qxga

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by qxga 5y ago
> $82/hr with 56 hours of overtime a week. Okay that's just excessive union bullshit. If the company can afford it and still make a profit (which would mean their labor is generating >$82hr in value!) , then it's not &
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by qxga 5y ago
Good prices are what consumers determine are good prices. Sometimes that's razor-thin margins. Sometimes it lets you get away with high margins.
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by qxga 5y ago
This is it. This is the answer. It's shameful that nobody else here gets it. Many of these people are autistic and/or ADHD. Autism, ADHD, and job interviews do not mix. The prejudice against these groups that's baked into the
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by qxga 5y ago
I think "retirement = doing nothing" is an incredibly strange assumption to make.
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The Access Act Takes a Step Towards a More Interoperable Future(eff.org)
7 points by qxga 5y ago|0 comments
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by qxga 5y ago
> Pay-per-search Yeah, the last thing I would want my search history to be tied to is my payment information.
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by qxga 5y ago
It's a self-contained application using the Dear ImGUI library rather than a bloated framework, and is designed for a single language. It's not simple compared to the likes of vi, sure, but it's almost certainly many less lin
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by qxga 5y ago
Nothing is stopping it from going faster, unless the framerate is forcibly capped by the developer. It renders the same way a framerate-independent 3D game does.
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Super Mario Bros: The Human Limit(youtube.com)
172 points by qxga 5y ago|42 comments
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by qxga 5y ago
For most people, it isn't; using the mouse only feels slower. https://9p.io/wiki/plan9/mouse_vs._keyboard/index.html In Plan 9's Acme, the mouse is your edit mode, the keyboard is your insert mode
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by qxga 5y ago
"I'm less sure why fierce nerds are impatient, but most seem to be. You notice it first in conversation, where they tend to interrupt you." The answer is pretty obviously ADHD. Interrupting and "impatience" are very
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The Elusive Frame Timing(medium.com)
1 points by qxga 7y ago|0 comments
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by qxga 7y ago
>the inability to hold down a job, eccentricity of style, rudeness It's called the autism spectrum. These are not features. Source: on it.
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by qxga 7y ago
Part of that was the widespread use low-resolution, high refresh rate, zero-latency (CRT) monitors, and the use of hardware interrupts instead of a serial bus for input.
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by qxga 7y ago
Tangentially related - I wish there were a way to browse HN in Acme.
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by qxga 7y ago
Here's a somewhat obscure one that fits your description: http://www.headcannon.com/HCGE/ >The Headcannon Game Engine, HCGE for short, has been in development for over a decade by an '80s kid raised with c
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by qxga 7y ago
Bitcoin would be great for this in theory, but the problem is that customers will not pay you in Bitcoin. People want their porn and they want it now, that's why they're paying. If you don't make it practically seamless for a
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by qxga 7y ago
"The UNIX command line and most programming languages are ineffective and slow tools, because they do not make use of the brain’s ability to process visual inputs quickly in parallel and contextualize large amounts of details into a co
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Headcannon Game Engine(headcannon.com)
1 points by qxga 7y ago|0 comments