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by pdpi 4y ago
This even happened in the PC world. My friend had a game on a 5.25” floppy where the floppy was unreadable from DOS. You literally had to boot from the floppy, and you’d boot directly into the game.
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by pdpi 4y ago
`var` has weird scoping rules, but you can get the "right" behaviour in modern javascript, using `let`.
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by pdpi 4y ago
Beowulf clusters were those lame things that didn’t have wireless, and had less space than a nomad, right?
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by pdpi 4y ago
> you can get most of math with Axiom of Countable Choice Wait, I think you just made me realise that my intuition for AoC is wrong and actually matches AoCC instead, and that I'd never stopped to consider that the collection of set
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by pdpi 4y ago
I’ve long described myself as half janitor, half firefighter.
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by pdpi 4y ago
My first take: it’s different so it sucks. The lack of visual separation between the main content and the menu on the left is atrocious. Second take: oh wait, the menu in the left was completely useless and they replaced it with the table o
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by pdpi 4y ago
The trade-in values tend to be reasonable for off-the-shelf configurations (and especially base configurations). Not great, but reasonable. It’s when you start stacking build-to-order options that the price grows much faster than the trade-
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by pdpi 4y ago
I think the “files are where you left them” dialogue is meant to assuage the concerns of people who just did a big OS upgrade and are a bit anxious about it all. It’s still a pretty poorly thought out dialogue, though.
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by pdpi 4y ago
Brainfuck is one of my favourite languages. Not that I _write_ any code in it, mind you, but there's a bunch of code out there written for it (thank you, you crazy people), and it's so tiny and so simple that you can write an inte
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by pdpi 4y ago
The combination of being dismissive and adding nothing to the conversation is what makes it assholish. Their only contribution was to shoot down what was an interesting aside.
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by pdpi 4y ago
That's very much a case of "working as intended". Most cases of depression aren't chronic, but can be self-perpetuating (low mood leads to a hard time fixing the things that make your mood low, which leads back to the lo
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by pdpi 4y ago
> There is no such thing as an "interpreted language", a language is just a set or rules and keywords. Sure there is. Even if it is technically possible to write an interpreter for a "compiled" language, or a compiler
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by pdpi 4y ago
A few weeks ago there was in incident[0] in Jersey, where some people called fire fighters one evening because they could smell gas, the fire fighters didn’t find any leaks, and the building literally blew up the next morning. Experts make
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by pdpi 4y ago
I used it with some degree of frequency, because I had to drive past that one specific curve . Sharp corner with a big elevation change, narrow road, narrow pavement. It was a visibility nightmare and honking the horn was the only way you
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by pdpi 4y ago
Was about to link the exact same thing. For context, Inigo is one of the authors of Shadertoy.
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by pdpi 4y ago
> Especially for the higher order decimal digits there's a far-from-random distribution that you can use to infer whether there's been any tampering, given enough values to study. Inversely, the lowest order decimals tend to b
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by pdpi 4y ago
Where appropriate, I use "geek of all trades" specifically to avoid this.
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by pdpi 4y ago
Given than mold is developed under the AGPL, I wonder if this move will lead to a fork for those people who don't want to a commercial licence
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by pdpi 4y ago
People keep making this about the PlayStation and how Activision’s games could be leveraged to move people to the XBox. Meanwhile, Microsoft gaming executives have made several comments on how they want a way into the mobile gaming market.
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by pdpi 4y ago
> Why isn't there a law mandating easily removable gas tanks in cars? Because the petrol tank won’t have shrunk to half its capacity in a few years’ time.
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by pdpi 4y ago
0.99… doesn’t equal 1 in, say, base 16. 0.11… can be 1/9 in decimal, or 1 in binary. Those equalities aren’t a “matter of fact”, they’re provable artefacts of positional number systems.
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by pdpi 4y ago
I have a friend who's been doing computer vision for ages, for security applications (think: automated passport control booths), and they always had to hide the Xbox cameras when customers came to visit. Apparently, they are (were?) ab
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by pdpi 4y ago
Or maybe just do both. I do most of my groceries through Ocado, and their warehouse operations are almost fully automated[0], but then on the delivery front I can only assume they staff much more generously than amazon, because their delive
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by pdpi 4y ago
As a human story, this is kind of tragic. I feel for the guy. As a legal story, it’s fascinating, and I’d love to see it go to court, for no other reason than to There’s some passages in there that could be understood as implied consent — t
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by pdpi 4y ago
> It certainly doesn't seem like the ending provided disproportionate value to Mojang compared to the work of their staff. Notch’s choice to make it hard to skip/speed up the text scrolling suggests that he thought it had dis
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by pdpi 4y ago
I don’t think a true AGI would stay emotionless for very long. If it has emotions and a personality, they could be sufficiently human-like that you might genuinely fall in love with it, and vice versa. Physical intimacy with a partner is an
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by pdpi 4y ago
Well, the two sentences following your quote read: > 2. As regards sperm DNA defects, caffeine intake seemed associated with aneuploidy and DNA breaks, but not with other markers of DNA damage > 3. Finally, male coffee drinking was as
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by pdpi 4y ago
When you're building something "at scale", there'll be business logic API services, cache services, routing/dispatch services, and many other such things. What I'm saying is that I find business logic-centric A
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by pdpi 4y ago
“Real productivity at large scale engineering orgs” means a bazillion different things, because a big org can afford to have different teams specialise in different things. No-framework Go makes the most sense to me, because a big framework
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by pdpi 4y ago
Yup, of course. That's why software like Lightroom usually has a "tint" slider next to their colour temperature slider. It's just that "colour temperature" seems like a pretty weird turn of phrase (and the arti

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