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Don't conflate "illegal" with "wrong". Obviously there is a lot of overlap, but the reality is that civil disobedience is often the only way to force changes in unjust laws, h…

That sounds like what table row partitioning is for, I thought all the major databases supported that?

It's hard to give any advice on this until you detail the problem you're trying to solve. For example: Where/why is your current system failing/inadequate/cumbersome? Why do …

As someone who studied EE and briefly worked in the field before abandoning it, can confirm that EE and demonology are inextricably intertwined.

If I recall, Teams is an electron app, which means it uses Chromium under the hood - possibly the same bug? I'm not sure that Electron apps have the same local storage characteristics as the full…

I have a friend of a friend who worked directly under Musk at one of his big ventures. Can confirm that Musk is a giant egotistical asshole, albeit a brilliant one.

Not excusing the issue, but did they not just replace your joycons once they started drifting? Mine were replaced at no cost.

Ehhhh, I mean it's conceivable that there were some reasonable use cases for it, but in reality it was just a massive foot gun. I remember trying to debug some old VB6 code in the late 90s that …

The strange thing is that Microsoft know exactly how many win10 machines already meet this requirement via their telemetry, so ostensibly they have made this decision with full knowledge (assuming no …

(warning: old man rant ahead, apologies in advance) My original answer was perhaps a bit terse and should have been more along the lines of "that is what a good schema design should fix". Y…

I mean that is exactly what correlation IDs and joins are for.

Sri Racha is a town in Thailand, Sriracha sauce is named after that town and is ostensibly an attempt to replicate the sauce that originated from there - apparently it misses the mark a bit in terms o…

But then with native you have to pay the cross platform price. Which is higher do you think? With Electron you get cross platform more or less for free and ostensibly you can make it faster later. Do…

It seems to me that Electron is a scapegoat here - VS Code is built on Electron and is super snappy and responsive for me, even on large projects. This means two things: 1. Even complex Electron apps …

Better than AWS at what? Many are better than AWS in parts of their business - Google's Kubernetes offerings are far better than AWS's overall, Azure beats the pants of AWS in Windows hosti…

I am merely a dabbler in this area and definitely not an expert, but my understanding is that columnar stores tend to be substantially more efficient for analytical operations over large sets of in me…

I love seeing stuff like this, getting more understanding of the layers underlying high performance data analytics is super interesting to me. This project seems very similar to Apache Arrow, if OP or…

Haha, yes, direct emails for folks in xbox is very useful, the xfest advice is very solid. I actually went from working at a first party studio inside Microsoft to an indie company, so luckily I have …

Agreed, the Xbox documentation is hot garbage. They expect you to flip flop between the .chm file shipped with the XDK and online, but like you say the links are almost always broken. On the flip si…

I feel for the author but really the takeaway here is not to necessarily stop playing ranked games, but to stop playing games if you no longer find them fun. Games are meant to be entertainment, if yo…

Backlinks are not as important as Google would have you think, they are a pretty weak ranking factor except in the deep tail of the web. Google (and others) keep up the narrative that they're imp…

Just to be that guy, the title of the article should include the word "approximately" as HyperLogLog and other probabilistic sketches are all (albeit often quite accurate) approximation met…

Success isn't everything. It is very possible (and arguably more likely) to be a successful company and still have a shitty culture and/or work environment. Riot is a prime example of this,…

"Toxic boys club" sums up a lot of the historical problems, but a quick Google of "riot games culture problems" will give you literally dozens of articles to read. I have work with…

Not the OP, but in my experience as someone who has run a few analytics teams, you need a pretty mature data team that has eked the majority of the value of plain old BI style data visualization and b…

While I love the spirit of this, does anyone have any details about a) whether or not it really is trustworthy? b) how resilient and performant the infra is across different geos? I saw their infra ex…

I have a friend who used to work at Valve as a software engineer - he mentioned to me that the entire source networking stack is chock full of unchecked buffers and all sorts of potential for fairly t…

I've been doing software development for the past ~21 years and have been doing game dev for the past 6 of those, and I've experienced a lot of what the traditional software industry and gam…

This is great, thanks for sharing! Even as a game dev myself, I'm still constantly amazed by the witchcraft that the rendering experts do.

Ehhh, I mean it's not cheap, but definitely within the realm of reasonableness for a funded semi-indy game - and to be fair, if you're creating enough assets that using Oodle makes a substan…