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by nwallin 7y ago
Found it! https://youtu.be/1xWg54mdQos
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by nwallin 7y ago
> Oracle bought Sun, and with that purchase, the ownership of intellectual property in the form of the Java API. Google then proceeded to copy that property into their own property without abiding by the usage restrictions Oracle, the pr
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by nwallin 7y ago
You're talking about different problems. Story AI is basically having a writer sit down and writing a branching story tree with writing the whole way. At best it's a manually coded directed acyclic graph. Tactical AI, ie having th
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by nwallin 7y ago
What millennium do you live in that when one of your contacts calls you, the thing that shows up is a number and not the caller's name? That's my biggest pet peeve about Android. (Totally unrelated discussion, sorry) I can't
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by nwallin 7y ago
I would go so far as to say that modern CPUs are emulators, not even VMs. Something like 20% of the die area is devoted to instruction decoding. It's the only reason I'm interested in RISC-V or advanced arm stuff. Even there'
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by nwallin 7y ago
The s stands for... Something else. www.reddit.com/r/theinternetofshit
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by nwallin 7y ago
The 3a is properly priced. I hope they keep the -a thing going. I can't imagine a world where I'd pay $600+ for a phone. We're at the point now where all you're buying is a new battery and 18 more months of security upda
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by nwallin 7y ago
In most cases, the statute of limitations is longer than the duration of whatever the current administration is.
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by nwallin 7y ago
Not to be trite, but I doubt particularly many people have trouble with this. GCC 4.7 is a very long time to have gone without updates. Note that GCC 5 switched from c99 by default to c11 by default. This isn't "just" a compi
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by nwallin 7y ago
I'm struggling to figure out what your point is. Could you elaborate? GCC is only slightly older than Linux or BSD. Do you think those programs are gigantic piles of outdated and barely maintainable code? GCC produces the faster code t
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by nwallin 7y ago
Similarly, the Navy still teaches celestial navigation. Officially it's the primary means of navigation, but I suspect a lot of navigators cheat.
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by nwallin 7y ago
Google has had offline maps for years now. I always keep my local area updated, and whenever I go to a new place a download the map for it first. I've had out of date directions on my phone, but I've haven't had an issue with
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by nwallin 7y ago
ccache solves this fairly well if you're on *nix.
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by nwallin 7y ago
The definition of a weird number is one that is abundant but not semiperfect. I looked for the "semiperfect" label on that stupid fucking diagram for like three minutes. It isn't fucking there. That diagram can burn in the li
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by nwallin 7y ago
Last time I checked, everything was an optional extra in 911s too. Even stuff that is a standard feature on cheap econoboxes. Last I looked there was something utterly bizarre as an expensive optional extra, it was something like powered wi
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by nwallin 7y ago
I don't understand the need for the arbitrary "without running something like wine" distinction. Wine has gotten head and shoulders better in the past year or so. Between the gallium nine direct 3d state tracker which gives b
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by nwallin 7y ago
No. That would kinda suck for everyone who's used to wpf, qt, swing, gtk+, etc, bootstrap, whatever came before wpf, (winforms? Don't remember) etc etc. "Just copy whatever Apple does" seems like the worst possible solut
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by nwallin 7y ago
Diverse skills can be super important. Even if you're talking about computer graphics in a really curmudgeonly field. I'm in GIS. (geospatial information systems) Turns out knowing how to define a camera using a matrix and interse
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by nwallin 7y ago
The US actually has enormous sugar import taxes. Sugar is super expensive here compared to its value. It's the subsidies on high fructose corn syrup that's the problem.
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by nwallin 7y ago
We had an orange tree growing up. Fresh squeezed orange juice was a daily thing when it was in season. It was incredibly flavorful, much more flavorful than store bought OJ. If anything it was sweeter than the stuff you get in stores. My gu
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by nwallin 7y ago
> I'm working with a company that also refuses to use [...] indexes. ... ?
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by nwallin 7y ago
My understanding is that it's the other way around. Without ACID you can't guarantee FK correctness. You can't be sure another transaction might add a key to a row you're about to delete. It's an easy mistake to mak
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by nwallin 7y ago
I mean, sure, don't use on delete cascade in that case. But there's a big difference between "sometimes bad" and "always bad". The link seems to argue "always bad". If I have data which much always be
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by nwallin 7y ago
-ffast-math quickly loses its value once you start dispatching raw intrinsics. -ffast-math tells the compiler "just figure or the math for me, I know what I want but don't know how to get it", but raw intrinsics say "use
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by nwallin 7y ago
They are '90s codebases, they're not just "like" '90s codebases. Firefox obviously dates back to Netscape, and webkit (which Safari, Chromium, Opera, Vivaldi, and now Edge are based on) is a fork of KHTML. Mozilla
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by nwallin 7y ago
Game engines absolutely not. They're almost all written in C++ with exceptions and RTTI disabled and no STL. Gamdev C++ can better be thought of as C+. It's kinda sorta not the same language. However, a lot of game engines use GC
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by nwallin 7y ago
It sounds like you were dealing with code written by physicists. Which probably means they were doing literally everything wrong. And there's a snowball's chance in hell you'd be able to convince them to rewrite it in rust, b
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by nwallin 7y ago
The GPS constellation is considerably more robust to a ground station outage. If the ground station goes out, the satellites themselves are a distributed network and they use each others' data to correct themselves. It can operate in t
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by nwallin 7y ago
I'm actually super way too drunk to give you a full rebuttal, so here's a godbolt compilation thing that proves that I'm right and you're wrong: https://cpp.godbolt.org/z/-zeMWT (stop reading now if
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by nwallin 7y ago
Same. This is utterly bizarre. He somehow thought being a second class citizen in a second class OS would be better than just biting the bullet and buying one of the Dell developer edition XPS 13s that ship with Linux installed. I don'

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