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by aylmao 7y ago
I wonder what a modern Spore would look like. Both the procedural aspects and the graphics could could be made much better with the processing power available today. The world of Spore after the water stage felt a little empty, I'm sur
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by aylmao 7y ago
I'm not. Climate is not global or permanent, but a constellation of satellites like this pretty much is.
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by aylmao 7y ago
Unfortunate that it is taking the invention of reusable rockets and a huge constellation of satellites to happen. And not just, you know, regulation.
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by aylmao 7y ago
> in any event it would be silly to fly over whole landmasses in silence. It wouldn't if the satellite network is operating at capacity, and therefore you can't guarantee service. Satellites communicate with one another to send
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by aylmao 7y ago
> Isn't covering the world in a blanket of satellites from a single company the epitome of a global Monopoly? shivers . My gripe with this comment is the subtle neo-colonial undertone it has too. "The world needs saving from t
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by aylmao 7y ago
I agree with the sentiment of the parent comment. Not because I have a huge passion for astronomy, but because I think we're prioritizing things in a wrong way. We're prioritizing yet another billionare's networking business
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by aylmao 7y ago
This honestly sounds more like an issue of social policy. The big ISPs make things like municipal broadband very hard to bring about. This leaves connectivity of these communities in the hands of an executive many miles away, and they will
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by aylmao 7y ago
But what about the 0.1%? The top 100, 10? Things grow exponentially fast as you reach the top. If you look at the Forbes 100, Jeff Bezos is worth about 2x number 5, 10x number 40. [1] The net worth of the top 1% is 10 million. That's 1
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by aylmao 7y ago
> Part of the problem is that there are too many edge cases. IMO, if there was the will to build a better system there would be a better system. There's a lot of edge-cases in space travel, or medicine, but there was will to put ver
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by aylmao 7y ago
*more regulated, my bad.
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by aylmao 7y ago
The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced advertising should be regulated.
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by aylmao 7y ago
I agree with this, but it also means the hype is overdone, because these "no-code" tools that are gonna "revolutionize the industry" have been here for ages. For example in the web space, Microsoft took a stab at it with
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by aylmao 7y ago
It's honestly more angering when figures like this think everyone else is dumb and will swallow the story that nothing is happening, it was just the right time to leave. This one is even worse, he's trying to sell himself as a wis
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by aylmao 7y ago
+1. Another use of type systems that often falls under the radar is as documentation. Coming back or ramping up in a project that's typed is much more straightforward than one that isn't, for a few reasons: - Types are documentati
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by aylmao 7y ago
Awesome! thanks for the heads up!
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by aylmao 7y ago
Oh, 100% accidental (not a native speaker). A good chuckle though haha.
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by aylmao 7y ago
It's fun to see how some of these in general accurate, but others were very far off. For example: > Facebook will be gone in 5 years, just like MySpace. Half a dozen companies will rise and fall in replacing it. The web will churn e
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by aylmao 7y ago
> Facebook will be the Google of the decade. > Google will be the Microsoft of the decade. > Microsoft will be the IBM of the decade. The "decade" timeline doesn't quite fit but to be honest this wasn't a bad pr
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by aylmao 7y ago
> I think this is Amazon's core strength: the continuity of leadership and vision that comes from having a single CEO who is deeply involved in everything. Not only Amazon, it seems to be the case with other big tech companies: - At
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by aylmao 7y ago
This looks like fun! I've been meaning to experiment with some WASM, but none of my ideas warrant investing time setting things up just yet, so I haven't. This will come in handy. @lastmjs: does it support defining the script MIME
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by aylmao 7y ago
This used to be me. At some point down the line I discovered I had "progress" wrong all along. Just make sure to not let your passion drive you too far from loved ones. (:
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by aylmao 7y ago
Not the Caribbean, but I know someone who did this in Mexico.
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by aylmao 7y ago
I hear this narrative a lot and I agree it's largely true, but I also think it's very hyperbolized. Did the internet lose its joy or did we? First a concrete example: as someone who is not American I don't see the same issues
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by aylmao 7y ago
This is actually a great point, and one thing that has me skeptical of Stadia and other upcoming game-streaming services. People who never got rid of their NES can still play their games. If it breaks, they could buy another one, or maybe e
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by aylmao 7y ago
> FB is actually stripping away features from our targeting system and removing inputs because we spend too much compute power ($$) driving optimizations that don't have any material impact on delivery value. > Also, ethics. We d
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by aylmao 7y ago
> Ban non-geographically targeted political ads. This actually sounds like a good idea. Ads about issues pertaining a whole region should be seen by the whole region. > Create a public repository of all political ads. Doesn't thi
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by aylmao 7y ago
Lee Bryon had a fantastic talk about this during the last React Conf, check it out [1]. He talks about the cyclic nature of programming paradigms, and how we might actually be "going back to PHP" and that might not necessarily be
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by aylmao 7y ago
Don't forget climate change. Probably a bigger worry than socialism or "vilifying success".
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by aylmao 7y ago
+1. I personally think that first part of the readme made good use of them and kinda helped me navigate the different sections, but they're very distracting in the commit messages, H1s and the description. Not every line needs an emoji
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by aylmao 7y ago
I've seen this convention before. I personally find it more useful to tag commit messages with [fix], [docs], etc. It makes it more easily searchable, which is IMO what you really want. You can: git log --pretty=oneline --abbrev-

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