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by zdragnar 1y ago
A single picture that looks decent on a modern screen, taken from a modern camera, can easily be larger than the original Doom 2 binary.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
The original Doom 2 ran 64,000 pixels (320x200). 4k UHD monitors now show 8.3 million pixels. YMMV. Of course, Doom 2 is full of Carmack shenanigans to squeeze every possible ounce of performance out of every byte, written in hand optimized
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by zdragnar 1y ago
They made same day delivery a real thing in my town, which was amazing when I woke up one day with norovirus and was desperate to get some soup and Pepto bismal. Since I hadn't had time to game in a long time, and now had nothing but t
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by zdragnar 1y ago
We have all of the above and more. Alas, my wife is more afraid of our rat and pine snakes than she is of mice and rats. Fortunately, the pine snakes only try to move into our house and sheds once or twice a year or so.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
> What's insane about all these discussions is that NOBODY IS HACKING X SERVERS I knew someone who worked for a small loan type company. Passwords were stored in plain text, but even worse, the login form didn't actually check
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Based on my experience working alongside TCS, incompetence seems far more likely. If we'd asked for a back door, we'd have gotten a solid wall. Then again, my experience may have left me a little jaded.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
> High-quality glass glossy displays are often easy to use even in full daylight, I guess Apple cheaped out on their glossy displays, because I definitely didn't care for mine in full daylight
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Having only dabbled the slightest in hardware... are functional frequencies topping out at 6 kHz useful for memristors in modern computing? I feel like having separate components each magnitudes faster would be better than combining them in
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by zdragnar 1y ago
To be honest, this is what has always confused me about the land acknowledgements that are popular at the opening of events in various circles... it's not like any of the people doing this have an intention of giving the land back and
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Back when I was on some medication to help me sleep, it came with the side effect of having vivid dreams... and if I didn't fall asleep fast enough after taking it, I'd get hallucinations while my eyes were closed. I knew I wasn&#
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by zdragnar 1y ago
The predictions of Ehrlich in "the population bomb" and the club of rome were undone within a few years with the "green revolution" which saw massive increases in food production. Ehrlich in particular was suggesting mas
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by zdragnar 1y ago
> rebrands of Chinese conglomerates Eh, I've got a very reasonably priced Haier fridge that I've had no issues with at all. Maybe I'm just lucky, and it definitely helps that there's no built in ice maker or water dis
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by zdragnar 1y ago
I don't think the argument was ever that acetaminophen or other compounds were exclusively the cause of autism. If anything, it is likely that they activate the genes during development that are responsible.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
It looks and smells like the big tobacco coverup, which I suspect it isn't. Even so, we'll know more if the Texas lawsuit gets to discovery and more than what was allegedly leaked is revealed.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
I think what I was trying to get at is that we see RFK at the podium because he doesn't trust the FDA is regulating industry as it should. Food should contain food, not dyes and other things, etc etc. > That is a laundered Daily Cal
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by zdragnar 1y ago
FWIW, I do recall hearing that Trump ran with the announcement ahead of RFK's plan, so it's a good possibility that it got over-hyped. But, the question was why is RFK involved? The answer, it appears, is that he is putting the bl
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by zdragnar 1y ago
RFK didn't make it all up. J&J execs have been concerned about a possible link for years, based on leaked memos: https://www.financialexpress.com/world-news/us-news/bombshel... The link isn't solid,
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Their own execs showed concern over the connection years ago, according to leaked memos (to the DCNF, for whatever that's worth): https://www.financialexpress.com/world-news/us-news/bombshel... They're u
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by zdragnar 1y ago
The claims and lawsuit are probably based on the internal memo from J&J execs who acknowledged the possible connection: https://www.financialexpress.com/world-news/us-news/bombshel... The leaked memos went to
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by zdragnar 1y ago
I'm not sure that people downvoting you have been around northerners much. Down here in the upper midwest US, we tend to consider 4 or 5C to be shorts weather in the spring. I've a friend who would wear flip flops / sandals o
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by zdragnar 1y ago
DI (generally) tends to point more towards constructing objects or systems. This would be a bit closer to a functional equivalent of the OO "template method" pattern: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_met
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Based on interviews I've run, people who use AI heavily have no problem also using it during a live conversation to do their thinking for them there, too.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
> AI tools just made it worse. That's why it isn't necessary to add the "to be fair" comment i see crop up every time someone complains about the low quality of AI. Dealing with low effort people is bad enough without
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by zdragnar 1y ago
To be fair, it would be rather odd to use Asia in the title only for the article to refer more oe less exclusively to China or Vietnam.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
That same CEO would likely also push to have all of the things including no bugs, then complain people aren't productive enough when arbitrary and unrealistic deadlines aren't met. Source: my personal experience. Very few of the m
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by zdragnar 1y ago
I really hope nothing bad happens at the three gorges dam. There's nearly half a billion people that would have to be evacuated, and tens of millions who likely wouldn't be able to evacuate in time due to proximity. I'd rathe
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by zdragnar 1y ago
I think this is missing an important point: the developers in question thought they were being faster, when they were in fact the opposite. I'd love to see a larger study on more experienced users. The mismatch between their percepti
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by zdragnar 1y ago
You need a judge and jury for prison sentences for criminal convictions. If the government decides to prosecute the matter as a civil infraction, or doesn't even bother prosecuting but just has an executive agency hand out a fine, that
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by zdragnar 1y ago
You are free to be as skeptical as you like. You might even imagine I made up both of those people. For all you know, I'm actually one of your split personalities who made that comment just to troll you, and this one too. I spoke in ge
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by zdragnar 1y ago
It really depends on the person. I know someone who grew up in rough neighborhoods, has been in fights, been stabbed, divorced alcoholic father and drug using mother, and yet got a master's degree, a fulfilling career, marriage and fam

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