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by qwery 3y ago
You could do a clean-room implementation[0] of Michael Jackson's Thriller and the rights holders could still take you to court and have a good shot at winning. You could have never heard Thriller, come up with an obvious[1] melodic phr
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by qwery 3y ago
This is cute. It's refreshing to see such a simple idea published on the internet in such a way. I also got a kick out of the URL. Thanks for submitting it!
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> I think it was a real mistake to create OpenAI as a public charity Sure, with hindsight. But it didn't require much in the way of foresight to predict that some sort of problem would arise from the not-for-profit operating a hot
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by qwery 3y ago
Oh, I noticed this yesterday and assumed it was ad blocker hostility. Which I guess it may well be -- are Firefox users more likely to use ad blockers? Possibly. Certainly on Android. That doesn't strictly matter though, presumably the
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by qwery 3y ago
Is the use of the "E" notation common in JS? I can see that it (could be) less bytes, obviously more efficient for bigger values... Looking at the script I can see it is minified or whatever we call that these days. I guess my que
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by qwery 3y ago
Thanks, I actually clicked on this one because I was surprised to see the BBC (of all places) not only being on a first-name basis with Altman, but expecting me to be as well.
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by qwery 3y ago
Related: discussion[0] of the article[1] mentioned here comparing C64/6502 and IBM PC/8088 performance. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38345672 [1] https://trixter.oldskool.org/2011/
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by qwery 3y ago
In the Game Boy, the CPU is (broadly speaking) an 8080 derivative[0] running at ~4MHz. But all of the instructions take multiples of 4 cycles to execute, so when discussing clock cycles on the Game Boy, (homebrew) developers generally talk
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by qwery 3y ago
Lol, maybe. Ballmer was a friend of Gates, was 44 years old and had worked at Microsoft for 20 years (2000-1980) already when he became CEO. Nadella was also forty-something and had worked at Microsoft for 22 years (2014-1992) when he got t
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Yes, it's worth it. Unless you disagree, in which case it's not. I use neovim and vscode (and others) for different things or just because I feel like it. > maintaining an up-to-date (n)vim setup seems like a huge time sink. I
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by qwery 3y ago
Criticism of GUI design trends like this is always attacked for being out of touch -- "you just want everything to cater to your weird taste", "most of the users aren't experts", "iOS enabled my papa to send em
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by qwery 3y ago
Bullshit. If somebody actually died here it's an atrocious way to report it. An unnamed man. An unnamed plant owner. Story apparently from Yonhap, one of the largest news networks, but no link. Apparently the second such incident, but
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by qwery 3y ago
No worries, hopefully I can make sense this time! I was responding to this part of the parent comment: > The a/an rules exist because they make it easier to speak. I disagree with that. I can understand how an english native speaker
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by qwery 3y ago
Yes, learning the correct technique (the rules) gets you a more effective result than not. You have to learn to speak english correctly, you have to learn to do a golf swing correctly. The beginner speaker/golfer uses the incorrect for
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by qwery 3y ago
I don't disagree with you. I'm not sure why/if you think I was calling for the rejection of all/any rules/practices.
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by qwery 3y ago
Yes, barrel switches should ideally be reported as "Barrel Switch" and "Secondary Barrel Switch". I have a Huion tablet[-1] that reports the second barrel switch as Eraser. The secondary barrel switch was not in HID orig
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by qwery 3y ago
It's plainly obvious that not every person speaking english uses an identical grammar. It seems reasonable to assume that at least some people don't notice the difference/s. The incorrect form must not be significantly more d
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by qwery 3y ago
But your competent golfer learned the 'correct' form/whatever, no? I'm not sure why it matters if the technique is optimised for human physicality.
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Sparkling Water, a Nighttime Enemy(eatingoffplastic.com)
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by qwery 3y ago
Your comment comes across (to me) as elitist, rather than curious. But yes, there are people who speak "like that". "An burger" sounds like a abomination to you and is more difficult for you to say than "a burger&qu
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by qwery 3y ago
It makes sense to study such an effect on the more widely accepted rules though, especially if the effect hasn't been well studied before. It makes it easier to find participants, for one thing. Also, not sure if you used "myriad
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by qwery 3y ago
I think eventually, the idea of limited, restricted TLDs will be an amusing historical fact (and that's already the case in some ways). But I do share some of the concern about scams/phishing. It certainly seems to confuse less sa
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by qwery 3y ago
If you're talking about people doing things because they want to, then yes, go for it, have fun. But performance does matter. The technical state of the art (ray tracing etc) is largely irrelevant. If you make a game with cutting-edge
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by qwery 3y ago
Software all the way up the input stack seems to be a bit confused about a few things, or there is a lack of understanding that: - graphics tablet digitisers generally are not and don't include touch digitisers - tablets are not touch
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by qwery 3y ago
I'm not sure why you're using the term 'scolded' -- who is doing the scolding? who is being scolded? When you say that ~ scolding won't do it ~ (particularly in this context) you're telling people that they sho
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> They expect developers to get ready? No, I don't think they do in a general sense. It's in the title: "What you need to know to be ready " --> if you would like to be ready, we have some information/advice
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> not that you can't use higher bitrate elsewhere If, as a user, I think the video quality on another platform is superior to that on Twitch and knew that there was an alternative platform where I could watch the same thing at highe
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I think Twitch doubts it too, that's part of this strategy. They tell you you are free, contingent on these guidelines being followed (but they're not rules). They then present vague conditions which seem unenforceable and impossi
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Yeah. "You ensure" that Twitch users' "experience" of your stream is "no less" than other platform users' "experience". They write them like this deliberately -- so they can enforce them ho
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Today I learned that previously, Twitch explicitly forbade its creators to use other platforms. So this is good news -- Twitch will now no longer prevent its creators from streaming to their audience over multiple services. Provided t

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