rieter

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by rieter 9mo ago
OBS has no Vulkan renderer. Only OpenGL, DirectX 11 (on Windows), and now Metal.
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by rieter 2y ago
Their 14th generation CPUs are just overclocked 13th gen. They are raising the thermals and increasing the clock speeds correspondingly.
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by rieter 2y ago
Even Turkey?
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by rieter 2y ago
Could easily be someone in the EST time zone. There aren't that many events that would be earlier than 8am EST.
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by rieter 2y ago
That doesn't mean that the entire population of those countries is actively hostile to you.
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by rieter 6y ago
Very few, however native desktop applications are becoming a rarity these days anyway. A small number of professional apps and games, but game engines are already targeting ARM due to phones.
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by rieter 6y ago
But you can purchase a Spotify subscription on a different platform (say, Web), and then use your account on iOS, enjoying the same experience as every other iOS user. The only part of the experience that's different is the one time si
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by rieter 6y ago
How many Muslims did China actually kill? I mean, what's happening in Xinjiang is obviously very concerning, however I don't think anyone has ever produced any evidence that a literal genocide is happening. Mass incarceration? Per
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by rieter 6y ago
Why won't 350 million American citizens do something about their own government first, before engaging in moral grandstanding in respect to other countries? No, this doesn't mean just getting rid of Trump - the entire political sp
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by rieter 6y ago
Yes, also impoverished and displaced several million people. Consider the impact of all the regime change operations undertaken under the patronage of the United States in countries like Iraq, Lybia, Syria and Yemen, as well as devastating
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by rieter 6y ago
Not every decision is going to be entirely rational, especially when it comes to giant corporations with thousands of stakeholders and various internal incentives that may not be visible to outside observers. E.g., sometimes companies do st
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by rieter 8y ago
Palantir is just a minuscule part of SV ecosystem, entirely insignificant in the overall picture.
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by rieter 10y ago
Do the intelligence agencies actually agree on this as unanimously as you're saying? Here's a quote from the testimony of James Clapper on Russia/Wikileaks connection: "The evidence there is not strong" https:&#x2F
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by rieter 13y ago
No one is arguing Google's revenue is mostly ads. It just doesn't mean Google is a one-hit-wonder. There are different advertisement products. You could generalize any company that way. Apple would be a one-hit-wonder who's r
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by rieter 13y ago
Direct democracy isn't automatically good. Just look at California.
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by rieter 13y ago
SF welfare system is the reason there are so many homeless in that city.
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by rieter 13y ago
Even if there is a bigger reason for wanting her out, there is no reason for them to expose PRISM that way. Immigration officers already have rights to deny anyone without explanation. I just don't find anything about that article logi
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by rieter 13y ago
> the US authorities may have been reading her private Facebook messages for weeks. That's ridiculous and puts the whole article under doubt. Nobody would waste that much time on her.
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by rieter 13y ago
There is no reason why Go can't quickly catch up with Java. It's memory model is better suited to optimization vs. JVM.
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by rieter 13y ago
He said "as much as possible".
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by rieter 13y ago
Schmidt already tried telling people this would happen: "I think judgment matters. If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place. But if you really need that kind of privac
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by rieter 13y ago
Skype was actually developed in Eastern Europe (Estonia).
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by rieter 13y ago
Youtube is porn-free though.
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by rieter 14y ago
Seriously? Why is that on Hacker News?
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by rieter 14y ago
I would imagine Valve making more money from Steam now than from their own games. Remember they sell a lot of third-party stuff there and take their cut on those sales.
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by rieter 14y ago
Graphic design is not Computer Science.
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by rieter 14y ago
That's just sad.
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by rieter 14y ago
I have the opposite feeling - 5 years from now hotels will be a niche to be used only for exceptional circumstances.
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by rieter 14y ago
If iOS is your platform. First you have to decide if you want to do a desktop game or a mobile game. Pursuing both at the same time is a bad idea for an indie developer.
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by rieter 14y ago
Just use Java. Worked great for Minecraft, which is probably the most successful indie game to date.

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