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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
This happens all the time, depending on the trend of the time. It was Rust for a while, then cryptocurrencies, machine learning, starups / unicorns / enormous funding rounds, etc. It'll pass when the next cool tech comes arou
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
> AI has a distinct, low-quality and unnecessarily sensational writing style, which signals low effort post first of all Yes, but what if it doesn't? Anyone can create a model or prompt to adjust the tone, remove the tells that peop
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
And yet. The other day I saw Dune described as this generation's LotR, which was that generation's Star Wars. Dune (and LotR, and SW) are all Hero's Journey stories (what isn't?), yet they're each pretty unique. Gra
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
There's a market for it, think internet on vacation, on ships, trains, planes, and underdeveloped / remote areas (some of which skipped wired internet entirely and just have 3/4/5G). But you're also showing a lot of
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
Yes but what if you could have a second moon, on-demand?
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
But they'd be competing with the old fashioned stadium lights. I don't think they would be cheaper somehow.
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
Such as? Military in the next 100 years will be drone / remote based, they have IR / night vision and soon to be fully automated. Sunlight can be handy for humans but for decades now the only ones that would benefit from it would
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
You jest but if one sattelite can be used to focus light onto the earth, it can also be used to focus it away from it, evening it out.
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
I think people overestimate the relative strength of the sun. Then again, assuming there's no dispersion or loss, 50.000 times the sun focused on a 60ft patch will likely have some impact. But that's complete fiction.
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
If sattelites can reflect enough light to make an impact on e.g. global warming, they can also reflect enough to circumvent it. Point them back at the sun or into space and in theory it redirects the same amount of energy away from the eart
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
But a fan is nice in not-heatwave but still warm temperatures. I have a usb desk fan from a PC cooler manufacturer (Arctic I believe) and it's one of the best accessories.
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
Our school's library computers (mind you I was early 20s by then) did not allow people to just sit down and go online, an admin had to log in first. We did have Notepad though. Notepad -> open file -> explorer -> enter URL -&g
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
Fun times, we had a TTS exe that came with our Sound Blaster, also letting it read out very, very long numbers.
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
I remember growing up that my dad reading the papers and watching the news was pretty much sacred. Paper maybe less so, but it was his "me time" after work along with coffee and cake, with the occasional chat with mom while we&#x2
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
Great insight; I was going to theorize something about objective vs subjective experiences, in that you can't trust a human to make an objective observation about e.g. sound quality. Best thing you can do with human listening tests is
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
That wasn't an American operation though, that was a NATO and UN operation involving American, British, French and Dutch forces.
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
Plus deploying nukes would be a guaranteed escalation - after WW2 nobody has ever used nukes in war because of this. But it would and always has been the last resort. If Russia feels like they have no choice left, they might do it. But also
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
Flattening a city doesn't win a war. They started the war with the intent of driving tanks into the city and overthrow the government in three days, but (as the article mentions) that didn't work out. But flattening cities is a WW
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
It's not so much a matter of can, but willingness and (worse) economic viability. But recent worldwide instability - from leadership changes to supply disruptions to war - has given that a push.
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
Yeah, you also get updates to the engine, Steam's share is bigger, and you still keep everything else. I would be okay with getting 75% of everything earned over $1M.
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
I'm not sure myself, as there's Epic the ligitous games company that wants more money from Fortnite, Epic the attempted digital games platform whose main userbase just claims a free game once every two weeks, and Epic the engine c
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
I enjoy going back to basics every once in a while; do Arduino / embedded programming on a shitty netbook (it came with Windows but it has only 32GB of storage so it couldn't even update), build games / stuff in Pico-8, start
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
Stock market / investor driven products do not make economical sense, yet here we are; just because they (may) not make a profit, doesn't mean they don't generate value. My house doesn't make a profit, but it does apprec
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
You tried = anecdotal, it's still happening, their response was slow, and it shouldn't have been possible to begin with. https://www.wired.com/story/grok-is-still-hosting-sexualized... https://en.w
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
A lot of people seem to perceive those as left wing woke ideology though, not because they're not true, but because it doesn't align with their world view. But the main issue is that facts and educated people are considered left w
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
Everything is political though, even the denial that things are political is.
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
Everyone is "political" in one way or another, I'm not sure where the denial is coming from.
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
Have you considered Hack ( https://hacklang.org/ )? it's PHP with types from Facebook, probably the biggest contributor to the PHP ecosystem at the moment. It does need a compiler though, unlike TS where an interpreter c
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
There's the blog post (by Anders Hejlsberg, the author of Turbo Pascal, chief architect of Delphi, currently lead architect of C# and a core developer of TS; I'd say he knows his languages), but they also posted FAQs, here's
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by Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
I'm reading a lot of style / flavor / quality / vibes in your reply, something that will be different between every developer (for the most part); the thing with Go is that there's a lot less of that in the wider ec

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