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by bartread 4y ago
> First is I buy movies (and sometimes TV shows) on iTunes. This approach is starting to make a lot more sense to me: I suspect we may have reached the point where, based on my own consumption (i.e., anecdata), this could be cheaper th
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by bartread 4y ago
It does, and it feels quite high effort to maintain. I'd rather simply disengage and find something else to do. The plus side of all this BS is it might force me back toward more interesting and worthwhile pasttimes than just bingewatc
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by bartread 4y ago
> It was amazing, and infuriating, to have your decently high-end system basically obsoleted in two generations. And, the DOS to Windows transition didn't help matters. It seems really odd in a time where you could still be using a
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by bartread 4y ago
> Minimalistic interiors Is this something you see as a benefit? For me Tesla's overall aesthetic, including both their exterior looks and interior design, along with the absence of physical controls that go long with that represent
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by bartread 4y ago
It indeed is brutal. In fact, I'll go a little bit further. This question jumped out at me as being bang out of order: > RPS: Do you think you can make a great game? Peter Molyneux has clearly made some mistakes over the years, and
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by bartread 4y ago
If you have three hours (!) to spare, Kim Justice's documentary on Peter Molyneux is worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFZ92jySWe0 . If you don't have three hours to spare and all you want to know abou
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by bartread 4y ago
> Can't there be a time limit to allow for repairs and restorations? Have you ever tried a restoration? I haven't. But I've watched a few on YouTube. The amount of problems and delays (e.g., getting hold of rare or special
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by bartread 4y ago
Yeah, I think we're probably in agreement for the most part. From both points of view he overvalued his prior experience, and the skills gained, in a scenario with which he was unfamiliar.
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by bartread 4y ago
Yeah, I think that's right. I don't really have any objection to either "committed suicide" or "died by suicide". Language can only ever be an approximation of experience so I think it's fine and sensible
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by bartread 4y ago
Sure, but getting those credits entails a much smaller group of people to avoid pissing off, and a much smaller corpus of regulation to avoid falling foul of. A much (much) larger proportion of the hard work with Tesla was on vehicle develo
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by bartread 4y ago
Oh, yeah, don't get me wrong: I'm giving my (unequivocally outsider's) perspective on how I think he fucked up, not excusing it.
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by bartread 4y ago
Here's one of many such egregious examples: > committed suicide > died by suicide > Ableist language that trivializes the experiences of people living with mental health conditions. I had a friend commit suicide, and one of my
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by bartread 4y ago
I don't know about that. I think he just approached Twitter like he approached building electric cars or rockets. The latter are both a series of (admittedly very hard) engineering and technical challenges to solve with few, if any, gn
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by bartread 4y ago
> A person who is paid to professionally scream at a computer. Sounds like that was probably written by somebody who used to work either with me, or with one or two of my former colleagues.
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by bartread 4y ago
Just be aware that, at least in British English, whilst "curmudgeon" can be used in an exclusively negative sense, it can also carry some "cuddlier" overtones and be used as something of a term of endearment.
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by bartread 4y ago
The comparison is with an alternative called "huggingface". At least "Tiktoken" gives some clue as to what the component is for.
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by bartread 4y ago
In at least some parts of the UK brick clad wooden houses, which I would imagine are probably balloon framed, are somewhat common in new developments (East Anglia, for example). Insulated cavity walling with blockwork inner leaf and brickwo
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by bartread 4y ago
Yeah, that would make sense: if you can just update the parts of the screen that have changed it should be a lot quicker. Again, for an eReader, when you turn the page it makes sense to do a full screen update: not necessary in other cases.
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by bartread 4y ago
I don't have experience of more recent E-paper displays but I regularly use a Kindle Paperwhite that's a few years old. It's absolulely great, but the screen refresh when you turn a page is really slow. That's fine for
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by bartread 4y ago
EDIT: Dammit, that last sentence should read, "I certainly don't think, nor do I particularly see it as a flaw, that ChatGPT does or should have a completely unified and consistent review of market research methodology," but
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by bartread 4y ago
> Please control your bias. I don't really want to get deep into this, but both you and GP must see the irony in your positions?
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by bartread 4y ago
Yeah, I had a chat with ChatGPT about some issues related to market research last night. It wasn't that difficult to "goad" it into giving contradictory answers when I started digging in on details but I wasn't that worr
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by bartread 4y ago
As you suggest, I'm not sure how typical that is, and it would very much depend on the acquirer. We've made quite a few acquisitions over the years, and there have been other potential acquisitions where we've chosen not to p
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by bartread 4y ago
I still nurse disappointment, mixed with a hint of resentment, going back to the age of maybe 3 or 4 years old that mince pies contain mincemeat (which is fruit, not meat) rather than minced beef. In the view of my 4 year old mind, and fran
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by bartread 4y ago
Related to this, but building anything interactive in general was made super-easy by Flash because it was basically one IDE with everything you needed included out of the box. No complex toolchain, or ludicrous dependency tree, no nonsense
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by bartread 4y ago
To be honest I don't necessarily see this as a bad thing. I like a lot of Rowan Atkinson's work but I absolutely hated Mr Bean. Something about watching someone be inept in every possible way causes me a huge amount of stress an
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by bartread 4y ago
I'm a big fan of Deflemask, but this does look cool. Will have to have a play later. Sounds fantastic, and I really do love the low level looking interface. Hoping it allows "poking the pins" directly, but will need to have a
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by bartread 4y ago
> Tim is dead on with this observation, this is amazing. I'm not saying Tim's wrong, but one of the problems that Ive seen a lot - to the point of being tempted to use the word "constantly" - with blockchain is this s
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by bartread 4y ago
> For those that prefer not to leave a mess on their file system ... innoextract has been available on MacPorts[1] since January 2019. Speaking of making a mess, instead of somewhat vague sniping, you could have made it clear that your b
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by bartread 4y ago
> Essentials, which has no email. This is an incredibly helpful comment but I can't be the only person who finds the idea of such a service, branded "Essentials", that doesn't include email rather baffling.

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