DrSiemer

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by DrSiemer 4y ago
Most developers work under constant time pressure and usually with a fixed budget. Choices have to be made. Sometimes ugly code will creep in, because doing better is simply not worth the investment. Many projects don't have a very lon
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by DrSiemer 5y ago
Github has something extremely valuable on their hands: the perfect dataset to teach an AI how to program.
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by DrSiemer 5y ago
The Netflix ui is horrible, their offer is lackluster, the recommendations are useless and now this. For many subscribers any ads or any extra cost will be the final push.
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by DrSiemer 5y ago
Agreed. A few years back I lost my entire collection, due to a hardware malfunction and a slightly careless backup policy. But even though it was full of potentially great music I had never heard yet, I tended to stick with the familiar. Si
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by DrSiemer 5y ago
> It doesn't scale to infinity like email does. The article clearly states you can turn your posts into e-mails > Someone else centralises the data and you have to trust them to keep it safe. That goes for any public medium. At l
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by DrSiemer 5y ago
Posting in a chat demands immediate attention from the participants. It feels "pushy"; I don't want to disturb my friends with my random ramblings. It's also not really possible to compose a single, long, properly format
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by DrSiemer 5y ago
Of course we should not be complacent about it. We can try to come up with creative solutions, that limit the more negative side effects of this thing we have unleashed. But the one thing we cannot do is take it back. The general public nee
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by DrSiemer 5y ago
Memes are a new type of language, a development supported by technology that is in some ways comparable to the rise of remixing music. I don't think they will be ridiculed to the same level as I hope our current social media behavior w
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by DrSiemer 5y ago
Being a luddite is not about withholding support, it is about completely denying the existence of new technologies, or even actively trying to destroy them. A return to the state of web 1.0 would definitely be a major move backwards, simila
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by DrSiemer 5y ago
Sure, the web used to be a fun place for tinkerers in the beginning. But the cat's out of the bag and we cannot put it back inside. Going luddite is never a good solution. We'll just have to accept the consequences of what all thi
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by DrSiemer 5y ago
Without any real experience in either field myself I would guess your main USP would be applying the skills you have in developing AI behavior and maybe natural environment generation? Not sure what the other overlapping areas can be. Isn&#
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by DrSiemer 5y ago
It's great that the interest in the technical side is already there, that will make things a lot easier. The point about centering on the fun factor still stands. Looking at my own career, the greatest jumps in my development have alwa
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by DrSiemer 5y ago
Make sure the kid is having fun. Don't put the bar too high; you don't need to understand linux just to build a website. Get quick results, make things they can show or send to friends. Something that is either entertaining or wil
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by DrSiemer 5y ago
Having to install QuickTime on Windows was far from a pleasant experience. If I remember correctly, it came with its own non-native UI and a massive pile of bloat you never used. It was incredibly slow. Before it (thankfully) disappeared al
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by DrSiemer 5y ago
How would that work, self hosting Spotify and YouTube? In theory you could probably find ways to rip and download everything you want to save, but it would require a massive amount of storage space just to be sure you never lose things that
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by DrSiemer 5y ago
> Anyone played it? Is it any good? Yes and nope. Some fun and promising features were removed and whenever you switched zones all your levels would reset, except for some minor stats, breaking any sense of progress and nerfing the need
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by DrSiemer 5y ago
That's why I thought, until I played Cube World. The procedural generation somehow instantly provides a sense of mystery, that makes you want to discover what this "fresh" world has to offer. Like Minecraft, the unexplored fe
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by DrSiemer 5y ago
What is there to be angry about? He didn't do anything malicious. Brandon is a great writer, who created his own multifaceted universe through a large volume of interconnected fantasy novels. His world building is excellent and his wor
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by DrSiemer 5y ago
What kind of compromise could Ukraine have made? Installing a Russian puppet regime amounts to giving up in a different way.
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by DrSiemer 5y ago
Kino's music is amazing. Even though I cannot understand most of it, I still feel it gives me a tiny glimpse of what life was like over there during those times. Your second link is a remake for the movie Лето though. Not as good as th
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by DrSiemer 5y ago
S3M could do a lot more than the old MOD format though. Mainly the support for more channels and instruments made a world of difference. It's the same basic principle, but creating a track was far less of a priority puzzle in Scream Tr
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by DrSiemer 5y ago
Here's a library that has some effects to test as well: https://www.hapticsjs.org/ Looks like the vibration on phones only has a single strength setting, unlike those in gamepads.
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by DrSiemer 5y ago
Imagine the following scenario: you need an image for an internal presentation, so you don't care about copyright. You find an image in the Google search results that looks promising. You open it, but end up on the dreaded Pinterest si
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by DrSiemer 5y ago
Is there a word or expression for when people fail to spot fairly obvious sarcasm?
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by DrSiemer 5y ago
Obviously I used an extreme example, but we shouldn't let machines make decisions that could easily be overruled in an argument with a human arbiter. How we deal with known offenders is another discussion, but adding these kinds of pre
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by DrSiemer 5y ago
Not necessarily. As I understand it, it indicates the presence of a list or group, that the subject(s) mentioned after it belong to. The location of e.g. in the sentence is unusual though: usually it will be found at the end.
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by DrSiemer 5y ago
My wife is about to give birth while a slasher horror antagonist is revving up his chainsaw, but I've had two beers so I guess that's that.
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by DrSiemer 5y ago
Excellent, I was hoping something as accessible as this would appear to play around with this type of model! Those that dismiss this as nothing more than a few filters are missing the finer details of what it actually does. There is a lot o
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by DrSiemer 5y ago
Sorry to inform you this original meaning is lost. The woke virus is everywhere now and the only thing it means, to people here in the Netherlands at least, is "being absurdly sensitive about anything that could possibly hurt any group
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by DrSiemer 5y ago
It's one of the classic "hard to explain" Dutch words. Only the German "gemütlich" comes close. The word contains "gezel", an old Dutch word for companion, which is where the [ multiple people ] qualificat

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