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by pdpi 4y ago
"Tyson"? Wow. That's... appropriate I guess?
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AimJunkies Countersues Bungie for Hacking and DMCA Violations(torrentfreak.com)
4 points by pdpi 4y ago|0 comments
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by pdpi 4y ago
We're past Quake-level graphics, but competitive eSports games, by and large, have deliberately simple graphics optimised for readability over flare. If you look at LoL, Fortnite, Valorant, Overwatch, they're all kind of the same
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by pdpi 4y ago
> Nginx is an excellent general-purpose proxy that does a lot of things very well and tries to be as resource mindful as possible. Yeah, this is always the big takeaway in this sort of story — Really good general purpose solutions can of
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by pdpi 4y ago
They're already dropping plenty. Ars Technica reported[0] a few weeks ago that nVidia is currently struggling with a stock surplus, rather than deficit, and Amazon UK has several RTX3070 SKUs shipping at MSRP or thereabouts. 0. https:
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by pdpi 4y ago
My understanding is that, roughly, TB3 ⊂ USB4 ⊂ TB4. The USB4 spec is based on TB3, and (mostly?) requires TB3 compatibility, and TB4 is effectively USB4 plus bells and whistles. I think this goes to the point of USB4 ports with all the opt
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by pdpi 4y ago
When something gets reposted, it's fairly common for somebody to comment with previous discussions. I hadn't seen this submission before either, but I'd also not seen the discussion OP linked.
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by pdpi 4y ago
Name's misspelt, it's Rees-Mogg. This is his son, same speech pattern they're talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4uCHNaNbmU
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by pdpi 4y ago
First thing that comes to mind is that a bank like this is probably going to have a much better developed wealth management offering than mainstream commercial banks. The sort that helps you diversify into art rather than real estate, sort
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by pdpi 4y ago
Phones went to 100Mpx because it’s an easy number to sell. Dedicated cameras have been hovering around 25Mpx for mainstream bodies, and somewhere around 40-60 for high-res bodies, because there’s not much benefit past that. Most full-frame
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by pdpi 4y ago
"SAP developers" can mean two different groups of people. The developers who build SAP, and the developers who build the custom stuff that clients need. The former can be quite innovative, but the situation with the latter is pret
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by pdpi 4y ago
That’s probably a good practice anyway. /bin/sh is guaranteed to exist, but there’s no reason to assume bash is installed at all. If it is installed, /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin, /opt/bin are all re
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by pdpi 4y ago
Solaris is a SysV Unix, whereas macOS is a BSD, not sure they were thinking of that distinction. Anyhow, when you’re talking about mounting /usr from the network, it’s safe to assume server workloads where macOS is simply nonexistent.
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by pdpi 4y ago
Yeah, agreed. If you think of safety as defence against accidents and security as defence against attacks, there's a large natural overlap simply because "deliberately cause an accident" is the most obvious family of strategi
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by pdpi 4y ago
I always find it slightly amusing how there's remarkably few forms of power generation that don't eventually boil down to "use water/air/steam to make a turbine spin".
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by pdpi 4y ago
This is a great example of the difference between "safe" and "secure". Two locations is intrinsically less secure, not more. You're exposed to exfiltration from either site. It is, however, safer, because you need
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by pdpi 4y ago
They're getting paid as part of Jane Street's investment into their hiring pipeline. Then the internship projects got published as open source, which also benefits their hiring pipeline. There's nothing untoward about any o
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by pdpi 4y ago
Also, taken in context, telling somebody their whole HDD fits in a floppy is entirely consistent with bragging about your entirely unreal 100 gigs of RAM.
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by pdpi 4y ago
The problem with perfectionism is that it makes you optimise for one metric at the exclusion of all else. Here, the price you pay for avoiding duplication is having to do extra work at run time. The fact that you need to do any work at all
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by pdpi 4y ago
The answer is simple: Who benefits from a soundcard? For your average consumer, built-in audio is plenty good. Not much reason to get any extra hardware at all. For audio enthusiast consumers who want better than what onboard offers for som
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by pdpi 4y ago
Yup. So I did.
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by pdpi 4y ago
Portuguese IT is pretty good in general, and that could easily have been part of the solution. The problem is that there was a large exodus of talent in the early 2010s (including yours truly), and that has caused some serious brain drain.
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by pdpi 4y ago
Why on earth would somebody earning their pay by providing value and doing the job they were hired for be a fraud? Not all programming jobs require a PhD in computer science. There's plenty of people out there writing line-of-business
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by pdpi 4y ago
That sort of argument is just silly. Do you have a job you get paid for, where the primary output expected from you is code? Congrats, you're a professional dev.
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by pdpi 4y ago
Microsoft's stranglehold over the browser market was a pretty huge problem, irrespective of their business model. The web is way too important to be so tightly controlled by one single company, no matter who they may be.
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by pdpi 4y ago
> It's pure insanity that people ever drew, by hand, mountains of individual drawings each slightly changed and assembled them into compelling illusions to tell stories. Traditional animation by itself is nothing short of insanity,
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by pdpi 4y ago
"Xcode Cloud is a continuous integration and delivery service built into Xcode and designed expressly for Apple developers." This is a (presumably well-integrated) alternative to CircleCI. There's nothing about this particula
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by pdpi 4y ago
There's one piece of the puzzle you're missing: field-deployed devices. If I play chess on my computer, the games I play locally won't hit the Stockfish models. When I use the feature on my phone that allows me to copy text f
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by pdpi 4y ago
Again, the point isn't that there's nothing left to learn. There's plenty to learn, and plenty to explore, and the whole field of applying computational methods of all sorts to music is a treasure trove waiting to be explored
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by pdpi 4y ago
None that I'm aware of. Tuning your orchestra high was sort of the 19th century equivalent of the modern loudness war. The problem is that orchestras tuning to ever higher pitches meant that singers had to sing higher to match, and it

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