neurocline

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by neurocline 4mo ago
I’m not sure I understand you here. My thinking is that every key on a keyboard is in use, ruling out picking even one key, much less three, and same goes for chords. Capslock is a very low value key so hijacking it seems least bad?
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by neurocline 5mo ago
I used to spend money on Bloomberg’s news magazine (newspaper), but stopped because it’s a distant second to the Economist.
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by neurocline 5mo ago
Supposedly we naturally gravitate to a 26–hour cycle (experiments done with people living underground and with no clocks)
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by neurocline 5mo ago
One of my coworkers on Battle.net at Blizzard previously was at Bullfrog when Demis was there, and had only good things to say about him.
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by neurocline 5mo ago
Wow, I loved DeBabelizer Pro. Got a lot of use out of it when porting games.
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by neurocline 5mo ago
Once I saw “James Comer” I knew I could ignore this.
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by neurocline 7mo ago
Chuck Norris dominated WoW Barrens chat back in the day. It was kind of weird and amazing at the same time.
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by neurocline 7mo ago
I have to imagine the poster was referring to Dora the Explorer, a popular and charming cartoon from the start of this century.
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by neurocline 2y ago
Every time I look at one of their demos, I want to cry and say "I want this to be real". And then years pass, and there's another demo, and I'm re-reminded. This is more than vaporware, to be sure. But it's still no
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by neurocline 2y ago
Small nit, but my understanding is that Herzog Zwei was the first RTS, although I agree that Dune II popularized the genre.
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by neurocline 3y ago
The novelist might very well have 12,000 books (I have about 7,500), but the double sided bookshelf in the picture would need to be between 50 to 100 feet long in order to hold that many books.
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by neurocline 3y ago
I must have heard this story and forgot it, because I used this argument on my team when I ran the group at Blizzard that did installing and downloading and patching. “We have 10 million people downloading and installing this patch, so ever
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by neurocline 3y ago
It was mostly on purpose, that Blizzard games worked well in Wine. We even fixed a few things in our code from time to time that accidentally made Wine emulation hard.
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by neurocline 3y ago
I’d love to hire people that can work 900 hours in a single month. Just tell me where to find them. Or, wait, maybe they work in higher dimensions. Drat.
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by neurocline 4y ago
It’s not binary files per se, it’s size. Checkout sizes are in the 50 GB and up range. Also, unmergeable files are common, so there’s a strong desire for exclusive checkout. This is why game teams either split source and data (awkward to im
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by neurocline 5y ago
Epic’s Unreal Perforce repo is >1.5 million at this point.
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by neurocline 5y ago
Wouldn't the word "passthrough" be the right word for this feature?
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by neurocline 6y ago
To put this into context, this is enough to build dozens of Death Stars.
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by neurocline 6y ago
Starcraft II uses floats, but for the game simulation portion it uses an internal software floating-point library to ensure consistency.
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by neurocline 6y ago
Per US Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service. 2.2 billion acres of land in the US. 900 million of that is marked as "farmland". 400 million of that is marked as "cropland", and 300 million of that is "
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by neurocline 6y ago
Not to mention Setext, 1991.
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by neurocline 6y ago
I've been aware of Marpa since about 2010. Every once in a while I read whatever Kegler has written, and I come away from it each time unconvinced that I should put in the effort to use it (which, for the most part, means first porting
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by neurocline 6y ago
There is a certain irony in the source code for a package manager expecting the key package needed to build that package manager to have been installed by some other package manager.
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by neurocline 6y ago
I went through my recent-books shelves and found a few shorter books that are well worth reading. Short books for developers are rare these days. Algorithms Unlocked, Thomas Cormen, 212 pages The Art of Readable Code, Dustin Boswell & T
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by neurocline 6y ago
Check your decimal point, you might want to add some zeroes.
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by neurocline 6y ago
Meant to type watt-hours for that last sentence. Thanks for catching it.
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by neurocline 6y ago
A roof is about 200 m^2 (more or less), so at 10 mw/m^2, you could generate a whopping 2 watts. While it's raining. California gets 563 millimeters of rain a year, so you might end up generating an entire 100 watts. For the year.
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by neurocline 7y ago
There are around 5 million C++ developers.
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by neurocline 7y ago
I’m sure it wasn’t the author’s intention, but the article has a lot of the patterns and phrasing I see in denialist literature (global warming, for example). I agree with the author that we need more data. But he nerfed the urgency of his
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by neurocline 7y ago
If it was legal to own slaves and someone owned slaves, I would blame them. And work to free all their slaves.

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