I think the truth is actually that today's CPUs _aren't nearly_ fast enough to make performance a low priority in any aspect of development, and it is merely laziness or wishful thinking that leads programmers to think that they can ignore memory performance and there will be no cost to the end user.
(Casey Muratori, today)

Heidi's parents were out of town this Thanksgiving - a family friend is heavily involved in the Mars Rover project, so they've been invited down to Florida for tomorrow's launch - and knowing it was just we three, and that sioneva's birthday fell on Thanksgiving this year, we opted to bypass the effort involved in cooking our own dinner and booked seats ( Read more... )

For someone who rarely plays games, I own a ridiculous amount of games: I have games on Steam (157 at last count, of which only 27 have ever been installed); games in boxes that are so undisturbed that I just wiped away cobwebs from the ones in the corner of my shelf; and games for consoles, not all of which I even own. Even when I do play games, ( Read more... )

The funny thing when you're doing genealogy research is that you can search diligently but fruitlessly for, quite literally, years trying to find the tiniest clue, the key you need to unlock another generation of long-deceased ancestors. And then one day a random Gooogle search pulls up page 934 of a 1257-page tome from its public domain archives ( Read more... )

It's not going well.

Heard on the radio today:The garden centre near me is selling ex-Blackpool illuminations, e.g. a 10ft Holland's Pies truck and an 8ft My Little Pony.

I just installed Semagic again after about 2 years. Still does the job, I guess ( Read more... )

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I saw this pic in an article on the Beeb News. Am I the only one who thinks Jacobs' hed is pastede on yey?


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sioneva mentioned a short while ago that she didn't listen much to the Beeb's From Our Own Correspondent podcast because all the stories were negative. I can see where she's coming from, but I wanted a closer look, so I took a sample of stories from October and November to get an idea of how they ( really panned out )