qwery

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by qwery 4y ago
I suppose I might try being the grump that says the best trick is to not do any tricks. As in don't be cute [a], I guess. There was a series[b] of 'Dirty Coding Tricks'[0], originally posted on Gamasutra from 2009. I remembe
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> If mechanics and slightly skilled manual labors can own homes in California, is there really a problem? Everyone needs shelter but society needs people who are not mechanics.
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Being upset about events like these deaths is absolutely understandable and probably "correct". Whether you're right about the people/companies and their apps and the harm they are doing or not, I want to address one po
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FWIW I think that without having encountered the term ('chess engine') before, connecting chess ~ game and so chess engine ~> chess game engine is a pretty reasonable path to take in interpreting unfamiliar jargon.
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I'm not sure if you're (just) playing devil's advocate, but the blog post[0] linked in the article covers quite a lot of instances of prior art[a] / multiple discovery / coincidences, going back years before the pat
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Zero-waste single-pass packing of power-of-two textures(blog.magnum.graphics)
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> A state owned internet will fail fast, as it consume a lot of resources while not producing anything. Do you mean that the/an internet consumes a lot of resources without producing anything and therefore is poorly suited to being
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> the issue runs a little deeper imo. Right, because the developers are "political"?
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There is not a huge market for empty bottles (at retail) -- most people want the beer inside!
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> there’s so much Google can’t control that it’s dumb to blame them here I think it's pretty clear that the Google Play Store is something that only Google can control.
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What does "master password" mean? What is the meaning of the word "master" in this context? Is it like a master key? A master key operates all locks in a set. Other keys can each open one lock. The master key doesn'
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Can you point out which features of the article give it this quality? What would you have changed?
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> How is that conclusion reached? Article says no rationale or explanation was given.
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> This command [`vsce package`] includes all files in the current directory Why does it do this? Is it trying to include code or some other assets? Is this normal outside of C/C++ (or similar) build systems? Tools like cmake, prem
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by qwery 4y ago
What is all this anger for? > The scalpers don't change the supply. They control it, they constrict it -- how would you describe it? > So long as people misvalue things on the open market, there will be traders ready to make a qu
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by qwery 4y ago
- Consoles in stockrooms are not making money for the retailer or the platform/brand/manufacturer. - Sales figures (units shipped) are a marketing point. A product being so in demand that it makes the news is a free marketing camp
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by qwery 4y ago
This article is from August 2020. The title (as delivered to me just now) is 'Bernard Collaery trial is a highly unusual criminal prosecution'. Some background: ASIS bugged the Timor-Leste Prime Minister's office in 2004 duri
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by qwery 4y ago
While amusing, responding in this way seems overly antagonistic/escalatory. i.e. the behaviour of a poor citizen of the web. It also would be likely to result in an increased number of requests? Drew's actions so far (as far as I
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by qwery 4y ago
Because a file (or computer memory in general) is a linear (1D) storage medium and tabular (2D) data is not well suited to linear serialisation. You can't avoid adding complexity (i.e. making trade-offs) to the format and any code that
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by qwery 5y ago
The only way your bid gets accepted is when you overbid. If your "fair"/"what it's worth" offer gets accepted, you have overvalued the property. > generally they will give you one chance to "improve&quo
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by qwery 5y ago
It's an exceedingly popular way of writing materials/shaders in 3D content tools -- I'd guess more so than any game programming/logic (of course big game engines tend to have visual shader tools as well) It can be (usual
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by qwery 5y ago
My apologies, I read too deeply into your comment. I just enjoyed (too much) the use of the phrase 'theoretical hardware limitations'.
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> elbow grease and ingenuity can remove theoretical hardware limitations Of course, 'theoretical' hardware limitations aren't hard limits -- they're soft[ware] ones. However, if you find yourself battling concrete h
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by qwery 5y ago
> Cosmetics are the prime example of an honest F2P, as they have zero impact on the game To have zero impact on the game, they'd have to not be a part of the game. Or have ever existed at all, really. But if you think they are so me
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by qwery 5y ago
The whole 'preying on the vulnerable' thing kind of puts me off. But I want to respond to this: > The items that you buy have absolutely no impact on gameplay and are just visuals Cosmetic items are not just visual though. Th
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by qwery 5y ago
This is the first time I've tried Teclis and it was a very positive experience. Always happy to see anything new in this space (search engineering ?) and this seems particularly aligned with my interests. My queries didn't get (o
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appendages not worth saving without daylight savings only saving time