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by tveita 6y ago
On the other hand you can play VR games from outside the Oculus Store on Oculus hardware, and I would guess the majority of VR games are actually bought on Steam, so there is clearly a choice for both consumers and developers.
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A reasonable percentage is the one that Apple would charge if it had competition. Apple obviously cares about user experience, and does not want iOS apps to be split between multiple stores, so if they had to allow alternative install sourc
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by tveita 6y ago
You might have missed some steps of this still developing story: https://twitter.com/markgurman/status/1293984069722636288
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People would say "This lawsuit is unlikely to succeed in an authoritarian state and either way the important thing is not whether US companies can operate there, but the Chinese government's violations of human rights and curtaili
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> We expect a girl making minimum wage at Kroger to accept that she is an essential worker. Why do we not expect the same from school staff? I wish that as a society we could decide that anyone we're going to call an "essential
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by tveita 6y ago
I see the writer is from "WalmartLabs", so I assume this is advice for "Walmart scale" applications. For the rest of us it's probably good to remember that "you are not Walmart." > Now, we know that in
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by tveita 6y ago
I'd like to hear more about why you make your own yoghurt. Does it taste very different than store bought plain yoghurt, do you find the DIY aspect appealing, or is it mainly for cost savings?
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by tveita 6y ago
Image formats like JPEG or PNG typically have a color profile embedded in the metadata, or if they don't you can assume sRGB.
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by tveita 7y ago
File system journaling typically refers to a log that helps ensure filesystem consistency by recording attempted operations before they happen, but the system still has to do all the same random writes to the disk afterwards. Some file syst
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by tveita 7y ago
Surprisingly public spending of billions of dollars is subject to more scrutiny than personal purchases of 100 milliliters of scented ethanol.
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by tveita 7y ago
The file name being a understated and appropriate reference to "Garbage in, garbage out" If you don't have reliable data any attempt at clever maneuvering is likely to plant your face into the ground.
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by tveita 7y ago
I didn't know they were doing a graphics update, this looks great! It will be interesting to see what they do with the interface. I've thought before that a complete mapping and redesign of all Dwarf Fortress screens and actions w
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by tveita 7y ago
Numba the Python library is only just getting around to support LLVM 9. https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/issues/523
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by tveita 7y ago
> Here they are again, years later, still playing with extremely hazardous coronaviruses that act on the ACE2 receptor in humans "Playing with" as in "identifying and sequencing the virus in wild bats". The editorial
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by tveita 7y ago
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6912e2.htm gives a CFR of 4.3–10.5% for age group 75-84 and 10.4–27.3% for age group ≥85. Your number is over that by quite a bit, where is it from?
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by tveita 7y ago
Every group is "most-likely-to-survive-if-exposed". The numbers they seem to be working with is around 15% for ages 80+. That's not odds you want to take but it's by no means an automatic death sentence.
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by tveita 7y ago
On the other hand the instruction set extensions can be bulky. For instance the bit manipulation set at https://github.com/riscv/riscv-bitmanip adds frequently used operations like conditional move and population count
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by tveita 7y ago
This particular article and advice seems quite proportionate and level-headed. (In contrast to about 80% of Covid-19 articles posted on HN, TBQH)
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If this is a factor you should see the opposite pattern in birds.
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Of course it's sales copy, but if this is what sells now, maybe we're heading in the right direction? I mainly like this line: "They laid out a few principles to build by: a focus on relationships instead of Likes and followe
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by tveita 7y ago
Django doesn't consider itself to use MVC. https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/faq/general/#django-ap...
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by tveita 7y ago
> And yes, GraphQL is a poor reinvention of SQL. No. GraphQL is an RPC specification. There is not a single comparison operator defined it the GraphQL spec. There is no way to join two separate collections. GraphQL was never meant to be
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by tveita 7y ago
There is some prior art for this https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.05579
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by tveita 7y ago
UK is not a good counterexample here. It also uses the first-past the post voting system, which trends towards two parties since any third party becomes a spoiler. With a different voting system there would be a wider range of smaller parti
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by tveita 7y ago
The major deficiency of the two-party system is that the parties have to resort to this kind of second-guessing the "average voter" instead of just presenting all the options and letting the voters choose for themselves.
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by tveita 7y ago
Druid is a column store geared towards OLAP workloads, which seems to support the article's point. It does not store its data in a "cube" layout as far as I can tell, just by time and individual columns.
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There's something to this, but it's on a collision course with the trend of spam bots becoming harder and harder to distinguish from real people. Give it another decade and any community not tied to some sort of verifiable identit
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AFAICT SimpleHTTPServer has been protected against basic traversal attacks for a very long time. There have been bugs though, like https://bugs.python.org/issue26657
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"An immutable in-memory database and Datalog query engine" Most uses of GraphQL is to expose existing data from a relational database through an API, so although this looks like an interesting project, is doesn't look like it
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> Once the enemy fires on a Red Cross branded outpost, they must be the bad guys, no matter how many of the doctors were actually intelligence operatives. I mean, yes? At what number of intelligence operatives would firing at Red Cross w

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