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by mrec 5y ago
Ukraine never had the codes to use those nukes. They didn't give up a functioning deterrent.
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by mrec 5y ago
No one weird trick, just the obvious. Don't sign up for too much, strictly limit your inbox to one page, delete or handle+archive as necessary to achieve that. I've been using Gmail since 2004 and am currently using 0.54 GB of my
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by mrec 5y ago
Why not? https://princecharlescinema.com/PrinceCharlesCinema.dll/What...
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by mrec 5y ago
"Technocrat" doesn't necessarily imply "technologist". It's like the more colloquial "wonk", i.e. someone who's more interested in the minutiae of policy rather than party affiliation or personal
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by mrec 5y ago
Do you know if it's the caffeine in coffee, or something else? (i.e. does decaf work?)
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by mrec 5y ago
Nitpick: the "sealion" pic at 135m is not a sealion, it's a Hawaiian monk seal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_monk_seal
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by mrec 5y ago
I'd call that a radical interpretation of the text.
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by mrec 5y ago
> most people buying stuff on Amazon would be using a debit card, folks only really use credit cards for large purchases Huh? I'm in the UK, have been an Amazon customer for over 20 years and have always used a credit card for every
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by mrec 5y ago
For your convenience: https://www.theregister.com/Design/page/reg-standards-conver... More info: https://www.theregister.com/2007/08/24/vulture_central_stand...
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by mrec 5y ago
> The text is as wide as the window Only on a small screen. An HN `div.comment` has a `max-width: 1215px;` rule.
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by mrec 5y ago
Aside from what others have mentioned, the browser's sandboxing makes it a lot more appealing to try out small indie/hobbyist casual games on a whim. Like the Flash game aggregators of old, or maybe itch.io today.
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by mrec 5y ago
Not GP, but shader translation depends heavily on device capabilities and the current pipeline state. In principle I think it's possible to cache a lot of this on the client, so that it only has to be run once per install (or per devic
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by mrec 5y ago
I haven't used VS in years, but the only time I've seen Windows crash to BIOS in the last two decades was during a VS install.
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by mrec 5y ago
That seems like a fairly straightforward question to settle experimentally, using advanced scientific apparatus like a bag over the head.
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by mrec 5y ago
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/77960 I think.
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by mrec 5y ago
There's a downside to Python's batteries-included approach though: https://leancrew.com/all-this/2012/04/where-modules-go-to-di... HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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by mrec 5y ago
> It would be interesting to see a display of “cost” in projects cargo-bloat is kind of along these lines, although it only measures the absolute size of each dependency (as opposed to "dead weight") and has some platform lim
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by mrec 5y ago
Lucas definitely had sequels in mind, but it was very much in doubt whether the movie would succeed. There was an official sequel novel by Alan Dean Foster called Splinter of the Mind's Eye released in '78, which was explicitly
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by mrec 5y ago
The one that always gets me is Luke's lightsaber in the original Star Wars . It's introduced as a connection to the father he never knew, making it hugely significant. There's a whole scene on the Falcon of Ben training hi
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by mrec 5y ago
I've only ever owned one Mac, but I had more hardware problems with it than with every other machine I've owned in ~30 years put together. Motherboard melted down (fixed for free despite being out of warranty, to Apple's cred
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by mrec 5y ago
It's not production-ready and isn't a GC'd language, but Zig's approach might be to your taste: > Zig programmers must manage their own memory, and must handle memory allocation failure. > This is true of the Zi
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by mrec 5y ago
And on top of that I've believe he's accidentally let slip that he's beaten Dark Souls. (He doesn't like to talk about it.)
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by mrec 5y ago
Inigo Quilez, the Shadertoy wizard.
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by mrec 5y ago
Yeah, same here, it was pretty impressive. Worth noting too that this is coming directly on the heels of a week+ long heatwave, so unpaved ground is going to be baked hard and won't be soaking up much. (During water shortages TPTB alwa
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by mrec 5y ago
For anyone looking for a fun and surprisingly heartwarming indie gem, I can highly recommend 2017's One Cut of the Dead [1]. Budget: $25,000. Worldwide box office: $31,200,000. [1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt79
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by mrec 5y ago
I've seen them described as "self-funding bug bounties".
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by mrec 5y ago
There's a very hard distinction between GPU texture compression formats and general image compression formats - the former need to support random access lookup in constant time. Anything meeting that criterion is not going to be genera
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by mrec 5y ago
I don't care that much about the tab change, but the contrast against the background for the URL and search boxes has gone waaaay down, to the point where I'm finding it noticeably slower to acquire them. (I have to look for the t
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by mrec 5y ago
> If you give an answer that is poorly cited, your comment gets deleted. That's not quite true. Sources are strongly encouraged but not required. However , if you're asked for sources and don't provide them then yes, yo
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by mrec 5y ago
Yes, I have a few of those too. I think of it as Extreme Redditing :)

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