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by rockdoe 13y ago
Quite a few of the past large political shifts were due to betrayal and spies, effectively also making months of work undone instantly. The current one was due to a bug or due to a player making a mistake. I don't think players cater a
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by rockdoe 13y ago
Good summary, I agree with everything you say. I'm finding reading up on the political evolution is as much fun as actually playing.
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by rockdoe 13y ago
This battle wasn't massive for amount of players, but for the in-game resources involved.
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by rockdoe 13y ago
That would surely explain why "photoshop" and "adobe123" are so high. Article is garbage: sample is clearly biased.
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by rockdoe 13y ago
Is this circumventable by shipping form another EU country? Amazon UK ships for free to most of Europe and is AFAIK not bound by these laws, so this is a really strange situation.
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by rockdoe 13y ago
At least 2 people replied to you referencing the lossyness of the encoder, but that is actually completely irrelevant and unnecessary to answer your question, as it applies perfectly well to lossless compressors too. See for example Zopfli
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by rockdoe 13y ago
I'm surprised that it has essentially been shown that it's easy to corner the mining market/pooling such that 51% attacks are feasible, yet nobody is bearish over this.
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by rockdoe 13y ago
The algorithms link is broken.
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by rockdoe 13y ago
Firefox for Android is finishing up a GeckoView that will essentially bring that capability to older devices, or WebAudio/WebGL for new ones.
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by rockdoe 13y ago
Verilog is in some ways much prettier because for instance it compiles down to itself - the output of synthesis tools, a netlist, is Verilog source. This is a terribly lame analogy. You could have the C compiler output C that exactly rese
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by rockdoe 13y ago
With modern FPGAs, you have the CPU on the same chip, which means you can use just one chip and then it's OK for cost-sensitive devices - and your problem of moving data across chips is gone as well. The speed of the typical CPU on b
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by rockdoe 14y ago
Looking at the pictures, those who said it would be a Chrome clone (instead of being based on WebKit) were certainly right.
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by rockdoe 14y ago
>they care about the product now They care about what is on their phone when it is released. I'm pretty sure that's not going to be a version "of a few months back" from now! Conversely, all the really cheap Android phones on sale here
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by rockdoe 14y ago
This is because several of those huge German conglomerates are privately, often family-owned, with very little or no accountability to the stock market. They can afford to think long term.
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by rockdoe 14y ago
"A few months back" is like 1/3rd the lifetime of the project. Also you're comparing a development pre-1.0 release with a 4.x release of another project. On most phones in the target price range, the latter isn't even going to run.
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by rockdoe 14y ago
That's funny, I thought it was well understood that Houdart didn't write 99% of Houdini, but it's an improved version of the public domain Ippolit/Robbolito sources, the latter being GPL. It's a bit like calling Alan Cox "author of the wide
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by rockdoe 14y ago
From memory, it goes something like this for technical positions: Initial telephone call with a HR person, where you are asked to rank yourself on a scale of 0 to 10 in a number of technical areas. Some simple technical questions, where the