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by beckingz 4y ago
You would probably need a telescope larger than earth to do this.
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by beckingz 4y ago
faster parsing of user input means more time for doing graphics and game state! Though in this case 1.5 nanoseconds vs 40 nanoseconds is small and won't matter for most games.
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by beckingz 4y ago
It's correct, AND trivializing a whole industry.
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by beckingz 4y ago
MacBook Pro with M1 Pro as opposed to the MacBook with M1 Pro. Definitely no confusion coming down the pipe.
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by beckingz 4y ago
So what can we do as individuals to help?
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by beckingz 4y ago
Launching an unjustified war on false pretenses may not be a war crime, but it's not a good look either.
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by beckingz 4y ago
A sufficiently advanced map is indistinguishable from the territory. Perception often becomes reality. But also the map is not the territory.
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by beckingz 4y ago
What an incredible story. I'm amazed that modern businesses stay alive.
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by beckingz 4y ago
$7m / $200/hr = 35,000 hours, means a team of almost 20 people working for a year. That's a whole team of business analysts to create so many spreadsheets.
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by beckingz 4y ago
We should start a business selling data intelligence to solve this problem. Maybe call it... business intelligence?
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by beckingz 4y ago
Careful, if you build wrong you'll get wiped out by a data hurricane.
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by beckingz 4y ago
I've eaten some potato based food crimes in my day. Agreed that Belgium has consistently good fries everywhere. Consistently mediocre (3/5, thoroughly passable) is the value prop of fast food.
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by beckingz 4y ago
They're hot fries. Warm greasy potatoes with a bit of crunch are always good. In 30 minutes? Not good fries.
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by beckingz 4y ago
The classic: "This will take 15 minutes to do, and a couple of hours to validate. I better say two days"
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by beckingz 4y ago
Most good wisdom conflicts with other good wisdom.
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by beckingz 4y ago
All truth is incomplete. All wisdom is paradoxical.
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by beckingz 4y ago
The secret to becoming rich: "get people to pay you to tell them the secret to becoming rich"
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by beckingz 4y ago
I once shook Bill Clinton's hand. It was over several people's shoulders, and he turned, made eye contact for two seconds, shook my hand, and turned back to the person he was talking to. It was magical. Those two seconds of eye co
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by beckingz 4y ago
I'm going to use this in the future.
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by beckingz 4y ago
poor. edit: AWS somewhat famously burns through engineers and ties personal compensation and career development to making things happen even if it requires insane workloads.
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by beckingz 4y ago
More of an issue on the motherboards where it will eventually get into something.
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by beckingz 4y ago
I just finished one of the books cited in this article: The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development. Strongly recommend it. Huge focus on the economics of product development.
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by beckingz 4y ago
Condensation in most environments gets really rough on computers. In theory you can eliminate condensation. But in practice, there's a difference between theory and practice.
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by beckingz 4y ago
Long term planning is perishable. The applicability and value of any detailed task within a plan is likely to be low in 2-6 months. Or in plain english: ~70% of detailed JIRA tickets written more than 6 months ago will need to be updated si
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by beckingz 4y ago
Facebook tried both of those things.
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by beckingz 4y ago
Once again we learn the hardware that accessibility is not the same thing as reliability.
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by beckingz 4y ago
Classic issues with distributed systems.
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by beckingz 4y ago
Yeah the Atlantic has clearer writing. The New Yorker has 'better' writing, but I can't stand it.
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by beckingz 4y ago
Nature is healing! And by that I mean everyone is just done with it all.
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by beckingz 4y ago
I do this and it's great. Everyone enjoys scanning it and doesn't have to fiddle with the credential entry.

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