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by DerDangDerDang 5y ago
Well put. The book has pride of place on my ‘wonderful bullshit’ shelf - while not particularly believable, it’s still intellectually compelling.
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by DerDangDerDang 5y ago
Good question. It’s been a while since I read it, but iirc things like hunger or fear he says they attributed to specific organs (and provides bits of ancient text to support the idea) - personified voices he reserved for reasoning or inspi
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by DerDangDerDang 5y ago
This article’s main purpose seems to be to fill the gap you observe: “ Perhaps you might have also picked up on one of the more discreet but omnipresent characteristics of Schuiten’s work (and thus the Solarpunk aesthetic), which is his und
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by DerDangDerDang 5y ago
There’s a fixed layout version of the ePub standard too, allowing PDF quality if that’s what you’re after.
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by DerDangDerDang 5y ago
Friends of mine used to camp in this cave!
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by DerDangDerDang 5y ago
Hey it’s Arthur the c++ blogging pumpkin guy
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by DerDangDerDang 5y ago
No. It just means Nvidia need to give some kickbacks to the fantastically corrupt ruling party. Really hard to see this as anything other than a shakedown attempt by people who don’t understand that you can’t keep an ip licensing company in
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by DerDangDerDang 5y ago
I found the source of the Cal3d library quite readable, taught me a lot about basic blending and sparse key frames back in the day
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by DerDangDerDang 6y ago
Aha that makes sense, thanks In the U.K. (at least while I was growing up) we had ‘Bombay mix’[1] which included your version of bhujia. Bhaji and Pakora seem to be interchangeable in British-Indian cuisine. If the bulk is onion it’s called
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by DerDangDerDang 6y ago
Thanks, I always thought saag was any sauce made primarily from leafy greens
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by DerDangDerDang 6y ago
Auto playing video with audio underneath your GDPR trap? Sorry Indy, that’s the last click you get from me.
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by DerDangDerDang 6y ago
Any idea if this sort of data is still available? I’m kinda sad that theyrule didn’t live on and become an institution, honestly
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by DerDangDerDang 6y ago
Wow I was surprised it was so long ago! Assuming you were thinking of theyrule - seems it’s sort of still online but requires flash http://www.theyrule.net/2001/
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by DerDangDerDang 6y ago
Anyone else noticed their ad blocker/s hammering their cpu on YouTube (specifically) the last few weeks?
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by DerDangDerDang 6y ago
There’s more than one way to tell the same story. Word choice can colour the reader’s perception subtly. Rhythm and pacing matter. Use of poetic devices and subtext make some tellings of stories much richer than others. Some writing simply
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by DerDangDerDang 6y ago
Unfortunately in many places tasks that don’t fix bugs or create features never get assigned. Stupid, but still. In that case it is good to squeeze in refactorings in the same mental area. Even so, for everyone’s sanity they should be in se
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by DerDangDerDang 6y ago
The latest generation of consoles have (or at least have been slated to have for some time) very significant improvements in IO bandwidth. To the extent that it may make sense to use file formats that map very closely to in-memory formats,
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by DerDangDerDang 6y ago
They worked out that every personal licensee is an advocate, if not an outright evangelist for their product.
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by DerDangDerDang 6y ago
The Altered Carbon books / TV show explore this, both with reusing bodies and growing augmented clones.
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by DerDangDerDang 6y ago
This. If you’re getting less than inflation as an annual raise it’s time to move unless you’re an owner. Keep moving until you land somewhere that doesn’t just say they know your value, but will actually pay for it.
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by DerDangDerDang 6y ago
I guess they do it to discourage on/off subscriptions, which I get. Would be better if they gave a bonus for unbroken subscription instead.
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by DerDangDerDang 6y ago
Yep, I’ve served my years as a dev under that model too :)
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by DerDangDerDang 6y ago
Thanks, I didn’t realise that. They say you get 2020.2.x releases, so you’d hope fixes for show stopping bugs would be back ported. Probably nothing smaller though, which is a shame.
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by DerDangDerDang 6y ago
Jetbrain's model is a good middle ground - you get perpetual access to versions released while your sub was active.
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by DerDangDerDang 6y ago
Yeah, 'ironically' because although your points are quite correct, so are Gibbon1's. 'paradoxically' would have been a better word choice on my part
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by DerDangDerDang 6y ago
That was a wonderful read. After 20 years of C++ and about the same number of hours of Rust, Rust makes me feel like Fire Mario because when I come to do a strict correctness and memory efficiency pass after writing something - it’s already
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by DerDangDerDang 6y ago
Haha, forums gonna forum I guess. Reminds me of the “but how can I trust std containers to allocate for me? Anything could happen!” crowd in the 90s and early 2000s. FWIW I think the Rust community has done itself a disservice by focusing o
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by DerDangDerDang 6y ago
Thanks, that’s illuminating. Seems a counter productive go-to argument given the amount of effort we (c++ coders) generally put in to avoiding non-adjacent memory access :)
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by DerDangDerDang 6y ago
I have not. Does the borrow checker make things difficult? Isn’t there a weak_ptr equivalent? Though honestly, in C++ it is very rare I use something other than vector (potentially wrapped for specific use case, like boost flat_map)
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by DerDangDerDang 6y ago
All true. Ironically the main thing keeping C++ relevant is the lack of a standard cross platform ABI. The moment interop with the C++ ecosystem becomes easier, the newer languages look so much more attractive.

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