Snow_Falls

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by Snow_Falls 3y ago
There is going to be a very long tail of games being worked on in unity. It can takes years to make a game and the cost of switching engines is very high. I expect that the number of unity yes will slowly decline over time as the gamesget r
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by Snow_Falls 3y ago
Do you believe that other factor is wokeness, or is it maximising profit
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by Snow_Falls 3y ago
Twilio is more of a "how the sausage gets made" type of company, I do t really think its the type that benefits from a celebrity CEO
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by Snow_Falls 3y ago
You misunderstand, its the person in the car you hit that would be knocked by the flying driver.
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by Snow_Falls 3y ago
Also the conversation assumes people are actually sitting in traffic for ages Are the welsj streets so clogged? I recall an article stating that the average increase in journey length was a few minutes.
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by Snow_Falls 3y ago
... Which shows that its capable of regurgitating copyrighted material. What does it matter what the method is? People can deliberately use the thing for copyright infringement. Besides, proving that it can be done on purpose is just the ea
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by Snow_Falls 3y ago
Planes get so much attention precisely because they're so safe. If we reported ever car crash, we'd not have time for much else whereas planes hardly ever crash. Every crash is international news with national investigations becau
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by Snow_Falls 3y ago
Are you sure? I hear Boeing makes some very big planes...
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by Snow_Falls 3y ago
A more charitable take: they've decided to risk of theft/loss isn't worth the inconvenience.
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by Snow_Falls 3y ago
Unfortunately, not wearing a seat belt isn't a risk borne just by the one in the seat. There have been cases of people flying out of their window and battering someone with their body due to not wearing a seat belt. Of course, everythi
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by Snow_Falls 3y ago
The salary issue (along with the working conditions) are because game dev is an "art" field which meant, like other creative jobs, companies can life in young, naive people and exploit their passion to get them to accept terrible
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by Snow_Falls 3y ago
The collective time everyone sits in traffic is not the same as someone actually dying.
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by Snow_Falls 3y ago
The miniscule amounts of money fined from companies are not going to affect the EU budget. It is interesting that, whenever a post about the EU comes up, (a small minority of) Americans will act like they are tyrants trodding over the poor
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by Snow_Falls 3y ago
I suspect that's so they don't have to prove obvious things like: cameras exist, cameras can take pictures etc. Or for stuff like the defendant attacking someone during the trial.
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by Snow_Falls 3y ago
Your calculation is wrong, there are a thousand millions to the billion. If there was a 1/1,000,000 chance across 10 billion people, it would be 10,000 people affected.
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by Snow_Falls 3y ago
I agree, it would likely have extremely diminishing returns in terms of lives saved to have more stringent safety requirements. Needs to be a balance after all.
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by Snow_Falls 3y ago
Not to mention that many Chinese immigrants will give their children European names.
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'Impossible' to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenA(theguardian.com)
27 points by Snow_Falls 3y ago|132 comments
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by Snow_Falls 3y ago
I'm of the opinion that politicians above a certain level (in the UK: prime minister, members of Parliament and maybe mayors) should just get a permenant annuity for the rest of their lives on the condition that they can't make mo
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by Snow_Falls 3y ago
Interesting that the actors aren't taken into account, you would think so considering the large impact they have on the final product. Certainly more so than the music director. Maybe that last one is just a result of the powerful musi
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by Snow_Falls 3y ago
Maybe adding a lot of metadata? I know AWS block storage adds an additional 4kb metadata file for everything you upload, maybe icloud doing something similar?
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by Snow_Falls 3y ago
RSS for the win! Though, I need to check it in the browser because sometimes it misses things.
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by Snow_Falls 3y ago
Ah that is true, I forgot that you could stream assets via web in a browser. But, surely if you can stream the large assets quickly enough for a decent experience (even with caching) then the initial blob size isn't going to take too l
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by Snow_Falls 3y ago
If hard work were accurately linked to monetary benefit, poor African substinamce farmers would be some of the richest people on earth. Clearly that isn't the case, money come from more thanjust hard work. Luck has a lot to do with it,
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by Snow_Falls 3y ago
That's not really the Geneva convention though, chemicals weapons are just not effective for any actual warfare (aside from committing atrocities).
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by Snow_Falls 3y ago
The problem with video games and binary sizes is that the assets (3d models, audio, etc) take far more space than the binaries. And its much harder to compress then while still getting good loading times and high quality.
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by Snow_Falls 3y ago
I'm confused, if they're going through the effort to make something known bad (MD5 secure, then why not just use something secure in the first place (e.g. SHA3)?
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by Snow_Falls 3y ago
That's even harder to prosecute, pretty much no one is starting a war over what rulers are doing to their own citizens.
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by Snow_Falls 3y ago
Has the Geneva convention ever stopped anyone? They can only arrest you if you lose the war, and people don't tend to plan for that.
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by Snow_Falls 3y ago
That's an unfair characterisation, sometimes they're actively user hostile instead of just poorly designed.

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