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by pingyong 7y ago
The distinction between "people who participate" and "people who practice" is basically impossible to make, even just in video games . Even the example he gave didn't really work: He says that the top 30% of player
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by pingyong 7y ago
I genuinely cannot tell if this is supposed to be satire or not.
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by pingyong 7y ago
Honestly, it really just depends on what their "hardcore coding test" actually entails. If they give you like 1 short task that you're supposed to solve on a white board, well, that doesn't really map well with what you&
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by pingyong 7y ago
Sure but that's going to mainly depend on where their energy comes from, not how much they use.
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by pingyong 7y ago
A cloud provider that specializes in compute will have vastly higher energy costs than a cloud provider that specializes in storage. Even without explicit specialization, it's not unreasonable to assume that the distribution of compute
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by pingyong 7y ago
While I completely agree with that in general, the opportunity for practicing it is unfortunately seldom a reality. I mean you need to be in a situation where - You're designing a new product, or relatively large / independent new
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by pingyong 7y ago
It should be noted that the client and the game are two completely separate pieces of software. The game itself certainly has a bunch of bugs, but those bugs tend to not be game-breaking, and are mostly "this doesn't behave as des
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by pingyong 7y ago
Why wouldn't you though, that's gotta be pretty juicy data. You can compare phone numbers across so many different databases now, makes profile creation 10x more efficient. Not really surprising that everyone wants your phone nu
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by pingyong 7y ago
It should be noted that there are multiple mechanics at play here, and neither was removed completely. The first mechanic is that while jumping, when you either hold down the A-button and move your mouse left at the right pace, or hold down
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by pingyong 7y ago
>Status-quo If a signed operation would naturally produce a value that is not within the range of the result type, the behavior is undefined. The author had hoped to make this well-defined as wrapping (the operations produce the same val
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by pingyong 7y ago
The new coronavirus is probably about as deadly as the seasonal flu, by the way. ;)
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by pingyong 7y ago
Furthering the M&M analogy: Let's say you have a box with 10,000,000 M&Ms. 1000 of them are poisonous, and of those 1000 10 are deadly, 290 make you sick for a week, and 700 will mildly inconvenience you for a day. My point is
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by pingyong 7y ago
Is this really such a big deal mentally? Idealized there are only two behaviors: Expected and unexpected. Whether that unexpected behavior is a result of UB, or implementation defined behavior, or logic errors, or unforeseen corner cases, d
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by pingyong 7y ago
I wonder if this knock-off problem I keep reading about is something specific to the US. I've ordered ~200 things over the last 3 years from Amazon, and I've never received a knock-off either. I've never even heard of that ha
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by pingyong 7y ago
That is not the goal of mGBA (or any GBA emulator for that matter), btw. If you wanted to reproduce it faithfully, the emulator would be unusably slow. https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Emulation_Accur...
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by pingyong 7y ago
>but that's distinct from the overall windowing system, graphics state, etc. which would be stored in `World`. That'd be pretty odd naming, usually 'World' would own all your game objects and scene, but have no relati
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by pingyong 7y ago
Maybe there should always be a way to open a bank account, even without a home address? If you don't have a bank account, you get excluded from a lot of options that might solve your homelessness anyway. It seems to me that being able
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by pingyong 7y ago
>That should have been plainly obvious to any technically knowledgeable user because you don't lose your data forever when you forget your Apple ID password. Or the fact that you can see your photos through a web browser on icloud.c
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by pingyong 7y ago
>However, that's not what his views are! I'm not sure how you got to that conclusion. Certainly I don't see how >projects are better credentials than even degrees. would necessarily conflict with >that projects and l
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by pingyong 7y ago
>might not necessarily have any capitalistic value attached to it. You seem to use goals and "capitalistic value" interchangeably, I would just like to add that projects in people's portfolios are often not initially creat
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by pingyong 7y ago
Zeroing memory is probably already really fast compared to other things the system is doing. Something that happened to me a couple years ago: I was writing a benchmark that needed a lot of memory. I just used a vector<char> for that.
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by pingyong 7y ago
>Those subjects require a different sort of motivation than a motivation Is that really the case? Apart from the obvious "maybe that's what they're intrinsically interested in" - if you start with a problem, try to so
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by pingyong 7y ago
If the secure enclave implements the time lockout (well, supposedly I guess considering it seems broken) then the device is indeed a game changer, thanks for that information!
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by pingyong 7y ago
That's exactly what I mean - the usual key complexity rules apply, and have always applied.
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by pingyong 7y ago
Shouldn't you always be able to completely bypass that by taking out the chip or something and just probing it directly? I guess that might be a bit much for normal police work, but in terms of "can the government (read: NSA) get
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by pingyong 7y ago
Hmm. I've only really played around with both (OpenGL 4.x and Vulkan), but while Vulkan had an insane amount of boilerplate initially, it was really intuitive to me. The situation of "what do I even have to google here?" neve
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by pingyong 7y ago
So what's the deal with this? Isn't it just brute force? I would've expected the NSA to have something like that since iPhones first hit the market.
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by pingyong 7y ago
>Oddly, I find the most prestigious companies are the ones who care the least. Hmm, I wonder about that actually. From what I've heard (hearsay, really), for a normal application Google and Microsoft won't look at it without a
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by pingyong 7y ago
While there certainly are a lot of companies that don't care about your degree, there are at least as many companies that won't even look at your resume without one. It literally gets auto-filtered. (Especially with less than 5 ye
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by pingyong 7y ago
>and maybe further explain if prompted. I write manuals for computers. "So, like, for how to use them?" No, the computer reads it so it knows what to do.

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