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by pavlov 2y ago
It’s pretty wild that the Republican Party has transformed so much that GWB and Cheney don’t vote for it anymore. It’s only been 16 years since they left office. (Cheney is officially supporting Harris, and Bush clearly is not on Team MAGA
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by pavlov 2y ago
> “Sometimes I have the following problem to deal with: An OS/2 system uses NetBIOS over TCP/IP (aka TCPBEUI) and should communicate with a SMB server (likewise using TCPBEUI) on a different subnet.” I wonder if there is lite
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by pavlov 2y ago
I don’t understand why you’re downvoted. It’s absolutely true that most people don’t like making purchasing decisions by privately comparing spec dumps, even though many programmers enjoy that.
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by pavlov 2y ago
Such a nice, simple landing page. I could immediately understand and appreciate what this app does by first looking at the picture where the flow is defined, then seeing the flow executed on video. It's like the old Apple commercial: &
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by pavlov 2y ago
By the title I assumed this might be about C.
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by pavlov 2y ago
Bob Dylan already won that prize to similar controversy.
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by pavlov 2y ago
There’s something icky about discussing killing real people like it was fan fiction of a sci-fi franchise.
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by pavlov 2y ago
It renders wrong in iPhone Safari because of the hard line breaks. This is a fine example of how you can be technically right and simultaneously obviously wrong for a large part of your audience. (Maybe like the original Brutalism, which wa
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by pavlov 2y ago
You can of course do some great art with just a depth map manifested in a substance like marble: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenon_Frieze (Exaggerating a bit. Ancient Greek reliefs do have sculpted detail on the
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by pavlov 2y ago
Automattic is headquartered in San Francisco, where $60k is a bus driver's salary. So there are probably very few employees whose 6-month salary would only equal $30k. Most people leaving will be getting a lot more.
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by pavlov 2y ago
AFAIK this kind of permanent shitlist is common practice in American tech companies, including the MAANG. They may call it “non-regretted attrition” or something similar, but the purpose is the same.
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by pavlov 2y ago
This is standard boilerplate that every public company puts in their official statements to pre-empt any shareholder lawsuits in case something goes wrong. Imagine if a company told its investors: “Our growth is guaranteed! Nothing can affe
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by pavlov 2y ago
I would assume most Automattic employees are paid substantially more than $60k / year, so few people will be getting only 30k. At least in big American cities, $60k is a bus driver's salary.
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by pavlov 2y ago
Brings back unhappy memories of the conversation style in Usenet. I didn't dare to use newsgroups after I asked some wrong thing as a 15-year-old in some computing-related group and got dumped on by angry adult men. I get it that they
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by pavlov 2y ago
It’s great how the field of realtime volumetric rendering is alive with so many options and new yet simple approaches are being invented. Reminds me of the mid-1990s before everyone basically agreed that lots of triangles of any size are th
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by pavlov 2y ago
Just need to find the floppy with the Direct3D 6.0 SDK…
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by pavlov 2y ago
You can do parallel rendering jobs on a GPU. (Think of how each GPU-accelerated window on a desktop OS has its own context for rendering resources.) So if the rendering is lightweight enough, you can multiplex potentially lots of simultaneo
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by pavlov 2y ago
I used to be a teenage demoscene graphics artist back in the waning days of the Amiga and earliest days of Windows-based demos. Vallejo was definitely a popular source and influence. But demoscene graphics were really more of a technical co
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by pavlov 2y ago
Feels like someone might have said this in 1981 about personal computers. "We've pretty much seen their shape. The IBM PC isn't fundamentally very different from the Apple II. Probably it's just all incremental improveme
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by pavlov 2y ago
Probably not a problem for anyone who needs compliance with a 2003 standard.
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by pavlov 2y ago
More erratic and authoritarian compared to what time? As recently as 1989, most of the world's currencies were tightly controlled and exchange rates were fixed. In many countries like the Soviet Union, you were not even allowed to brin
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by pavlov 2y ago
Seven of nine. Proceed with Earth borgification.
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by pavlov 2y ago
Maybe you missed the part where this is C, you know, the language designed by many of the same people as Go but 35 years earlier. It would be a time warp worthy of the Rocky Horror Picture Show if C's design could take syntax ideas fro
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by pavlov 2y ago
Like a fool I purchased the FSD feature on a new Tesla in March 2019. All this time later, it still does absolutely nothing in my country. It’s actively dangerous to use because it can’t even recognize speed limits and will happily drive at
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by pavlov 2y ago
Clarke's third book "2061" describes the attempts to land on Europa despite the forbidding alien message.
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by pavlov 2y ago
I have no idea who that is, but Twitter/X increasingly sounds like it's degenerated into a schoolyard (where the richest kid asked his dad to buy the land next to the school building and put up a private playground for him).
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by pavlov 2y ago
What’s the point of inflating engagement on HN? It’s not like karma points get you business opportunities, or that you could sell ads on popular comments. [This comment brought to you by froobogz dot io, the rustified post-Agile Erlang met
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by pavlov 2y ago
Really nice design. This GUI style has a bit of a Smalltalk-80 vibe, with the raster line shadows and old-style fonts. A tiny observation... The examples box that peeks from the left-hand edge works great, but it's slightly confusing t
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by pavlov 2y ago
I know. Because it wasn’t compatible with their aim of showing ads. And nothing has changed after Twitter went private under Musk, except that the reasons for stuffing unwanted content into users’ timelines are slightly different.
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by pavlov 2y ago
But that's too sensible and user-friendly. It would be obviously weird and wrong if they inserted ads and Musk's tweets into someone's RSS feed. Yet showing those unwanted insertions is the whole purpose of the company now.

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