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by wheelie_boy 7y ago
I remember when I was about 9 or 10 I beat this game on its hardest difficulty level, even though I was not that great at chess. I just set two computer players on hardest difficulty against each other and recorded every move they made, th
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by wheelie_boy 7y ago
Yes, it's not like this is a problem that hasn't been dealt with in other media. I think one of the things that makes it more difficult in the case of facebook is that the ad targeting makes it possible to serve specific ads only
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by wheelie_boy 7y ago
Here's how I think about it. Let's take the example of changing how to move the cursor from having the magnifier to dragging the cursor directly & using the spacebar long press trackpad. Scenario 1 is that Apple has enough mo
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by wheelie_boy 7y ago
This is what all people who are set in their ways say about all change. It is very unlikely that people are changing things just for fun.
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by wheelie_boy 7y ago
Thanks for posting this - it's remarkably hard to search for.
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by wheelie_boy 7y ago
Yes, the story is not that notepad is in some weird place in windows 10 - it is still where most HN readers know to find it. The story is about how regular people deal with computers, as can be read in the comments. It's like that stor
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by wheelie_boy 7y ago
> No one counterfeits Kindles on Amazon because no one but Amazon is allowed to sell Kindles on Amazon. The lack of Kindle counterfeits there gives no useful information about the difficulty of keeping counterfeits out of markets that al
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by wheelie_boy 7y ago
A cynical reading: - The federal minimum wage in the U.S. is too low and should be raised (We'd like it if Walmart had higher labor costs) - Human-induced climate change is real, serious, and action is needed from the public and privat
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by wheelie_boy 7y ago
I just checked with zenni optical, and with his prescription it did recommend the 1.67 lenses. The total was $59. Not to say that $200 isn't a great deal compared to Luxottica, and he did say that he was very particular about his fram
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by wheelie_boy 7y ago
Yeah, I was surprised that he bought his final pair of glasses online for such a high price. Maybe the frames were expensive? I've used zenni optical for many pairs of glasses, and they're much cheaper.
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by wheelie_boy 8y ago
The only place I would cycle regularly is the Netherlands, because of the infrastructure and the attitude of drivers. In the US, I have heard that the statistics around biking to work every day is that the median lifespan is higher, but the
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by wheelie_boy 8y ago
Because spotify owns the podcast companies, and podcasts have paid ads, spotify directly benefits if they are played more often. That is not the case with netflix. But they are doing some things the same as netflix, in that they are also c
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by wheelie_boy 8y ago
So would it be similar if Spotify created some of the media that it put on its own platform? For example if it just bought two podcast companies?
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by wheelie_boy 8y ago
Yeah, the context for this is that spotify recently launched a website & EU legal complaint against apple for not opening up its platform sufficiently to competitors (or not sufficiently prioritizing feature work desired by competitors
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by wheelie_boy 8y ago
He's specifically talking about Linux on the Desktop, which is hovering around 2% market share ( http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide/... ) It might be that bitcoin is similar to l
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by wheelie_boy 8y ago
In general, in favor of as many correctness and other checks at compile time as possible. Make tools as powerful as possible. I really liked this tweet: "What if... - your programming language required you to write useful docs, - usi
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by wheelie_boy 8y ago
In this case the punishment fit the crime - break terms of enterprise distribution cert, get enterprise cert pulled. However, it's very possible that if a smaller company did this that all of their certs, apps, and dev accounts would g
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by wheelie_boy 8y ago
I'm not saying that I have requirements, just that there are different considerations when choosing a tech stack other than compile/run speed. Several cross-platform UI frameworks do exist, all with different pros and cons. I don
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by wheelie_boy 8y ago
This is a very silly argument: compile and runtime speed is not the only consideration to take into account. Otherwise we would all be programming assembly, or heck, just write machine code directly and skip the time-consuming assembler. Sp
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by wheelie_boy 8y ago
I liked this siggraph presentation about how some people at NVidia see the games industry adopting a more VFX-like pipeline, for a lot of the same benefits you talk about: http://on-demand.gputechconf.com/siggraph/2018&
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by wheelie_boy 8y ago
Metropolis has lots of advantages, but it has serious problems for realtime or animated applications, in that it tends to flicker or have noticeable low-frequency noise. This is less of a problem for stills. RTX can absolutely accelerate p
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by wheelie_boy 8y ago
Seems like a better fit than Socialcam
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by wheelie_boy 8y ago
Yeah, that seems like a better strategy than a salty comment, which almost always just gets downvoted too.
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by wheelie_boy 8y ago
Depends on carrier availability, but I believe Wifi Calling does this.
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by wheelie_boy 8y ago
Apparently Claudia is banned from there.
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by wheelie_boy 8y ago
Between being written by a comedy writer and the unlikely scenario, it seemed clear to me that this was satire, poking fun at banksy's relentless shtick.
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by wheelie_boy 8y ago
I liked this take on what it would be like living with banksy: https://medium.com/@electrolemon/the-year-of-living-with-ban... There's only so much of his shtick that I can stomach.
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by wheelie_boy 8y ago
If the hacker news crowd was the target market, then sure. But honestly, we're probably just a blip.
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by wheelie_boy 8y ago
Game dev is a meat grinder. While making games is a great way to learn programming, and is a lot of fun, the working conditions make it an untenable career choice for most.
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by wheelie_boy 8y ago
Agreed. It's most likely a sin of omission, creating a broken system because it's not in their interests to fix the general counterfeiting problem. There may be ancillary benefits, like increased seller competition into their mon

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