simias

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901.
by simias 6y ago
That's a silly take IMO. I don't know where you're from but news outlet projections are taken as the de-facto actual result of the elections until the official counts are certified, often days or even weeks later. Note that t
902.
by simias 6y ago
But what does it mean in practice? Do they say who they consider the authority for the projection? For instance to this day Biden is projected to win Arizona by Fox News and AP but not by other media organizations like CNN. Seems like an od
903.
by simias 6y ago
Your willingness to entertain the thought that HP may be acting on behalf of their customer's best interests is certainly commendable, but I don't think HP deserves it. It's common knowledge that ink cartridges are a racket a
904.
by simias 6y ago
It wouldn't be a silver bullet but it would at least make it possible. See Flash for instance: I'm sure there would be enough interest to maintain a FLOSS fork of the Flash player but it's not possible without reverse-enginee
905.
by simias 6y ago
Inuits are often used as a gotcha in support of meat-based diets but it doesn't really hold up to scrutiny. For one thing they're so often brought up because they're the exception, not the rule for human diets, their diet is
906.
by simias 6y ago
I do find the closed nature of the project problematic, but not for the reason you list: if I invest many hours into making games on the platform I want to be sure that I'll still be able to run them easily 10 years from now. Hopefully
907.
by simias 6y ago
I agree that a voxel engine is probably more productive for such a "toy" console approach. You can basically use the same techniques as the one you'd use on the PICO-8, just with an added dimension. Polygonal 3D is a huge ste
908.
by simias 6y ago
PS1 can support 256x256 truecolor (or 4bpp/8bpp paletted) textures, dithering and gouraud shading! It also has a very weird graphic pipeline that I don't think would be very friendly to a novice: the 3D projections are done on the
909.
by simias 6y ago
>I keep coming back to the idea that you should let the user decide. And optimizing on UB by default is always the wrong thing. Aren't you contradicting yourself here? And I do think that some UB optimizations make a lot of sense. A
910.
by simias 6y ago
To me Zig seems to be an in-between between C and Rust. It feels a lot more modern and pleasant to use than C without the rather large complexity of Rust. Of course, nothing comes free, so it's also less safe than Rust. I personally re
911.
by simias 6y ago
That's how it's done in most countries in Europe as well in my experience. To be clear in the end it's not what the media say that matters, it's the certified vote counts but those come in often much later. In this case
912.
by simias 6y ago
Ah I see what you mean, but in this case they could've gone back and added -P as an alias for -p in ssh for instance. Similarly, it makes sense to make the brackets mandatory for scp to distinguish the path from the address, but then w
913.
by simias 6y ago
To be clear it's not the choice of the meaning of -p that bothers me, it's the fact that it's inconsistent between scp and ssh. E.g.: ssh -p 2222 root@fd95:74a4:b46c:1000::4219 scp -P 2222 root@[fd95:74a4:b46c:1000:
914.
by simias 6y ago
scp/ssh options are also annoyingly inconsistent. ssh uses '-p' to use a non-default port but scp uses '-P' (-p preserves mtime, as you pointed out). scp requires ipv6 to be in brackets (in order to parse the : corr
915.
by simias 6y ago
You don't make sense, this is a protocol problem, not a code problem, you can't just incrementally address the issue without breaking everything. Fixing the scp (really, rcp) protocol would incur more churn than just moving to rsy
916.
by simias 6y ago
There still are plugins, you just need a helper tool on your system to run the actual commands. Tridactyl provides the feature but if you just want external edit without the intrusive vim binding layer you can try Textern, it worked well ba
917.
by simias 6y ago
>Everything is pre-configured: You don’t have to worry about setting up tags, or YouCompleteMe, or NERDTree. I can’t tell you how many times I open a new project, perhaps in a different language, and everything works great out of the box
918.
by simias 6y ago
As always in situations like this you shouldn't focus on the face value but the potential value post-laundering of what he could potentially end up with. It's not like he had $1B in the bank he could spend as soon as he got out of
919.
by simias 6y ago
They would do the same thing if they had found a truckload of Funko Pops, that's not the government recognizing anything besides the fact that they have market value.
920.
by simias 6y ago
Well that's kinda the crux of the issue, isn't it? Some people, including myself, actually disagree with you here. I actually find it absolutely fine, and I like that it forces me to think more about my architecture. It may be a b
921.
by simias 6y ago
How did the encrypted keys leak?
922.
by simias 6y ago
I think for people used to garbage collection, going to a non-gc ecosystem seems to be a big jump, akin to switching from an imperative to a functional language or from a dynamic to a statically typed language. Articles like this one make m
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by simias 6y ago
You could, but that would get messy quick since it would add a new commits to be merged/rebased every time somebody wants to comment. I guess the easiest solution would be to make it a submodule so that it could evolve at its own pace,
924.
by simias 6y ago
Of course, that's precisely the argument. Currently cloning a git repository is trivial, you can have different branches targeting different remotes etc... It's decentralized at the core. An issue solution that built on top of thi
925.
by simias 6y ago
I see where you're coming from, but that does create a big barrier to decentralization. The youtube-dl source code is safe and sound but as far as I know all the issues, discussions, unmerged PRs and more are lost forever. I suppose th
926.
by simias 6y ago
The problem is that git is not feature complete to replace github. In hindsight I wish it had gone the Fossil route: integrate issue management in the distributed repo. If issues, wiki and code review were integrated in git proper it would
927.
by simias 6y ago
There are literally 4 sentences in the article before the answer is introduced, I don't think a TLDR is warranted...
928.
by simias 6y ago
It "backfires" because people post a small number of mp3 files on github that will promptly taken down? We did it reddit, the DMCA is no more! What a silly headline. If you want to actually something that will matter then make sur
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by simias 6y ago
Then that's a problem that needs fixing. Make the web decentralized again!
930.
by simias 6y ago
I don't think the studios care either, it's the artists that are at the forefront. As long as their image is not spoiled the rest doesn't really matter, I doubt many people buy (or don't buy) an album because it's p

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