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by badpun 3y ago
Jonathan Blow, currently coding a new programming language, and, in parallel to the language development, a commercial-quality AA game in this language as a proof of concept.
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by badpun 3y ago
So you'd be against running a modern commercial video game on your machine, but you'd play it if it was running in a Google datacenter, and transmited the rendered pixels to you via Google Stadia?
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by badpun 3y ago
Air traffic controller, firefighter, emergency rescue worker, pilot, military or police. Most of jobs like these are more about being able to make decisions under pressure than about being super smart, though.
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by badpun 3y ago
They don’t move to cheaper locations though, because the work quality would suffer. So far, I’ve only seen one group of people laid off in Poland and their jobs moved to India - DB admins. The company deemed the job simple enough to risk mo
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by badpun 3y ago
In my experience, the software can be crap because the companies tend to only hire technical people over here in Poland, while business guys remain in the HQ. The highest business person you'll see in Poland is typically a PO, while a
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by badpun 3y ago
You don't have to breach any rules. Every job offer I've ever had in Poland had an option for regular contract of employment ("umowa o pracę"). If you want to be taxed more, that option is always on the table.
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by badpun 3y ago
Things have really started changing with when radio receivers became popular. Before them, there really was no technology for easy, cheap, endless, captivating passive entertainment. TV was radio on steroids, and Internet and smartphones ar
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by badpun 3y ago
Yep, just look at aristocracy over the ages, and in different societies.
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by badpun 3y ago
That's not "stupid requirements" the just the scope for backend engineer job nowadays. Also, you might get the job if you don't match the requirements 100%. There are so many permutations of backend technologies nowadays
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by badpun 3y ago
This looks like a much worse Wolfenstein clone... No 3D as far as I see (all rooms are of the same height, the map is just a 2d maze), no textures on floors on ceilings. Not to mention much lower resolution than wolf3d - the graphics are ba
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by badpun 3y ago
Most people don't love anything particularly strongly IMO. They have interests and they exhaust them over time (sometimes, over a long time, if they're too busy to spend too much time on an interest). People who actually love some
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by badpun 3y ago
There was stuff to do outside the growing season still. There were farm animals to tend to, you fixed up your house and the farm buildings, made and mended clothes etc. Although, since the days were shorter, the work time was naturally shor
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by badpun 3y ago
Some of my friends from Poland went to Western/Northern Europe to pick tomatoes, salad, cherries etc. None of them ever spoke about meaning of the job, only that it was long, hard, uncomfortable hours in sun, rain etc. and that it paid
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by badpun 3y ago
What's it called?
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by badpun 3y ago
Last time, I tried to do some moderately challenging symbolic differentiation with SymPy, it threw NotImplementedException at me. Mathematica, on the other hand, chews through everything with no complaints.
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by badpun 3y ago
> Dumb 155mm howitzer shells are ~$3k apiece. In the West. In Russia (according to NYT piece), it's $600.
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by badpun 3y ago
The companies themselves were empire-builders. In the absence of profits, wall street had to use other metrics to assess future profitability, and headcount, as dumb as it sounds, was one of them.
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by badpun 3y ago
Blue collar people were always worse off than white collar. Historically, they didn't rebel, but just tried to get their kids the best education they could, so that the next generation could have an easier life as a part of the white c
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by badpun 3y ago
> but those productivity gains have mostly been eaten up by excessive corporate profit-taking. I'd say there were mostly eaten by increased standards of living. Compare median global standard of living in Keyens times (say 100 years
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by badpun 3y ago
This just means it's technically sound gizmo. It's central purpose is still speculation though, which is rooted in the greater fool theory.
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by badpun 3y ago
Basic personality traits (like Big 4) stay roughly the same. What (hopefully)happens is personality development and maturation.
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by badpun 3y ago
> US is going to be ok. Or, alternatively, US and a bunch of other countries are not going to be ok.
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by badpun 3y ago
We don’t know if they were doing high quality teaching.
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by badpun 3y ago
As a popular Polish libertarian politician (Janusz Korwin-Mikke) likes to say: "a government official will waste a billion to steal a million".
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by badpun 3y ago
People live incomparably harder lives in Nigeria than in Japan, and yet they have plenty of children. It's about values, not circumstances.
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by badpun 3y ago
Well, arms are much longer (so, a larger lever), and people instinctually extend them to blunt the fall. Whereas it's instint to protect head and neck in the same situation.
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by badpun 3y ago
You can meet your wife on a Tinder, via ads posted in newspaper or on a cruise. It does not mean that those are communities.
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by badpun 3y ago
> how many people are going to go through the trouble and expense to source black market tobacco? Not that many. Just see how many people already go through that trouble to source illegal drugs...
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by badpun 3y ago
That's not community, though. You're not inhabiting the same space, share the same problems and try to work them out them together. You're not helping each other out if someone falls into trouble.
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by badpun 3y ago
In the Internet era, the answers will just be googleable. People wil quickly compile a page with all possible questions and with answers to them.

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