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by user____name 7mo ago
There really need to be better metrics about the state of an economy than GDP.
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by user____name 8mo ago
I usually set the sv_friction cvar in Quake to 6 or 8, by default it's 4 and it makes the movement feel slippery. It also has the instant airbrake when you hit the move backward button mid jump, which is useful but pretty strange.
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by user____name 8mo ago
Radix sort also seems to fit the bill?
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by user____name 8mo ago
Musks public meltdowns couldn't have come at a better time for his competitors.
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by user____name 8mo ago
Was reminded of this study which pointed to glutamate buildup leading to a similar effect. https://www.science.org/content/article/mentally-exhausted-s...
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by user____name 8mo ago
"Nuclear command and control systems are not taken so lightly." https://gizmodo.com/for-20-years-the-nuclear-launch-code-at-...
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by user____name 8mo ago
My history teacher thought me to use "8==3" instead, the Romans used it to sign their graffities.
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by user____name 8mo ago
Haha, I have the opposite problem, I sort of hate not starting from a blank page, to the point of wasting time rewriting previous work.
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by user____name 8mo ago
One theory is that since China "won" the green energy race, the current US regime plans are to keep others dependent on oil and hence US shale, which would explain Trumps asinine comments about EU wind power. Not sure I buy it, bu
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by user____name 8mo ago
A lot of it is also wrangling Big Tech, which is increasingly an existential geopolitical risk.
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by user____name 8mo ago
FTE barely qualifies as a pure Quake engine at this point though, it does tons of stuff.
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by user____name 8mo ago
My favorite genre of graphic design is when you take a logo and work backwards to show the "very deeply thought about" construction, completely made up after the fact. The golden ratio is useful in that with a bit of fiddling you
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by user____name 8mo ago
Look, we can't just recreate the mining industry, it would crowd out all others, no more doctors and engineers, the children yearn for the mines!
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by user____name 8mo ago
Hippies would have been all over this.
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by user____name 8mo ago
I feel like there's a false dichotomy here where there's an inverse relationship between quality and cost. I know seen plenty of cheap goods that do what they're supposed to and last forever, and I know plenty of expensive pr
46.
by user____name 8mo ago
I don't buy the features argument, there's plenty of bloated software today that ships with less features than a precursor and is a hundred times larger.
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by user____name 8mo ago
Last time I tried (admittedly two years ago), it was incredibly sluggish, several times more so than MS Office, which is also sluggish in general.
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by user____name 8mo ago
When SaaS was emerging I was always advocating for not putting all our eggs into one basket, everyone always suggested was suggesting I was just paranoid. It's just a basic tenet of resilient systems to diversify depenendencies and not
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by user____name 8mo ago
There seems to be a lot of internal factionalism that's showing up in the final product. I think this is a chromic disease that flares up every couple of years and is then clamped down on... but for whatever reason the lessons are neve
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by user____name 8mo ago
> These days most programmers don't know assembler, and increasingly don't know languaes as low level as C either. And the world didn't fall apart. Maybe the world didn't fall apart, but user interactions on a desktop
51.
by user____name 9mo ago
What does it feel like to ride on of those? Versus like a bicycle?
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by user____name 9mo ago
This kind of "epistemic collapse" via propaganda is an established method of subverting nation states, Russia has been doing it for decades. Democracy relies on having a reasobaly well informed population. The problem today is tha
53.
by user____name 9mo ago
Iirc only businesses can buy that and you cannot upgrade hardware.
54.
by user____name 9mo ago
I would pray a premium for this.
55.
by user____name 9mo ago
For the random battery fires and explosions.
56.
by user____name 9mo ago
What a load of nonsense.
57.
by user____name 9mo ago
Reads as if written by a Brontosaurus expert.
58.
by user____name 9mo ago
For a company that likes branding so much, they sure suck at it.
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by user____name 9mo ago
Lol. CRINGE LEVEL: 3/67 ANALYSIS: Bro, who even is Ishmael? Sounds like some ancient-ass boomer who peaked centuries ago. "Watery part of the world"? Is this dude discovering oceans for the first time? Did he just crawl ou
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by user____name 9mo ago
Or the usual Musk externalizing costs and letting someone else handle the cleanup. Who's going to fine him? The government?

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