TwoBit

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by TwoBit 6y ago
The problem with online gaming for RTSs (and to some degree all skill-based games) is it's unwelcoming because there is too large a disparity between casual players and those that somehow spend hours a day on it.
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by TwoBit 6y ago
It's sad to me that this author's only view of RTS is as an esport. If that's how it is then I'll be fine if there's never another RTS, and 95% of the public doesn't care about esports either.
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by TwoBit 6y ago
Sounds like you are judging that exclamation points are unprofessional.
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by TwoBit 6y ago
That of course is why one of the two US political parties is staunchly against abolishing the electoral college.
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by TwoBit 6y ago
> I'll occasionally mention Azure if only to revel at the spicy takes. Well there are a lot of old school Microsoft haters. I used to know a bunch of Unix guys ~ten years ago whose unstated principle was that anything Microsoft did
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by TwoBit 6y ago
This is very true. So often I hear people arguing that something surely is simple to do and obviously people are idiots for not being able to, all while having no idea whatsoever about the system to which they are referring.
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by TwoBit 6y ago
No good can possibly come from the sale of something in the public interest to a private equity firm. Surely ICANN knew this, and the attempt to go through with it indicates corruption within ICANN.
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by TwoBit 6y ago
Reminds me of the Somalian pirates of five-ten years ago, who were also eventually stopped by defending the targets.
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by TwoBit 6y ago
While a bunch of videos don't prove that pit bull breeds are inherently more dangerous, maybe there's an argument that pit bull physiology makes them more dangerous when they are inclined to be violent. That's a more concrete
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by TwoBit 6y ago
Not if you use some obscure pattern for these added words. Yeah if a hacker saw a bunch of them then maybe it could be deciphered, but wayy better than reusing the same one.
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by TwoBit 6y ago
> attacker can create a website and ask you to join it under the hope you'll reuse your horcrux on the attacker's site. I don't think that reusing the same pepper (horcrux string) for all sites would be best practice.
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by TwoBit 6y ago
I've played on OG PS4 for 8 hours and no significant problems. I heard that OG PS4 actually has significantly less problems than PS4 Pro, due to how the game tuning per-machine was done.
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by TwoBit 6y ago
Isn't this what typically happens to companies as they grow? Technical people get pushed out of power by money people?
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by TwoBit 6y ago
And yet PDF re-writing keeps getting screwed up. Probably because it really is a bad format for this, with the pages of docs notwithstanding.
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by TwoBit 6y ago
What did the 1960s smell like? Nicotine.
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by TwoBit 6y ago
How much better or popular would C be if it never had some of its most egregious flaws such as pointer/array decay, unsafe string functions, signed char, switch fallthrough, short/long/int, etc.?
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by TwoBit 6y ago
How were the individual characters encoded?
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by TwoBit 6y ago
What do you mean by icc being bigger?
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by TwoBit 6y ago
The only type worse than 'int' is 'long'.
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by TwoBit 6y ago
The long-standing problem with Microsoft's internal culture is that it rewards people and teams for 'innovating' where innovation in many cases is just reinvention. I worked at Facebook for years and it now has a similar prob
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by TwoBit 6y ago
> Every interesting subreddit gets deleted. Only if you find racism, misogyny, doxing, foreign infiltration, and hate interesting.
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by TwoBit 6y ago
Ralph Gorin wrote the first practical spell checker in 1970. https://web.stanford.edu/~learnest/les/spelling.htm
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by TwoBit 6y ago
Isn't part of the idea with HTTP2 that the server can see everything you're asking for and more intelligently prioritize vs a bunch of separate independent connections?
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by TwoBit 6y ago
The only silver lining in this is that at least most of what they are doing is reasonable is some level of good, whereas Microsoft's version of this control back in IE6 days was mostly horrific.
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by TwoBit 6y ago
I don't think this is mostly true. Many classes of applications are running perceptively similar to before but accomplishing much more. Easiest example is game software. But it’s true enough for web browser software if you can extract
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by TwoBit 6y ago
I've never understood the launch value. You start an app once a day - or in my case once a week - and run it for hours thereafter. He should have talked about Chrome's speed, which was significantly faster ten years ago, though no
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by TwoBit 6y ago
How often does the computer ticket "quick pick" system generate this combination?
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by TwoBit 6y ago
The fact that it was using a known-good computer algorithm means little. Suppose an actor can set the algo seed and thus the generator can give you whatever results you want. Or the output is intercepted. So many possibilities.
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by TwoBit 6y ago
If that technique made any bike part better, Shimano, Campagnolo, and SRAM or whoever was around at the time would have been doing it.
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by TwoBit 6y ago
I cannot believe that thing is viable.

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