pacificat0r

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by pacificat0r 6y ago
Given that bink has been around for ages, it almost always finds a niche of decoding stuff fast for video games. As a game you will always want more cycles for level loading or whatever else happens in background as you also play that video
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by pacificat0r 6y ago
Ownership of free-time developed stuff is likely the only thing that has peaked my interest. maybe unions aren't that bad after all. Tho one would hope this type of thing would just be covered by the law without requiring an union to h
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by pacificat0r 6y ago
>I also see the best workers rising through the ranks, and bad ones either never actually entering the union or quitting when they realize they're not going anywhere. This doesn't sound like an advantage for software engineers.
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by pacificat0r 6y ago
So these are really good examples, but I still don't understand what unions can do for 1% of someone's pay. They kind of look like subscription services, or worse places you have to join or else there are unintended consequences f
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by pacificat0r 6y ago
Could someone help me understand what an union could do vs the abuses presented as examples in the article? In my limited experience, from my parents(not US) unions are mostly some sort of barganing power for salaries in various industries
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by pacificat0r 6y ago
Gitui is a better alternative https://github.com/extrawurst/gitui
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by pacificat0r 6y ago
Overwatch and Fortnite don't really work :D
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by pacificat0r 6y ago
I don't super understand these articles. Before slack we had Lync, and then skype, and now it's slack. It doesn't replace email, it replaced those other communication apps. I am aware that Slack has a crusade against email bu
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by pacificat0r 6y ago
This is a really good article. I will include it in my reading materials at the end of the post :)
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WebAssembly without the browser(alexene.dev)
136 points by pacificat0r 6y ago|64 comments
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by pacificat0r 6y ago
He got upset when ppl with 15+ years of experience, working at dice or directors of tech at Activision pointed out that modern c++ is over complicated and they've been in that phase of liking abstractions but moved on. Funny he blanked