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by aeturnum 3y ago
Oh - this seems fine to me? If I have to pick between a world where a company makes four different models of car with actual different components, and a world where a company makes one car with DRM - the DRM world just seems better in gener
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by aeturnum 3y ago
Ah, my bad - thank you for the correction!
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by aeturnum 3y ago
Yes, absolutely. The Maya are generally thought to have been 'around'[1] for ~1450 years. [1] Of course, Mayan people still exist (and continue to carry their culture), but this is about the civilization.
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by aeturnum 4y ago
From a history point of view, early mainframe programmers were required to be night owls. Mainframes were expected to be running all day doing the calculations they were purchased to do - the only time they were allowed to be idle for devel
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by aeturnum 4y ago
In conversations I've have, cost-of-living is generally described as a way of adjusting your pay to "keep up" with overall inflation. I've never had a conversation about how onerous it is to get into the office and how e
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I agree that "in office" culture implicitly values informal, face-to-face interactions that happen "for free" if you are in office. The problem, in an increasingly globalized world, is that it's only "free&quot
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by aeturnum 4y ago
Or Xbox! Which I'm pretty sure is still in the red overall after 21 years.
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by aeturnum 4y ago
It feels like some projects are considered strategically important (Waymo comes to mind) while others are kind of allowed to sink or swim. It also seems like these companies acquire a lot of businesses that realistically will never hit the
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I've heard a lot about how mis-aligned the internal incentives are at Google along these lines, but there is usually also some kind of plan on the business side. If what is happening is really that these projects are killed because all
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by aeturnum 4y ago
> Facebook’s 2020 Gaming App that they said would rival Twitch? Dead. Hobbi, their app for “documenting personal projects?” Dead in less than 6 months. Campus, Facebook’s college-student-focused app? Dead in two years. Live-streamed sho
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by aeturnum 4y ago
The postal bank - or some other federally run bank - still seems like a very good idea to me.
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I think the most attractive part of the Elixir / Erlang ecosystem is BEAM and its ability to manage code, processes and resources in an extremely parallel environment. Rust operates at a lower level and it feels deceptive to just compa
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I do think generative AI has some really interesting possibilities for interactive media - but I don't see how it unlocks anything. It's clear there's a market for well-designed and compelling VR chat. VRChat[1] has a large c
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by aeturnum 4y ago
yes, exactly, thank you
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by aeturnum 4y ago
This is a classic curbcut in the sense that it will help those with heading as much (if not more than) the D/deaf community. Still very excited for it - agree with all your questions and concerns. As usual, this marketing seems most di
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by aeturnum 4y ago
This is interesting because my impression is that LLMs perform poorly on non-english languages[1]. This is likely 'just' a corpus size problem - but it's not like that is going to be fixed any time soon. That said, at least i
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I totally agree that generic guard rails are more difficult - but it feels like a "turtles all the way down" kind of situation. You need to learn to tell the model how to be "specific" - which requires shaping general be
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by aeturnum 4y ago
> Those guard rails will be their undoing. IMO effective guard rails seem like the most meaningful competitive advantage an AI company can offer. AI can obviously do some really impressive stuff, but the downside risk is also high and
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I don't think any reply could have supported my point better. All alcohol consumption is alcoholism! Good luck on your path - we would live longer if we all followed your advice. And also - like I said - this is exactly what is being c
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by aeturnum 4y ago
IMO the fat acceptance movement is pushing more for people to think about obesity like alcohol consumption: not "healthy", but potentially part of a sustainable approach to life. Of course, each deviation from "perfect"
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by aeturnum 4y ago
First - I see that you don't have any audiophile friends! Many sound geeks dislike the sound of compressed audio. Second - there's nothing wrong with an AI 'enhancement' option. It seems useful! But you should admit what
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by aeturnum 4y ago
> There is no maximally efficient platonic system without a universally imposed definition of the measures being optimized. Totally agree! All my global statements are gesturing towards the idea of such an idea - which is of course imp
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by aeturnum 4y ago
> There is no need for housing investments to have competitive yields I personally agree but you are not describing the economic system we live in. > I don't worry that people will stop making socks, shoes, or food because the
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I agree that the sort of investment you are describing makes sense - but in practice those kinds of investments are out-competed by ones with better yields. If you are a developer, there is simply no financial incentives to choosing a lower
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I agree that, if your main reaction to the various approaches Rust supports is "why do I need all this?" that's a sign of a mismatch between your engineering goals and the functionality the language is providing. Either just
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I respect people who really dial in their personal setups and I am also a little at a loss about what to say about these kinds of posts. As the author says - this seems like a highly personal preference that they spent some time and energy
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by aeturnum 4y ago
It's a good reminder that ChatGPT's knowledge and moral compass is calibrated, roughly, to an average US English speaking resident with access to the internet. It's just not a particularly interesting or considered view of th
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I think this is a SUPER astute observation and is looking to the future of what people will want from games engines. I also think we can take this further - games should be setting up their pipelines to offer a "compression friendly&qu
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by aeturnum 4y ago
Certainly one can think of obvious improvements - which I generally think is a sign that a tool has a lot of potential. I would put it somewhere between art and educational tool: I hadn't really thought that much about how far a balloo
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I haven't exactly had "bad" experiences on SO - but I do feel like it's generally a waste of time to ask questions on it. Basically - SO is very good at general knowledge questions (kinda ChatGPT territory) but bad at

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