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by w0utert 8y ago
Well yes of course, I understand the psychological tricks restaurants use to increase 'perceived value'. That doesn't mean I agree with them though, or that it makes the food any better. Maybe I'm atypical, but for me it
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I've not seen this in many places, actually. I also don't think it would really work for me, as I would never be able to guess whether a half-portion wouldn't be less than I wanted to eat. It would be so much easier if it was
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This is something that always strikes me as very odd when visiting the US. The portions are just So.Frigging.Huge, to the point it becomes outright comical. If I order a 'small' pizza in the US, I get something way bigger than the
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Why? I've been running pi-hole on the home network for over 2 years already, and indeed sometimes I get complaints about shopping sites not working, but there is always an alternative site that does work so we order there instead. Just
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On the other hand, I also feel that it doesn't hurt to if you deviate from your own rules sometimes, instead of being all fundamentalist about it. I try to live by a whole set of self-imposed rules because I think they are beneficial t
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This is of course true, to the extent that it can take a long time for a path-traced image to converge to a low level of noise. But there are significant advances in using advanced filtering techniques (e.g. temporal filters) that are alrea
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Yes I think it more or less works that way. A hyperthread has its own set of registers and stack and everything, but for doing any actual work it shares the same functional blocks as any other thread running on the same core. I do think tha
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In a way, it seems strange nobody made a full-blown iPhone/iPad iOS emulator yet. Not a simulator like the one Apple makes, but an emulator like for game systems. I would guess the amount of information available about iPhone hardware
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Agree. Even if you don't plan to be an expert Java developer it is still useful to learn it, and the effort should not be huge. Especially not for someone with experience in other languages. It really isn't a difficult language to
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That's a nice list, quite complete. Many console exclusives also use custom engines by the way, e.g. Decima for Horizon:ZD, KillZone and Death Stranding, Naughty Dog has their own engine (don't know the name), etc. The OP's p
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An empty racetrack that is perfectly mapped out in advance, at that. Plane autopilot just automates the control inputs/outputs that are needed to follow a predefined flight plan. For anything beyond cruising or following pre-programmed
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>> I left Philips to be an OS developer for the 3DO, and left them to be an OS developer for the PlayStation. Ah, those were the daze Third time’s a charm ;-P
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>> Does it mean that you want to marginalise people that are not too wealthy? Because if you increase prices those better off would still be able to come. Obviously the answer to that is yes. Maybe not the ‘want to’ part, but surely
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Neither the article nor the research seem to even suggest there is a connection, so the headline is pure clickbait IMO.
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I don't feel any of these things provide people with more or better opportunities than those I have here, or elsewhere in many western-European or Asian countries. The universities here are great, and actually rank equal to or better t
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>> I feel the US is the closest example in the modern world to capitalism unchecked - with both the pros and cons that entails. Please enlighten me which parts of the 'pros of capitalism' I'm missing out on as a non-U
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This is going from the assumption that ad companies target ads based the potential value they create for you . The only goal of any targeted ad is to persuade you to voluntarily transfer your money to the company that paid for the ad. The
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>> And like 3-5 million other people a year, the homeless person walking across the street was killed in a car accident. 3-5 million people a year? Are you adding all road fatalities worldwide together here, including those in count
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by w0utert 9y ago
Exactly this. My girlfriend uses the same reasoning to downplay the level of tracking Facebook can do on her. 'Yes I use Facebook, but I don't put any personal information on it, and I have everything set to private'. The pro
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That's also an interesting perspective, it's not just about accidents caused by irresponsible behavior, but also about a difference in how people mentally engage the task of driving. To me, these kinds of observations only solidif
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I have vscode open with a relatively small project here, and excluding the CPP tools it sits at about ~500M used. If I include the CPP tools it's about ~1.5GB. Not as bad as Slack, but I wouldn't call it 'fine' consideri
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>> I think the idea that Facebook is putting democracy in peril is a bit farfetched. Why? History has proven at least a few times that he who controls information can control people, and it never ends well. Even if Facebook is not d
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Yes, so far the statistics we have about the safety of AI cars are mostly meaningless to say anything useful about how they would scale if applied universally. Another thing that bothers me is how often the argument 'human drivers are
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>> One fatality in 4 million miles is safe? Humans are 20 times better than that. And this is considering the fatality rate for all human drivers, including those that are drunk, playing on their smartphone, sleepy, speeding, street
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This is not wrong, but it ignores that in terms of reliable software architectures, it’s very often still better to model change using strictly immutable data types. Often, not always. As usual the truth is somewhere in the middle, which is
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That was very interesting and helpful, thanks!
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One thing I don't fully understand is why these accelerators all have relatively small memory sizes? Is it purely because of cost? The most expensive Tesla accelerator I see in this list has 16 GB, which sounds like a lot, but it'
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'Pathfinding' in the scope of an RTS means a little more than just 'pathfinding' in the scope of a graph. If you had read the article you would have seen that there is a lot of dynamics behavior going on that is essentia
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Game programming is probably the best way to learn to program many, many kinds of things ;-) On the topic of state machines, I totally agree with the observation that games are a prime example of their usefulness. I've been working on
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6km one-way isn't very remarkable here indeed, in terms of distance I would consider it a short bike ride. I'm cycling ~8km each day myself now, but I have colleagues who do ~15km one-way each day, which I would consider on the hi

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