Ialdaboth

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by Ialdaboth 4y ago
It's the reason why they switched from low-paid underlings to a little better paid caste of technocatric petty bourgeoisie for the XXIst century ;)
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by Ialdaboth 4y ago
Obsidian is great for syncing my notes across several devices. It was the major challenge I've struggled with for several years before it.
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by Ialdaboth 4y ago
Thanks. I should find and read some good sources about this, it looks like a given to me.
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by Ialdaboth 4y ago
Feels fallacious ? Most good developers I personally know, when doing code, tend to think about the problem at hand, establish the logic of how they want to solve it, and then implement the solution. They rarely try to do this by doing patt
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by Ialdaboth 4y ago
Humanity is shaped by its tools much more than the other way around.
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by Ialdaboth 4y ago
Speaking about this, there is something I don't understand about AI-produced work : given how you need to train AI on an existing set of existing code (or artworks, or novels, or whatever), I don't even understand how it would be
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by Ialdaboth 4y ago
I'm more and more convinced this is... not exactly a false dichotomy per say, but at least a tricky one : you can have both free will at the micro level (any individual), and determinism at the macro level (any sufficiently large group
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by Ialdaboth 4y ago
I don't even really understand what "glory" is supposed to mean here; I'm more a believer in the cold, hard reality of geopolitical survival : you can't be a global superpower when your own seafront is literally at
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by Ialdaboth 4y ago
My guess is the Russians did it because they were ashamed of all the leverage nordstream was giving them on the Germans and on Europe.
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by Ialdaboth 4y ago
The voice of reason. Frameworks just work for a reasonable cost, offer an easy upgrade pathway to follow, and facilitate the integration of new devs. In most case (depending of your business domain, of course), they should be more than adeq
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by Ialdaboth 4y ago
Agreed, Life Aquatic is one of his strongest offering. Totally different genres but what you are saying about Wes Anderson's writing remind me of Mamoru Hosoda's movies; left to his own devices, most of his movies after 2006 are b
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by Ialdaboth 4y ago
It must be heart-wrenching.
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by Ialdaboth 4y ago
I think The Grand Budapest Hotel is definitely his best. For once, the retro bric-a-brac aesthetics isn't purely gratuitous but is used in a narrative framework where history (as a source of tragedy, melancholy and loss) has a real pur
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by Ialdaboth 4y ago
Brillant idea. As an anthology movie, I felt that the movie was a little too disjointed and didn't really work.
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by Ialdaboth 4y ago
I think "when things get worse we tend to double down on what caused things to get worse, until everything around us crash and burn" would be more accurate, given the current state of affairs.
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by Ialdaboth 4y ago
Precisely. I don't think he intend to rock the boat too deeply - just enough to appear to stick to his personal brand.
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by Ialdaboth 4y ago
Cynically speaking : Twitter is a useful tool for broadcasting the ruling class' narrative and pass it off as the mainstream one - as long as this function is not too apparent. Yielding to Musk's requests would be a clever way f
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by Ialdaboth 5y ago
A nice sci-fi theme sure, but one of the the worst choices possible to build a resilient society.
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by Ialdaboth 5y ago
I guess you must be pretty young and havent experimented yet how easy it is to get swallowed by life.
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by Ialdaboth 5y ago
> * got too eager in seeking to create new lines of business and pushed * far too early to maturity, and now we're just beginning to see it's faults, many which can't be fixed without major changes that will likely make th
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by Ialdaboth 5y ago
I've mixed feelings about it. As advertised it can be somewhat useful for business rules-rich apps, yes, but most of the times the application side of the project will just grow exponentially faster than your core - especially if you d
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by Ialdaboth 5y ago
You can have both surveillance and crime, they are not mutually exclusive.
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by Ialdaboth 5y ago
Kings had secret agents and diplomats fooling around, sure. But you need the technical/societal advancements and the production surplus brought by modern civilization if you want to be able to run a totalitarian state.
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by Ialdaboth 6y ago
Good point.
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by Ialdaboth 6y ago
I don't remember those characters (AssCreed 1 was a long time ago). Thanks for the reminder !
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by Ialdaboth 6y ago
I don't think it's Ubisoft's fault, really - in 2020, you just can't produce a game where migrating people are presented as the bad guys who kill, rape and loot the locals indiscriminately. I'm more frustrated by th
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by Ialdaboth 6y ago
Agreed, but you cannot avoid it : the culture of the hegemon always set the norm inside its sphere of influence. There are major symbolic/social incentives for the local comprador elites to adopt American talking points.
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by Ialdaboth 6y ago
Not holding my breath for Henry, as the deal he signed with the Devil obviously made him immortal.
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by Ialdaboth 7y ago
I believe the "understanding" bit goes hand-in-hand with the fetishization of nerdy intellect by the modern upper-class (especially in the managerial and IT urban elite). Whereas one recurring theme of classical art had to do with