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by ThalesX 4y ago
> This speaks of the Founder and his team. Evangelism this is not, but an invitation to learn of the principles they pledge to adhere to. I'm not sure that I claimed it's evangelism. For me personally it really did it's jo
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I can see how something limited in scope, accepted by the team could be fun and quirky but what if every coworker started writing little scripts with their own beliefs popping up in one place or another?
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> but since they are those of your own you don't notice them as jarringly Why would you assume this about me and not take at face value that I really believe you don't find these often in the wild. It's just my personal ex
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by ThalesX 4y ago
Hmm, is this some sort of Meta I’m missing? It feels strange to mix so many cultural ‘suggestions’ with a database product. > Listen willingly to holy reading. > Devote yourself frequently to prayer. > Daily in your prayers, with t
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by ThalesX 4y ago
I'm keeping my dream, thank you. > Graphics matter but aren't the most important thing, and anyone who thinks GPT-3 can write compelling storylines doesn't understand GPT-3 or story craft. I asked GPT-3 (let's pretend
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> FAANG huh... Major US based video RPG developers (to be fair there's like one and a half of them) seem to be chronically unable to craft interesting worlds in recent years. They're still doing fine creating gameplay that tick
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by ThalesX 4y ago
I'm not sure why you'd go with this take. I'm not saying throw some AI, some GPT+ prompts and Unreal 5, deploy it to EC2 and call it a day. There's gameplay elements, main storylines, side quests, great campaigns and ass
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by ThalesX 4y ago
WoW was colossal. It shaped an entire generation I was part of; the socialization, camaraderie, ventrillo and teamspeak chats, friends all over the world. I can’t really imagine myself without it. I remember one New Year’s Eve in Goldshire.
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by ThalesX 4y ago
I remember those days, so many MMORPG on the market. Everquest, Asheron’s Call, Dark Age of Camelot, Dungeons and Dragons, Anarchy Online, and so many others. I remember being involved in the community for an ultimately vaporware MMO. Realm
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by ThalesX 4y ago
I find LinkedIN influencers funny for a long time, so I decided to become one. In a sort of ironic way, I sometimes do posts on LinkedIN where I just fluff a dumb story / idea and go with it because I love all the reactions from people
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The world might change, but software engineers have been working with and within change their entire careers presumably. I think we'll be OK, as people, no matter what happens. I was sweating nervously before I started using Copilot aw
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World of Warcraft for me, Plaguelands.
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by ThalesX 4y ago
> This responsibility is usually assumed to be higher if you have reaped oversized rewards from society, such a becoming wealthy Thinking about Jeff Bezos. I feel that society as a whole has had a lot more to gain from his endeavors than
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by ThalesX 4y ago
I find myself working in the web3 space despite not being a fan of crypto (quite the contrary). What I have helped implement working in this space touches on distributed & decentralized systems, edge computing, cryptography and I could
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by ThalesX 4y ago
Cool project, congrats on putting it out in the wild. > You can prevent it if you manage to counter deflationary pressures fast enough. Iirc, it was a matter of < 10 months from good to gutter.
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by ThalesX 4y ago
I have no idea if this was a bug or a failure model but it seemed I was doing decent until everything started failing all at once. Orchards running out of business etc. LE: I tried another round. Put the interest rate at -0.5 and just left
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by ThalesX 4y ago
> "Mix the ingredients, wait for a few days and detect the RNA." I was surprised at the timescale, was expecting thousands of years.
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by ThalesX 4y ago
I've also been thinking about using small containers in the cloud to basically run NPC lives inside a MMORPG. I thought this would be what New World would bring to the table honestly.
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I feel this is a very hard balancing act. I worked for a small team where all members would constantly think "out loud" in a public channel. It felt very nice for everyone involved, no one would criticize and the discourse was at
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> We should be careful about underestimating the capabilities of predecessor cultures This is surely true, however allowing oneself to imagine and dream, especially when not in a position of authority in the matter can't be that bad
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by ThalesX 4y ago
Just for wonder's sake. Do you think it could be possible for a system of underground waterways to basically be pushed uphill by a natural dam breaking and the pressure of the Mediterranean sea forcing the water to sort of gush uphill?
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by ThalesX 4y ago
> But I do definitely know this: some time in 8000 BC the creators of Gobekli Tepe buried their great structures under tons of rubble. They entombed it. We can speculate why. Did they feel guilt? Did they need to propitiate an angry God?
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by ThalesX 4y ago
One can give all the trust in the world, but a good manager must also align incentives towards business goals and create a structure for tracking progress. Adding on top of that care and integration for the personal preferences of the team
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> Opt in models? Inflamatory post but this would actually mean managers would have to manage. You can't go to a seminar and cocktail party and come back with the insights to properly manage a team where people opt in to the model th
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by ThalesX 4y ago
> The administration released a “Housing Supply Action Plan” that officials said would produce more housing supply, including affordable units, in the next five years. Aaaand it's priced in. > The White House also urged lawmakers
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I don't know. I also feel that I work more than let's say half my colleagues at whichever company. Mostly because I really really really enjoy what I'm doing. That being said, I'm not really sure how their salary impac
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How do you feel about writing this in a community spanning thousands of people across tens of countries and providing only a fully ‘literate’ approach as per the GPs comment?
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I think the definition "an element of a culture or system of behaviour passed from one individual to another by imitation or other non-genetic means" can be taken, instead of "an image, video, piece of text, etc., typically h
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Whenever I interview I present myself as a developer with more than a decade of experience that wants $X / year and willing to go a bit lower for the right company. Whatever other categorizations they might have for me, is on the compa
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by ThalesX 4y ago
Capital owners would have to crash through a lot of safety nets to even get to the point where they would consider labor as a possible means to get ahead.

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