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by setr 6y ago
What's curious here is that this implies epic's game store only has 436 games..? They've been pushing it pretty hard with their free game promotions, so that total is a bit pathetic
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by setr 6y ago
That seems like an oddly specific thing to assume when suggesting it for use by static websites generally — afaict most static sites would see no distinct benefit from columnar storage. That said, SQLite for OLAP is very neat.
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by setr 6y ago
If you’re talking about like cbr archives, you’re right. It’s comparing against usages like word/excel, which store a bunch of XML in an archive and call it a day. If you’re not reading and writing out application state, then yes, you
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by setr 6y ago
take a look at https://animagraffs.com/how-a-handgun-works-1911-45/ and tell me this ain't ENGINEERING
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by setr 6y ago
Not mentioned in TFA, but apparently this method also leads to short timelines (~10 yrs) to reach self-sustaining forests[0] That article also goes a lot more in depth on how they setup the forest [0] https://fellowsblog.ted.com&
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by setr 6y ago
I don't think rust's unsafe says anything about cryptographic security, beyond pointer-safety implications.
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by setr 6y ago
>That's probably impossible to quantify Sure, but that's the metric you need to go by if you want to evaluate the tourism value of a "living" monarchy. That tourists would continue to exist with or without the queen d
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by setr 6y ago
The question isn’t whether people would visit, but rather do they visit more because of the queen’s existence. That is, would be worth a billion rather than billions
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by setr 6y ago
The question really is whether the existence of the queen is what provides continued value for buckingham palace — without the monarchy, it becomes another relic of a bygone era, with no inherent quality to attract tourists beyond its histo
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by setr 6y ago
> Lecturer here - we will definitely cover some other topics, including semantic analysis (type checking, etc), code generation, basic optimizations, ... How is this being updated? I've noted that all current videos were posted on F
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by setr 6y ago
Google probably has 90+% of quotes memorized.
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by setr 6y ago
Fahrenheit is also nice in that increments of 10 are equivalently significant, and increments of 15~20 correspond fairly well to jacket levels.
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by setr 6y ago
I visited Venkateswara Temple in India, which gets some 50~100k visitors daily. The main takeaway I got was that it doesn't really matter what the path is -- you don't get a say in the matter. The flow of the crowd moves you along
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by setr 6y ago
https://news.gallup.com/poll/146786/democrats-lead-ranks-uni... Across federal employees, that doesn’t seem to matter much. I also wouldn’t expect republicans to care so much that they’d put monetary source before
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by setr 6y ago
I don't understand why postgres w/ json enables a website, where sqlite and text files don't. You just ship the sqlite/text file with the rest of the webserver code? It's less work than setting up mongo, postgres, o
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by setr 6y ago
I disagree -- an RDBMS is pretty much safe/sane for any design, though it may not be the fastest. NoSQL databases (specifically, eventually consistent DBs) are only safe/sane in specific scenarios. If you don't know what your
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by setr 6y ago
Especially needed here because the way back link is broken into 6 pages, and page 2 wasn’t captured (didn’t check 3-6, since it doesn’t matter)
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by setr 6y ago
> the client application of a network designed to avoid censorship of bad actors You didn’t argue this, and I’m not clear that matrix or similar technology makes any direct, intended or significant effort to do so beyond the much broade
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by setr 6y ago
No it’s not — it’s pointing out that those arguments fail when looking at existing systems, and would trivially deny things that we know we want. A slippery slope would be that the reasoning lends itself to more extreme reasoning down the l
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by setr 6y ago
Tbf it’d be trivial to have a button/flag to fix it in the source, and a warning to notify the user. It’d might be debatable to do so automatically, but on demand there’s no issue (like words table of content update/warning). But
891.
by setr 6y ago
The UI is fairly simple, the engine is fairly complex, with a lot of interactions between different parts. I don't think most games struggle because their UI is complex, or because user behavior is complex (there's really only so
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by setr 6y ago
Well, it’s safe in that it’s correct. You could remove it without warning, and the program would behave the same. That does not preclude notifying the user, or getting confirmation
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by setr 6y ago
I’m not sure it is; the heart of OOP is encapsulation of data + methods — the object itself. (Or message-passing if you’re being kinky) ECS is almost the opposite; the object in question is barely defined — rather it’s derived from the comp
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by setr 6y ago
Wouldn’t the normal thing be for Tesla to license/rent their existing infrastructure out to other brands? It mainly becomes an issue if Tesla decides its part of their car value — but otherwise they could basically 100% own and entirel
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by setr 6y ago
It's definitely been around but I think Unity's (never-finishing) ECS + Rust gamedev community's focus on it has really spiked its popularity/interest lately. Otherwise pretty much every recommendation/engine is OOP
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by setr 6y ago
exactly the post I was trying to remember when talking about spellswords :) Those posts are also cool in that defining games as a set of rules that operate on things within it is a really neat mental model -- the program should basically
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by setr 6y ago
At least regarding games, ECS is the popular flavor-of-the-month alternative to OOP as a design strategy. The main problem being that games often have a lot of special cases, which break the inheritance hierarchy quite quickly. E.g. Defin
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by setr 6y ago
I understood that, but your joke was nonsensical. Making jokes about HN being overly pedantic in general, when no pedantry is occurring, is just randomly complaining. There's no context. It would be sensible if you thought there was pe
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by setr 6y ago
I mean, the derived conclusion is entirely wrong because of it. It's kind of 100% relevant.
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by setr 6y ago
average life expectancy is a trap -- the distribution is binomial. People tended to either die early, as infants, or live to an average 60.[0] Specifically, if you were age 0, you have an expected lifespan of 40, but by age 10, you have a

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