B-Con

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by B-Con 1y ago
For me it isn't about the cost as much as it is that I've tailored my possessions to be what I like. If I have it, it brings value, and I probably like the details enough that it's hard to replace without getting an exact rep
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by B-Con 1y ago
I unwind with about 2-3 hours of BotW each weekend. I'm years behind the gaming community and TotK is still in my backlog, but I don't care. You only get to play through for the first time once and I'm enjoying it immensely.
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by B-Con 2y ago
There is value in having local consistency, which is usually achieved through having rules. The more uniform a code base, the easier it is to breeze around and get stuff done. Naming things is already hard, so having rules around the annoyi
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by B-Con 2y ago
> I hate that forgetting to initialize all fields of a struct does not lead to an error, but will just fill in "zero-values" for those fields. This has bitten me many times, and zero-values are almost never the behavior I want.
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by B-Con 2y ago
To much freedom for Apple to stomach. Apple despises user freedom. Their whole thing is "use what we gave you and be happy for it". They would never tolerate letting users do something like run any app of their own choosing.
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by B-Con 2y ago
This is my favorite part of the whole crypto ecosystem. "It's decentralized! Code is law! I own my wallet!" *proceeds to use third party wallet service that handles 40% of all wallets and then gets mad when they're hacke
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by B-Con 2y ago
"story" is used more abstractly then that. Literary storytelling is one thing, but we also function in daily life by taking in raw information and then distilling it down to a simpler narrative, aka a story. Effective communicatio
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by B-Con 2y ago
Absolutely. The danger is that people will think that AI is thinking and reasoning in a way that they are. But it isn't. It's a glorified template generator, at least for now. Our brains and minds are fat more sophisticated and nu
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by B-Con 2y ago
A lot of things are worth paying for. A lot aren't. The hard thing is knowing which ones are which. You can't see the benefit in advance. A lot of things aren't worth paying for. A lot of software licenses go completely unuse
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by B-Con 2y ago
The good ol' "fine, I'll do it myself". Reluctant leaders are some of the best. They're there to get things done and rarely overstep their area of competence.
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by B-Con 2y ago
Programming is basically expressing your thoughts in extreme detail. The medium you do it through matters to you. Very few other professions are encoding their actual thoughts. Imagine asking a writer to switch dialects. "It's the
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by B-Con 2y ago
You do realize most people aren't working on AI, right? Also, OP mentioned fintech at the outset.
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by B-Con 2y ago
Your solution to a supply and demand mismatch is that everyone regulate their demand to match the local supply? Your solution is for a problem that doesn't exist.
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by B-Con 2y ago
The point was the size of the app. That was the cost of switching all the apps from AWS to LFS, not a surprise AWS bill.
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by B-Con 2y ago
Presumably this is a big company problem of playing politics safely: They didn't want to take a position on the N country disputes out there by deciding which country code gets which flag and furthermore don't want to acknowledge
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by B-Con 2y ago
The simpler way to explain it is that a traffic is literally just a tax. "Trump imposes an N% tax on goods from X" would be just as accurate but likely get a different reaction from the populace.
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by B-Con 2y ago
> Bitcoin reflects financial markets No it doesn't. Bitcoin has no intrinsic tie to the financial markets. The financial markets are all based on goods, services, and economic value . They build meta layers on top of it and someti
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by B-Con 2y ago
By "first principles" do you mean something long "learn from the ground up" or " from basic building blocks"? I like learning things starting from small, atomic this, then building up and learning higher layers
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by B-Con 2y ago
This is incoherent nonsense. Vanguard is a service that manages your portfolio so you don't have to. Literally the definition of providing an economic service. Owning the portfolio does come with risk, but it's not fixed odds, rat
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by B-Con 2y ago
It makes it hard to value Bitcoin. It's not only almost 100% speculation, it doesn't have much history track record. Crypto bros need to understand that they aren't the first people to discover a speculation market, and just
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by B-Con 2y ago
He joined in 2021, well after the USA's TikTok boom had started. But not all leaders are initiators. Sounds like his resume was more steering related.
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by B-Con 2y ago
It had to have been a PR move. The Tik Tok in-app notes for "shutting down" and "we're back" both referenced Trump by name. I doubt they would do that without his explicit consent. Trump beamed his name and heroics
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by B-Con 2y ago
The first is simply a question about what an embedded interface is. Any way in which you learned about this feature should also answer the question. The second isn't related to Go. The third I can see as being a bit confusing, but isn&
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by B-Con 2y ago
FTA: > Riot’s Valorant was one of the most accessible entries into tactical first person shooters. I mean, Valorant probably has some anime design influence, but in the grand scheme of things it's waaaay on the minimal side and ha
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by B-Con 2y ago
I think anime still has a lot to figure out about licensing to fully embrace the western audience. Despite the insane popularity of anime, it feels like only a limited subset actually fully capitalize on the market. For example, take Violet
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by B-Con 2y ago
Also the Gachas: - Arknights - Azur Lane - Kancolle Just off the top of my head. I share your mixed feelings. On the one hand, I like "anime" to refer to something very specific. I think the world is more confusing when terms evol
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by B-Con 2y ago
What I find the most interesting is that there is clearly something that makes anime stand out as being its own thing, distinct from the majority of other animated TV, but it's hard to put a finger on exactly what that attribute is and
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by B-Con 2y ago
Mass-produced media always recycles the same thematic stories. Western cartoons aimed at kids recycled the "power of being yourself" to death. Ask my tweens about the shows they've watched, and they'll pick apart how rep
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by B-Con 2y ago
Actually, here's an example of precisely why maps are not passed as references: https://go.dev/play/p/-mEeg2Ud68V This example cannot re-allocate the original map! If the map were truly passed by referenc
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by B-Con 2y ago
Did you read my comment? References are nothing special, they are are simply pointers that hide the pointer and usually the receiving definition makes the decision about whether a pointer of a copy is passed. In Go the type is just a wrap

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