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by wmil 6y ago
The whole animation to live adaptation idea is equivilant to remaking the original with a new cast, bigger budget, and shorter run time if you're going TV series -> film. Hollywood studios have certain expectations about pacing and
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by wmil 6y ago
You're probably playing on a PC with mouse and keyboard. The Xbox 360 Mass Effect controls were not great, but that was the original release.
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by wmil 6y ago
Part of it is that the demand isn’t there for extreme densities. Producers are focussing on speed. Look at base ram in MacBooks, the growth over time is pretty slow.
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by wmil 6y ago
I think I could have. Just straight up sell the hack as a service. For 1 btc you can make any blue check say whatever you want. 4chan would go wild.
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by wmil 6y ago
There are a lot of web developers who aren't thrilled with Apple's current lineup. They just want to get Chrome and VSCode running without any headaches.
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by wmil 6y ago
Yeah there's a shortage. They end the production run just before Chinese New Year and spin up a new one after. But then covid hit. And many people upgraded their gaming PCs during the lockdown.
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by wmil 6y ago
Food stamps allow wealthy people to hire help for less than it costs to feed their children. Before anyone jumps on me, I'm not saying letting their children starve is a valid solution. But anti-poverty programs unquestionably allow il
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by wmil 6y ago
I fee like I've seen a lot of thick steel plates around the right size sitting around in old workshops. You could probably find something cheaply from a scrap dealer. Thick aluminum or copper seems more rare, I don't know if it&#x
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by wmil 6y ago
It'd be interesting to just try resting it on a 1/4" thick steel plate. The thermal capacity would be so high that it'd never really warm up.
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by wmil 7y ago
A while back (90s?) defence involved corporations adopted a "maximum ip" strategy. So they demand license fees for things like scale model F-15 kits. They want to keep that revenue and expand it, so they try to make video game com
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by wmil 7y ago
The NYT and other media is very friendly to federal bureaucrats who complain about political interference. If the WH was directing them to approve something against their judgment there would have been headlines on major news sites.
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by wmil 7y ago
Well there's that moment of panic where you aren't sure if it's a group of goblins or goats.
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by wmil 7y ago
I haven't heard about heat before, but generally for the flu high (50%) humidity is very helpful.
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by wmil 7y ago
One hopes that they'll use the money to release a Mac version that isn't terrible.
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by wmil 7y ago
There's a great tweet about offices... "Is it weird to be jealous of the corporate dystopia workspaces from 1990s movies? Neo would be sharing that space with 4 people in an open office plan today." https://twitter
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by wmil 7y ago
I blame aging legislators and the obesity epidemic.
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by wmil 7y ago
They were selling their own ads based on Facebook's numbers, then had to refund advertisers when they found out the truth.
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by wmil 7y ago
There's one lesson here about debugging problems with unintuitive solutions. There's a second lesson here about not trusting sales people.
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by wmil 7y ago
It's pretty clear that the current Ontario emergency alert system doesn't have enough checks. They need to pause the whole system and add in an external approval before messages are sent out. Also everything is sent out at the &qu
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by wmil 7y ago
Young men seem driven to compete for little reward. There's no need to try to intellectualize it.
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by wmil 7y ago
> That or these jobs turn interesting people into those who believe they should be magnets for the opposite sex, which tends to be a turn-off for most people. Tech selects for people who are object focussed as opposed to people focussed.
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by wmil 7y ago
Here's what the problem was. The King St Project dramatically improved transit. Tens of thousands of people were getting home earlier. This was good for riders. However there were a few nice but not noteworthy restaurants that got a lo
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by wmil 7y ago
That doesn't generate any consulting fees for their friends.
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by wmil 7y ago
That's unlikely to happen. Most shootings are excused by claiming the officers life was in danger based on the information he had. It's going to be hard for them go before a judge and say that they needed to shoot to protect the r
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by wmil 7y ago
From the article: "This espionage operation is particularly shocking if we consider that Assange was protected by asylum" I'm just pointing out the over the top outrage. It would be a better article if it just described what
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by wmil 7y ago
Does anyone actually find this "shocking"? It's pretty much what I expected.
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by wmil 7y ago
They had the exact problem I was looking to avoid -- the SNK games were giant ROM cartridges, up to 41MB. Later larger. Chopping up the data and loading just the graphics needed for each fighting game match is what created the loading times
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by wmil 7y ago
But if it had 4MB of ram, the size of a large SNES ROM cartridge, it could get away with only loading the base game once. Then do additional loading for the occasional enhanced feature. The Sega CD only had 512 KB of normal RAM. Far less th
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by wmil 7y ago
What's really interesting is how long 6502 variants lasted. They mentioned the NES, but the SNES also used a 16 bit variant similar to what the Apple IIgs used. Starting in 1995 Nintendo included the SA1 chip in some cartridges, which
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by wmil 7y ago
They might be using a fan / windcatcher system to create pleasant breezes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windcatcher

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