swalsh

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by swalsh 6y ago
When guns were flint locks, the amount of damage one person could do was pretty limited. When machine guns became generally available (and i'm aware $200 is not "generally available" in 1920). That changed. These weapons w
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by swalsh 6y ago
This really is the way to do it in my opinion. Collaboration is one of the hardest parts to do remote (though I think VR could make this better)
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by swalsh 6y ago
Not even that is good enough, a ban on an account should have a VERY high bar, and that bar needs to be highly regulated. Right now it's just games, maybe movies, but it could apply to all kinds of software and apps... and this stuff
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by swalsh 6y ago
The idea that I could have an account with hundreds of games I purchased be taken away from me without reason, or without recourse is absurd. Facebook, or really anything holding licensed content needs to be regulated.
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by swalsh 6y ago
> Cracking down on the backyard mechanics who keep the shitboxes of the greater Boston area running Don't really have much to add to your point. But I wanted to mention, that on my block (a mixed income neighborhood in Boston) has
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by swalsh 6y ago
With Arch, I feel in control. It has an "I built it, I can fix it" vibe. The result is it has been far more stable for me. I've struggled in the past with Ubuntu releases. I put them off, and then eventually I'm forc
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by swalsh 6y ago
My desktop computer has 64GB of memory, 1TB NVMe (SUPER fast sequential read) storage, and my Ryzen has 12 cores. Yet most of this sits unutilized, even while doing heavy workloads. There's a lot of extra performance just sitting out
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by swalsh 6y ago
Good, do what he did too... but in a feature branch.
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by swalsh 6y ago
Fore removing code that's buggy in production. It's way easier to find and remove 1 commit.
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by swalsh 6y ago
I do, all the time. I highly recommend others do it too. I like to keep to 1 commit per ticket (even a super large ticket that might take me weeks of development). But having a commit history like the fella in this story is nice too. So
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by swalsh 6y ago
You will have to take my decorators from my cold dead hands. I'm not upgrading.
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by swalsh 6y ago
Was it NVMe though? The standard is only 9 years old, so that's an impressive lifespan for one of the first drives.
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by swalsh 6y ago
Social media accounts can be worth real money in the right conditions. It might be time to start having some real regulations around these things. If my bank account was hijacked, the bank wouldn't be able to just ignore my pleas. I
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by swalsh 6y ago
I wonder if maybe one of the differences is this has always seemed "temporary"... Or at least that is how it has been portrayed. We're just in that period before we have a vaccine, and everything goes back to normal. When yo
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by swalsh 6y ago
Careful, you might get what you ask for.
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by swalsh 6y ago
I'm generally against the 20th century solution of breaking companies up when it comes to tech companies... but Amazon's problems are not Facebooks or Google's. It's way simpler, and it fits the mold perfectly. First o
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by swalsh 6y ago
I question how much of "modern" graphics (IE things you can get a PHD for) is a manifestation of the engine, and how much is a result of the underlying libraries being used, and the fancy shaders being written. I don't think
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by swalsh 6y ago
What I love about this engine, is that I can really easily read the code and reason what it does. I'd guess that given an hour or so of study I would feel reasonably confident in trying to modify it.
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by swalsh 6y ago
It's funny, I don't even remember why I moved to Namecheap, but I remember years ago getting angry at Godaddy, and then transferring everything. You guys have a great service. No regrets since the move.
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by swalsh 6y ago
It would seem like the pricing is misleading, and that in reality when these finally do come back in stock they will not be at the advertised $699 price point. The FE's are simply loss leaders. https://www.mooreslawisdead.c
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Nvidia’s Ultimate Play(mooreslawisdead.com)
5 points by swalsh 6y ago|1 comments
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by swalsh 6y ago
It's really great to see VR coming down in price and becoming more accessible... but it's coming at the cost of quality, and it's bringing the rest of VR down with it. As an example, Onward VR recently added support for Que
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by swalsh 6y ago
While reading about OpenGL programming, one of the first things nearly all books mention, is the cost of moving data from your system to the GPU's memory.... So I assumed that's still true, is it not? Adding more GPU's does
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by swalsh 6y ago
It's been a while, so I have since forgotten the details... but I believe I needed to make a few changes to the BIOS to turn off idling or something like that.
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by swalsh 6y ago
If you don't mind, I have what is probably a dumb question. Why does a GPU use PCI-Express still? I understand why they used to use it, but now they are not only standard, but in some cases the most important part of a PC. I feel like
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by swalsh 6y ago
I recently bought a Ryzen 3900X. I hope Linux eventually supports these processors better. There has been some serious stabilization issues I eventually tracked down to being related to my processor. These issues required me to spend a s
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by swalsh 6y ago
I've been hoping someone would create an open source version of the lighthouse technology. I think that technology could be huge outside of VR. Inside VR, I just want more custom hardware... I want VR feet.
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by swalsh 6y ago
> Even if true, it doesn't help much if you have to marshall through JS for nearly every call. If you're doing a lot of cheap calls, it's probably not the optimal way to get a performance boost. I think Web Assembly shine
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by swalsh 6y ago
Great extension, I always search for recipes using google images. Pinterest results show up ALL the time, quite often they either don't have the actual recipe, or the image is way better than the underlying recipe. They are just gene
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by swalsh 6y ago
They're going to have to add a new section "daily S-1 filings" if this keeps up, we can put it next to the show hn link.

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