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by TillE 4y ago
I'm still baffled at how that game got almost rebooted and then just abandoned. The game wasn't perfect, the business model was a failed experiment, but it's something they absolutely could have built into something fun, in
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by TillE 4y ago
It costs a flat one-time $100 for each game you put on Steam, which is a bargain compared to anyone's code signing certificates. Plus you get auto updating and everything in Steamworks. If you're remotely serious about indie game
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by TillE 4y ago
The long-term financial benefits of remote work are likely to outweigh the emotional / speculative resistance from certain leaders.
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by TillE 4y ago
> superficial to the point of barely expressing an idea This is a general issue with GPT-3 / ChatGPT, to be fair.
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by TillE 4y ago
This is the answer. If you really want to learn about the issue, try designing a package manager in detail, and be sure to handle the thousands of edge cases which arise in real world usage.
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by TillE 4y ago
But that immediately suggests the answer, which is that nothing much changes. Maybe you have a new tool to learn about, but the fundamentals of education are the same.
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by TillE 4y ago
Birds are extremely light. Hollow bones, etc.
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by TillE 4y ago
Right, solar on building roofs is fine and good, it's not nothing, but it's not a serious way to grow renewable energy. It's thinking far too small-scale. If the grid is fully modernized and using 99% renewables, there are ve
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by TillE 4y ago
Seriously like, programmers coming to work in their pajamas is the kind of thing you'd hear about in the late 90s.
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by TillE 4y ago
I love that whole scene and that passage in particular, one of my all time favorites from NOTW. Rothfuss is an incredible writer.
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by TillE 4y ago
Inhaling smoke of any kind is inherently bad for you, it releases all sorts of carcinogens and other crap. Vaping is orders of magnitude safer, and for weed edibles are of course your best option.
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by TillE 4y ago
You don't really need any radical changes, you just have to get rid of the idea of graded homework, which I always hated from elementary school onwards. Larger projects have a role to play in education, but ultimately if you can't
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by TillE 4y ago
Given the extremely fast and extremely comprehensive U-turn, it seems like a lot of people near the top did understand the community very well. Somehow, one person or one small faction made a different decision, and the overwhelming feedbac
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by TillE 4y ago
> The galaga arcade was driven by three Z80 CPUs I'm not super familiar with arcade hardware, but it's always fascinated me how the Z80 and the 6502 dominated the market for reasonably-priced CPUs for about a decade. You'd
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by TillE 4y ago
ChatGPT does some really impressive stuff! As a creative tool or a code generator it can give you some good material to work with. But the hype has been insane, totally untethered from reality. I think it's the instinct to assume that
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by TillE 4y ago
I don't know if that was Midjourney's intent, but it seems like a smart approach. Instead of trying to be everything to everyone and generating quite a lot of ugly garbage, you get consistently good-looking stuff in a certain styl
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by TillE 4y ago
The similar thought I had yesterday was that ChatGPT is pretty good at generating sample code that doesn't otherwise exist. It can be really useful if you treat it like that. Of course I've also had it call functions and use const
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by TillE 4y ago
Right, I think humanity will some day create something resembling an AGI, but the current LLM statistical approach is extremely unlikely to be the path to that. You need many more layers of sophistication. Like, AI art generators don't
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by TillE 4y ago
They tried for years to implement a bizarre law that would impose onerous age verification systems on porn sites, but do nothing about porn on Twitter or Reddit or whatever. Just total ineffectual nonsense, whatever you think about the prin
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by TillE 4y ago
That was the crass money-making part of it, but a lot of nerds earnestly believe(d) that cryptocurrencies would have massive world-changing consequences. I think it's increasingly obvious that there's little rational or empirical
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by TillE 4y ago
Running Linux on a desktop pretty much guarantees that you have an endless parade of small problems to fix. I really wish this weren't true, but the user experience has barely improved in the past 15-20 years. The specific problems may
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by TillE 4y ago
I keep making this same point in various HN threads. It should be trivially obvious to anyone who understands cryptography, but I guess lots of people really just don't. Pick a good password, pick good algorithms, and you should feel
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by TillE 4y ago
> "super heroin" The whole problem with fentanyl is that it sucks, the high isn't very good, which makes it extremely dangerous if you think that it might be a good idea to try to take more. It's the opposite of sup
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by TillE 4y ago
> importing people who have no better options This is literally how America grew. Mind, you want to actually integrate people instead of running some godawful Gastarbeiter program.
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by TillE 4y ago
> Sooner or later the bill comes due. No it doesn't. The whole world runs on debt, it's not a terribly big deal.
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by TillE 4y ago
Despite the niche obsession with 100% test coverage, tests aren't an all-or-nothing thing. Test what can easily be tested. Architect your code such that business logic, etc is modular and testable. Don't worry too much about testi
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by TillE 4y ago
It's hardly a secret, but it's still not widely understood that one huge advantage of starting with tests is that it forces you to think about how an API will be used. Instead of just writing a class with a bunch of methods that s
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by TillE 4y ago
> Even if you are a formal spokesperson for a company, you don't have to engage. This is key! At a lower level, if you're modding a Discord server or whatever, you can ignore people, and if they become a real problem you can ju
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by TillE 4y ago
Subversion fixed all the truly horrific things about CVS, it's quite adequate for centralized source control.
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by TillE 4y ago
This honestly seems like the more plausible explanation when a bunch of people laid off at Microsoft were working on highly profitable games.

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