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by belugacat 3y ago
Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens : “Within a couple of millennia, humans in many parts of the world were doing little from dawn to dusk other than taking care of wheat plants. It wasn't easy. Wheat demanded a lot of them. Wheat didn't
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by belugacat 3y ago
The most visible title made with Godot in the last few months I can think of is Brotato. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1942280/Brotato/
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by belugacat 3y ago
One of the most inspiring things I heard was - if I recall correctly - the Dead Space director giving a talk at GDC. They were talking how from the get go their mentality was - if we're going to make a horror game, it has to be the mos
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by belugacat 3y ago
Some companies like to be sneaky with whether they're open to remote or not. "Oh we have plenty of remote employees! But it is on a team per team basis so that's something you'll have to bring up with your manager"
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by belugacat 3y ago
> What volunteer would not be seduced by a 6 figure USD salary This seems to be more of an NA thing. I know/have heard of plenty of EU devs who cut short interviews with NA companies offering 6 figure salaries because they lived ver
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by belugacat 3y ago
short answer: because it's one of the options with least friction to get running a lot of people who are into tech stuff already have a discord account making joining the community a one click process, the instant nature of it seems to
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by belugacat 3y ago
> Lots of places in Europe seem to have mostly figured the balance out [...] > [...] I don't think I'd prefer to live in a world without Intel and Microsoft Now guess why Intel and Microsoft aren't European companie
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by belugacat 3y ago
“I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next.”
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by belugacat 3y ago
My best interpretation of it is that a purchase is akin to a promise to yourself. Buying an OP1 is a promise that you’ll write music in the future, maybe release an album. Buying a Leica is a promise that you’ll get really into photography,
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by belugacat 3y ago
Interesting, given how stringent Japanese copyright is otherwise. I'd bet large Japanese media companies lobbied against that (eg Nintendo surely doesn't want AI nets able to make Mario/Zelda/etc art indistinguishable fr
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by belugacat 3y ago
I can't find it now, but there was a prototype someone made in the 2000s of a camera that, when you pressed the shutter, would fetch an image on Flickr that most closely matched your GPS coordinates + time of day, acting in a similar w
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by belugacat 3y ago
That sounds like an amazing teacher. In elementary school I remember being extremely frustrated that art classes weren’t about actually learning to draw/paint, just doing silly things out of papier mâché. I went down the science/e
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by belugacat 3y ago
That’s why there’s a biological impulse to procreate, such that by the time you’ve reached your 30s/40s your main drive is not to fulfill your own goals, but help tiny humans navigate the world and fulfill their own. That becomes your
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by belugacat 4y ago
Can you be a bit more specific with what you mean by "collapse"? When we talk about a bridge or a building collapsing, we're talking about a very obvious and immediate mode of failure. Are you using "collapse" to me
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by belugacat 4y ago
People are much more likely to click a link than do a Google search. There’s no need to do anything really, but if you’re complaining about lack of attention, why wouldn’t you maximize your (people who see the post) -> (people who visi
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by belugacat 4y ago
If you go into something creative, you’re going to have to accept that you’ll have to play the marketing game. This studio sucks at marketing; their Reddit post, which may well have had tens or hundreds of thousands of views by now, doesn’t
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by belugacat 4y ago
Between Cowley & Divinity and the Tesco Express on Cowley if I remember correctly. Looking around on street view I can’t seem to find it :( maybe it was where there is now an Oodles according to Google maps but my memory’s hazy. Perhaps
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by belugacat 4y ago
When I lived in Oxford, UK (as a broke student) one of the cheapest places to get dinner on my street was a restaurant with a few very long tables with benches on each side. It was usually pretty full, so you’d always meet interesting peopl
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by belugacat 4y ago
True, but one obvious difference is that a senior contributor can typically validate the work of a more junior one in less time than it took them to produce, that’s why the overall equation works. And if you decide to keep the more junior p
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by belugacat 4y ago
And here’s an exchange about how he validated the data was correct - which to me seems like the most important part: > Out of curiosity, are you sure that GPT did it correctly? If yes, is it because you were able to "spot check&quot
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by belugacat 4y ago
Great hack, but I’m sure any engineer worth their salt winces at the thought of a machine in their home roundtripping through far away 3rd party servers (I guess they’re the manufacturer’s, but if it’s hardware I own in my house those serve
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by belugacat 4y ago
Writing as if you were Aristotle, speak to the relationship between Large Language Models and human knowledge/cognition. // As Aristotle, I would like to reflect upon the relationship between Large Language Models and human k
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by belugacat 4y ago
> Personally the whole dick move thing I don't care about. I’ve met many such photographers when traveling, yep. They make things worse for all of us.
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by belugacat 4y ago
> It's quite scary to ask someone for their photo and it's a bit rude to take photo without permission. I advise you to just go for it and not care. I agree with just going for it when it comes to asking strangers for their p
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by belugacat 4y ago
If you can read French, I highly recommend “Civilisation : comment nous sommes devenus américains” by Régis Debray. One of the most lucid analyses of the cultural situation we’re in I’ve found.
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by belugacat 4y ago
I had a former coworker who bought a Tesla very shortly after getting her license, and relied almost exclusively on autopilot. I rode with her a few times when she offered to drive me home, it was legit terrifying when she had to drive in m
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by belugacat 4y ago
> when Steve returned […] is when you started seeing political jockeying, coattail riding and all the other rather gross human behaviors I had not experienced at Apple up until then. What do you make of the fact that this is also when
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by belugacat 4y ago
Siri is so bad it needs to be scrapped and rethought from the ground up (it can’t even give me the time when internet is down at my rural house). No one at Apple who wants a career there would dare propose that. The switch to a LLM architec
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by belugacat 4y ago
Steering wheel controllers have outsold the GameCube. The fact that there’s a dedicated niche of users for a product has no correlation to broader market interest. Not to mention that consumer electronics sales in 2002 vs 2023 are just nowh
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by belugacat 4y ago
Ecosystems (what I infer you mean by "the world", since things that are part of the world such as gravity, plate tectonics, etc don't follow the laws of evolution) haven't had thousands of years to evolve, adapt, and set

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