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by voldacar 6y ago
he missed the opportunity to throw in "cloud" and "blockchain"
842.
by voldacar 6y ago
Spot on. It's so bright, glowy, and kitschified. there's none of the dark intrigue or aesthetic depth of something like blade runner
843.
by voldacar 6y ago
The WSJ is not immune to the cycle. Based on this analysis, https://twitter.com/ZachG932/status/1247368592791949313 Wokeist trends usually originate in the WaPo, percolate through the NYT and eventually end up in
844.
by voldacar 6y ago
Surprised there is no Schopenhauer on this list
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by voldacar 6y ago
If they move, they are probably floaters (little cells or bits of debris floating around in your vitreous humor). In the image, they appear to be diffraction artifacts (airy function) from the pinhole aperture
846.
by voldacar 6y ago
I have a 144hz monitor and I can still notice the extra wayland latency; not so much in regular desktop programs, but in fast-twitch shooters like quake. And this is compared to X11 with a compositing WM . So I'm not sure if that&#x27
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by voldacar 6y ago
So to use this new optimization pass you have to specify it explicitly with an additional command line flag instead of it simply being turned on as an ordinary part of PGO? It seems like most people who just want to squeeze the last drop of
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by voldacar 6y ago
Sorry but I have tried wayland multiple times (most recent ~12mo ago) and this has never been true in my experience. At least on my nvidia card. And the wayland people have been saying stuff like "oh we know better performance is possi
849.
by voldacar 6y ago
Performance too. Wayland adds at least one extra frame of latency and so is unsuitable for gaming and similar scenarios where one program needs to monopolize the framebuffer
850.
by voldacar 6y ago
If you have broad shoulders, it's worth investing in a split keyboard
851.
by voldacar 6y ago
The arthashastra is brilliant. Much older and far more Machiavellian than Machiavelli. Highly recommended if you are interested in ancient thought
852.
by voldacar 6y ago
The guy can't even answer basic questions about cryptography.
853.
by voldacar 6y ago
the EU is the white dwarf of human societies
854.
by voldacar 6y ago
Dwarf fortress is a pretty good stochastic story generator, it's head and shoulders above anything else in that vein. But yeah, those kinds of stories will never really be quite as focused or meaningful as human-crafted narrative
855.
by voldacar 6y ago
Us likeminded people should band together and create some kind of guild or cabal devoted to dismantling this crushing regime of lazy, flat, aesthetically unfulfilling UI styling. The neo-skeuomorphist reactionary front would be a good name
856.
by voldacar 6y ago
Yeah like I said in another comment, I'm really not trying to deny the validity or value of individual games or anything like that. Portal is brilliant, and I really liked DA:O (though not quite as much as Baldur's Gate or Pillars
857.
by voldacar 6y ago
Thanks, I will definitely check that out.
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by voldacar 6y ago
No we agree much more than you think. I really like minecraft, some of my greatest teen memories are of running a server with a bunch of my friends that had 40+ mods. I think the world is made better by minecraft's existence, and peopl
859.
by voldacar 6y ago
unironically yes lol
860.
by voldacar 6y ago
Deep inside me I hold a hope that one day we can return to GUI design like this. My human soul demands more than the bleakness of material UI
861.
by voldacar 6y ago
Video games are indeed a form of media, but I think it is misleading to say they are art in the same sense as this author intends. Art and mass entertainment are only superficially similar, and most video games are made to entertain. Video
862.
by voldacar 6y ago
It is interesting to note that if you read Roman generals' letters from the fourth/fifth centuries AD, they seem like they have no idea that their civilization is in the late stages of decline, something totally easy for us to rec
863.
by voldacar 6y ago
Amazing and sad story, with some very poignant passages > Frank had stood on the same patch of shop floor and been told about the death of his father, then his mother, now his girlfriend. . . . So the shop wasn’t only a place of business
864.
by voldacar 6y ago
I don't even want to imagine the spin/stall characteristics of that thing
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by voldacar 6y ago
Entire volumes could be written about that exchange alone
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by voldacar 6y ago
I've never had issues finding A4 paper in the US. Not sure why you'd use it, but it's there if you want it.
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by voldacar 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24318367 Here's one, with a few more in comments. There were a bunch more posted over the past ~72 hrs that I can't seem to find now
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by voldacar 6y ago
I'm loving all these TUI libraries being posted here lately.
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by voldacar 6y ago
Radio Rwanda comes to mind too
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by voldacar 6y ago
except punk is kitsch now, and arguably has been for quite a while

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