thebigshane

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by thebigshane 1y ago
Why not make this a web/browser game? I don't feel like the author explained why such focus on being a downloadable game. Just nostalgia or because they want it included in Steam? With a web ui, why not make this a web game? I abs
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by thebigshane 3y ago
sounds like the new Microsoft Loop product/service announced a few days ago https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2023/03/2...
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by thebigshane 6y ago
Catalina has been fine for me (old macbook and a new iMac), but I do miss some of the old Steam games that no longer work with Catalina (was it a 64-bit thing?). Is Steam or Apple going to offer some kind of virtualization thing to allow th
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by thebigshane 6y ago
```It is a genuine source of hilarity to me that “Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra” is a potentially really useful popcultural-reference shorthand for “a situation where two groups face a difficulty communicating because one group speaks exclusi
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by thebigshane 6y ago
isn't this a problem? https://github.com/baicunko/scanyourpdf/blob/master/convertp...
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by thebigshane 6y ago
Agreed. I think. It is interesting how much difference in meaning the space in "a part of" vs "apart of" makes.
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by thebigshane 6y ago
Of course its a better idea to pick the version that sounds better. That's what I said; I know both are accurate. My point is that by tying performance to environmental factors, you get a boost when things are great but then can have
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by thebigshane 6y ago
First of all, great demo, and great showcase for this technology. I think it did a great job of showing its strengths to traditionally backend developers like me. I also appreciated the twitter analogy. I just couldn't help but think
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by thebigshane 6y ago
Good idea, but I can't help but see this as marketing spin over the alternative title of the same story "Google: Data centers now perform LESS when the sun is not shining or the wind is not blowing"
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by thebigshane 6y ago
Do you recall the name of the book?
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by thebigshane 7y ago
If you’re referring to my use of “toxicity” I definitely don’t mean that. In fact I support the crazier subreddits (you know which I mean). And I agree it gets way overused by many. And maybe toxicity is a stretch for reddit front page but
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by thebigshane 7y ago
It sounds like the common reply regarding Reddit quality and toxicity as well. Don't visit the front pages, stay in the curated sub-reddits. I think it is good advice but the low-quality and the toxicity of the front/main
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by thebigshane 7y ago
I play HL1/HL2 every 4 years or so since they came out. I still haven't finished HL2 Episode 2 though :( I can't find anything about "Community Edition of Half-Life 2", what is that? EDIT: Maybe you mean "HL2
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by thebigshane 7y ago
Someone mentioned their surprised at the negativity in this essay. I agree, Paul’s frustration is coming through which is new to me as a long time reader of his. It got me thinking of the recent article [0] the other day about someone ana
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by thebigshane 7y ago
I dunno. They say that about boats, much bigger than jet skis.[0] Jet Skis are pretty easy to load/unload and store compared to a bigger boat. Also much easier to maintain, most of the jet skis I've ridden have all been small 2-
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by thebigshane 7y ago
I think that is what Armin was looking for as well, but couldn't find anything that quite did that so settled on the BSL instead (probably because determining what fork qualifies as competing or not seems hard). BSL seems close, but s
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by thebigshane 7y ago
I see that the abstract doesn't say "no evidence". Did anyone download the full paper to see if "no evidence" was quoted there?
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by thebigshane 7y ago
Forgot to note that, the money wasn't "missing" in the sense that it disappeared. It was definitely spent, over many projects, over many years. The problem he was trying to point out was that the auditing and tracking is po
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by thebigshane 7y ago
Yes, Rumsfeld did make this speech on the day before the attacks. It's actually a great speech too! He talks about the cumulative bureaucratic waste of the previous few years of the Department of Defense, and poor auditing. https:
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by thebigshane 7y ago
describing tradeoffs that would seem reasonable to most people Sounds like "Mission Accomplished" to me! https://xkcd.com/810/ (Transcript...) Cueball: Spammers are breaking traditional Captchas wit
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by thebigshane 10y ago
"recruit" It isn't that hard :)
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by thebigshane 10y ago
pjmlp seems to be an expert in a lot of this stuff but I'll throw in one other perspective: if you need to write a native app on Windows, yes, UWP is the way to go, certainly over MVC, WinForms and WPF. But it is tied to Windows...
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by thebigshane 10y ago
I think you might be underestimating just how aligned Windows 10 is across these devices, certainly more than Android vs ChromeOS is. (Then again, from what I hear, ChromeOS is starting to creep more toward Android... So maybe that is cha
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by thebigshane 10y ago
Windows has had a sufficient built-in virus/malware scanner for a while now. But, I agree, it's now as easy of a target as other Windows 10 machines out there.
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Don't design like a programmer (part 3)(uxdesignedge.com)
4 points by thebigshane 10y ago|1 comments
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by thebigshane 10y ago
Really interesting perspective. In this example, external competition created a worse product than if they were left as a stagnating monopoly?
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by thebigshane 10y ago
Wait... what? Do you have a source for that? I can't find anything in my searches to confirm that. I did see various EULAs saying you can't redistribute some bits included with some of the MSDN products (like MSDN documentati
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by thebigshane 11y ago
While this is probably the "right course of action" (whatever that means), I'd imagine this will surely, eventually lead to him leaving the company one way or another and you can say goodbye to the miraculous hash table imple
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by thebigshane 11y ago
I don't think 'jernfrost' is commenting on the possibility for overdose at all. In the context of his comment, he seems to imply that there are just so many choices and flavors, that it can be confusing. Like going to the s
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by thebigshane 11y ago
"edibles" is referring to marijuana snacks, stuff you can eat, like brownies, but more typically little candies and gummies. So the parent comment is saying that all of the variations/flavors of these pot candies can be disor

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