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by zactato 3y ago
Can we all appreciate the fact that this game was developed/produced by Tim Sweeney, who is still very active in Video Game development. I don't know of anyone else who's tenure in the industry is 30+ years.
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by zactato 3y ago
yeah that was my memory of it too. I didn't recall MP until Doom.
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by zactato 3y ago
Isn’t it being pushed through by ultra religious and right wing groups? While I admit I don’t understand the Israeli high courts I do understand the impact of zealous right wing groups forcing unpopular changes to the basic function of the
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by zactato 3y ago
I recall playing this back in the day. It was super cool. My Dad pulled it from the DEC internal file sharing service and brought it home. I long believed that it was a figment of my imagination until I heard that ID had developed a demo fo
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by zactato 3y ago
Super cool So nice having a positive news story for once.
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by zactato 3y ago
I don't understand the smugness of Software Engineers' belief that pure remote is the only option. It seems short-sighted. If everything is remote then companies don't care where they hire from. Whats the difference between y
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by zactato 3y ago
I know that this is not a popular opinion here. I think its hard to put the genie back in the bottle, but I also think a tremendous amount of innovation happens in person. Existing companies will probably continue to operate just fine, but
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by zactato 3y ago
I didn’t go to Harvard but lived in Cambridge and had a bunch of friends there. Everyone I met was pretty fucking smart, but I guess that could be selection bias.
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by zactato 3y ago
20 is a lot for some people, but it’s like 5/6 beers most places. Sure in the poorest parts of the country this could make or break, but the list of places where people could afford it is much longer than SV, Boston, NYC. What about su
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by zactato 3y ago
I’m so glad all over my elderly family members have locked down iPhones and iPads. Remember all that tech support you had to do back in Windows 98 days? Modern devices are too complex for most people to really grok. The only sane solution i
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by zactato 3y ago
Frogs are notorious for their selfishness.
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by zactato 3y ago
Unnecessary pedantry. You know what the title meant.
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by zactato 3y ago
Yeah I also remember this. My Dad was at DEC/Compaq at the time and had access to the Windows NT prerelease. He was explaining to me why it was cool, but as an 8 year old I didn't really get it.
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by zactato 3y ago
I agree, Monads don't solve everything, but if we're being pedantic then I would argue that in a functional context you would almost never write fn doTheThing() -> void, raises Error SomeVal x = try doSomethingFallibly()
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by zactato 3y ago
The DEC Alpha was a 64 bit CPU architecture that came out in 1992. Java support it from Java 1.0 to ~ Java 3 Interestingly, I can't find any information on Google about this, but ChatGPT does support this. Unfortunately all the primary
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by zactato 3y ago
Companies start their fiscal years at different points in the year and name the years differently. Some companies name their quarters based on the calendar year that the fiscal year starts in, some do it based on when fiscal year ends. It p
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by zactato 3y ago
I'm not sure that video is evidence for anything more than a single cybertruck existing.
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by zactato 4y ago
Is there research that shows that a well maintained API adds value to large established companies? Maintaining a good API for an ever changing product is VERY non-trivial. Designing easy to consume APIs and writing good documentation requir
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by zactato 4y ago
Even if this is true is it a problem? It obviously has limited how Amazon can scale the product, but I don't think its a scandal worthy of a "gate" suffix. It's just a product/engineering issue. I'm sure someon
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by zactato 4y ago
What are all the teens/20 yos going to do when they wake up one morning and TikTok is turned off? I’m not saying that TikTok or other social media is great, but it would certainly be an interesting social experiment to suddenly force m
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by zactato 4y ago
What does escape mean? GPT4 can't run on my home computer. I don't have the giant pretrained model and I don't have a powerful enough CPU to run it at speed. Would escaping mean copying the entire model somewhere else? Some s
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by zactato 4y ago
If you're referring to Robolab it was actually based on LABView under the hood. LABView is well known drag and drop programming interface built by National Instruments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Mindstorms
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by zactato 4y ago
Don't iPhone routinely get 7 years of support? The iPhone 6s came out in Sept 2015, it can't run the latest iOS, but it can run the previous version which is still getting security updates. https://support.apple.com&#x2
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by zactato 4y ago
Who hurt you?
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by zactato 4y ago
I mostly buy my eggs from local farms at the farmers market for ~$10. I'm in the Bay area so nothing is cheap. Price have gone up lately as many of the farmers have had to cull based on bird flu. This is a bit more than I'd like t
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by zactato 4y ago
Hasn’t Lisp been the language of choice for CS 101 for several decade at MIT and other universities?
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by zactato 4y ago
I’m sorry this sounds a little like magic, I am not a physicist, but thought you couldn’t alter inertial mass
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by zactato 4y ago
Sure there were some real gun mods in doom, but the gun sprite resolution was crap, the limitations of the engine added limitations to map design and while multi-player was possible it wasn't anything like the post-quakeworld era.
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by zactato 4y ago
I remember playing one of the early CS betas as a Half-life mod in ~1999. It was such a huge leap in gameplay and style from anything else out there. Most FPSs up to this point were SciFi based, guns like the BFG and plasma guns. Counterstr
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by zactato 4y ago
Is this more aimed at Shareholder happiness or internal perception among employees?

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