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by thrwyoilarticle 4y ago
I'd be impressed a train service that had 8 parallel lines plus dedicated lines at each station so that it was economical for 1-5 people to alight directly at their destination.
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by thrwyoilarticle 4y ago
Earth size? When was the last time you drove in Madagascar? Most driven miles are the same commute in the same city 10 times a week.
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by thrwyoilarticle 4y ago
It doesn't matter what your 'real' roads look like, the money is a hemisphere and a continent away.
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by thrwyoilarticle 4y ago
It's odd that it's treated as a matter of pride that, while other cities have AVs today , your own city or nation will take much longer simply because it's full of dangerous drivers breaking the law and infrastructure full o
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by thrwyoilarticle 4y ago
'It's not as bad as genocide' is not a hugely convincing argument.
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by thrwyoilarticle 4y ago
That's more optimistic than my impression. I view it as a mix of a few things: - What often happens when a person is surprised to learn something: they assume most other people don't know it and become eager to repeat it without f
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by thrwyoilarticle 4y ago
Foreign to who?
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by thrwyoilarticle 4y ago
>Several books have the false info too Sounds like we shouldn't trust books blindly, either. Is there a source we can trust blindly?
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by thrwyoilarticle 4y ago
I work on a C++ project where a(n x86) Pro takes over an hour to build the universe. And that is less work than a browser or compiler.
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by thrwyoilarticle 4y ago
Gasp! You mean they've heard the volatile question before?
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by thrwyoilarticle 4y ago
I think this is more of a meme than reality. In the past, C++ needed manual memory management and writing ctors over and over with myriad footguns. Now someone can contribute to a C++ codebase barely knowing what a heap or reference is and
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by thrwyoilarticle 4y ago
I've wondered about creating an extension for HN and Reddit to get around what I see as a problem in the voting system. Nominally, downvotes aren't for disagreeing, they're for posts that don't add to the discussion. Upv
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by thrwyoilarticle 4y ago
>run it at ~250W for average play time (4-8 hrs a day) I think this is the important aspect. If you're only using it for a few hours a day, the hardware can be used for someone else while you're not playing. So it runs into the
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by thrwyoilarticle 4y ago
GPU multitasking is a relatively immature capability.
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by thrwyoilarticle 4y ago
If staff were told early it would be at the top of HN and Blind 10 minutes later. Same for if developers were told to wind down porting. In both cases, customers would be upset about being able to spend money on a service without being told
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by thrwyoilarticle 4y ago
Though Xicrosofter returns none.
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by thrwyoilarticle 4y ago
> Any YouTube game video could have a button for 'play instantly, one click' that loaded an already running Stadia session into a game-state with the player in a fun spot. I think the tech that this feature requires would be a
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by thrwyoilarticle 4y ago
And if you're willing to take upscaled resolutions like Stadia offers then you can typically go below the minimum specs (which are themselves far below recommended). Direct X versions are more likely to be a blocker than simply not bei
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by thrwyoilarticle 4y ago
This is correct. Reason: it's already technically possible to transfer games between platforms, the reason it's not done is financial, legal and political. NFTs create a new method for the technical axis but do nothing to change t
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by thrwyoilarticle 4y ago
I actually really dislike this sentiment. Gamers being upset they can't access secret content on a first, blind playthrough means that developers are incentivised not to include secret content. It seems inconsistent to complain about n
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by thrwyoilarticle 4y ago
>Unrelated: today is on the news that Unilever's CEO will be resigning after 3 years, which also seems short to me. Wait til you hear about Australian Prime Ministers
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by thrwyoilarticle 4y ago
I've seen code that solves it using a `retval` variable, a typical case of code that is written to avoid breaking MISRA rules instead reimplementing the problem that the MISRA rule tries to avoid except with less idiomatic code and mor
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by thrwyoilarticle 4y ago
>"YOUR CALENDAR IS BASED ON A RELIGIOUS LEADER THAT NOT EVERYONE BELIEVES IN?" Instead of taking the opportunity to make a holier-than-thou twitter rant the would-be probee would do better to reply to this by explaining that al
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by thrwyoilarticle 4y ago
Some MISRA rules lead to absurd code, e.g. single return from a function meaning any error checking adds another level of nesting.
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by thrwyoilarticle 4y ago
Reddit previously accepted accounts with no email address. IMO this is similar to Twitter 'not requiring' a phone number but immediately flagging your account upon creation until you provide one. Now there's something to tie
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by thrwyoilarticle 4y ago
Constructing into a unique_ptr[1] will mean you don't have to risk forgetting to delete it or risk managing something you don't own. You'll also sometimes get compiler spew that you'll learn is telling you you're tr
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by thrwyoilarticle 4y ago
The counterpoint to this is the C developer who promises they can scale up to C++ and then takes a disproportionate amount of review time to be taught not to use malloc/free/new/delete/etc.
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by thrwyoilarticle 4y ago
When the green movement makes a party and swallows enough to make being anti-nuclear part of its manifesto, it's a monolith.
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by thrwyoilarticle 4y ago
The irony of the tweeter complaining about nuclear being shut down in favour of wood is that it's the hand-wringing of environmentalists that caused them to side with fossil fuel companies and make us continue to depend on oil, gas and
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by thrwyoilarticle 4y ago
In that case I don't think anyone would bother to have it properly cleaned - a safety risk - and you just end up with the chimney acting as a source of heat and air loss when it's not being used.

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