Peckingjay

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by Peckingjay 4y ago
I have no expertise on the subject or those particular accusations, but generally speaking I feel that a company's response to bad PR is probably not the most trustworthy and objective account of what has happened given their direct in
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by Peckingjay 5y ago
I guess if we're going for "weird" tips: Only shop for groceries on a full stomach. I've found it helps me against being tempted to buy unhealthy things (sweets, snacks, soda)
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by Peckingjay 5y ago
> There wasn’t much substance abuse treatment at CAAIR. It was mostly factory work for one of America’s top poultry companies. If McGahey got hurt or worked too slowly, his bosses threatened him with prison. And he worked for free. CAAIR
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by Peckingjay 5y ago
I assume making the name of the function they want to eventually get rid of more annoying to type is part of the reason to do this rather than just tracking ones needing replacement.
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by Peckingjay 5y ago
The reddit thread mentionned in the article [0] is more interesting. Notably it mentions who filed it (OpSecSecurity) and apparently they claim their DMCA process was spoofed. [0] : https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/c
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by Peckingjay 5y ago
Not in all cases, but when coupled with the private prison system of the US which is less concerned with rehabilitation and more with the extraction of value from its "residents", you do get a problem.
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by Peckingjay 6y ago
Having 30-ish (or more) children crammed inside a classroom is not the same as having smaller groups of children play together outside in terms of potential transmission.
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by Peckingjay 6y ago
There's also teddit.net as an alternative less annoying front-end to reddit. I hope it keeps working for a long time.
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by Peckingjay 6y ago
From the article: "A high level of diversity is paramount on Sharma’s list of essential goals. In projects Afforestt has undertaken in India, his company so far managed to use about 336 types of native trees out of 2800 that are known
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by Peckingjay 6y ago
I have a git-based wiki, and I've been slowly migrating it to Trilium [0]. There's a certain appeal to having your knowledge base purely contained within a git repo but ultimately having a rich dedicated editor is less of a hassle
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by Peckingjay 6y ago
As a CS student in France, I've never actually seen the French version of most of these terms. (A very small subset of them I've used regularly though) Some of these translations also feel wrong: Laptop should probably be translat
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by Peckingjay 6y ago
Links to previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11327669 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19467367
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by Peckingjay 6y ago
I really miss Grooveshark's UX, it felt so good at the time.
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by Peckingjay 6y ago
I'd recommend Godot. Unity is also a valid choice, but networking is in a weird state right now with the official APIs, so he'd have to use third-party solutions that integrate with Unity (such as Photon, MLAPI or Mirror). It&#x27
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by Peckingjay 6y ago
Can confirm, you just need to look at the networking APIs to see the same pattern. The new API isn't ready yet but the HLAPI of UNet is already deprecated and even though LLAPI is getting deprecated later than originally anticipated th
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by Peckingjay 6y ago
Blender has a great Python API[0] that allows you to do almost everything that you could do in the editor with code. You do have to run your code from inside the Blender app though. [0] https://docs.blender.org/api/curr
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by Peckingjay 6y ago
I like sifting through Simon Carless' blog on Gamasutra [0]. He has a weekly curated list of interesting articles he's read about video games. I rarely read all of them, but there's usually at least a few interesting ones in
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by Peckingjay 6y ago
Nice list, I'd mention the Haut-Koenigsbourg castle which also got renovated in the 19th century as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_du_Haut-K%C5%93ni...
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by Peckingjay 7y ago
While "feumme" is possible I think it would have gotten too close to the original "femme" word pronunciation-wise (which is a very common word itself), which isn't what you want when you're looking for somethin
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by Peckingjay 7y ago
Might be just me, but I was expecting the examples to be a bit more fleshed out than they actually are based on the title. A bit disappointed.
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by Peckingjay 7y ago
Most likely because Singapore is not also putting huge amount of people in detention camps and harvesting their organs. Maybe if they had the scale to do so they would, but that's not really the question when it comes to public opinion
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by Peckingjay 7y ago
I would recommend this extension: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox (there's a chrome version as well)
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by Peckingjay 7y ago
My immediate thought went to benchmarks. Some of them get stale pretty fast. Nice to have a name to put on that concept.
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by Peckingjay 7y ago
Just because another profession is worse off doesn't mean it does not deserve sympathy imo. Why not hope for both professions' working conditions to improve ? On a side note, unionization is gaining traction amongst game devs, whi
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by Peckingjay 7y ago
And a lot poorer overall, which certainly doesn't help. GDP(PPP) per capita for India was 7874 in 2018. Versus 41351, 44227 and 53023 for South Korea, Japan and Taiwan respectively. These countries that manage their high population den
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by Peckingjay 7y ago
It was a copy paste of a section of the blog post now linked, nothing more.
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by Peckingjay 7y ago
edit: Comment no longer relevant since URL has been updated.
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by Peckingjay 7y ago
All your data in China collected at will to be shared with all entities of the Chinese government and potentially any private company it owns feels more like a really fast and aggressive ramp-up than a slow strangulation to me.
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by Peckingjay 7y ago
I am aware that China has had no qualms to rig the game in its favor so far. Those measures would take it up on a whole new level though. I'm just not sure how many companies will be willing to abide by having almost all the data from
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by Peckingjay 7y ago
If such policies are truly enforced, there seems to be little to stop China from stealing absolutely all the technical know-how of a foreign company installed there and supplant it with one of their own later on. It really feels like they&#

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