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by smrq 2y ago
I have an autoimmune disorder and so does my wife (getting her diagnosis, the same as yours incidentally, took years). Don't tell me I have no idea how it feels just because I don't agree with you.
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by smrq 2y ago
Proving that oversimplification sells.
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by smrq 2y ago
The color of the last letter for Odyssey would probably be pink :) There's a moon in Metro where you have to spell out Mario's name with the title letters, and the O is pink there. https://www.mariowiki.com/Letter_
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by smrq 2y ago
This sounds like the correct Git workflow if you think the correct VCS to use is SVN.
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by smrq 2y ago
We all want history information to be lost. (Unless you are running a version control system that timestamps every keystroke.) Reasonable people may disagree on what information should be kept.
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by smrq 2y ago
You described all of those things to some extent, as much as they apply to video games. No magic here.
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by smrq 2y ago
The "rock is dead" take will never cease to confuse me. As if I can't go out and find several venues to listen to live rock music on any given night in $major_city...
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by smrq 2y ago
There's a lot of potential code reuse between years; whether that's good or bad is up to you, I think. (I would personally prefer if my Chinese remainder theorem solving function got less use, but it seems to be called for every
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by smrq 2y ago
They literally just said "unless the frontend is doing something profoundly stupid".
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by smrq 2y ago
Presumably it would make it hotter, as the CPUs wouldn't have to throttle themselves so much, generating more heat.
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by smrq 2y ago
I hold myself to a higher standard than AI tools are capable of, from my experience. (Maybe some people don't, and that's where the disconnect is between the apologists and the naysayers?)
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by smrq 2y ago
Surely "when possible" should be "when semantically correct"? I don't hate fun (see the threads on removing 418 from Node and Go for that), but misusing a joke status code in production to mean something completely
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by smrq 2y ago
I certainly know the Lisp information in this article already, but it's still a fun read. Hofstadter just has a charming way with words. I found this bit extra amusing: >It would be nice as well as useful if we could create an inver
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by smrq 2y ago
If they aren't completely fabricated.
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by smrq 2y ago
Constantly, to keep the results of a calculation on screen. It's fallacious to assume that your own usage patterns are common. Hell, with as much evidence as you (none), I would venture that more people use the Calculator app than know
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by smrq 2y ago
I'm a little confused by this comment. How can you make this particular criticism without having bothered to read the book in the first place?
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by smrq 2y ago
It was a slog, all three times, and yet it's still probably my favorite book. Sometimes slogging through is just worth it, I guess! (I also enjoyed Joyce the one time I read him, so it's possible that I can just appreciate a goo
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by smrq 2y ago
Sorry, but I'll be concerned if and only if my peers using AI start catching up to those who aren't.
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by smrq 2y ago
That's actually... clever and fair enough. That's what we use them for, too.
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by smrq 2y ago
Specifically here I believe he is referring to the pulse width of the square wave, like you would see on many basic oscillators. A 50% setting would have the wave high for half of the cycle, then low for the other half (11111000001111100000
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by smrq 2y ago
The implication that it's typical for one's friends to call them on vacation for work reasons is bonkers to me. What kind of friends are those?
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by smrq 2y ago
I'm not sure such people will take the right lesson away.
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by smrq 2y ago
I think you just picked up the goalposts and brought them home with you. Why ask for a standard in the first place?
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by smrq 2y ago
I haven't read this book, but that takeaway doesn't sound right. In ET, all keys are equally out of tune--that's a natural consequence of it being equal. In contrast, it's just intonation in which chords become progressi
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by smrq 2y ago
This seems to contradict the testimony. Assisting to tfa, there was no price Microsoft could pay that would have made Apple use Bing by default.
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by smrq 2y ago
Orca singlehandedly got me out of a multi-year musical rut. It's such an interesting and different way of sequencing than the traditional piano roll experience. Like modular synthesis, it can be easier to just use it like a toy and not
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by smrq 2y ago
>design our application with a mobile layout, despite 99% of our users being on desktop computers And without a mobile layout before, I wonder why? It's bonkers that not everyone is on board with responsive design being table stakes
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by smrq 2y ago
Making up your own hypothetical bad guy and then turning around and saying "people such as you describe" shouldn't get to vote has to be the most brazen act of strawmanning I've seen in recent memory. But you know, fuck
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by smrq 2y ago
"Rust is more complicated than C++" is a pretty hot take.
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by smrq 2y ago
That's just... obviously incorrect. It's 10% higher. (60%, as opposed to the expected 50% from random chance.)

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