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by mfost 23d ago
Better get used to that. Nearly every time you buy something in Portugal they'll ask you for your tax id so that they can print it on the receipt. This is because this is something you can use for some tax breaks later and also there i
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by mfost 3mo ago
There's no need: there's std::copy already. Or maybe the idea was to create a typesafe template wrapper around the generic function which is also very common and really nice. No need to create one wrapper per type, a single templa
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by mfost 7mo ago
There is in France a kind of shared network of hot water used to heat up our homes (well, those that are connected and paying into the system at least). Part of the system works by burning trash and capturing the heat in the process. Suppos
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by mfost 8mo ago
Because most maintainers love it compared to Sys V scripts. In the end, users might complain about purity of things or something but the mainteners are the ones doing the work maintaining all that and end up deciding what gets used. Honestl
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by mfost 9mo ago
This is short sighted too It can also turn out worse for the Venezuelans, it doesn't have to become better.
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by mfost 9mo ago
Or maybe we should stop the propaganda arm of the US fascists distorting the reality around here and inventing needs that our population doesn't actually need so that they are pushed towards far right parties? Or how about making sure
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by mfost 9mo ago
The reality is that it's probably mostly about incompetence and lazyness. And tight purses of course. When some country parliament decides to mandate age verification, it's really easy and lazy for them to just say "verify ag
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by mfost 10mo ago
This mostly means richer people have too much money if they can do that. What's next, a new tech allowing you to turn food into money at a rate nobody can afford to eat anymore?
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by mfost 1y ago
I thought the point (which the article misses) is that a token gives you an identity, and an identity can be tracked and rate limited. So a crawlers that goes very ethically and does very little strain on the server should indeed be able to
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by mfost 1y ago
In a similar vein, I remember people advocating for replacing new untrained hires with AI. After all, a competent senior engineer is needed to validate the contributions of the new hires anyway and they can do the same checking the AI code.
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by mfost 1y ago
It's just a matter of working with base elements that are divisible by 3 and 4 really. So instead of buying 100cm planks, buy 120cm planks?
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by mfost 1y ago
We'll also need to raze our cities to make bigger roads for their cars. Unlikely to say the least. Or the US companies could do a minimum amount of effort to tailor their product line for the target market.
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by mfost 2y ago
Epic did say that you might in some situations forego normalmaps with Nanite and save disk space even though you have super detailed models so it DOES fit in this context. Also, video games are used to take a high poly model and bake a norm
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by mfost 2y ago
As if that would even have any effect in that situation. No amount of audits and rules would prevent TikTok from collecting data and manipulating the public opinion.
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by mfost 2y ago
You know what is neat when housing prices go down? You pay less to upgrade your house size than when the prices go up. Despite the fact your own house value dropped. Housing price dropping is good for basically everyone I say.
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by mfost 2y ago
There is a good technical reason behind that. As far as I can see crossplay doesn't work well at all in the game right now. Mostly issues where inviting friends to play is broken. This isn't surprising when you do not have a commo
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by mfost 3y ago
They are free to return to the office and work with each other in person then.
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by mfost 3y ago
I don't understand that point. Of course you use gamma so that you have a more perceptually correct colorspace, mostly because 8 bit isn't enough accuracy to represent correctly the various shades of black the eye can percieve. Or
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by mfost 3y ago
It also makes the info follow around if the folder is moved, something that an externally maintained database file will have difficulties doing.
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by mfost 3y ago
ECS systems are gaining a lot of popularity for games and those are pretty similar to having some SQL database in your engine when you think about it. So it's actually not that surprising to see efficient snapshot/rollback/tr
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by mfost 4y ago
That's pretty old 3D rendering tricks causing those overall though. Like I fail to see recent games doing those at all. Overall, shadows aren't the hard part nowadays, it's light that is. Global illumination and light bouncin
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by mfost 4y ago
I question the integrity of the journalist reporting those tweets (Matt Taibbi) at that point I must admit. So many people seem to conflate the requests for review of ToS violating messages with some kind of power the Democrats had to get T
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by mfost 4y ago
> It feels likely that these report judgements disproportionately had the outcome desired by the requester It's not a hard outcome to achieve. Only report things blatantly violating the ToS and you get that outcome.
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by mfost 4y ago
I'm testing the beta version of their Android ticket software and it works pretty well (and not limited to Samsung phones). It should be available soon I think.
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by mfost 4y ago
They were meant for coding C on machines that had even less than ASCII as available text encoding really. So no wonder you never see them.
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by mfost 4y ago
Saying it's strictly better is exaggerated. The benefits of 0 indexing are well known and mostly revolve around the fact you tend to have far less fiddling with -1 and +1 as you write code. How do you access the item in a 2D array repr
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by mfost 4y ago
Of course they don't. They use decimals and say the baby is one week old or so. As for indexing from zero, it's best understood as indexing the position just before elements in an array. Where things will be inserted if you insert
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by mfost 4y ago
Only small devs stick to the basic contract. Bigger games that expect to bring in a lot of money will go for a custom contract with Epic instead.
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by mfost 4y ago
Are you trying to drag and drop the files to the destination in a file explorer window? Because when I use "extract" and point the destination folder I don't think it does what you say.
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by mfost 4y ago
> Big-O assumes that only asymptotic behavior matters, but real-world workloads have finite input sizes Well I did have a CS teacher that said that O(log n) is basically O(1) because in practice, n usually will fit it in a 32bit and log

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