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by mrec 10y ago
Reminds me of an old Kim Stanley Robinson SF novel called Icehenge , which as I remember it revolves around life extension without corresponding memory preservation, so that history becomes a way of understanding your own past. I think it
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by mrec 10y ago
Or you can do it on the client side by hooking into the module loader and decompiling the wasm back into asm.js. See for example the https://github.com/lukewagner/polyfill-prototype-1 PoC mentioned in the wasm FAQ.
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by mrec 10y ago
Allie Brosh is wonderful. Her toys analogy in part 2, and "Depression feels almost exactly like that, except about everything" is just so perfectly spot-on.
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by mrec 10y ago
It is, but it's also important not to alienate the person you're trying to help. I'm not being sarcastic - you're absolutely right - but it's very easy to come across as spouting happy-clappy cliches ("it get
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by mrec 10y ago
> Businesses extracting profit from the labor of its workforce isn't a conspiracy. I'm not sure you who you're arguing with. What I said was > I don't agree with him that this was a deliberate conspiracy and
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by mrec 10y ago
> If people [...] bought a home one income could support I think GGP's point was that those are becoming hard-to-impossible to find in many places, especially places with decent-paying jobs. I don't agree with him that this was
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by mrec 10y ago
It used to be the case that 3D APIs other than Direct3D couldn't be used from whatever Metro^H Windows Store apps are called this week. Which kind of blocks it at a platform-within-a-platform level. That may have changed, I dunno.
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by mrec 10y ago
On Windows, Vulkan support is provided by the IHV graphics drivers from Nvidia, AMD etc. On Mac, Apple themselves ship the drivers (incorporating some portions of IHV code, but ultimately all under Apple's control).
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by mrec 10y ago
More generally, PDF is a vector graphic format, not a text format. A bunch of things we absolutely take for granted, like selection and copying, simply don't work reliably. (I've hit a number of glitches with the JS-implemented PD
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by mrec 10y ago
> either you pay for the DVD-with-unskippable-ads Blu-Ray seems to have avoided this slide into the adware sewer so far, which surprises me a bit. Maybe there's language prohibiting it in the spec, I dunno. They're not signific
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by mrec 10y ago
I've been a happy Netscape/MAS/Seamonkey/Firefox user since forever, and am delighted that it still has a healthy development pulse. Performance hasn't really been an issue for me, even on an ancient (6-year-old) la
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by mrec 10y ago
Carmack has commented on this piece: "I was making a dent at 19, but in 1990, the game industry didn't have many graybeards. I wouldn't have been so impressive at Bell Labs..."
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by mrec 10y ago
If you mean you get prompted to download speaky.cgi, that happens in Firefox/Windows too.
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by mrec 10y ago
This kind of looks like a mashup of Reddit with G+'s circles. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, although if that graphical tree view in "how-lyra-works" is the real UI it looks painful to navigate once it grows past a
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by mrec 10y ago
I don't think bank employees would necessarily be averse to Paris (as opposed to, say, Frankfurt which is making similar plays for them), but I'm pretty sure banks as employers wouldn't want to go anywhere near French l
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by mrec 10y ago
Yes. There's also a difference between a free trade area and a customs union. A lot of Americans in particular seem to think the EU works something like NAFTA when it comes to trade.
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by mrec 10y ago
Agreed, although it's worth noting that even if you can climb out, it's going to be a lot harder to stay out of depression if the next rung up is something like Freud's "ordinary misery", as opposed to your "
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by mrec 10y ago
I don't use or follow Swift, but Chris was also instrumental in the development of LLVM, which has become hugely important in all sorts of areas. Has he still been active in that while working on Swifty stuff, or have other people take
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by mrec 10y ago
> You can't do creative work if your brain is filled with lot of context I think you can, but the big risk is that what you produce becomes incomprehensible to anyone without all that context filling their brain, including you next
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by mrec 10y ago
I'm curious - why were you worried that this comment might make you a target for abuse?
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by mrec 10y ago
3ms sounds pretty dire, if you weren't writing very much. Out of curiosity, was this with or without `std::ios::sync_with_stdio(false);` ? I've found syncing makes a huge difference to IO perf in Windows, e.g. `_getc_nolock` is m
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by mrec 10y ago
> caching the result of a repeated function call is no longer necessarily safe Not seeing this one. Unpredictable exception-throwing only happens if the work being done by your function isn't pure, i.e. it depends on something other
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by mrec 10y ago
Steam sells non-game application software now. Mostly content creation stuff so far AFAICT; I don't know how strict their acceptance guidelines are.
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by mrec 10y ago
When you say "speed" are you talking about startup (getting the page to a usable state) or crunchy ongoing work?
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by mrec 10y ago
You can't really generalize about Reddit comment quality; it depends entirely on what you're looking at. Quality is strongly inversely correlated with sub size, so all the default subs are pretty bad. But there are notable excepti
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by mrec 10y ago
The whole tone of this post feels a bit sketchy to me. Not everyone gets 100% control over what they have to learn. > JavaScript fatigue is an affliction that affects only those who's learning priorities are poorly chosen, such as f
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by mrec 10y ago
I think The West Wing has better explanations than that. I was sure your link was going to be to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s92lsTMcZQ EDIT: this one has a bit more context: https://www.youtube.com/wat
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by mrec 10y ago
I dunno, I'd have thought the major difference there is tense. It's an ordeal while it's happening; it's an adventure once it's over.
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by mrec 10y ago
Ooh, thanks. I thought I'd read everything he's put out, but I missed that one.
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by mrec 10y ago
Oh, definitely. I've spent vastly less time on coding side projects since coding became a full-time job. Not that I don't still enjoy coding; I do. It's just that by the time I get home in the evening I'm pretty much cod

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