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811.
by wk_end 3y ago
It's pretty much impossible to overstate how important rice is in the East Asian diet: for a comparison to the west, think something like bread, potatoes, and pasta combined. Home chefs aren't necessarily going to want or need a t
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by wk_end 3y ago
Definitely true of the Switch. I’m not sure if it’s true of their older hardware, though - the FC, SFC, N64 and GC were all fairly advanced for their times and still modestly priced at launch. The N64 in particular was a pile of high-end cu
813.
by wk_end 3y ago
My first-hand experience with rural living comes from time I spent with an ex's family, who lived in rural Montana, and also conversations with her about growing up there. They drove regularly for all the things I listed and more (I st
814.
by wk_end 3y ago
> I only need a vehicle like once a month. My feet get me to anything else I would need on a day to day basis. I don't have anything beyond anecdata here, but this is wildly out of sync with my perception of how most people who li
815.
by wk_end 3y ago
> Your desktop todo app is probably written in Electron and thus has a userland driver for the Xbox 360 controller in it, can render 3D graphics and play audio and take photos with your web camera. Can Electron not "tree-shake"
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by wk_end 3y ago
It's the exact opposite; TypeScript discourages complex interfaces by making them explicit. It's far too easy in a dynamic language for devs to introduce absurdly complex interfaces without understanding the cognitive load it&#x27
817.
by wk_end 3y ago
React is a recent example of the “right” thing being less separated than prior conventional wisdom - we’re now mixing JS, often styling, and “HTML” when the historical powers that be demanded separation.
818.
by wk_end 3y ago
This was almost definitely written in asm, no code generation involved.
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by wk_end 3y ago
I too suspect they could have - but even if they could have, it wasn’t at all clear that it would’ve been the right thing to do. Even for Intel I don’t think it was clear for a while that their gambit was going to pay off and bury RISC (or
820.
by wk_end 3y ago
MAME - the truly excellent everything emulator - is version 0.258, having first been released in 1997.
821.
by wk_end 3y ago
While technically there's a relationship between category theory and substructural logics (of course there is, category theory is general enough that there's a relationship between it and everything), they don't really strike
822.
by wk_end 3y ago
The Haskell community was, quite clearly, heavily influenced by category theory. Monads (as a programming tool) fell out of that, and I suspect this directly influenced the treatment of async in Javascript (and elsewhere). I do think "
823.
by wk_end 3y ago
When people say "dissolve the TSA", they don't mean: "I want all the security theatre, it's just that I want private industry to do it". They mean: "eliminate the security theatre, thus vastly decreasing t
824.
by wk_end 3y ago
This matches my experience and perception. It's a language with no real core identity - every time some new language feature becomes trendy D tries to find a way to shoehorn it in. When everyone in C++-land got a little too excited abo
825.
by wk_end 3y ago
Just curious, which "American running for president"? I googled "Havana Times" and "Globe and Mail" and couldn't find anything about it. Is it an American who would know much about the Canadian news media?
826.
by wk_end 3y ago
Given the contents of their bio, I suspect they’re trolling.
827.
by wk_end 3y ago
Just wanna say that I loved Soldier of Fortune. Lots of FPSs around that time felt really like and plastic-y. SoF was one of the few that made shooting a gun feel satisfying and visceral (and I’m not even talking about the gore, I played th
828.
by wk_end 3y ago
There's a number of interface conventions - especially about really important things - that "legacy" car manufacturers have standardized on but that Tesla jettisons. I frequently rent cars for travel, ride-share, etc., and wh
829.
by wk_end 3y ago
If you walked up to me, built trust with me, and asked me if I wanted more exercise in my life I’d say yes. And yet.
830.
by wk_end 3y ago
Yep. I worked at JS, and there's plenty of ways you're probably "superior" to me. Also, ~almost everyone I worked with at JS was brilliant and I don't say this to disparage anyone, even as engineers there were defin
831.
by wk_end 3y ago
Complaining about the JVM on Android ("a low powered platform") feels like a take that's about 10-15 years out of date. A modern Android phone is several orders of magnitude more powerful, however you might want to measure th
832.
by wk_end 3y ago
Cows produce tons of methane as they digest grass, which is a very potent greenhouse gas. Also, farming doesn’t only happen on natural open plains. Trees get cut down to make farmland.
833.
by wk_end 3y ago
Maybe, metaphorically. I’ve always found The Matrix’s take on this pretty compelling: “I’d like to share a revelation that I´ve had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species, and I realized that you’re not act
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by wk_end 3y ago
Some combination of: * Javascript devs tend not to be good Typescript devs, and don't always know how to build tasteful or easy-to-type interfaces. * ...or maybe they're perfectly fine Typescript devs, and they've made the de
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by wk_end 3y ago
> I can’t think of any other place where people’s sense of net worth is as tied up with their house price as it is in the UK [...] Without diminishing the scale of the crisis in the UK: Canada checking in here.
836.
by wk_end 3y ago
What if you want to learn how to build your own off-the-shelf game engine?
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by wk_end 3y ago
Pretty sure you're thinking of Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book (understandable). Abrash was a developer on Quake and the GPBB has a couple of chapters on it at the end IIRC. Whereas: this book was written by André LaMothe
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by wk_end 3y ago
The Jaguar port is not a port of the SNES port. It was built in-house at Id and was developed by Carmack himself. See Doom Wiki: https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/Atari_Jaguar The SNES port runs on a bespoke engine writte
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by wk_end 3y ago
In case, like me, you wondered what an "Interceptor window" was: "NeXT also have an internal kit called Interceptor Kit, which allows a privileged application to punch a hole through the Postscript windowserver directly to th
840.
by wk_end 3y ago
To be ruthlessly, uselessly pedantic - after all, we're mathematicians - there's reasonable definitions of "academic" where logical unsoundness is still academic if it never interfered with the reasoning behind any proof

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