Gell-Mann ammnesia.
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RandomOpinion commented on Every classic Half-Life game is now free on Steam store.steampowered.com/ne... · Posted by u/close04
Does Valve actually own them? AFAIK at least one of them was developed by a different company.
Both were by Gearbox, IIRC, probably best known recently for the Borderlands series.
RandomOpinion commented on Every classic Half-Life game is now free on Steam store.steampowered.com/ne... · Posted by u/close04
I just started playing Half-Life for the first time a few days ago. Would you recommend playing Black Mesa in lieu of Half-Life, or in addition to it?
I would say in addition. Black Mesa has rather uneven difficulty which detracts from the experience.
RandomOpinion commented on Every classic Half-Life game is now free on Steam store.steampowered.com/ne... · Posted by u/close04
HL2 is probably my favorite game of all time. Also worth noting that HL1 looks dated as hell now and Its probably worth paying for and playing Black-Mesa instead. Only thing you'll miss is Xen which is a just a tiny fraction of the original campaign.
Black Mesa is beautifully done but combat is not as well balanced as the original game; there are odd spikes in difficulty at certain points that will have you cursing.
Players new to the series would be better served by playing the original Half-Life than Black Mesa.
RandomOpinion commented on New Evidence of Age Bias in Hiring, and a Push to Fight It nytimes.com/2019/06/07/bu... · Posted by u/howard941
there are obvious answers, likely interrelated
older devs had to go into management to keep their career trajectory, no matter whether they liked coding or management more. the ones that failed in some way - meaning a disruption in their spending and earning capability - are the only ones on the market trying to get programming jobs, and complaining about it.
fixing the earning trajectory in a programming track helps fix this outcome too. FAANG companies seem to have figured it out for people they've already hired.
> older devs had to go into management to keep their career trajectory ... FAANG companies seem to have figured it out for people they've already hired.
The FAANG companies and other technology platform companies have separate technical and management career tracks. Only those who want to be managers become managers.
RandomOpinion commented on New Metal-Air Transistor Replaces Semiconductors spectrum.ieee.org/nanocla... · Posted by u/joak
A perfect vacuum is a perfect insulator. There are capacitors that use vacuum.
> A perfect vacuum is a perfect insulator.
If that were true, vacuum tubes (used for radio and early computers) wouldn't work.
RandomOpinion commented on Unslacking Tideways Company beberlei.de/2018/10/28/un... · Posted by u/beberlei
Good luck finding out about free food in the office without Slack.
Email works just fine for that.
RandomOpinion commented on How I made my own RFID tag [video] youtube.com/watch?v=PWzyP... · Posted by u/vchuravy
Speaking of homemade RFID tags, a couple impressive hacks.
1. Micah Elizabeth Scott built a working RFID tag using just two parts: an ATTiny85 micro controller and a small inductor. The two leads of the inductor are soldered directly to two I/O pins of the processor.
That is the only connection to the processor. The power and ground pins are not connected. The processor gets power via leakage current from the I/O pins. It gets clocked from one of those I/O pins, too.
https://scanlime.org/2008/09/using-an-avr-as-an-rfid-tag/
2. Here's another one of hers, this time with a coil made from magnet wire, and with fancier mounting. The coil, processor, and this time a couple of tuning capacitors, is squished onto duct tape and sealed with clear packing tape.
https://scanlime.org/2011/05/duct-tape-rfid-tag-1/
3. Trammell Hudson made use of her antenna and processor only design for a project of his, which has a pretty good write up.
The homebrew RFID tags in the articles you link to are LF (125-134 kHz) RFID tags.
The ones described in the video are UHF (860-960 MHz) RFID tags, which differ considerably in design and protocol.
RandomOpinion commented on x86-64 Assembly Language Programming with Ubuntu egr.unlv.edu/~ed/x86.html... · Posted by u/lainon
Out of curiosity, what are the main reasons to need to actually write assembler in 2018? Compilers? Games? Genuinely curious
Compilers, embedded systems and similar low level work, reverse engineering where you don't have the binary (e.g. malware), and that kind of thing.
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