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by unsigner 9y ago
The notion that the default, most important activity to hold in a park is "protest" sounds also quite dystopian to me.
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by unsigner 9y ago
I usually don't want to be the wise-ass responding profoundly to a question that was not asked, but I can't resist. Ignore news and focus on things that are more important, like family, health and work. It's probably overall
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by unsigner 9y ago
Being born to two educated parents is not luck on your part, but well deserved reward for a long, concerted effort on theirs. You're not a random happening on a clean slate; you're just the latest offshoot of a family.
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by unsigner 9y ago
This might not be possible, e.g. if the UI says Difficulty: high/low And the separate UI elements are fed separate stings.
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by unsigner 9y ago
Don't ever use the original string as key in the localization table. That will force you to translate "high" difficulty the same as "high" resolution, for example.
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by unsigner 9y ago
Result around here: roaming disappeared from all mobile plans except for the most expensive ones, which got nudged a few euros up. The frequent travellers (presumably wealthier) get subsidized by the infrequent travellers (presumably less w
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by unsigner 9y ago
This. F-ing North Americans with their f-ing empty praeries :-)
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by unsigner 9y ago
"Intel unable to make dents in the GPU business" must come from a parallel universe. Meanwhile in ours Intel has gobbled up virtually the entire low end GPU market, and is proceeding to take over the middle ground. It's the N
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by unsigner 10y ago
The 380x and 390x are HOT. Newer Radeons are much better in that regard, and generally very decent cards - 470/480 and the recent rebrands/reclocks 570/580.
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by unsigner 10y ago
What x86 fiasco?
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by unsigner 10y ago
Perception, part of the neverending shift of society/culture leftwards. Cthulhu may swim slowly. But he only swims left.
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by unsigner 10y ago
If you are sophisticated enough to appreciate "foreign documentaries", you should have little trouble discovering them by another means than Netflix rating algorithm. The latter is for the laziest, couch-potatoest audience, and it
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by unsigner 10y ago
If you control both sides of the channel - compression and decompression - and can make money out of better or faster compression, you should definitely look into RAD Game Tools' Oodle libraries - they exceed LZ4/Zstd on all axes.
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by unsigner 10y ago
I'm significantly worse in my job than what I remember from before I had kids. What I miss most was the "deep thinking" mode that I used to get into, when you think about a problem for days on end, and solutions and ideas sta
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by unsigner 10y ago
Damn socialism was pretty horrible for the environment back when we had it around here, pre-1989. Our capital was blanketed by the exhaust of a huge steelworks plant several sizes too big for our economy, and our friendly neighbors across t
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by unsigner 10y ago
No, sorry, this particular quote is from a private channel. But see this: https://twitter.com/aras_p/status/749546349474054144 https://twitter.com/aras_p/status/767740566792724480 and th
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by unsigner 10y ago
"Only platforms without Vulkan are Apple's" is most certainly NOT true. The Xbox One is a widely available platform for which a lot of 3D effort is invested, and rewards this effort really well - much better than other platfo
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by unsigner 10y ago
Why would anyone buy them out? They've demonstrated time and again their inability to ship actual games. Their tech, once almost without peer, has long been matched and surpassed by Unreal and Unity. Their authoring tools are far behin
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by unsigner 10y ago
OpenGL never worked on Xbox 360, and didn't work convincingly (for non-trivial games) on PS3.
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by unsigner 10y ago
x86-64 chips have hundreds of general purpose registers; google "register renaming"
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by unsigner 10y ago
Adjacent EU nations do have a lot in common, but the differences add up across the continent.
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by unsigner 10y ago
I don't see how the government can be shrunk, short of violent collapse. UBI will be introduced, and not a single government program will be dropped, not a single government official laid off; wars, bailouts and $500 toilet seats will
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by unsigner 10y ago
There's nothing artificial about the scarcity of people like cbloom and ryg, competent enough to produce something like Kraken. "getting your act together" sounds scary to someone who grew up in Communist Eastern Europe; I su
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by unsigner 11y ago
AMD GCN, their GPU architecture, not the x86 CPUs.
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by unsigner 11y ago
It might have "awful garbage collection" and "other performance issues", but it has nothing to do with Mono for the last almost two years: http://blogs.unity3d.com/2014/05/20/the-future-of-
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by unsigner 11y ago
NOT a successor. It's a very different beast. It's frequently described as a "low-level" API, but "explicit API" is more correct. It gives you control (and responsibility) for things that happen behind your bac
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by unsigner 11y ago
IIRC the claim of the book is much weaker than that; his theory is that Stalin and Hitler were both building up to attack each other, each refusing to believe reports from the frontline that the other side is readying to attack first. Then
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by unsigner 11y ago
OK, I understand the value of hyperbole here and there, but calling this a supercomputer is akin to calling it a floodlight because its screen glows, or a space heater because its back gets slightly warm when charging. The smallest/che
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by unsigner 11y ago
Some of the pictures show signs of warming (although in one of the text descriptions it's attributed to planting of trees), but there's virtually no sea level rise evident?
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by unsigner 11y ago
They seem to be preparing for something in the 2-5 years timeframe, but what? Least grandiose theory I can come with: two ARM cores in the Watch, one big, one small, with different instruction sets, for active/standby modes.

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