Scarblac

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by Scarblac 3y ago
Isn't the database just another service? Are other services also restricted in the same way?
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Yes, but that's not his point. Obviously Galactus has some internal user data structure that is private to it. But there's also something going over the wire, as a response from Galactus' API, and consumed by one of more othe
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by Scarblac 3y ago
The main point of points is that they are not supposed to be equivalent to x amount of time. They're supposed to represent a measure of complexity. How much time that then takes depends on who does the work, the order in which ticket
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by Scarblac 4y ago
I don't know, I worked at a few companies that did this early in my career (early 2000s), and it was just the devs or the sysadmin of the office IT that did this sort of thing. There are lots of people who know enough about switches an
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by Scarblac 4y ago
It's also possible to rent hardware in a rack and pay monthly, that's much cheaper than cloud services.
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by Scarblac 4y ago
> If your business invests in physical servers anticipating strong growth next year then later finds out actually we're going into a recession and those servers are no longer needed, then that's a sunk cost. Yes, but that sunk
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by Scarblac 4y ago
The whole concept of a database as a separate system is an abstraction. An extremely successful one.
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by Scarblac 4y ago
FIDE doesn't make a profit. But the revenue they get from the match (about $1m) is a large part of their budget.
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by Scarblac 4y ago
A problem is that because of the increased CO2 concentrations, ocean weather is becoming more acidic at the same time. That's a huge problem on its own for many species.
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by Scarblac 4y ago
> Sharks are pelagic, which means that they live in the open ocean, they don't need to be near either any coast, the surface or the bottom. Some sharks are. There are 400+ species and plenty of them live near coasts or the bottom.
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by Scarblac 4y ago
_For Northern Europe_. On average Europe has a much milder climate than Canada, despite being at the same latitudes. That may come to an end. But that's a local effect, and doesn't change the global long term average story.
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by Scarblac 4y ago
To generate an interesting world from scratch, you must first create Dwarf Fortress.
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by Scarblac 4y ago
We're definitely not just meat robots. We agonize over what we are and what we're supposed to do with our lives. Meat robots don't do that, and I suspect hardly any animals do either. Art is a way in which we grapple with s
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by Scarblac 4y ago
> A world where I can instantly generate whatever content I want Is a world where you already know what the content is, and thus there won't be any point in taking it in.
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by Scarblac 4y ago
All mushrooms are edible. Some are only edible once. (Terry Pratchett)
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by Scarblac 4y ago
It's the Council that takes most of the decisions, and it's made up of the leaders of the national governments. They don't want it to be different, as that would mean giving up national power. The Commission is rather toothle
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by Scarblac 4y ago
It depends on what the goal is. If the goal is to make human-like AI, then that's a valid criticism. But if we want AI to be a useful tool, then bullshit isn't helpful. Why hold AIs to the same standards as humans. We already have
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by Scarblac 4y ago
There may still be a choice, I'm preparing to go carless in a few years.
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by Scarblac 4y ago
And the sarcasm / hostility potential it has. Rot lekker op.
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by Scarblac 4y ago
No, it's used non ironically too. Nice that you mention "lekker", that means something like "tasty" or "nice" but it can also ooze sarcasm and be used to turn just about anything into a sneer.
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by Scarblac 4y ago
Wait until you hear about the Dutch concept of "niksen" ( https://time.com/5622094/what-is-niksen/ )... Its a type of fluff article that you can find about many mundane words from around the world, trying
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by Scarblac 4y ago
> Well, one of the core measures of a well-designed game (for a given player) is the felt experience of immersion, or flow. Specifically, an immersive game should hold the player in the flow channel at all times. In life, that's not
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by Scarblac 4y ago
I see the expression "x/2 - floor(x/2)" and automatically read it as "the part of x/2 to the right of the decimal point".
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by Scarblac 4y ago
It's the glaciers melting at the end of the last Ice Age that Scandinavia is still rising from. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Glacial_Period#Weichselia... > As a result of melting ice, the land has continu
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by Scarblac 4y ago
And there are many companies that _start_ making high quality products until they have a reputation for it, and then later dial it down to improve profit margin. Even experts may have outdated information.
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by Scarblac 4y ago
You can tell by that quote that it's an early book in the series. The later books would not say that of anybody.
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by Scarblac 4y ago
The Netherlands is tiny and the 2nd largest agricultural exporter in the world by value, after the US. After the hunger winter in 1944 we became obsessed with food production but there is such a thing as too much.
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by Scarblac 4y ago
No, it's mostly about ammonia from lifestock. The "nitrogen" problem is about NO2, NO3 and NH3, where most of the NO is from transport and industry, but the NH3 is from bio industry. Huge factory-like pig and poultry farms. T
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by Scarblac 4y ago
But why so much space... Why no high parking garages, or deep underground ones.
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by Scarblac 4y ago
It's also programming, and coding, and developing. They're all synonyms. Or rather, they're used by different companies for the same type of jobs, some people make distinctions that other people don't know about, terms g

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