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by zelos 8y ago
I just bought No Thank You Evil and I've had a couple of good games with my 7 year old son. He's also played once as Narrator (DM) with me as a player and loved it. The 3 adventures it comes with are a little weak IMHO, although
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by zelos 8y ago
I think it reduces some mental load because it documents the interface: you don't have to look up which flags are valid for which functions, the types tell you. Plus, with a small amount extra code you can do things like iterate over a
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by zelos 8y ago
And a lot seem to be "...is experimenting with..."
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by zelos 8y ago
Anandtech updated the benchmarks eventually: the massive performance drop that they attributed to meltdown/spectre patches vanished. https://www.anandtech.com/show/12625/amd-second-generation-r...
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by zelos 8y ago
"At least we're not doing planning poker" was a running joke response to any kind of crazy process stuff we were forced to do on my last team. Maybe it works better for small projects/teams, but in my experience it'
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by zelos 8y ago
It does seem like something is missing in the comparison. High end x86 CPUs draw something like 30W idle , which would drain an iPhone X's battery in minutes. Do Apple/Arm really have some magic technology that makes their CPUs o
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by zelos 8y ago
Hopefully DataViz Inc don't complain about the choice of name.
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by zelos 8y ago
Games console CPUs support those kind of instructions, don't they? To some extent, didn't Intel go down this road with VLIW: trying to shift the burden of making code fast onto the compiler, instead of the CPU?
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by zelos 9y ago
>If you're looking for card X, the shopkeeper usually has no way of knowing what pack contains that and withholding that pack from you to maximise profit. Although I believe they do weigh Pokemon booster packs to find the ones with
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by zelos 9y ago
> Google’s own app Allo has an option for end-to-end encryption but the company says it will no longer invest in it. I really don't understand Google. Wasn't Allo a tent-pole item at Google I/O a year or so ago, and now it
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by zelos 9y ago
I think this is depressingly true. As a pure technical person, there is a limit where your technical skills will take you in many companies. I've been stuck as "the guy who quietly fixes the problems no one else can figure out&quo
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by zelos 9y ago
For every story like this, though, there are probably 10 where the new hire didn’t know better than everyone else. I know I’ve dealt with plenty of people like that.
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by zelos 9y ago
Have the meltdown/spectre patches really had a roughly 30% effect on compilation performance on Intel CPUs? The i7-8700K went from 22 compiles/day to 14. https://www.anandtech.com/show/11859/the-anandtech
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by zelos 9y ago
Although that approach to string creation tends to fall apart quickly in non-English languages: adjectival agreement, plural rules etc.
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by zelos 9y ago
For me Google maps loads fine, then a second or two later it will freeze for ~5 seconds, then go back to working normally. (i7 MBP 2017, OSX 10.13.3, Firefox 59)
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by zelos 9y ago
The mindset involved in complex programming feels quite similar to writing long-form fiction to me. It seems common for people writing novels to consider 4 hours of actual writing a day to be a maximum, beyond which their productivity plumm
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by zelos 9y ago
>Facebook was a huge part of public, civil and private life, and the government used it to disseminate information to the public. Seriously? I know they probably have bigger things to worry about in Myanmar, but that's pretty crazy.
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by zelos 9y ago
You might be surprised at how much family changes things. You have to factor in: - Assuming two working parents initially, either lose one salary or pay >$1000/month on child care per child until school (unless you're lucky an
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by zelos 9y ago
> but I’ve still seen a couple of the MacBook keyboards fail in their short life. One had a key become sticky and unreliable, the other had its space fall off. The return key on my 2 month old 13" Macbook Pro has already lost its &q
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by zelos 9y ago
Yes, there was a healthy dose of facetiousness in my comment ;-) That said, there is definitely something to be said for learning a lower-level language fairly early on I think. It's much easier to go from worrying about pointers vs va
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by zelos 9y ago
on lower-level implementation details related to how machines interpret code – knowledge that non-computer science students are unlikely to use after they graduate. Yeah, the world really needs a load more developers with no idea how comp
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by zelos 9y ago
That's so depressing. What really gets me is just how bad the actual Peoplesoft product is: in my experience it's unreliable, poorly designed and unpleasant to interact with. My company recently switched away from Peoplesoft fortu
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by zelos 9y ago
Exactly. Auto-executing third party code that has network access privileges seems like a massively bad idea, surely? Especially as it's virtually invisible to most users.
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by zelos 9y ago
An updated screen would be the biggest improvement for me: the contrast ratio and black levels are much worse on the SE than other iPhones.
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by zelos 9y ago
In the UK the practical skills are taught postgraduate in a Legal Practice Course.
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by zelos 9y ago
I was typing a similar response. I did a 4-year MEng in ChemEng and there were only a few non-elective courses in organic and physical chemistry. The bulk of the content is fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, vessel design, safety, control sys
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by zelos 9y ago
Come on, this doesn't trigger your weasel words detector? >An ‘experiment’ that does not capture any data is not an experiment at all. >In retrospect, not capturing data was a strong indicator that this was not a good SHIELD stud
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by zelos 9y ago
I think the same thing. Abandoning servers as it's not their main product is fine, but what about all those developers who want to build a basic CI system? For Android it's simple - a bunch of cheap Dell servers with Linux or some
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by zelos 9y ago
Time for one of them to pull a Ratner? [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ratner
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by zelos 9y ago
On the flip side, for most consumers there are probably several million albums/television series/songs/films a few clicks away. Choosing is still hard.

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