xsmasher

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by xsmasher 6y ago
>I think the Tech-Tech portion of a "Tech"company (i.e. SW engineers, chip designers) is probably decently good at being a meritocracy. I don't think that's true at all. Engineers are not some sect of logical beings t
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by xsmasher 6y ago
This seemed like the weakest argument in the article; as arm becomes more popular it will get more support.
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by xsmasher 6y ago
This is in a beta of iOS14. It's expected to have changes, sometimes breaking changes. This is the beta process working exactly as it should.
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by xsmasher 6y ago
The developer can fix it by either (1) querying "is there clipboard content?" instead of copying it every few keystrokes or (2) stop altogether if there is no legit purpose. It sounds like this feature is working as intended - clo
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by xsmasher 6y ago
It changed from "OS X" to "macOS" in 2016.
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by xsmasher 6y ago
Which data? I see > Police killings are one of the leading causes of death for young men in the United States.[5] A study by Esposito, Lee, Edwards predicts that 1 in 2,000 men and 1 in 33,000 women die as a result of police use of deadl
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by xsmasher 6y ago
it sounds like .m4b is just a flag that tells the player "treat this as a book, not a music file"
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by xsmasher 6y ago
"You have won" caps would disappear mysterious from the factory floor. You need a system where no one can identify a winner until after the caps have been printed, and the soda has been bottled and shipped.
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by xsmasher 6y ago
"Stock buy-backs and dividends" is what you are supposed to do when you have more cash than you can reasonably use. Give it back to the shareholders so they can try their luck somewhere else.
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by xsmasher 6y ago
Divinity: Original Sins was that game for me; everything I loved about U7, minus the annoying bits (collecting arrows, eating food every x minutes, time-of-day changes for NPCs).
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by xsmasher 6y ago
Not surprising; This isn't the first time a hardware manufacturer has screwed this up. At a mobile game dev company we had a hardcoded list of bogus IMEI numbers. If a device returned an IMEI that was on the blacklist, we'd use an
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by xsmasher 6y ago
Blender is not a professional CAD software, but "good for making nice pictures" is understating its abilities; as a hobbyist I've modeled a dozen or so objects for 3D printing and they slice/print just fine. There are ev
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by xsmasher 6y ago
I read that as "for each day or protests," not "each day going forward."
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by xsmasher 6y ago
And chicken (bird flu) and pork (swine flu).
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by xsmasher 6y ago
I was curious what the benefit was to the company if the unemployment insurance is already paid (sunk cost) so I looked it up - > Employers with more unemployment claims against them will pay a higher rate, and employers with fewer clai
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by xsmasher 6y ago
Feynman's own words - >I don't think of the problem as between socialism and capitalism but rather between suppression of ideas and free ideas. If it is that free ideas and socialism are better than communism, it will work its
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by xsmasher 6y ago
Suppose you had a car worth $400k. What assurances would you want before loaning it to someone to drive cross-country and back? Would you want to see their driving record? Would you want to know their financial situation?
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by xsmasher 6y ago
"Tricks exhausted" means when the trick is no longer sufficient to keep apartments filled; when the only way to entice new renters is lower absolute rents. No one is going to click on a $2000 apartment with six months free when th
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by xsmasher 6y ago
Two working people may need two cars; two unemployed people need one or zero cars.
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by xsmasher 6y ago
Police should be required to get private insurance. Bad police should get priced out of the job as their insurance premiums make the job less and less profitable. The worst should become unemployable as police when they become uninsurable.
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by xsmasher 6y ago
If your center channel speaker was broken or misconfigured, it would have exactly this effect. Most dialogue comes through the center channel. Also if one speaker was connected backward it would cancel out part of the mix.
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by xsmasher 6y ago
Making your own game engine requires experience as well. If you've already used other engines, you'll have some idea of the "shape" that a UI library or texture loading system should take.
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by xsmasher 6y ago
Maintaining a high signal-to-noise ratio so that the platform continues to be useful and interesting.
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by xsmasher 6y ago
The fridge doesn't run continuously, so "needs 600w to run the motor" and "only uses 19w an hour" can both be true.
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by xsmasher 6y ago
Not necessarily for the same products - people cooking at home aren't deep-frying everything. "What I cook for myself at home" and "what I order in restaurants" are two pretty disjoint sets. I'm not even sure t
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by xsmasher 6y ago
The more accurate the rendering is, the more accuracy you expect of everything else. A game with cartoonish or simplified rendering can get away with one attack animation, one "working" animation etc; but once the rendering become
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by xsmasher 6y ago
Typescript makes it convenient to roll your own type- `let draft : Partial<Foo>;` says that 'draft' is shaped like a Foo, EXCEPT all of the fields are optional. If you try to access a field on draft that doesn't exist o
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by xsmasher 7y ago
I'll bow to your experience; we can't just ship the same crops to people. Still, growing crops to feed to cows to feed to people is an inefficient path to getting calories to people. Grow people crops, skip the cows.
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by xsmasher 7y ago
Ruminants CAN eat food that humans can't, but they're not - they're fattened up on grain that could be fed to humans. Feeding that grain to humans would be more efficient.
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by xsmasher 7y ago
I've heard some mention of "two weeks of decline in the number of new cases." That sounds reasonable to me.

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