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Orange site bad.

Well put. The book has pride of place on my ‘wonderful bullshit’ shelf - while not particularly believable, it’s still intellectually compelling.

Good question. It’s been a while since I read it, but iirc things like hunger or fear he says they attributed to specific organs (and provides bits of ancient text to support the i…

This article’s main purpose seems to be to fill the gap you observe: “ Perhaps you might have also picked up on one of the more discreet but omnipresent characteristics of Schuiten…

There’s a fixed layout version of the ePub standard too, allowing PDF quality if that’s what you’re after.

Friends of mine used to camp in this cave!

Hey it’s Arthur the c++ blogging pumpkin guy

No. It just means Nvidia need to give some kickbacks to the fantastically corrupt ruling party. Really hard to see this as anything other than a shakedown attempt by people who don…

I found the source of the Cal3d library quite readable, taught me a lot about basic blending and sparse key frames back in the day

Aha that makes sense, thanks In the U.K. (at least while I was growing up) we had ‘Bombay mix’[1] which included your version of bhujia. Bhaji and Pakora seem to be interchangeable…

Thanks, I always thought saag was any sauce made primarily from leafy greens

Auto playing video with audio underneath your GDPR trap? Sorry Indy, that’s the last click you get from me.

Any idea if this sort of data is still available? I’m kinda sad that theyrule didn’t live on and become an institution, honestly

Wow I was surprised it was so long ago! Assuming you were thinking of theyrule - seems it’s sort of still online but requires flash http://www.theyrule.net/2001/

Anyone else noticed their ad blocker/s hammering their cpu on YouTube (specifically) the last few weeks?

There’s more than one way to tell the same story. Word choice can colour the reader’s perception subtly. Rhythm and pacing matter. Use of poetic devices and subtext make some telli…

Unfortunately in many places tasks that don’t fix bugs or create features never get assigned. Stupid, but still. In that case it is good to squeeze in refactorings in the same ment…

The latest generation of consoles have (or at least have been slated to have for some time) very significant improvements in IO bandwidth. To the extent that it may make sense to u…

They worked out that every personal licensee is an advocate, if not an outright evangelist for their product.

The Altered Carbon books / TV show explore this, both with reusing bodies and growing augmented clones.

This. If you’re getting less than inflation as an annual raise it’s time to move unless you’re an owner. Keep moving until you land somewhere that doesn’t just say they know your v…

I guess they do it to discourage on/off subscriptions, which I get. Would be better if they gave a bonus for unbroken subscription instead.

Yep, I’ve served my years as a dev under that model too :)

Thanks, I didn’t realise that. They say you get 2020.2.x releases, so you’d hope fixes for show stopping bugs would be back ported. Probably nothing smaller though, which is a sham…

Jetbrain's model is a good middle ground - you get perpetual access to versions released while your sub was active.