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by plerpin 6y ago
A handcoded redirect to the error 500 page. A very hacky hack, certainly not an accident.
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by plerpin 6y ago
I'm positive that tax law would get in the way of such a scheme.
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by plerpin 6y ago
Ah, the science of UX.
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by plerpin 6y ago
I had a similarly emotional schisms with Apple, but back in 1997. I finally became aware of Apple's penchant for designing "road apples" to fuck cost-conscious consumers. I worked hard as a teen to buy my 62XX Performa, but l
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by plerpin 6y ago
Very interesting, thanks.
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by plerpin 6y ago
How many layers did the Saturn's PCB have?
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by plerpin 6y ago
Simply asserting that graphs should communicate one purpose does not make it so. Multiple audiences require multiple techniques for visualization and analysis. A logarithmic scale communicates the characteristics of an exponential curve bet
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by plerpin 6y ago
Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
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by plerpin 6y ago
Did Rambus have a dossier of compromising photos on industry executives in the mid 90's? Why did Intel and Nintendo go all in on such an expensive and technically inferior memory technology? The latency is such a killer, especially if
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by plerpin 6y ago
I saw this in a response from Crackle's CDN. Nothanks
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by plerpin 6y ago
HBO Go, HBO Max, HBO Now. How many HBOs do we need?
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by plerpin 6y ago
Sega had a lot of prior experience with quad-based 3D games. Their Model 1 and Model 2 arcade boards used quads.
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by plerpin 6y ago
You can't compute a normals from a quad, which makes shading algorithms not work.
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by plerpin 6y ago
The Saturn also lacked an FPU.
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by plerpin 6y ago
Not much activity recently - why share this now?
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by plerpin 6y ago
LOL! Funny how doing something in 2020 takes ten times the resources for doing the same thing in 1995. Every pixel on these fonts is now a complex vector path.
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by plerpin 6y ago
He's like an embodiment of the know-it-all engineer meme, who thinks that domain expertise in one field makes him a genius everywhere else. It's dangerous how prone he is to fashioning himself to be an authority on things he knows
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by plerpin 6y ago
Yup. Dart has a runtime. Runtimes have to spin up when they're run cold. But we shouldn't let facts get in the way of a good Hackernews hivemind dogpile. Dart bad!
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by plerpin 6y ago
Read the fine specification.
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by plerpin 6y ago
Lots of deferred pain for when you productionize.
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by plerpin 6y ago
Understanding the concepts is one thing, applying them is another thing entirely. The Rust compiler is an incredibly difficult beast to placate.
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by plerpin 6y ago
He mentioned disinfectant, maybe sprayed on the lungs, maybe injected. Watch the video or read the transcript yourself.
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by plerpin 6y ago
Hats off to them.
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Playstation Architecture: A Practical Analysis(copetti.org)
342 points by plerpin 6y ago|111 comments
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by plerpin 6y ago
Normally, folks in leadership positions behave as role models which make their population aspire to act better. Now...
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by plerpin 7y ago
I hate SEO. Google's ranking algorithm is basically an accretion of scar tissue built from years of SEO bullshit mitigations. If you make a ranking algorithm that does right by the user, and you're successful, it won't be lon
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by plerpin 7y ago
I read Neptune's Brood and was hooked. It's a fun surreal sci-fi adventure/romp with a heck of a lot of really interesting, geeky tech interludes. Who knew a novel about futuristic accountancy and forex could be so intriguing
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by plerpin 7y ago
Kind of. There are a lot of smart people who think that their expertise in one narrow domain transfers universally. There is a lot of bikeshedding and reinventing concepts from first principles, often badly.
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by plerpin 7y ago
It's very configurable. I let BOINC go to town for up to an hour whenever I leave my computer alone, then the computer can go to sleep. It's not running continuously but the progress adds up steadily over time.
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by plerpin 7y ago
It's a ballsy move from Mazda. It's a move that definitely goes against the grain for consumer tech. It's better for drivers but I'm sure they lost some potential customers for sticking to their guns.

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