NBJack

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by NBJack 3y ago
Judge the tree by its fruit. Amazon, both globally and locally, has a horrible reputation for abusing the ever loving shit out of employees at every level. Does it build value in the process? Absolutely! Forget politics; do we really want a
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by NBJack 3y ago
Sorry, Tower Defense. A fun way to experiment with pathfinder and map generation as well.
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by NBJack 3y ago
- Gaming (Planetside 2 for the social/challenge, Space Engineers for the chill builds) - Gamedev (same TD game project for like 10+ years, off and on) - Building random things with PIs and a 3d printer (remote controllable FPS robot, c
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by NBJack 3y ago
The //c still holds a special place in my heart as the first computer I had access to. And I can safely say, despite its weight, it actually was a portable device. We took it at least once to my grandparents house, hooking it up v
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by NBJack 3y ago
"Hey, how much do you have left in the tank of our quantum powered car rental? Will we make it to LA?" "Don't you even DARE look at at the power guage! The moment you do, the observation will collapse the battery state s
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by NBJack 3y ago
Sorry man. Hey, have you checked out the pool on the roof yet?
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by NBJack 3y ago
Recently? Yes. Historically? Not so much.
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by NBJack 3y ago
Yeah, OpenStack is very much not a great competitor. If you can afford an expert to set it up for you, great! Otherwise, prepare to invest in other ways. I'm not going to say VMware has a super intuitive system, but I've gotten su
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by NBJack 3y ago
The problem is indeed two-sided. Distracted drivers, and distracted pedestrians.
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by NBJack 3y ago
This is especially dangerous on dark, hilly roads at night. Each time these 'floating' headlight vehicles crest a hill, they temporarily blind other drivers. To say this was a short-sighted (no pun intended) design is an understat
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by NBJack 3y ago
A book is also helpful when you don't know what you don't know. LLMs will help on specific problems sure. But there can be entire swaths of options and entire areas you may not have considered. Java for example has some nice nativ
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by NBJack 3y ago
You are likely getting bored. My guess is that you are a bright person who needs to exercise their brain and isn't seeing enough opportunity in your current situation. Gamedev keeps me occupied outside of my 9-to-5. Pick an engine: GoD
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by NBJack 3y ago
I mean, if everyone is using Whatsapp, that is effectively a monopoly. I am curious as to what the runner ups are in the EU however. Meanwhile, wait until Mr. Zuckerberg looks for new ideas to monetize their messaging ecosystem.
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by NBJack 3y ago
Good start, but too broad and open for interpretation. - Who gets to define testability? - I want to add a coffee maker to my crash test dummy; is the lack of room for the filter and water tank a sign of a bad design? Or not flexible enough
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by NBJack 3y ago
IIRC, truly well performing employees there can get very good stock. Amazon hates giving out cash. For a time, even during interviews, they would brag that even Bezos himself didn't make more than about $160k in base pay annually. Stoc
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by NBJack 3y ago
This reminds me of the big piece years ago talking about employees crying at their desks from the pressure. People joked about it, and to be fair, it wasn't that common. Reality is, you wanted to find a conference room or the bathroom
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by NBJack 3y ago
Bingo. Remember, one of the key points of a PIP is to gather documentation. When they sit you down for The Meeting, the 'evidence' is already on record, reducing your leverage should you decide to pursue them legally later for som
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by NBJack 3y ago
It's beautiful. Looks like a cleaner iteration of the ISS. The interior is crisp as well: https://www.planetary.org/space-images/tianhes-interior
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by NBJack 3y ago
LLMs are great at historical data. They however still suck at being kept up to date. I would expect that someone (if not already has) will find a cost efficient way to continuously index new data, but it would be interesting to see how it s
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by NBJack 3y ago
I'd love to try the software products from these countries, but I can't deny that some of the very things spoken of in the article came from the origins of which you speak. Samsung made Tizen, and many of the 'TVs with eyes a
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by NBJack 3y ago
You assume I wanted to make the update in the first place. I invite you to review roll outs of security updates. These are rarely about pushing new features, and may have nothing to do with my own code at all. It might just be a version bum
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by NBJack 3y ago
Somebody being honest? Would you prefer they lie and say the opposite? Or just let the target audience assume otherwise? Most folks I've seen do this put such a statement (in the postive) under "non-goals".
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by NBJack 3y ago
It's all fun and games until you hit version n+1 or n+2, and often realize how slow many customers are to upgrade the library. Then there are the potential conflicts in your own dependencies. And let's not forget the occasional br
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by NBJack 3y ago
Have enjoyed use of original Air glasses as well. It is pleasantly versatile, and great if you ever need to read mildly sensitive data in a public setting (or even airplane). Bonus points if you have a Samsung Dex capable phone; with a Blue
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by NBJack 3y ago
And you can build your game for Linux or MacOS too! There are some quirks with naming (i.e. you may have a few issues with case sensitive asset names), but it works surprisingly well. The former build option is also natively compatible with
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by NBJack 3y ago
Wow, memories. I fondly recall editing the gauss weapon family for TFTD and giving them HE damage instead. I enjoyed using the heavy varient to effectively destroy buildings and turn the pixelated reefs those alien jerks often hid in into w
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by NBJack 3y ago
SD 1.5 struggled, but SDXL has spoiled us with remarkable consistency (if same-y) human generation. It comes up, certainly, but far less than its predecessors (anecdotally from my use, at the very least).
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by NBJack 3y ago
I had a project I started in XNA, and I was surprised at how little effort it took to migrate to Monogame. Hardest part was really switching the build process. Just note if you wrote it in XNA 3.x, you might need a guide as the modern versi
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by NBJack 3y ago
That's a poor comparison. Crypto is an umbrella term for a number of solutions, including blockchains (roughly 1,000+ as of right now) and cryptocurrencies (roughly 22,000+). While a given blockchain may be limited in terms of how much
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by NBJack 3y ago
Thank you! Technical writing 101 stuff, especially when MTE as an acronym has a lot of common definitions. Took me multiple queries to locate the definition for myself. There's the communications company, the finance definition, the ad

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