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by _a_a_a_ 2y ago
I've never owned a games console so I don't know, but I thought they could be used to play DVD films. It makes perfect sense as part of their function. ISTM anyway.
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by _a_a_a_ 2y ago
Fresh cardboard can be a prize bitch too. Even worse perhaps. (source: was picker in a 3M warehouse)
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by _a_a_a_ 2y ago
I said this is where it would help (AFAICS), not that it was the best solution.
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by _a_a_a_ 2y ago
At a guess, a single thread which benefits from as much cache as it can get.
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by _a_a_a_ 2y ago
Seems very complex therefore very expensive (and possibly slow where it matters, at L2). Or it might just work.
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by _a_a_a_ 2y ago
> As for what I mean by narrative, much of the appeal of D&D seems to lie in crafting the story and adventure, being a part of the plot That's what I was after. I know some people play in a much more involved way but when I play
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by _a_a_a_ 2y ago
> with its slow pace and focus on narrative am curious, could you elaborate a touch on these? TIA
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by _a_a_a_ 2y ago
> I hit a case where I actually test nothing and have no results. Did I pass? equally, can you reasonably say you failed?
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by _a_a_a_ 2y ago
Okay, I'll respond because you made an interesting point, but you've also pissed me off. Let's follow this through: for a start, just because it's an intuitive doesn't mean it's wrong. However, you made me thin
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by _a_a_a_ 2y ago
It's a consequence of enforcing logical consistency. You can't get around that (but if you want to suggest other behaviour and justify it, I'd be interested).
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by _a_a_a_ 2y ago
That was not an example of low risk, responsible drug use - "There is more stupidity in the universe than hydrogen"
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by _a_a_a_ 2y ago
This kind of stupid behaviour does not improve the image of drug use.
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by _a_a_a_ 2y ago
Word. I borrowed a circa 2005 – 2010 server and the fan roared on start-up. I would not want that on full-time for reasons of noise, power and wear.
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by _a_a_a_ 2y ago
Can't remember but have read you can bootstrap a forth interpreter from an amazingly low number of bytes. Maybe more of theoretical interest than practical but still.
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by _a_a_a_ 2y ago
Do those without amnesia do so?
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by _a_a_a_ 2y ago
They are fragile I've heard, and quite likely they dull quickly (don't know), but I'm not saying they're 'better' than steel; it's not a competition. Horses/courses.
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by _a_a_a_ 2y ago
apparently yes. Broken glass (which obsidian is, a volcanic glass) have edges a few atoms wide beating anything manmade.
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by _a_a_a_ 2y ago
How strangely, bafflingly, charming.
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by _a_a_a_ 2y ago
Very cute but that's all. No reason for me to consider it true. This if we are making unbacked claims then let me riposte thus, "the past is another country, they do things differently there". Which if true would mean the pas
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by _a_a_a_ 2y ago
You've just made a whole load of claims this without backing any of them up. But okay, let's take one which does make sense: > When people understand the causes and consequences of past events, they are better equipped to navig
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by _a_a_a_ 2y ago
Makes sense. Understanding the past isn't necessary to understanding yourself is your argument, which seems largely reasonable.
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by _a_a_a_ 2y ago
What kind of proof would you want?
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by _a_a_a_ 2y ago
> A people cannot understand themselves without understanding their past This kind of stuff gets rolled out regularly by arty and literary types but never with any explanation as to why it might be true, and I don't think it is. Car
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by _a_a_a_ 2y ago
It makes perfect sense in context. You're assuming that the bottom % of engineers drag things down because they're bad. That's not what it's about. Some companies imposed rather brutal policies of "we do an annual r
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by _a_a_a_ 2y ago
'qualify' is now standard? Thought it was a vendor extension currently.
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by _a_a_a_ 2y ago
evolution
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by _a_a_a_ 2y ago
Strange claim, can you explain a little more please.
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by _a_a_a_ 2y ago
I was saying that shorter code is not necessarily more readable. But what you're talking about is optimisation and I'm fine with that, uglier code for higher speed (or whatever). But is that refactoring? I don't think so. I m
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by _a_a_a_ 2y ago
> I'm saying that "pattern" need not be restricted to the narrow sense used in the famous "Gang of Four" book I understood that was exactly what you were saying! Sorry, I'd had a drink.
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by _a_a_a_ 2y ago
Size reduction usually follows but not necessarily. That is easily measured is an irrelevance. The claim that its a decently predictive proxy I can't buy at the moment, can you try justifying that? Some very terse code can be very hard

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