to make that argument for Paint though, I&#x2
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by mrec 9y ago
Jérôme Carcopino's Daily Life in Ancient Rome is another, slightly more modern, book in this vein. Fascinating and very accessible.
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by mrec 9y ago
If might have been if AMD were opening up and Intel weren't. EDIT to expand a bit since some people seem to be missing the point: hypothetically, GP might have preferred Intel on narrow technical criteria, but have been willing to over
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by mrec 9y ago
Back around the end of February Khronos announced a "3D Portability" initiative [1], which would abstract over Vulkan/DX12/Metal. As I understood it, this could be a pure library solution which wouldn't require supp
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by mrec 9y ago
"Doth the reality of sensible things consist in being perceived? or, is it something distinct from their being perceived, and that bears no relation to the mind?" -- George Berkeley, Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous ,
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by mrec 9y ago
What's ironic about it?
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by mrec 9y ago
Yeah, I was really impressed by that as well when it was first announced. Makes perfect sense once you hear it, but as an old fogey I just wasn't used to thinking on that kind of scale. I had a similar lightbulb moment years ago when s
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by mrec 9y ago
Nowhere near that old, but I remember a fun moment when I was a kid and living in an old house (in the UK). While redecorating we found some old folding window-shutters that had been covered over, and they were packed in with scraps of news
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by mrec 9y ago
Abortion is actually a different case, I think; that comes down to incompatible axioms. Two people can both believe 100% sincerely that killing people is wrong, but if one of them considers a foetus to be a person and the other doesn't
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by mrec 9y ago
I think your position is perfectly coherent, but I don't think the opposing view is necessarily that weird, for two reasons. The first is that this isn't zero-sum; there's no evidence I'm aware of that the death penalt
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by mrec 9y ago
Mark Blyth is fond of observing that "The Hamptons are not a defensible position". Here in the UK we're finally seeing signs that the political worm is starting to turn. Partly a realization, growing for a while, that permane
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by mrec 9y ago
You can use vanilla `main` for Windows apps too, just need to override the default subsystem when invoking the linker. I never understood the point of `WinMain`; IIRC there's nothing it does that you can't do just as well without
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by mrec 9y ago
I think the original question was about full-on enforcement of style rules as grammatical rules, by the compiler, as proposed by Ken Arnold in his 2004 essay Style is Substance [1]. AFAIK nothing like that is remotely on the cards for rus
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by mrec 9y ago
> indeed, the use of regenerative braking now converts about half the heat loss back into electricity. However, that can only work where trains are accelerating and braking at the same time, on the same electricity sub-station loop. Be
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by mrec 9y ago
> Any pointers for a good 2d shape-packing algorithm? Googling `open source texture packer` finds a few projects. Do the requirements change significantly when dealing with a physical sheet of plywood rather than pixels?
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by mrec 9y ago
If you enjoy this sort of thing, you might try Marvin Harris' book Cannibals and Kings . It's pretty old now - I read it in 1990 - but it's full of thought-provoking illustrations of how apparently bizarre superstitions and
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by mrec 9y ago
Baen [1] are also still DRM-free and sell a bunch of smaller publishers too, but again it's all fairly genre-limited. [1] http://www.baen.com/baenebooks
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by mrec 9y ago
We may be talking about different things. Parsing valid, standard-conforming HTML/Markdown/whatever is a solved problem. Getting multiple parsers to deal with arbitrary tag soup, authoring errors, variously-supported extensions et
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by mrec 9y ago
I don't think anyone would claim that HTML was easy to parse, would they? It took decades for the HTML5 consensus to emerge. I like text-based formats, but I'm not convinced that "Being non-binary is a huge plus" for
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by mrec 9y ago
I agree that Quantum is exciting, but if there's anything interesting about Photon the article you linked really didn't bring it out. What aspects were you thinking of?
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by mrec 9y ago
Yes, whelks for example are known for their ability to flourish in supernovas.

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