Gene_Parmesan

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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
I'll take that as a given. I think what you're missing is that most people don't want to run into vitriolic hate speech while they're going about trying to organize their neighborhood parties (and so on). We can talk abo
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
I found the book "Programming From the Ground Up" to be a pretty good intro to programming in x86, and importantly, more recent than this text. I had to do just a tiny bit of research to find out how to get my shell to emulate 32
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
Here's my anecdote. When the team was still intact -- the people who were WFH were the same people who had been in the office together -- things were mostly fine. Now there's been significant turnover and it feels like we're
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
When it comes to work, you obviously cannot engineer happiness, but there are a number of things you can look for in an employer. If you know where to look, there are absolutely companies out there that place an emphasis on employee empathy
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
I had the opportunity to hear him speak about language design at an MS Build conference and was very nearly actually fanboying; my coworkers were more than a little bemused.
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
Non-lawyers often seem to misunderstand this phrase. "Innocent until proven guilty" is a statement defining the fact that in criminal cases, the burden of proof rests with the government. They have to present evidence proving your
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
> Glad to see this, as someone who has almost only been with people with depression I would gently suggest you spend some time thinking about this. What makes you seek out relationships with depressed people? I say this because I was in
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
I put this as a sub-sub-reply in a different chain, but this 100%. I know for me, when our couples therapist talked to me about codependency it felt like a full on attack. "How dare he suggest that I'M the one with a problem?? SHE
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
> And how did your wife come to see the problem? Making someone "see the problem" is missing the point entirely. Firstly because often, people with depression are fully aware of how they are treating people. They simply can&#x2
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
The reason salaries for game programmers are so low is that there is an effectively endless supply of new crops of graduates who have told themselves since they were 12 that they want to make video games for a living. Classic supply and dem
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
There is more to life than how much one can produce, surely. You may be interested in a little piece of literature called A Christmas Carol - the core of the message is as accurate now as it was when it was written, if not more so, and I pe
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
I really am not sure why you got downvoted. Here is a NYMag article that supports what you're saying: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/12/and-now-for-the-good...
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
> Steering public attention away from the total number of infections and toward serious cases only -- as some Biden advisers have encouraged -- could prove a challenge after nearly two years of intense focus on the pandemic's every
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
My coworkers think I'm insane, but I do my side projects in C because I find it so much more relaxing and satisfying than what I do at work (Angular and C#). They can't understand why I find C relaxing because they find it terrify
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
Just since we're all on the topic, anyone with an interest in literary translation owes it to themselves to read the book This Little Art by Kate Briggs.
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
> Carlsen's defense against Caruana in 2018 featured 12 draws before moving into tiebreakers I really hope they are able to figure out some not-too-unnatural way to reduce the likelihood of draws. One easy possibility I saw suggeste
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
I would say first, that's the power of exponential complexity. Second, AI in games tends to consist of somewhat complicated goal-based & fuzzy logic behaviors. Third, game AI agents have interactions that take place within a 3d wor
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
Wasn't the ostensible justification here making the cards more available for the enthusiast gaming market they were (to some extent) intended for? That's an honest question, I can't fully recall.
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
I'm not sure I agree with this 100%. If this were true, an investor like Warren Buffett, who has always invested by focusing on the fundamentals of the company he is investing in and focusing on real performance/value metrics, wou
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
I don't see the tautology. The point is, when someone claims they are a "victim" (I would agree the term is only a loose fit here), we believe them. The whole point of the statement is to not demand evidence. Obviously we&#x2
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
I find average mechanical keyboards to be perfect for my typing style. They never cause me hand strain, stress, tension, etc. Membrane keyboards, however - and especially whatever you call the keyboards on Macbooks - feel like I'm tryi
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
One caveat with that is that a huge percentage of the Han Chinese population lives in the east of the country. The west makes up only 28% of the population, and a big percentage of that is minority populations. So any response you get is li
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
Pair programming can't alleviate the need for code review. Good pair programming may reduce the amount of changes needed, and thus speed up the review phase, as a secondary effect of increased code quality. Bad pair programming will
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
You'd have to go quite a ways back for that one. Charles Dickens, "Nicholas Nickleby" -- "[h]is looks were haggard, and his limbs and body literally worn to the bone"
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
Many professional classical musicians of all sorts of instruments will practice 6-8 hours per day or more. Whether that's necessary or not is up for debate. Either way, many of them have an almost obsessive relationship with music an
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
Seriously. Anyone who cares at all about privacy should never have touched Chrome in the first place. The reasons for its existence were obvious from the outset.
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
There was a really interesting (and disheartening) story by NPR this year about recycling in the US: https://www.npr.org/2021/04/21/987111675/video-is-recycling-... One of the comments made was that cons
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
If liquid cash is considered an asset, so too can cryptos. Most of them would rather not be recognized as such formally due to regulations they desperately want to avoid, but call a spade a spade, etc., etc.
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
Just some genuine honest curiosity here; how many workloads actually require 64gb of ram? For instance, I'm an amateur in the music production scene, and I know that sampling heavy work flows benefit from being able to load more audio
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
I agree, but this has always stuck out as odd to me. Why is this so true even of the developers in web when people in something like C# are perfectly content using the established tools/frameworks they know year after year? I have seen

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