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by aflag 4y ago
Digital computers are also expensive, require specialized knowledge and are difficult to maintain. In a lot (most?) cases the scales tip in favour of digital solutions, but that's not always the case. I'm not a specialist but I on
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by aflag 4y ago
100% right is likely impossible, but the way it was written it made it sound as if it was right 50% of the time, which is essentially the worst you can do. Anything below or above that is valuable. Obviously, the closer to 0% or 100% the be
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by aflag 4y ago
I think we're talking about market cap here and being a fashion company or a tech company doesn't really make a difference.
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by aflag 4y ago
The only world vr would work the way meta wanted is a world where everyone social distances forever. There's a slight chance if it's a hyperrealistic environment where you can actually see people in the eyes. No one will replace a
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by aflag 4y ago
Initially I thought the petition was for workers wanting to go back to the office. But it's actually against going back to the office. Not surprising.
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US teenager wrote huge slice of Scots Wikipedia (2020)(theguardian.com)
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by aflag 4y ago
If playing Fortnite and sc2 are considered sports, why not?
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by aflag 4y ago
Though at least 50% of it doesn't happen on the streets.
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by aflag 4y ago
Deploying a fixed number of servers to a fixed number of hosts has been battle tested for the past 40+ years. It does work.
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by aflag 4y ago
From Wikipedia: "The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, first published in 1997, is the best-known work of the Harvard professor and businessman Clayton Christensen. It expands on the concept of
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by aflag 4y ago
I'm still waiting for my pets.com t-shirt.
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by aflag 4y ago
I'd rather have the irrelevant ads. Believe it or not, I just ignore them anyway. So being tracked only has downsides in this case.
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by aflag 4y ago
I wouldn't be so quick about the data (from what I hear openai did a lot of data curation) and engineers (I don't think engineers at openai are any worse, and that are likely more focused), but Google does have a lot of money.
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by aflag 4y ago
The site they use give you a visits counter. So, if that matches what you did, you didn't clash with any other user's hash.
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by aflag 4y ago
And if we ever migrate to ipv6, the IP alone may be all anyone needs to fingerprint you.
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by aflag 4y ago
I don't think adding a nice controller and cool games to play would be prohibitedly expensive. But it is an investment and someone needs to take the risk. It's entirely possible that they spend all this money creating this thing a
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by aflag 4y ago
I understand and agree with what you said. But I'd say what you're describing is how people are affected in a superficial level. In the façade they present to strangers. However, I interpreted the original post to mean that, in an
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by aflag 4y ago
I have no reason to think people in North Korea aren't just as nice and just as terrible as people in Seattle or anywhere else, really. The political system in North Korea is atrocious, but the point was that people are people.
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by aflag 4y ago
If hardware was cheaper, but writing software required an army of developers to do it, the costs would still be too great. If you read carefully, my point isn't that SQL was the cause of the tech boom, but rather that SQL and other tec
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by aflag 4y ago
That's exactly my point, though. In the mid 80s there were a lot fewer companies producing software. Nowadays we have many more. Indeed SQL was not the only local maxima we could have gone for, but the point is that having an easy to u
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by aflag 4y ago
You're considering that every company that needs SQL today would hire enough developers to essentially write most of it from scratch. While some might, most companies that use SQL would not exist, because the cost of developing their p
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by aflag 4y ago
Even if the main purpose of people powering on their desktop PCs is not reading the news, I'm sure many (if not most) will still go through the news before, during and/or after they do the main activity they set out to do.
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by aflag 4y ago
Some proprietary licenses are complicated, like oracle and vmware. But most of them you just pay and you're set. Even with those two it's still sort of like that. But even then they will just threat to audit and you could pay them
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by aflag 4y ago
How is aws lambda less of a sandbox? What can they do with lambda that they wouldn't be able to with scriptable?
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by aflag 4y ago
Ok. Fair. Venvs are great, unless you want to install packages on them.
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by aflag 4y ago
It's incredibly lacking in features. PyPI doesn't even properly index packages, making pip go into this dependency resolution he'll trying to find a set of versions that will work for you. It works for simple cases with few d
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by aflag 4y ago
I guess it wouldn't be capable of keeping saves for games such as Zelda. Would it?
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by aflag 4y ago
I didn't know I didn't understand arm versions. Now I do know.
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by aflag 4y ago
Having a mental model doesn't require you to read all the code. But even if it did, most people work with much smaller code bases anyway.
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by aflag 4y ago
There’s more than one way to skin a cat. People not using a debugger are not mindlessly adding prints, sort of a poor man’s debugger. Those people are figuring out the problem from a different perspective. In your case, one may trying to co

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