DavidNielsen

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by DavidNielsen 4mo ago
I really enjoy The Diplomat, which is also widely praised for the acting and writing. Aside that there are a number of great cooking and foodie shows on Netflix.
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by DavidNielsen 3y ago
Add to this that double glazing and isolation are non-existent, then a lot of energy is wasted.
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by DavidNielsen 3y ago
They are pretty to look at and help prevent soil erosion, so by all means, plant more trees, preferably native species, just don’t claim it will solve climate change.
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by DavidNielsen 3y ago
I feel like the magnificent Frank Krueger’s recent effort to use ML for the purpose of translating cuneiform are relevant in this context. https://praeclarum.org/2023/06/09/cuneiform.html
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by DavidNielsen 3y ago
If you are doing flood control, given the somewhat swampy nature of the surroundings, then having a lot of trees would make sense to keep things dry. They would also help keep things cool during the height of summer, so it is not unthinkabl
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by DavidNielsen 3y ago
Knowing Apple, it is likely to only work on certain devices, especially if they are aiming to be on device, as is their preference for privacy and likely latency reasons, so it will likely be Siri Pro or Siri+
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by DavidNielsen 3y ago
Both games are classics, Indy 4 is one of my favorite games of all time.
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by DavidNielsen 3y ago
Absolutely, but precision was also a bit of a problem for the text based games. I remember Space Quest was the king of this, requiring frequent saving to make it past certain sections where a single accidental button press could cause you t
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by DavidNielsen 3y ago
And that will teach me to proof read, if I recall correctly then this was Larry 3 and it accepted both putting an air sick bag inside a spray can and the can inside the bag, the latter being the correct answer. It has been more than 2 decad
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by DavidNielsen 3y ago
I learned English playing Leisure Suit Larry when I was about 6, with a dictionary next to me, painstakingly translating everything. This turned into a lifelong love of adventure games, with the Space Quest games being an especially fond me
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by DavidNielsen 3y ago
Something proudly declaring itself powered by Malwarize, that sounds comforting.
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by DavidNielsen 4y ago
He had 99 problems, but an heir ain’t one?
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by DavidNielsen 4y ago
Bird Bash QA engineering.
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by DavidNielsen 6y ago
You magnificent beast, I nearly spewed my tea halfway across the room. That is just chef’s kiss perfection.
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by DavidNielsen 7y ago
I feared the same thing but Panic assured me via Twitter that Coda for iOS isn’t dead. Of course this might not mean that they are not abandoning the old app rather than bringing the new one to iOS. I remain hopeful. https://twit
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by DavidNielsen 7y ago
Upgrade to GNOME 3.32 which shipped fractional scaling https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.32/
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by DavidNielsen 7y ago
I’d be sad if Apple stopped selling their chargers, primarily because with their engineering I’m pretty sure I get a safe well engineered product, whereas 3rd parties can display both lower quality and some really concerning cost cutting me
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by DavidNielsen 7y ago
To the point of less wear. My iPhone 5’s Lightening port still works just fine but the phone itself needs replacing. My perfectly usable iPad Air however now has a Lightening port which is so worn out that I need to engage in a voodoo ritua
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by DavidNielsen 8y ago
I rather enjoyed reading the adventure of hitting a problem in a large system, and then working towards narrowing down the specific bug or set of bugs. Such posts have in the past been super helpful for me personally (and to others I imagin
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by DavidNielsen 8y ago
I suspect it’s more that Carmack isn’t one to reminisce to the same degree as Romero. Romero clearly makes games because he loves playing them, whereas Carmack does so as a technical challenge. For Romero, Doom is a highlight of his life fo
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by DavidNielsen 8y ago
People tend to be deeply attached to seeing their family and friends, so the mere hint that the reality of such laws could be purposely weaponizing those emotions is nothing shy of vicious. As a Dane who lives in Brazil I’d be devastated if
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by DavidNielsen 8y ago
The husband of noted game developer Brenda Romero is doing fine. By all accounts, he is selling his old treasures mostly for nostalgia reasons. He has fond memories of those times developing Doom and he wants to share those pieces of gaming
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by DavidNielsen 8y ago
In fairness to Apple they are these days quite the Open Source company. Their main language is fully open source in every sense the word. You can get large parts of their base OS under an acceptable license as well as their stack, much of w
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by DavidNielsen 8y ago
To be honest “eco friend” sounds a lot more like what I’d want my children to be involved with than “shotgun shooting”. According to the website the requirements for “Eco Friend” are essentially doing no harm to the environment, making a sa
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by DavidNielsen 8y ago
I’d certainly not mind helping fund development in some form, if there is some discomfort with charging for the app I’d be happy to see an IAP tip jar.
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by DavidNielsen 8y ago
I like the wood, I think it is nice to see someone go a different route than copying Apple’s all metal, clean look. It’s a warm and organic look which feels fresh. I also suspect that the wood might help the machine dampen noise which would
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by DavidNielsen 8y ago
Except for their desktops models, the base models of even the 5K iMac still ship with a Fusion Drive, and we only just got support for APFS on those configurations with macOS 10.14. As the base models are typically all authorized Apple Rese
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by DavidNielsen 8y ago
I’d posit that such a setup will lead to users with low speed connection or connections which aren’t online constantly to be banned or required to buy a pardon from the site when not fulfilling the seeding requirement (as every site policy
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by DavidNielsen 8y ago
And yet we also gained a lot of value we did not expect, such as the World Wide Web. You cannot predict the true value of basic research in a straight forward manner so let’s just stop. This is about extending our understanding of the unive
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by DavidNielsen 8y ago
People cite Law of Jante to be anti exceptionalism when in reality it is meant and generally used as a means of reminding high and low alike that we are in this together. We are different, but do not think that your view point on our differ

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