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by mrec 5y ago
If you find this sort of thing interesting, I can highly recommend Steven Pinker's Words and Rules .
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> I try to use a five cent word when even a five dollar word would do "Short words are best, and old words when short are best of all." -- Winston Churchill
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by mrec 5y ago
Do we know yet what the evolution and conditional-support mechanism is going to look like? Will there be "feature levels" like D3D, or ad-hoc independent extensions like interim GL, or some mix of the two? Now that basically all r
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by mrec 5y ago
https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu is the actual implementation (in Rust, but exposing a C API). wgpu-rs is an idiomatic wrapper around that.
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> We already don't care about externalities here on Earth, there's no way we can police them on Mars. That depends very much on how the putative Martian society is set up. There used to be an idea in cultural anthropology tha
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by mrec 5y ago
Not disagreeing, but the Cityscapes samples looked 100% photorealistic to me, whereas the Mapillary samples just looked different. Disclaimer: in the UK, so grey and murky == realistic.
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by mrec 5y ago
Honestly, I don't see this as a problem any more. Litfic is as much a genre as SF, and just as an SF novel isn't going to win the Booker, a litfic novel isn't going to win the Hugo or Nebula. Yes, the Booker judges believe th
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by mrec 5y ago
Call me cynical, but this report was commissioned back in July of last year. Releasing it today, when it's guaranteed to be eclipsed by dramatic local and by-election results here in the UK, has a bit of an odour to it. (The report has
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I've been in my current place for about 5 years and have never used the dishwasher. Sink works fine and is almost instant if you wash everything immediately.
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I haven't used it, but I don't believe that's the case. I think what you're describing is `#[crate_type = "cdylib"]` ("used when compiling a dynamic library to be loaded from another language"), where
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by mrec 5y ago
It's not the default, but Rust absolutely allows dynamic linking [1]. For example, Bevy encourages building the engine as a dynamic library during development to improve iteration turnaround times for the app code [2]. [1] https:&#x2F
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by mrec 5y ago
There was another fascinating piece on the history of the Homeric question early last year: "Having Had No Predecessor to Imitate, He Had No Successor Capable of Imitating Him". If your interest is more in the subject as a whole t
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by mrec 5y ago
> liberal (as in right-wing) What the hell? These terms are in no way synonyms. You seem to be fairly extreme left, which is fine, but then labelling everyone to the right of you as "right-wing" is not a useful classification.
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I didn't get the impression that individualism was the USA's problem here, so much as political tribalism. Mask-wearing seemed to get established very early on as a tribal marker, and everything else followed from that.
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The author discusses this in the corresponding /r/rust thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/mvc6o5/incredibly_fas... tl;dr: it's not straightforward, mostly because the standard
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N.B. recently reposted, but originally written in 2009.
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I dunno. It's all well and good having multiple "angles" on a given topic, but if a new user has no meaningful way of distinguishing between those angles then it's just going to be confusing and noisy for them. Self-writ
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by mrec 5y ago
I think the "Topics" list really needs some curation [1] and some more layers of taxonomy. Right now the "topic" breakdown seems 100% isomorphic to the "recommender" breakdown - the links literally go to the ex
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by mrec 5y ago
The `A-LLVM` issue label is probably a good starting point. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/labels/A-LLVM
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by mrec 6y ago
> Reuters provides facts, and very little opinion. It's perfectly possible to provide facts in a highly opinionated way. The world we live in is a messy smear of mostly-contradictory evidence [1], so media can influence perception
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by mrec 6y ago
Steam has the promoted carousel, "players like you" suggestions, curator suggestions, the discovery queue, reviews, new release announcements, the startup splash, seasonal sales, wishlist alerts, screenshots and promo videos... It
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by mrec 6y ago
Was the store's cut really lower back in the boxes-on-shelves days?
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by mrec 6y ago
I thought Git LFS had largely replaced git-annex these days? (I haven't used either, just going off [1].) Apparently git-annex never really supported Windows, which is a bit of a dealbreaker for gamedev. [1] https://stackove
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That's no help for Safari. Personally I haven't needed to care about Safari in half a decade, but presumably others still do.
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I think the oldest bug I've raised that's still open is this Webkit one from 2008 [1]. It still gets plaintive comments from various people every few years. A few more and it'll be going off to college. [1] https:/&#x2F
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by mrec 6y ago
That panel is described in some detail here [1], though even after reading it the click behaviour is very unintuitive. It's explicitly an advanced-user thing, though, and only shown if you click "More" on the basic popup. [1]
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by mrec 6y ago
Fragmented floating waste isn't the easiest stuff to pick up at the best of times, and normal loading equipment (cranes etc) is attached to the dock rather than the ship. Obviously it's not impossible, but I imagine it'd take
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by mrec 6y ago
Firefox's reader view works just fine on the Wired article. You don't need to sign up for anything.
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I should have been a pair of ragged claws Just executing chores on damp PCs.
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With international travel becoming so accessible I'm kind of surprised that suicide tourism (akin to medical tourism) isn't more of a thing. I wonder if there's a tacit understanding that opening that door would have diplomat

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