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Maybe not 10, but my company (in the US) has relationships with several machine shops nearby (some within walking distance of our office) that do custom metal fabrication for us, a…

It's interesting seeing all of the different ways language designers have approached this problem. I have to say that my takeaway is that this seems like a pretty strong argument f…

I think that identity verification "to protect the children" is a mistake. As a parent I know how hard it can be to keep kids safe online, and that having tools to help can make a …

I have a Reolink doorbell. It records to a SD card and works great with my Home Assistant setup. So much better than the Ring it replaced.

Okay so in the multiple list case performance would actually be worse because you'd have a double pointer dereference. I was thinking you'd have the list nodes contiguous in memory…

Technically that should be possible the other way by using a Node so the type of the second list ends up being a Node > but I can see why an intrusive list would be preferred to th…

Can someone explain how the claim of higher performance works here? In C, which lacks generics, an intrusive list is preferred because otherwise you end up with each node having a …

If you haven't read it, there's a great paper on the netcode of the originals: https://zoo.cs.yale.edu/classes/cs538/readings/papers/terran... I'd be surprised if the definitive ed…

I believe the originals just supported offline LAN play. I remember getting my friend to have his modem dial my modem so we could play together, no Internet connection required.

You don't need floating point RGB for additive blending, but to get correct behavior when using additive blending for your light sources, you must use linear buffers and if you do …

Look at the fourth one on the bottom, you can see the black splotches. It's not the best example I've seen, a quick search turned up this better example, notice how the edges becom…

Rust moves aren't quite the same as C++ moves, you can think of them more like a memcpy where the destructor (if there is one) doesn't get run on the original location. This means …