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by xigency 7y ago
> So I’m trying to get a better understanding of this stuff because I don’t know what L1/L2 caches are, I don’t know what pipelining means, I’m not entirely sure I understand the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerability papers. I wouldn&#
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by xigency 7y ago
I worked on Mortal Kombat X as a programmer late in the game. While I did not suffer from PTSD, I did find the game's graphic violence initially shocking and then later mundane. I work in a different industry now so it's sort of f
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by xigency 7y ago
Exactly. I think the dynamic tooling are things like macros. It seems that JavaScript is being used as the dynamically typed foil, where a better example would be Scheme.
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by xigency 7y ago
> Certainly any company that might prioritize safety (as in the case of a people-carrier) or some other non financial focus may not be as attractive to investors, in some cases - particularly where human life is concerned - maybe that&#x
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by xigency 7y ago
The answer is B.
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by xigency 8y ago
It took me a little bit to find the explanation for this scheme: https://web.archive.org/web/20160909032102/https://smartarch...
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by xigency 8y ago
As someone who never played Diablo 1 & 2, I feel that too. I saw people play Diablo 2 and it felt awesome. Playing through Diablo 3 to the end felt... like something was missing.
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by xigency 8y ago
This agreement requires 30 days notice if your agreement is not terminated for breach of terms. So in the case that you have a dispute, they could in fact be in breach of the terms without that 30 days notice. E.g. They can't just say
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by xigency 8y ago
Is JavaScript really a direct descendant of First Order Logic?
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by xigency 8y ago
Budgets can pass through reconciliation with 50 votes.
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by xigency 8y ago
We definitely have them in the northwest suburbs, most of which are inside of Cook County. I still think that is a good question to ask given Chicago has around 3 million residents.
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by xigency 8y ago
> it's not like the alderman is shaking me down for protection money or whatever. I guess you don't own a Burger King :) Reference: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-al...
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by xigency 8y ago
I thought this as well until I heard a counter-point [0] which was very convincing. The reason Amazon is successful is not because you can shop online (from a catalog) and receive items in the mail. The reason Amazon is successful is becaus
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by xigency 8y ago
I used to work in the online slot machine business and saw some of the patents related to slots. Most of them seemed trivial but it did affect how we could design our games. Certain features of the reels bouncing or paylines being awarded w
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by xigency 8y ago
Don't forget NBC /Universal/Comcast.
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by xigency 8y ago
That's a very common game or example often with tanks. I like this gorilla/banana theme.
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Apple Uses Customs to Seize MacBook Batteries(youtube.com)
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by xigency 8y ago
That's a great example. Imagine waiting for a game to download, playing it, then having to download it again the next day. If you've experienced it once you will remember. If you've never seen it happen, then maybe it seems l
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by xigency 8y ago
If you're a frequent gamer, in an always online situation, have faster internet, don't have bandwidth caps, or you are a collector of indie games then it might not be your experience.
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by xigency 8y ago
Maybe I should clarify my issues with updates. I know for certain that some games have had massive updates on the order of the original title, including Grand Theft Auto, Metal Gear Solid, and Mortal Kombat (I particularly know the last one
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by xigency 8y ago
> just set it so games only update when u decide to play? When I have time to play games, I have maybe 20 or 30 minutes to do so. If I delay updates until I want to play, and the amount of updates is over a few GB's, then it will ta
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by xigency 8y ago
I've seen it with one or more of these games: GTA V Mortal Kombat X Metal Gear Solid 5 / GZ Doom The Witcher Final Fantasy
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by xigency 8y ago
This reminds me of a huge problem with Steam, which is the size and frequency of updates. For the very small number of first party games, like Half-Life or Counter-Strike, updates are cumulative smaller files that contain changes. So if the
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by xigency 8y ago
It's really the other way around, at least in my state. If you quit or voluntarily leave, then you aren't eligible for unemployment. If you are laid off then you are eligible for unemployment. Whether you can collected unemploymen
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by xigency 8y ago
> He wants to do many more experiments because it’s still not clear how, in mass timber buildings, to get compartment fires to reliably burn out on their own, a “cornerstone of fire safety engineering design,” he writes. In this context,
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by xigency 8y ago
I think of Chicago first. The wood city that burned and led to the invention of 'skyscrapers'.
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by xigency 8y ago
If you plaster random devices in public places I think you'll get something like this happening: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Boston_Mooninite_panic
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by xigency 8y ago
> The EE world is notoriously closed/proprietary See the IEEE.
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by xigency 8y ago
If you are interested in that then you should also check out the Espressif ESP32.
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by xigency 8y ago
This is actually terrible.

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