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by Cpoll 10mo ago
> What do game engines have to do with this? You seemed to imply that the developer chose isometric to make development easier. I'm rebutting that this is unlikely; they're equally easy with an engine (and if you're not us
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by Cpoll 10mo ago
> For example, why is it 'isometric overhead'? That's design exactly. There's no technical obstacle to making it over-the-shoulder instead, but it changes the aesthetic. The animations focus on what the jeep does to t
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by Cpoll 10mo ago
It's true that you can satisfy the audit just by running dependency scans and updating the ones that come back vulnerable. Unfortunately, in a lot of ecosystems, that ends up looking the same as keeping all your libraries updated. You
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by Cpoll 10mo ago
I estimate renting over 1200 VCR tapes in my lifetime, and I've never had one unspool. The cassette problem was common enough that fixing it with a pencil was part of the zeitgeist, but I can't remember anything like that for VHS.
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by Cpoll 10mo ago
I started to rebut this with the expected value of the bid... but if you're advertising a sports car, it's worth paying $100/impression even if your conversion rate is 1%.
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by Cpoll 10mo ago
This is tragedy of the commons exactly. Whether it's moral depends entirely on the ethical theory you subscribe to. > a problem with Stanford's definitions Only if students aren't lying on their application.
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by Cpoll 10mo ago
Doesn't the article you linked contradict that? It sounds like they're claiming they only provided general purpose blob storage. > First, we do not provide technology to facilitate mass surveillance of civilians. We have applie
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by Cpoll 11mo ago
The PSP SotN was different enough than the NA PSX release, including a new Maria mode (different than the Saturn one), and a new translation (technically better, but retranslates some iconic lines).
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by Cpoll 11mo ago
From the linked Ars article: > Notably, the flagged downloads spanned seven years, starting in 2018. That’s about four years before Meta’s AI efforts “researching Multimodal Models and Generative Video” began > Instead, Meta argued, a
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by Cpoll 11mo ago
Looking at the author's other posts: Very prolific, long articles, and weird outliers like https://lightcapai.medium.com/should-i-go-milan-211ef725bb71 , https://lightcapai.medium.com/if-you-are-suicidal
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by Cpoll 11mo ago
You're citing a report about recordable CD and DVDs. Movie DVDs should be expected to last much longer than that.
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by Cpoll 11mo ago
> They chose 20 g of Cascade Complete Powder and 20 g of EcoGeek / Green Llama’s detergent. While I do not own the standard, I found some documentation to suggest that this is non-compliant with the relevant ASTM testing standards..
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by Cpoll 11mo ago
RenderWare was the preeminent PS2 graphics library. My impression is that it's more akin to OpenGL than to Unreal?
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by Cpoll 11mo ago
I think their point is that "late-capitalist hellscape" is a bit breathless considering we're just talking about football tickets and not, say, insulin. (I acknowledge it's not "just" football tickets for every
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by Cpoll 11mo ago
Isn't that easily solved by changing the terminology before giving it to the LLM?
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by Cpoll 1y ago
It doesn't even need to be a tradeoff. Call immediately, but require a double or triple press to hang up (to account for accidental dialing; a user will naturally tap multiple times until it hangs up).
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by Cpoll 1y ago
In case of nuclear attack, hide under your desks.
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by Cpoll 1y ago
I've been at several companies that have a CTO and a Director of Engineering. The CTO sets the strategy, and the Director of Engineering handles the execution. In theory the Director "reports" to the CTO (I.e. is under in the
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by Cpoll 1y ago
> sociopath career If someone's seems obviously a sociopath from a single innocuous interaction, they're probably not a real sociopath. I'm not sure what the litmus test is for a "made-up" question vs. a genuin
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by Cpoll 1y ago
It was. You can compare to the author's first blog post, which doesn't have any of the classic LLM giveaways. I suppose "coauthored" is a more charitable word though. This article wasn't as bad as most slop. I imagi
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by Cpoll 1y ago
I think this is a LMGTFY question, but: If Paypal started doing this maliciously, or otherwise failed in custodianship, would the community have any recourse? Specifically, can they fork the coin? The ledger is public, so I imagine yes?
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by Cpoll 1y ago
> "Here's what GPT-5 says" This drives me nuts. It's often wrong, but then I have to do the research to prove it before the conversation can get back on track.
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by Cpoll 1y ago
I hate percentages without numbers. And the fentanyl numbers apparently weren't impressive enough, so they cherry-picked a subset to get 9000 (the summary is correct, the headline is inaccurate). > 2015 and 2023, fentanyl-related d
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by Cpoll 1y ago
Things I'd include in training: - Mental model of how the AI works. - Prompt engineering. - Common failure modes. - Effective validation/proofreading. As for internal stuff like emails/design docs... I think using an AI to ge
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by Cpoll 1y ago
I intended to object, but apparently the royals cost the government ~500MM GBP/year. Which is a lot, but less than 5% of their tourism industry, so it seems possible.
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by Cpoll 1y ago
Yeah, a better word would be "stranded," but that would get fewer clicks.
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by Cpoll 1y ago
Oh, yeah, egg on my face. They only put the unit of measurement at the top, and then talk about TB, so it's a bit deceptive. In retrospect, I was stupid to imagine 0.085/TB made any sense.
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by Cpoll 1y ago
Does that actually stop the spend immediately? If not, you're still on the hook for the bill. I suppose you can walk away and let them try to come after you, but that wouldn't work for a company.
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by Cpoll 1y ago
You're not wrong about cloud configuration mistakes, but a tool that lets you increase costs 10000x (without even letting you set a safety) is a hell of a chainsaw. I'm more worried about the overconfident SRE that doesn't
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by Cpoll 1y ago
> CloudFront's ~$100/TB after 1TB. I had to double-check because that sounds hilariously wrong. I can't find it anywhere in the pricing. It's at most 0.08/TB. Am I missing something?

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