Alphaeus

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by Alphaeus 8mo ago
GUI shell (as opposed to a text-based shell).
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by Alphaeus 1y ago
Here in New Zealand, you're required to be enrolled to vote, even if you never intend to actually vote. Enrolling requires an address. I imagine it's similar in Australia, where actually voting is required by law. I believe in New
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by Alphaeus 2y ago
I would interpret it as completing the game requires 120,000 disk read operations, but the CD drive may fail after just 70,000 read operations.
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by Alphaeus 2y ago
I believe YouTube content was explicitly exempted from that deletion.
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by Alphaeus 3y ago
The C++ ports to mobile and consoles predate Microsoft's acquisition by a number of years.
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by Alphaeus 3y ago
In my experience, blocking entire channels rather than individual videos is much more reliable. Clearing out related videos from your watch history also helps a lot.
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by Alphaeus 3y ago
The Steering Council said their intention is to remove the GIL-build in future: > Long-term, we want no-GIL to be the default, and to remove any vestiges of the GIL (without unnecessarily breaking backward compatibility). We don’t want
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by Alphaeus 3y ago
There's a lot of information that was only ever posted to Twitter (whether you're a fan of that or not). Even if only 0.1% of it was valuable, that's still an incredible wealth of information lost. Think about how many pages
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by Alphaeus 4y ago
I don't think you can reflect onto the standard library anymore, with the recent "strong encapsulation".
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by Alphaeus 4y ago
The Mojang accounts weren't great for security. No 2FA or anything (just security questions), and if you lost your account / it was stolen, you were pretty stuffed. The only way to recover it was to present the transaction ID of y
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by Alphaeus 4y ago
The filter is voluntary for ISPs to join, and the Department of Internal Affairs (which runs it) doesn't have the power to make it mandatory. Also the Office of Film and Literature Classification lets you look at the classifications fo
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by Alphaeus 4y ago
According to the page linked, it was started 12 years ago. So it'll probably survive into the future.
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by Alphaeus 4y ago
These days Mojang provides obfuscation maps, so you can work with proper class and method names (though no parameter or local variable names). There's also been a lot of effort been put into the tooling. Nowadays there exists Gradle pl
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by Alphaeus 5y ago
1.7 was actually the first version to support blending (for the new generator in that update). 1.18 is a new iteration of that.
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by Alphaeus 5y ago
On the website he said that he'd release it as open-source after sales started to die. However now Minecraft is the best-selling game of all time with 238,000,000 copies...
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by Alphaeus 6y ago
When it asks you why you're not interested, one of the options is "I've already watched this video".
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by Alphaeus 6y ago
Bedrock Edition is primarily targetted at the consoles (where running the Java-based Java Edition was difficult). Java Edition is still worked on (and runs on Linux) and they are trying to achieve parity between the two versions.
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by Alphaeus 6y ago
What if you don't know English? Should you be forced to learn English to search your mailbox that is otherwise in your native language?
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by Alphaeus 6y ago
It's a nickname, not a feature to hide your account name.
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by Alphaeus 6y ago
Facebook proper might be tainted with "only old people use it", but Instagram still has massive influence among younger people.
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by Alphaeus 6y ago
I guess if you sell a pre-constructed device, that could work. There would be other issues (you have to spend money on hardware, potentially have to get it shipped, may not be able to get access to the device at all based on your region, ke
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by Alphaeus 6y ago
How much of the general public is going to be capable to set up and maintain a server in their basement? To challenge YouTube, targetting just the programming crowd isn't going to be sufficient.
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by Alphaeus 6y ago
For more serious/less casual games, they generally primarily target computers and consoles than mobile devices. I believe Unreal is more popular for these types of games (whereas Unity and others are more favoured for mobile games). If
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by Alphaeus 6y ago
Using 'is' on integers raises a SyntaxWarning in 3.8+