thu2111

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by thu2111 5y ago
On mobile there are ways to force quit apps. They just aren't front and centre, nor mandatory for users to understand, like it is on the desktop. Too many apps abusing resources and affecting UI speed is a separate issue, and mobile
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by thu2111 5y ago
The book you cite doesn't seem to support your argument. Firstly, you say they nationalized many industries but the book talks about individual companies. Nationalizing an industry means nationalizing every company within that indust
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by thu2111 5y ago
Yeah but the semantic difference between "hide" and "quit" is a very technical one that doesn't need to exist. On mobile it doesn't happen, and we can thank Android for that, as they insisted from day one that
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by thu2111 5y ago
Yes, filesystem sync protocols like rsync do it at the FS level and if you want to go deeper than the FS level, you get into the realm of operational transform and other rather complex algorithms. A very insightful comment up thread observe
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by thu2111 5y ago
Ah, so this takes us into the question of what "native" means. Some people use the word native to mean "the way apps were written in the 90s and on Apple platforms, still are written". It's short hand for manual mem
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by thu2111 5y ago
I said decriminalized, rather than legalized. I was thinking of Switzerland and Spitzplatz in the 1980s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platzspitz_park
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by thu2111 5y ago
For what it's worth, I agree with you w.r.t. tech firms. We can observe the unsatisfactory nature of their practices without concluding regulation is the answer. As for the WHO, I wish I could simply ignore them as easily as I ignore w
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by thu2111 5y ago
The most surprising thing about this is that academics write research papers on Cloud Atlas. Is that really a good use of research money?
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by thu2111 5y ago
The CDC isn't run by doctors, it's run by public health officials. Very different.
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by thu2111 5y ago
No, pretty much anything was banned or throttled including professors sharing graphs of data, or people re-sharing articles critical of the WHO or the COVID response. And it's still happening, by the way. That's not in the past.
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by thu2111 5y ago
Not for lack of trying however. Bear in mind the big tech companies all adopted an explicit policy of, "information that disagrees with the WHO is forbidden" and proceeded to ban lots of qualified commentators for trying to presen
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by thu2111 5y ago
Nearly all of them? This problem is not caused by some weird, out of line policy of the USA. Basically nowhere wants hard drugs on the streets. And some places that experimented with legalisation rolled it back or changed their approach. Wh
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by thu2111 5y ago
It seems that the most common response to arguments in favour of a lab leak is always to attack the messenger. First "It's Trump so don't listen to him", then "Nicholas Wade is a racist so don't read him"
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by thu2111 5y ago
The counterargument mounted by Wade and others is that the world has been searching for such a transmission path for the last year with far greater resources than normally allocated, as obviously, China would very much like to find such a p
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by thu2111 5y ago
Given the massive levels of evidence destruction involved, that seems like quite a stretch.
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by thu2111 5y ago
I don't think that's quite true. The grants and papers talk about what the goals were and the biosafety labels being used.
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by thu2111 5y ago
Sure, technology makes some things easier with time. But the needs for content to be optimized has not really gone away, and the issue was not necessarily overly complex 3D assets but that the very structure of what people wanted to build w
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by thu2111 5y ago
Is that less sensationalist? It seems they're reporting exactly the same things just using different types of recorded data. Neither article attempts to speculate on what kind of object might be capable of causing such data, nor who mi
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by thu2111 5y ago
It doesn't. He says it brings in $2000/month and that this is not enough to sustain his family, but he hopes to increase it. It's nice that he's able to indulge in this kind of hobby programming, but he must have an in
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by thu2111 5y ago
Debuggers aren't quite as useful with C++ indeed. But that's a good reason to use C++ less. I diagnose issues drastically faster with a debugger all the time. Often I'll write a unit test that reveals a bug, but just looking
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by thu2111 5y ago
European constitutions have a lot of bad stuff in them that's not thought out at all, especially around human rights. The US constitution limits itself to a very small number of matters that are (relatively) well defined, exactly to st
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by thu2111 5y ago
That's not necessarily the hard part. I mean, it's hard, but it's not the hard part. We know this because what this game is trying to do is done already a long time ago. It's a description of the original vision for Se
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by thu2111 5y ago
The video says that parts of the golem's armor are in fact megascans, iirc. But yes obviously some parts of it are manually modeled. I don't see why that's a problem - people have been making film quality assets for many year
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by thu2111 5y ago
Quixel Megascans are based on photogrammetry. So they're taking lots of photos of real world objects and generating the meshes from laser scans. They aren't built by hand.
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by thu2111 5y ago
Yes but their demo is a 100GB download alone, it seems. That's just a demo. The capabilities of new hardware and engines to render worlds is massively outstripping the capabilities of distribution networks to get that data into people&
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by thu2111 5y ago
This is a symptom of the more general problem that CLI interfaces usually have very little attention paid to usability. It's not that developers can't agree on what command should get rid of a package, it's that they can&#x27
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by thu2111 5y ago
I disagree, I think the state of this discussion thread is about what should be expected given what Fuchsia is and how the project is run. Firstly, there is little technical discussion of Fuchsia here because there's actually very litt
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by thu2111 5y ago
- Fuchsia provides a stable binary interface (like Windows, but unlike Linux). Does it? Fuchsia is a brand new OS, at least from the perspective of the world. One reason my interest in it died quite early on, despite being an aficionado o
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by thu2111 5y ago
I used to agree. These days I don't. I find it very harsh and unsympathetic to use a strategy that can be summed up as, "we will make your life as shit as possible in the hope that despite having no access to military power you no
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by thu2111 5y ago
That strategy has, I think, never worked in the history of dictatorships. It probably won't start working now.

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