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by sk0g 4y ago
Unrelated, but yesterday I found out you can have two bools in C++ that are both true but do not equal each other, by reinterpret casting them from (u)ints. I think this was for the standard bool type too... Now I'm questioning the mos
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by sk0g 4y ago
Confusingly, 2K typically refers to 2560*1440. By that logic 4k would be a resolution greater than 3840*2160 of course, so I'm not sure how sound the naming convention is.
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by sk0g 4y ago
And for a differing point of view, I had a hell of a time finding 1440/1600p laptops with the specs I was after. Not 1080p, I'd like screen real estate, and not 4K, because fractional scaling on Windows is not that great. So many
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by sk0g 4y ago
4k is actually exactly 4 1080p screens' worth of pixels, unless you mean non-100% scaling.
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by sk0g 4y ago
Because Xbox exclusives are about console exclusivity, they release their games on PC day one. The other console makers are even less consumer friendly.
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by sk0g 4y ago
I'm comparing to consoles because that's their competition. They see PC as an additional platform that they also release to, and exclusives refer to console platforms, not PC.
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by sk0g 4y ago
Meanwhile Nintendo never releases their games on other platforms, and Sony pays off external studios for timed and permanent exclusives, while sometimes releasing internal ones on PC years later. Who exactly are they losing goodwill from?
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by sk0g 4y ago
With 1YoE I did most of that in about 3 months. Had a deadline of 6 months to get something functional to demonstrate the proposed new direction of the company, and I did just that. If I were to do it today I could probably rush it to a wee
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by sk0g 4y ago
That at least gives me some level of comfort. From what I remember it was Android 12 out of the box, but the problems started popping up after a while. First the bundled earphones carked it, then various issues with the phone. The UI feels
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by sk0g 4y ago
Lots and lots of issues for me. I've got an Optus one I believe. It's recently decided to not re-connect to Wi-Fis till reboot. Leaving home is now scary, thankfully I have 80GB data I use about 2 of on an average month. Another a
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by sk0g 4y ago
To be honest I'm not a front end developer, just learned that a few things on GitHub had issues outstanding about SK issues, and avoided them after the first run-in. Massive props to Svelte to allow me to finish my project while actual
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by sk0g 4y ago
Yeah, and it's a pleasure to use. Really the only issue I ran into was not realising SvelteKit doesn't support all Svelte functionalities, and you have to vet plugins at times.
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by sk0g 4y ago
Whole chain emulation + cab impulses are a thing, with digital modellers like Line 6's Helix or Fractal's FM9. I do get the impression you were referring to "analog" pedals, though even those are often more digital than
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by sk0g 4y ago
AFAIK Neobanks simply don't have a physical presence at all, and instead spend the money providing a more efficient service. I think ING has a customer service lounge or two, which just about disqualifies it. In practice, neobanks seem
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by sk0g 4y ago
Is the difference between the cider and wine the presence of yeast (/hops)?
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by sk0g 4y ago
Unit testing is not too rare in (modern) games. There's a comment on HN from a Rare employee going into how they do their testing, for example - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14802509 Edit: It's a 5 year ol
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by sk0g 4y ago
Accuracy is irrelevant when there's a commonly used term though. They could just have "reset" or "factory reset" lead to that settings item, but like with so many things Apple does, it's their way or the highwa
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by sk0g 4y ago
I was trying to figure out how to do a factory reset, which they call "erase all content and settings". It's available through settings, but not in settings. You have to open the settings app, then in the menu bar click th
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by sk0g 4y ago
It may even be intentionally left in. Newer is better, and your PC can no longer run the new. Upgrade time!
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by sk0g 4y ago
The M1 Max (8+2 cores) tops out at a CPU TDP of around 30W IIRC, on the 5nm node. These numbers aren't that unrealistic, are they? Intel isn't exactly known for power efficiency currently, aside from E-cores.
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by sk0g 4y ago
The syntax looks pretty fun to work with! Nice balance of terseness and readability.
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by sk0g 4y ago
IntelliJ idea also includes most or all features Atom does, but that does not validate this statement: > VSCode is basically a rewrite of Atom that reuses a big chunk of the original codebase They both use Electron as their framework, bu
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by sk0g 4y ago
The world has only gone downhill ever since medieval, centralised power structures disintegrated right? Are you following what you preach, and living in a non-democratic country?
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by sk0g 4y ago
Freedom of speech has absolutely nothing to do with representing things fairly. It's about being able to express ideas and thoughts without fears of censorship or retaliation. In fact, being able to misrepresent things is in itself a t
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by sk0g 4y ago
> This sort of misrepresentation is unfortunately common practice in mainstream western media. Unlike mainstream Chinese media, which always represents facts objectively and doesn't use a headline generator to deflect attention when
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by sk0g 4y ago
Democracy means you can alter the future direction of your country by simply voting, which took me 15 minutes. Don't think joining a party with clear views and goals would let you have any significant effect on its trajectory without d
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by sk0g 4y ago
Of course, just the phrasing made me think the "trick solution" was eugenics, not a university admission trick. Unfortunately, historically "Jewish question" or "Jewish problem" has referred to these concerns [
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by sk0g 4y ago
I didn't edit my comment, at least not from what I remember. May have been a typo fix in the first few seconds though, which I do a bit too often. Not sure if my comment was clear, but I was referring to "hard problems with trick
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by sk0g 4y ago
The explanation of the name somehow is a lot better than what I assumed it was referring to. The phrasing on the second sentence is... unfortunate.
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by sk0g 4y ago
Even better, for something similar to React, but much simpler and more streamlined, I turned to Svelte. As a backend dev, it was the first frontend framework that I actually stuck with. In retrospect, I think what really confused me was tha

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