armada651

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by armada651 1y ago
It's a result of mix-use neighborhoods. In Tokyo your house is usually in the middle of a neighborhood that includes restaurants, shops and other businesses rather than a suburb completely devoid of everything except single-family home
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by armada651 1y ago
I've heard this excuse a lot over my career, mainly from people trying to backtrack on a promise of issuing options to begin with.
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by armada651 1y ago
There are right ways and wrong ways to lay off someone. They aren't determined by words, but by actions. If the company has a healthy cashflow it can afford to give the employees that have been laid off a larger runway in terms of how
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by armada651 1y ago
They clearly didn't want to leave a system unbootable because a certificate expired. In which case you would have no opportunity to update the certificate because you can't boot the system anymore. They could've used a time s
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by armada651 1y ago
> also, how are these "puritan" groups doing the hounding? I mean, are they threatening some kind of legal action? based on old (or not so old) obscenity laws? They're not suing them in civil court, they're threatenin
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by armada651 1y ago
> they have neither leverage nor negotiating talent. The Brexit negotiations proved to me that the UK government will simply assume they have leverage and try to assert it even when they have none. Combined with the lack of negotiating t
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> nobody has ever liked "educational" games. You take that back, I loved educational games as a kid! There were indeed plenty of crappy ones out there, but some were really well-made. For example, Pink Panther's Passport t
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by armada651 1y ago
It is practically the same, you're beholden to all the laws of the European Union without having a say in them. Kind of like Puerto Rico, which is still considered a US State despite having no votes in congress.
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by armada651 1y ago
System prompts are a dumb idea to begin with, you're inserting user input into the same string! Have we truly learned nothing from the SQL injection debacle?! Just because the tech is new and exciting doesn't mean that boring less
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by armada651 1y ago
How far do you want to take that? The oligarchs can fly back and forth to Japan every week, should the air fare be so cheap that everyone can do that?
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> The most novel aspect of OoT bitsets is that the first 4 bits in the 16-bit coordinate IDs index which bit is set. Am I the only one who was trouble parsing this sentence correctly?
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by armada651 1y ago
I wouldn't be so sure about that statement, no one has ruled on the output of Anthropic's AI yet. If their AI spits out the original copy of the book then it is practically the same as buying a book from them instead of the copyri
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by armada651 1y ago
If you've built up lots of experience working on a closed-source in-house code base that expertise will be tied to the company you're working for and once you're fired all that knowledge becomes useless to you. If you've
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by armada651 1y ago
Software developers have enjoyed decades of high demand for their skills and the companies that hired them have enjoyed decades of an abundance of capital against a low interest rate. You didn't need a union because you had leverage du
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by armada651 1y ago
> If I don't type it into the editor myself, I'm not putting my name on it. It is not my code and I'm not claiming either credit nor responsibility for it This of course isn't just a moral concern, it's a legal o
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by armada651 1y ago
Just because the risk of getting successfully sued for making decisions against the interests of shareholders is low, it doesn't mean that it won't influence executive decision making. CEOs want to avoid legal risks above all else
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by armada651 1y ago
Because adopting a language that utilizes a garbage collector for memory management in the Linux kernel is even less likely than adopting Rust.
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by armada651 1y ago
Direct Memory Access cheats will always perform better as they can reveal the location of an opponent before they're even visible on the screen.
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They are often more convenient and secure. If you don't mind a single-purpose device that severely limits your ability to modify your experience. Better is subjective after all.
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This isn't exclusive to video games. Much of the improvements to world records in sports are due to improvements in gear, yet we don't consider those records to have been unfairly achieved. Some games do impose limits though, for
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by armada651 1y ago
> Besides, it's a cat and mouse game where the vendor is the mouse. The goal of anti-cheat isn't to stop the world's most advanced cheaters. Those are already unstoppable because they now use Direct Memory Access over the
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by armada651 1y ago
Exactly, nothing short of streaming the entire game fully rendered from the server will stop cheats. And even then you can probably still do aimbotting with modern day computer vision.
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You're correct and I was considering adding a footnote that if you use indexed colors like a GIF then PNG can beat GIF due to better compression algorithms. But when most people think of APNG they think of lossless compression rather t
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by armada651 1y ago
> Can animated PNG beat av1 or whatever? Animated PNGs can't beat GIF nevermind video compression algorithms.
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Japan is full of licenses and regulations, it is almost the exact opposite of the free market utopia you're imagining. You're not even allowed to buy a car without a permit that proves you have a parking space for it. What Japan d
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by armada651 1y ago
> Most people (especially Americans) have been indoctrinated by society to be unable to interpret any radical or leftist concept in any but the most extreme bad faith way possible. That is true, there is a concerted effort to control the
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by armada651 1y ago
And this is exactly why calling for "prison abolishment" is so counter-productive, because when most people hear that the assumption is that everyone who's in prison right now is free to go. It does not help your cause to ado
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If there is a chance at survival, no matter how slim I would take it. Even if it brings me suffering at least I tried to escape death. Whether my end was peaceful or dignified is of no relevance to me, because I won't be around to regr
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> It's not like they were designed like that on purpose. It was a limitation of the technology of the time. If they could've made as many live service games back then, they would have. Not every game released today is a live se
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Yet if you gather up a group of friends you can still play these old obscure multiplayer games because it didn't rely purely on the master servers being maintained forever. No matter how many people I gather we can never experience any

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