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by sparky_ 8y ago
For Bay Area HN folks: check out what San Jose has done with the bike lanes downtown recently. Separation from traffic using a combo of parked cars and barriers.
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by sparky_ 8y ago
The eruption of Mount Stackoverflow has perfectly preserved these poor, Perl-scripting souls.
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by sparky_ 8y ago
Ahh, some thing never change [1]. 1: https://i.imgur.com/Kc5xPLG.png
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by sparky_ 8y ago
Yeah, seriously. This coin mining phase has turned finding a decent GPU into a real pain.
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by sparky_ 8y ago
Ben, this looks like a great tool - you're doing an awesome job, keep up the good work. Question for you: The benefits of using this as a private-Heroku-on-public cloud are obvious, but in the nicest way possible, why would/should
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by sparky_ 8y ago
That's actually a fair point, I hadn't considered this angle. Although I suppose it's not a new danger per se, I'm sure people have robbed convenience stores using Airsoft guns and similar.
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by sparky_ 8y ago
Realistically, how effective would a 3D printed firearm be? I was under the impression that PLA/ABS plastics are simply not that strong of a material.
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by sparky_ 8y ago
For the interested, the unannounced game referenced in the article, "RTS3", is in fact Age of Mythology, released in 2002.
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Musk says Tesla hit by ‘extensive and damaging sabotage’ by employee(mercurynews.com)
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by sparky_ 8y ago
This is very well said. I made a ton of online-only friends with whom I've since met up with over the years. These were enabled by old school phpBB forums, gaming clans, things like that. I don't feel that any personal connection
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by sparky_ 8y ago
What is the advantage of applying for one as a FOSS project as opposed to squatting?
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by sparky_ 8y ago
Somewhat misleading title, I think - the phrase "Get another chance at life" implied to me there was perhaps some clemency involved; that does not appear to be the case after reading the article.
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by sparky_ 8y ago
Seems pretty reasonable, given the availability of JS transpilers to target older ECMAScript implementations (Babel, for instance)
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by sparky_ 8y ago
I would be surprised if it disappears entirely. More likely some third-party hero (or perhaps Apple themselves) will spin off their GL implementation as a separate package - see XQuartz.
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by sparky_ 8y ago
There is already OpenGL-on-Metal and OpenGL-on-DirectX middleware, so this may not actually be an issue.
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by sparky_ 8y ago
They're doubling down on eGPU support, so there's that. But not as ideal as having something actually inside your machine.
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by sparky_ 8y ago
I don't expect there will ever be an AAA game presence on macOS at this point, given so few of their machines offer dedicated GPUs anymore. And even in cases where they are available, for example Macbook Pros, the cost difference invol
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by sparky_ 8y ago
I'm not sure I agree with the claim, but even if we take a full rewrite at face value, "every major graphics vendor" for desktop applications is NVIDIA and AMD/ATI. On mobiles, you're probably using Unity or similar
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by sparky_ 8y ago
Ditto for OpenGL ES ( http://moltengl.com/ )
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by sparky_ 8y ago
I might choose a stronger word - gross, for instance. I'm all for founder success, but that sounds a lot to me like the employee equity pool suffered.
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by sparky_ 8y ago
Mentioning this in a couple different places, but consider Molten ( https://moltengl.com/ ) for this use case; it's a third party but very high quality reimplementation of Vulkan and OpenGL ES atop Metal. In other words,
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by sparky_ 8y ago
Mentioning this in a couple different places, but consider Molten ( https://moltengl.com/ ) for this use case; it's a third party but very high quality reimplementation of Vulkan and OpenGL ES atop Metal. In other words,
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by sparky_ 9y ago
For fellow non-native speakers: HNWI = High Net-Worth Individual
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by sparky_ 9y ago
The tool fails to explain what specific investments it's modelling this on. I'm assuming ETFs, but those returns seem suspiciously high.
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by sparky_ 9y ago
> I can almost hear the screams of terror from the Democratic party in the U.S. as I type those words. They know they’ll never win a national or state-wide election again without ballot stuffing, voter bussing and illegal immigrants voti
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by sparky_ 9y ago
Huh, CloudKit is backed by Cassandra. TIL.
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by sparky_ 9y ago
Not enough info here to determine anything useful from the developer perspective. If I had to make an arbitrary assumption, I'd guess that this boils down to a UIKit implementation on the Mac.
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by sparky_ 9y ago
My favorite part is the overloaded print methods: https://github.com/raxod502/TerrariaClone/blob/master/src/Te...
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by sparky_ 9y ago
Fascinating, thanks for the share. For the interested, the full 25 part series in its original form is available as newspaper scans here: sites.dlib.nyu.edu/undercover/mirage-pamela-zekman-zay-n-smith-chicago-sun-times
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by sparky_ 9y ago
All I can say is that I certainly hope the browser application runs in a separate, sandboxed process from the rest of the, er, "OS". Imagine a world where clientside browser JS can interact directly with the desktop environment...

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