CactusOnFire

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by CactusOnFire 4y ago
AI is bad at Audio. AI can do MIDI fine.
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by CactusOnFire 4y ago
I mostly hear this word in the context of the Romans, but I thought that it was a term for facial hair- implying those external to the "civilized" empire had a tendency for ragged and long facial hair. Hence the term 'barber&
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by CactusOnFire 4y ago
In general though, hasn't it been understudied?
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by CactusOnFire 4y ago
You lost me here. My gut feeling from reading the article and this thread has been that the monkeys should have been better taken care of. But the idea that every human advancement will only result in a win for the capitalist hellscape is s
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by CactusOnFire 4y ago
If I recall correctly, "Working software over comprehensive documentation" is part of the Agile Manifesto. I have seen this transformed into "We don't need documentation, just work on a new feature".
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by CactusOnFire 4y ago
Got my foot in the door doing an after-school program teaching kids to code. I leveraged that to get a teaching assistant job at a bootcamp for adult professionals. I networked my arse off at the teaching assistant job until experienced pro
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by CactusOnFire 4y ago
I'm a Data Scientist who builds ML models. My bachelor's is in psychology, I just studied and learned how these algorithms work.
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by CactusOnFire 4y ago
I've been on team FF since the switch from IE like 20 years ago- I agree sometimes there is additional jank, but I also want to add that it is rare enough that it's been a non-issue 99.9% of the time. Even then, I expect some of i
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by CactusOnFire 4y ago
I watched this video earlier today, and had previously seen his video criticizing VPN services. The video he was commenting on was about how "tradition" has no place in business, and then segued into why he believed a service like
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by CactusOnFire 4y ago
The reason why doctors have to jump through so many hoops is that the stakes are higher for failure. While there are times where a piece of code failure or poorly worded instructions can cause injury to others, those are exceptions to the r
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by CactusOnFire 4y ago
To hop on the maintainability point: The same is true for "High-code" solutions. If you want the ticket done quick and dirty, it'll be done in a quarter of the time. But good luck ever iterating on it with additional features
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by CactusOnFire 4y ago
I dated someone who had it- was beaten heavily during their childhood formative years, and told me that the separation of identities was a means of coping. It seemed like an extreme emotional compartmentalization which left them with a frac
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by CactusOnFire 5y ago
When I saw "Killed by google" I came out of it with a general sentiment about how google can't commit to a specific roadmap. After seeing this site and then the comments here, I am coming out of this with the general sentimen
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by CactusOnFire 5y ago
They already made an MMO about Colonization. I think it has middle of the road reviews.
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by CactusOnFire 5y ago
It's a differentiator between junior and senior because senior people need to make "the call" on using a technology, juniors don't. There's a couple of other heuristics for whether or not something is worth using on
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by CactusOnFire 5y ago
You're right. Fundamentally, there is no unbiased search engine. Ranking results by definition innately creates a bias. (To be a pedant on my own post: I guess you could do a search engine that collates all search results relating to a
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by CactusOnFire 5y ago
Use linux? My next PC I am making the switch.
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by CactusOnFire 5y ago
I have always figured the appeal of Haskell, Clojure, et al., is to transpile your task and turn any software problem into your language of choice.
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by CactusOnFire 5y ago
My usual experience is that the top rated post is either insightful or a chuckle, but if you delve into the child comments from that particular post, or any more than a couple down, and it is an outright flame war over something trivial.
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by CactusOnFire 5y ago
I don't want to claim I am an expert on different programming languages. I really wanted to supplant my JS use-cases with Elm, but the ecosystem is too closed for proper collaboration. The biggest restriction on adoption is that the la
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by CactusOnFire 5y ago
I agree entirely- and I try to do an "emotional audit" on how I'm feeling while playing a game. I know exactly what you mean by that dopamine grind sensation, and when I sense that being present (and no joy), I will either un
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by CactusOnFire 5y ago
I agree with your thesis, and I dislike the direction the gaming industry at large is taking. At the same time, it's hard to see where lines are drawn. The only thing that really separates 'Engagement' from 'grinding&#x2
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by CactusOnFire 5y ago
Question for the experts in the comments: I'm playing around more with deep learning as of late. Are the same technical specifications one would look for in a 'miner-friendly' GPU the same ones I'd look for in a GPU for
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by CactusOnFire 5y ago
While Azure companies do tend to skew "larger enterprise", I don't think it's fair to say they are lower paying. If anything, more Azure-related jobs I have seen a higher-price point on than AWS jobs (in my local sphere)
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by CactusOnFire 5y ago
As an ADHD dev, the adoption of WFH at most companies has been a godsend. I cannot work in an office environment, and usually work in small 'bursts' of productivity over a day, where I do a day's worth of coding. Not being wa
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by CactusOnFire 5y ago
Not quite as big of an offender, but when I was looking up "Nice Restaurants" with google maps fixed on my city, it instead started looking up Restaurants in Nice, France.
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by CactusOnFire 5y ago
Duck Duck Go is great at naive searches, though having context into why I'm searching for something can be helpful too. I couldn't make the switch over for my work while programming.
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by CactusOnFire 5y ago
My BA degree required taking a class called 'Critical Thinking' which focused on formal logic. I do agree with the sentiment, and that schools need a massive overhaul, but I figured that I should provide my 1 data point to the dis
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by CactusOnFire 5y ago
I got one of the AWS certifications. I know it's a scam. HR teams don't. If ponying up $400 every 3 years gets me a more senior position with slightly better compensation, it's worth the ROI.
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by CactusOnFire 5y ago
This seems like an awfully abstract theory. I think it's simpler to say that "Merry Christmas" vs "Happy Holidays" has become this point of contention because Merry Christmas only applies to Christians, whereas Happ

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