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by w0utert 7y ago
>> Your assertion in the first paragraph is not actually true. Go to Central Park or somewhere else with no nearby WiFi beacons and try it out. Your test app will not fall back to GPS accuracy. I have done this That's not what
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If these are the 'best worst examples' you can come up with after ~3 years of iOS work, they are not really convincing. I just scanned the CoreLocation docs, and while it is true they do not explicitly state what sources are used
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>> One is a developer reaching out (costs: developer time, management involvement: granting permission). The other is a change in project plans, staffing, workflow and timelines (costs: large, management involvement: massive). I thi
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Pretty much this ^ All these rants about XCode/iOS/UIKit/ObjC somehow being a terrible environment to develop for are presuming there is something significantly better out there. There isn't, it seems. You will find deve
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>> School breakfast programs are good - many children would not eat anything in the morning otherwise Is there any scientific evidence that shows this would actually be a bad thing? I know the amount of evidence that intermittent fa
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I thought it was common knowledge by now that 'caloric intake' is mostly useless as a predictor for obesity? Mostly useless, because it says nothing about the amount of energy the body has to expend to metabolize the foods that co
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The typical desktop for most user is a dumping ground for whatever it is they are currently working on. Or in some cases more or less anything they've been working on for the past years. A dumping ground full of potentially sensitive d
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For one, it needs to install the SDK's for the new deployment target you just installed (be it macOS or iOS), and update the toolchain so it can build for it. It's mildly annoying, but the alternative would be to let you continue
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In the case of TIS-100, I don't think the challenge of the game is 'write assembly' as much as it is 'deal with the somewhat crazy architecture and its self-imposed restrictions'. I've programmed some 6502 and
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Haha, that's a nice story :D Not using a Hello Kitty keyboard at work, but a pretty old IBM one that came with the hand-me-down workstation. I think it has to be at least 20 years old and I would be surprised if it cost more than $20 w
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Actually, in Italy the style of pizza people eat most is baked as a big square piece and cut into rectangles. These are typically eaten at lunch, not dinner. Italians don't really eat pizza at dinner (as I've been told by an Itali
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In my own experience there is a very strong feedback-loop effect attached to the idea of staying optimistic about progress and not getting put off by all the problems you can see in the future. I've realized on many occasions that I wa
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>> Are you self hosting your email now, or are you using a provider like ProtonMail? I switched to FastMail, and and added an MX record for the domain I already had to alias the mail adres to that domain. So now I could easily switc
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by w0utert 7y ago
>> I've dropped pretty much all Google stuff except for GMail, mostly out of laziness (I would have to update hundreds of accounts). I held off for two years moving away from GMail for this reason. A year ago I decided to pull
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>> But this reasoning requires an in-depth model of the world. It isn't enough to just recognize the shape of a bag, because that could be a myriad of other things. Only by having a model and thus understanding of all these diff
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by w0utert 7y ago
Not disputing that apple doesn’t “use 100% recycled materials” now (that would be virtually impossible), but the plastic recycling figure is also not saying much about e-waste from iPhones either. How much plastic is even used making an iPh
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I was just giving my perspective, not trying to draw any comparisons between my for-fun side projects, and game development for a living. That said, I don’t see any context were either investing time getting better at things you know are a
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Yes I agree. I almost feel bad for disagreeing with someone who obviously put so much love in his games and rightfully stands behind them, but I cannot shake off the feeling that there is a huge potential for improvement there that does not
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>> People should not need to diet. They should spend enough calories to burn off excess food This is bad advice, it's been shown over and over again that in the long term people don't manage to lose weight by exercising. T
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>> True, but a compiler will detect unreachable code when you do Interestingly, neither clang nor g++ give a warning for this case: int main(int argc, char **argv) { int x = argc; if (x == 0) { x = 10;
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>> If the code produces sideeffects, a switch statement is not even an option, as it can only compare values (at least in this form) Yes, this is exactly one of the reasons to use switch statements instead of if-elseif-else, were po
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This style of writing switch statements as long sequences of if-elseif-else makes it very easy to mess up when you add additional clauses. It also does nothing to guarantee the conditions are mutually exclusive, which would make the compari
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>> This is nonsense. Saving in a bank expands the bank's ability to lend. Haha, maybe 100 years ago when banking still worked like that this would be true. Nowadays bank deposits are probably almost entirely irrelevant for bank
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So, I know literally nothing about Haskell, and I would rate my knowledge of functional programming theory as 'beginner' at best, but I still get baffled every time when reading Haskell code that implements anything other than som
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You're right, I keep getting confused by this ;-)
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Maybe, but that's hardly relevant when comparing performance of these chips to e.g. Ryzen 2, as there is no way to disable these mitigations on Ice Lake anyway, it's simply what you get out of the box.
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> Intel decided to trade-off part of the IPC improvements for a lower power consumption It's probably not a deliberate trade-off, their 10nm process is simply not good enough yet to get high yields when pushing clock speed. Their 14
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How many of these security leaks still need software patches for Sunny Cove? I thought Intel implemented hardware mitigations for pretty much all of them in the 10th generation chips?
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>> This baffles me. Who are these people that buy games like MK11, a new FIFA game every year(?) I see your point, but Mortal Kombat is not really the best example of a cash-cow franchise that keeps selling the same game over and ov
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by w0utert 7y ago
I quickly scanned the study you linked and its conclusions, but it doesn't seem to draw any reliable conclusions at all. It specifically mentions the results need to be reproduced, are purely observational, depended on self-reported in

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