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by yason 8y ago
It would bring in whatever crap the standard libraries from the compiler or the system happen to have. And those libraries aren't written with the mindset of "when this code runs on an A380". Even most non-certified projects
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by yason 8y ago
Cheap scare tactics, painfully slow cinematic gameplay, boring level design and repetitive fights. I made it about two thirds in until I had to give up for sheer disappointment. Disclaimer: I still play Doom and Doom 2 occasionally. Those a
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by yason 8y ago
C is dangerous partly because assembly language is dangerous. We will always need some layer on top of assembly that is mostly unchecked and reflects back to how cpu instructions work. This is probably something we must live with until we h
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by yason 8y ago
It it still quite a lot of energy needed from batteries to maintain airspeed that produces sufficient lift. For short flights, a crossover between an airship and airplane might be an interesting idea. Economic and technical arguments might
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by yason 8y ago
I think human art is only defined in the context of humans (or similarly developed entities). The best paintings of human history won't have much artistic value outside human viewers such as pets or possibly even aliens (should they ex
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by yason 8y ago
That looks like a traditional flood fill which is a different case but I might be wrong. Leaderboard had vector graphics so the program knew analytically where the polygon edges are and it could simply write bytes in the bitmap, in most cas
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by yason 8y ago
The golf games (Leaderboard Golf comes to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jA5eKk10Wo&t=803 ) had to do this because it took incredibly long time to render a 3D map on the screen. No chance those machines could&#x2
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by yason 8y ago
(Warning: the discourse on the nature of art is a classic debate that will likely never end.) Art has a quality that is merely not personal and subjective. Interpretation is personal and subjective but if art was, then anything would do bec
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by yason 8y ago
Then that is already the message—to question what art even is. Computer generated works don't have that, or any message. The process of computer-generating a number of pieces itself might be some form of art, but more like in the for
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by yason 8y ago
What art would that be? Part of art is not just the physical piece but the message it delivers, or a message that can be interpreted in many ways. Computer generated images can learn to do the aesthetic part but if the piece has no human co
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by yason 8y ago
extremist adj 1: (used of opinions and actions) far beyond the norm; I think I should begin to consider the EU plans quite a bit extremist themselves.
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by yason 8y ago
Interesting story in particular, but in general, performance and memory behave like any other resource that is plentiful: they get used up until things are slowish again. Like road space. Things get added on top of each other until the redu
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by yason 8y ago
Indeed, thanks for spotting the thinko. Everyone's income is that much higher (or everyone's taxes are that much lower which I think what I was thinking when writing the sentence).
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by yason 8y ago
From the article: Sin taxes are blunt policy instruments. People who only have the occasional drink are not taking on any great health risks, yet they are taxed no differently than serious alcoholics. But surely the alcoholics are taxed w
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by yason 8y ago
I suppose that for the people actively denying climate change it doesn't matter, actually: it's probably more effective to deny whatever is easiest to deny at any given time. They must only practise the denial because making chang
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by yason 8y ago
What are these US parents actually doing at these parties, then, if they do stay? Drink coffee and try to socialise with other (equally agonised) parents because you somehow have to manage to spend two hours together until the party is over
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by yason 8y ago
It didn't double. It went up one degree in C or K, or +0.4% in K.
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by yason 8y ago
I usually count variable-length things in fours. Try counting the words as you read a paragraph. Three is too inefficient, five is a bit too much for my eyes but four is just about right. Of course, counting items with fixed dimensions like
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by yason 8y ago
It particularly doesn't matter which nominal steps are still remaining, it's the general attitude. If the EU are blind to technology regardless of whether their intentions are good or bad, any such changes that might end up in the
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by yason 8y ago
We really are but I'm not sure what to do about it What to do about it would be for humans to effectively stop taking more from nature than we can give back. The tricky part would be to orchestrate that. If you cut down your consumpt
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by yason 8y ago
The ContentID system seems to be going far beyond what DMCA requires AFAIK the content id system was built to monetise works on YouTube. The system must know where a song or a video is being included to direct advertising money to the ori
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by yason 8y ago
So, such a microbenchmark marks the baseline for how fast you could get via framebuffer. That's like 6 ms per frame. If you spend a bit less than two thirds of the time in rendering you could still get 60 fps. But that's still jus
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by yason 8y ago
As the user of the library I probably don't care about the hierarchies. If I want X the library can provide me a function to get X by looking up its internal substructures and arrays so that I don't have to.
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by yason 8y ago
Most likely you can freely do the installation yourself but it has to be connected or maybe just cross-checked and then signed off by a certified electrician to become a legal installation. That's what homeowners commonly do to save mo
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by yason 8y ago
To me it makes sense. Tablets don't seem so hugely popular and they've become a commodity ages ago. Anecdotally, I've had a few and they all were left sitting in a drawer somewhere pretty soon. While I have my phone for quick
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by yason 8y ago
I would assume they would teach you basic things like these in the driving school? I suppose that's not the case? Learning a "new" thing like that would probably make me hastily begin to wonder what else I might be missing.
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by yason 8y ago
Yet the ultra-high resolution video looks somehow artificial and like it's rendered instead of filmed because of all the sharpness that is not normally seen by the eye because of focusing.
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by yason 8y ago
Is it the trucking companies or the customers that bound the pay? What does it cost to move a container a distance of five days? What would be the annual billable revenue if you decided to buy a truck and start hauling cargo around yourself
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by yason 8y ago
I am oversimplifying here but: * install device that is designed to listen to speech in the house * the device is connected to internet * the device is capable of contacting other internet peers/services/hosts * the device knows a
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by yason 8y ago
Self-service increases the insurance premiums for a gas station about as much as it costs to pay the people who man the pumps It would be interesting to know why this doesn't seem to hold true in other places. I don't think high

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