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by mrec 8mo ago
5.2 in the website. You can see what was used for a specific response by hovering over the refresh icon at the end.
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by mrec 9mo ago
Interesting point, although it's clearly not in TSMC's interest to land themselves in a monopsony situation by allowing Apple (e.g.) to squeeze all their competitors out of the market.
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by mrec 9mo ago
> Given that a sentiment for independence of Scotland has only really became an actual topic people discuss semi-seriously after the Brexit The Scottish independence referendum was in 2014, two years before the Brexit referendum.
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by mrec 9mo ago
I don't think that's a given, or even necessarily a strong likelihood. A majority of Scotland's trade is with the rest of the UK, unlike the Brexit situation where a shrinking minority of the UK's trade was with the rest
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by mrec 9mo ago
Re "just another program" - the old Notepad was deliberately designed with minimal dependencies so that even if everything else in the system went to hell you'd still have a working editor to try and fix things.
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by mrec 9mo ago
> The speech of the manipulator is not the same as the speech of the expert I don't think that's contentious. The point of free speech is not that all speech is equally valuable or positive. It's that I don't trust y
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by mrec 9mo ago
> I never associated the word spaz with... I dunno what it is... multiple sclerosis or whatever Usually cerebral palsy, I think, or (less commonly) epilepsy. I'm not sure it's still that common in the UK; I don't think I&#
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by mrec 9mo ago
> a smaller (likely noisier) seat Reminds me of that description of the Tu-144 as "so loud you couldn't hear the person next to you screaming".
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by mrec 9mo ago
This was the bit that caught my eye: > Blake’s pitch to airlines is enticing: “You’re already flying this route with a 300-seat plane where 80+ people in business class generate most of your profit. Give those passengers a supersonic pla
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by mrec 10mo ago
I'm bang in the middle of a reread now; I've lost count of how many there've been. I'm 55 now, having first read it in my early teens, and it's astonishing how it just keeps growing and changing with you. Even after
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by mrec 10mo ago
Does that distinction matter? Seems like a simple case of open platform -> more competition -> lower prices.
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by mrec 10mo ago
> They will not outcompete Sony/MS/Nintendo in consoles because price is king for the mass market I don't follow the console market at all, but don't its players subsidize their hardware by keeping software (game) cos
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by mrec 10mo ago
No good reason, I'm just very very old.
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by mrec 10mo ago
Isn't this already happening to some degree? E.g. UE's Nanite uses a software rasterizer for small triangles, albeit running on the GPU via a compute shader.
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by mrec 10mo ago
Personally I've found it much easier to sustain creative stuff on the side while doing a non-knowledge-based job than a knowledge-based one. Mental exhaustion is much more of a drag than physical. (Though the knowledge-based hours were
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by mrec 10mo ago
At least in Firefox, this page doesn't scroll at all. No scrollbar, scroll wheel/cursor keys/PageDown all do nothing. How does someone screw up CSS so completely?
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by mrec 10mo ago
> the marginal cost of wasted SSD storage in a gaming PC is US$2.50 per TB per month Where are you getting this number from? Not necessarily arguing with it, just curious.
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by mrec 10mo ago
Sweet cheese and crackers, you weren't kidding about "extremely active". He's posting like once a minute.
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by mrec 10mo ago
> Why should we protect the work of an author for a lengthier term than that of an inventor? Well, independently coming up with the same solution to a given problem is a lot more likely than independently writing the same novel. Person
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by mrec 11mo ago
Do you know how it then maps hashes to buckets? I'd expect the natural occurrence of integer values to be very non-uniform and heavily biased toward the small end.
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by mrec 11mo ago
I do this too (not the personal domain bit) but one thing to be aware of is that Google doesn't seem to index these sites unless you feed it each URL manually. Doesn't autodiscover, doesn't read a submitted sitemap. Not a sho
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by mrec 11mo ago
Surprised at the lack of a license though.
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by mrec 11mo ago
I agree that I wouldn't get it in addition to a desktop PC (for one thing, I haven't owned a TV in 20+ years so couch gaming isn't a thing for me) but when the time comes to replace my current box I might well consider what
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by mrec 11mo ago
I absolutely get (and happily used) joysticks, but if a game needs a joystick I'll use a joystick, not a controller in the modern console sense. I'm sure those are good for something, but it's not something I've ever pla
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by mrec 11mo ago
I don't understand the "You can’t buy this without buying the Steam Controller." bit. If you want one, great, if not, it's no more necessary than with any other PC. I've been gaming for ~40 years without ever touchi
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by mrec 11mo ago
I'm in exactly the same situation - very rare last name, first.last@gmail.com address, wrong mail from all over including NZ.
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by mrec 1y ago
I think you misread the post you're replying to. GP is complaining about it being incompatible with "GPLv3-or-later" Free Software, not with commercial or permissive OSS.
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by mrec 1y ago
Definitely not AI, but if these are new commissions it's not unreasonable to suspect an element of self-parody, playing up the aspects of the originals that amuse people.
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by mrec 1y ago
How could they leave out the classic Paddington one? https://deadly-prey-gallery.myshopify.com/cdn/shop/files/D18...
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by mrec 1y ago
They were always called "space hoppers" here in the UK, and always looked like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_hopper#/media/File:Space...

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