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by Cpoll 2mo ago
Well, not any sort. We'll just have to stick to wireframe glasses.
32.
by Cpoll 2mo ago
And yet lotteries are billion dollar businesses.
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by Cpoll 3mo ago
> The Office of the Attorney General will continue to use every available legal mechanism, including writs of attachment against domain names, to enforce Texas law and ensure that no company, regardless of where it is incorporated, can p
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by Cpoll 3mo ago
Le Guin refused a Nebula, and I think those are selected by member voting.
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by Cpoll 3mo ago
I think there were studies on this, leading to, among other things, painting control rooms seafoam green to reduce visual fatigue. This implies that people don't simply adjust (or that the studies were too limited).
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by Cpoll 3mo ago
Atlassian almost certainly has their own legal department, which calls its own shots (or rather isn't beholden to anyone below C-level).
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by Cpoll 3mo ago
Yeah, I've changed my evaluation. The lists didn't do it for me, because they don't follow the usual rule-of-three, but the "genetic marker ... travels" line seems egregious. And the "not X, but Y".
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by Cpoll 3mo ago
I didn't notice any obvious markers, weird prose, or meandering in this one.
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by Cpoll 3mo ago
> Every game engine has a sort of "grain" to it where it tends to produce games with a certain look and feel. I think this is a bit of a myth. Unreal gets this criticism a lot, but it's usually because many studios choose
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by Cpoll 3mo ago
> idea worth persuing Remains to be seen, considering how much snake oil there is in the solar market (but to be fair, this makes more sense than solar roads). A news article summary of a press release isn't proof of much.
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by Cpoll 3mo ago
> this has to be satirical, right? Right. > Surely nobody in the field of academia is this limited in their ability.... Wrong.
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by Cpoll 3mo ago
If anyone needs a longer tutorial, I strongly recommend 3b1b's series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2xVFit... The visualizations made things click in a way my Linear 101 course didn't
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by Cpoll 3mo ago
That sounds pithy, but a person doesn't need to remind themselves of their own values; a company of 200,000 people does. Which isn't to say cynicism for these sorts of company charters isn't warranted, just not for that reaso
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by Cpoll 3mo ago
Uncle Bob does a bad job talking about trade-offs, but there's still value in stuff like SOLID. The problems start when people blindly obey or ignore design principles. Saying SOLID makes bad code is as over-simplistic as saying SOLI
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by Cpoll 3mo ago
> middle finger to second hand and physical stores They've seen the writing on the wall for at least a decade; that's why GameStop has more shelf space for Funko Pops than for games.
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by Cpoll 3mo ago
The Godot Foundation pays for it if it furthers their mission.
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by Cpoll 3mo ago
I had a similar class where they threatened to fail us if we didn't use Dreamweaver and instead wrote our own html.
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by Cpoll 3mo ago
Implementing your loan-contingency wouldn't prevent generating headlines, so that would only leave contributions and kickbacks.
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by Cpoll 3mo ago
Totally agree. I tried the JIT approach; I could never get it to work, and I've never seen anyone else do it either. The wisdom has always been to keep everything flowing and accept spoilage (or kludge it with lots of bots and then mov
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by Cpoll 3mo ago
> If [the job applicant materials] didn't get you in the first time, they won't the next time > we had one opening, but five or even ten excellent final candidates Under my interpretation , these statements contradict each o
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by Cpoll 3mo ago
This contradicts your earlier statement, " we had one opening, but five or even ten excellent final candidates, " and ignores the criticism: " is it me or is is it you? " Although I suppose you're saying that promis
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by Cpoll 3mo ago
Reading Crime and Punishment gave me anxiety, I had to put it down.
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by Cpoll 4mo ago
The poster was banned for "Irresponsible disclosure and threatening users privacy to advertise a startup." Unless the post was edited, is the moderator referring to their mention of HN?
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by Cpoll 4mo ago
To be fair, none of that has been paid out yet.
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by Cpoll 4mo ago
> At the same time, anyone growing up today will be using LLMs for massive parts of the jobs they grow up to do. So they should learn about it. There's not so much to learn they can't put it into a high school course. Adults c
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by Cpoll 4mo ago
I can't imagine there were lots of AZERTY keyboards kicking around MIT?
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by Cpoll 4mo ago
Article makes some distinction, though the $25MM number doesn't match your link. > In addition to the U.S. and its allies paying $300 billion in reconstruction funds, Iran reports that the U.S. has agreed to release $25 billion in f
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by Cpoll 4mo ago
How does US regulatory capture do anything to impede PRC's advance?
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by Cpoll 4mo ago
> my reply is that they are so precisely because we don't have to type type definitions. My reply is that no, that's not why they're pleasant. If that were the only criteria, we could conclude Python is only as pleasant as
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by Cpoll 4mo ago
Some sites do this to prevent password recovery spam; you need to provide two pieces of information. Ideally not telling the client if they wrote the wrong email, that'd be a security issue of its own.

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