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by pault 6y ago
I'll bite. I play D&D remotely with my friends. I need to be able to have low latency voice and video communication, but I also need control over the audio codec and bit rate. Zoom and other video conferencing solutions use codecs
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by pault 6y ago
If they had just given the replicants a visa and a software update there wouldn't have been any fuss. Of course, then we wouldn't have had that great final monolog. :)
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by pault 6y ago
I wish my newly ex-employer shared your views. :)
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by pault 6y ago
There's an "ask a question" feature out of beta now that is designed for not cluttering the issues. I believe it has to be enabled on the repo.
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by pault 6y ago
This is the intended use of grid and flexbox for sure. Unfortunately most developers seem to abuse either one or the other.
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by pault 6y ago
Also interesting that as a kid born in 1980 at the start of the drug violence epidemic, we were allowed to roam as we pleased as long as we were home for dinner. Contrast that to today's vastly safer world, and kids are not allowed to
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by pault 6y ago
I'm pretty sure most Linux desktop environments these days have decent support for UI scaling. Last time I tried it worked well if your dpi was close to an integer multiple of 96. And if external boot works well with the M1 Macs, a thu
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by pault 6y ago
But light only travels at c in a vacuum, if I remember correctly. So the journey isn't instantaneous, but still very very short. :)
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by pault 6y ago
Man, it's very difficult, and very humbling to try and wrap your head around just how big the universe is. I don't think human brains are capable of thinking at that scale.
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by pault 6y ago
-site:Pinterest.com
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by pault 6y ago
On the other hand, search engines of those times gave you what you asked for, not what it decided was best for you. That option is gone now, and searching for many niche topics is no longer possible. If that's what you're looking
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by pault 6y ago
Current (last?) gen consoles were the original release target though. They started development before the new generation was even announced.
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by pault 6y ago
I noticed during the last local eclipse that the light shining through the trees cast thousands of little eclipses on the ground. I thought it was way cooler than the eclipse itself.
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by pault 6y ago
And just so 2020 can give you a kick in the teeth on the way out the door, you can't buy any of these technological wonders unless you pay a scalper on eBay a 100% premium.
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by pault 6y ago
Reading the NY times article I wasn't sure whether to laugh or rage at how the author repeatedly equated videos with "teen" in the title and child sex abuse. I've been an avid consumer of porn since the early 1990s and n
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by pault 6y ago
Front end library type definitions are a nightmare because they are usually retrofitted onto code that uses JavaScript idioms that take heavy advantage of metaprogramming and it's dynamic nature. It's also compounded (in my opinio
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by pault 6y ago
Investment rounds aren't loans, they're... Investments. You're selling them a stake in the company, not borrowing money. I'm sure there are exceptions but that's generally how it works.
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by pault 6y ago
People are afraid of being labeled a bigot and having their careers ruined because they have a nuanced opinion about an issue related to identity politics.
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by pault 6y ago
Have you tried WSL2? It's been a dream for my use cases as a web developer.
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by pault 6y ago
You probably do, it's just that the lab test breakthroughs were 20 years ago and now it's just a treatment.
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by pault 6y ago
I split my time between front end development and UI/UX design. I believe this is because achieving a good UI/UX requires a holistic knowledge of the entire software suite, and detailed information about who is using the product a
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by pault 6y ago
I’m so tired of reading this same comment over and over every time someone on HN dares to say they prefer Windows. As if it obviates all of their other points. Also, you turn it off once after install and that’s it.
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by pault 6y ago
You can still create a regular oculus account and it will continue to work until they fully transition to Facebook accounts, which I believe isn’t for several more years. It’s likely a new generation of the quest will have been released by
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by pault 6y ago
> typesafety is not cool anymore This is rapidly reversing as the javascript ecosystem has increasingly adopted typescript in the last two years. I, for one, refuse to start a new front end without it, and the only other js dev I'v
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by pault 6y ago
These are all excellent points in favor of productivity with GraphQL. I always avoid new technologies for a few years to let the hype cycle mature (for example, everybody talking about how great mongodb is and writing blog posts about how t
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by pault 6y ago
I'm sure you know this already, but for anyone else browsing the comments, there is also free version for non-commercial use: https://www.onshape.com/products/free
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by pault 6y ago
> I suppose that means if a photon, say, is reflected by a mirror, that should collapse its waveform and any measurements after that should not have any effect on it? I'm not sure if that example is the right one to use, but yes, th
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by pault 6y ago
> if it interacted with a force and no observation was made, the wave function doesn’t collapse, does it? Any two systems interacting will cause the collapse. It doesn't matter if the system is attached to a scientist or not. >
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by pault 6y ago
I wish, for the love of god, that the early pop science about quantum physics hadn't used the phrase "when observed" when describing the wave collapse. If they had said "when interacted with by another force" (or an
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by pault 6y ago
You're assuming that the ratio is disproportionate because people are being pushed out of the industry against their will. Some people get burned out, some people retire early, and some transition into management or start their own com

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