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by trycatch 13y ago
Did your previous notebook had an SSD drive?
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by trycatch 13y ago
> I was an Ubuntu user and tester (signed the c-o-c years ago) for years > tester That was likely the problem. People invest a lot of time in their OS, of course sooner or later they get burned out and fed up with all that, and then t
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by trycatch 13y ago
> I'm going to echo what I've seen in another post - you appear to be a Telegram cheerleader with a brand new account, are you associated with them at all? Discussions on HN about Telegram were mentioned on several Russian site
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by trycatch 13y ago
> And why turn down Moxie's offer to join forces and incorporate an existing 10 million userbase? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6915741 ... None of that makes sense, and the only reasonable explanation I can
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by trycatch 13y ago
Read the comments under TFA. Nothing was broken. The author was quick to write the article without understanding protocol first.
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by trycatch 13y ago
Lucas Arts consistently delivered (Full Throttle, The Curse of Monkey Island, Grim Fandango) and died too.
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by trycatch 13y ago
Yeah, Sunder maps are just insane -- both in beautiful architecture and mind-boggling complexity (map 11 for example has more than 5000 monsters and takes more than 50 minutes to complete for a speed runner). Some on Doom forums claimed tha
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by trycatch 13y ago
Here you go: http://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/ It's an ultimate source about chess programming. Also, Stockfish code is short (several KLOC) and well commented.
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by trycatch 13y ago
In TCEC all engines run on the same 2x 8-core Xeon. It's WCCC that allows engines to use arbitrary hardware -- e.g. on WCCC 2013 Jonny run on 2400-core cluster, but lost anyway to Junior that used 24-core Xeon.
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by trycatch 13y ago
According to CCRL [1], Komodo 6 and Stockfish 4 are 20-25 Elo weaker than Houdini 3 (in the last few years Rybka wasn't able to compete with Houdini, in TCEC it wasn't even able to qualify into Stage 4). However TCEC uses developm
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by trycatch 13y ago
By the way, there is a very interesting tournament going on currently -- TCEC, unofficial computer chess championship [1]. The main intrigue of the tournament is the fight between Stockfish and Komodo. Houdini, dominating engine in the last
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by trycatch 13y ago
And Firefox actively _removes_ these features. For example, sharp variables were removed in Firefox 12, E4X was removed in Firefox 20.
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by trycatch 13y ago
Because of Unity, for example. With exception of some annoyances (like poor work with workspaces, not enough customizability, poor notifications), it's not so far to my personal definition of perfect DE, and miles ahead of other Linux
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by trycatch 13y ago
> The results are in line with what most people would assume; Chrome and Firefox users are more active users. It's not true. top.mail.ru (large Russian counter, ~250M views per day) publishes both number of visitors and number of vi
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by trycatch 13y ago
The story was discussed on Russian forums and people found even more blatant BS there -- "wi-fi module" was in fact just a speaker used to indicate horizontal position of the iron, spying module in the demonstrated Chinese phone w
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by trycatch 13y ago
It works great for me, better than Chrome PDF Viewer. Chrome's viewer lacks even the most basic features like table of contents, and it's integrated pretty poorly -- it doesn't show the title of pdf (so PDFs are impossible to
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by trycatch 13y ago
> When inspecting an element in FF devtools, :before and :after CSS properties will not be shown. It was fixed recently. https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/09/new-features-in-the-firefo...
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by trycatch 13y ago
I've compiled new version from git, but still literally nothing except ads work. I've tried various games from Kongregate, Armor Games and Newgrounds, including very old ones, various sites with Flash video, various sites with Fla
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by trycatch 13y ago
I tried to use it ~1 month ago, it wasn't a great experience. I tried playing video and several games on Kongregate, and almost nothing worked, except Flash ads (only few games showed anything similar to loading screen -- most of them
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by trycatch 13y ago
Total production costs of the famous Atari's E.T. (1982) were $125M according to Wikipedia. It's more than $300M in 2013 dollars.
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by trycatch 13y ago
Very cool project, but sadly it's not able to plot graphs.
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by trycatch 13y ago
I tried Linux x64/FF23 and FF Nightly on a clean profile, and both leaked insane amounts of memory on this page, hundreds of KiBs per second. Interesting that according to about:memory, memory used by tab with choir.io stayed stable, b
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by trycatch 13y ago
Seriously, it's just ridiculous. There is no legitimate reason whatsoever to make hard browser whitelist like that in 2013 -- without button like "use anyway" or something. It hard-blocks even the new Opera, while the new Ope
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by trycatch 13y ago
Partially it's just a stupid race, see e.g. page in Russian Wikipedia [1], completely dedicated to discussions of the "Wikipedias race", celebrating wins over other wikis, coordinating bot article creation, blaming competitor
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by trycatch 13y ago
There are pauses, even worse than in Chrome. Use MemChaser add-on to see GC activity in FF. In Firefox Nightly on the particle demo I have non-incremental 0.6-0.7s pauses every ~10s (not to mention stutter from incremental GC in between the