bmhin

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by bmhin 5y ago
I think it's less that there are no viable alternatives and the very bleak consequences if food or power get screwed up. There's the saying "Nine meals between mankind and anarchy" that applies here. If you are messing
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by bmhin 5y ago
Another side effect was that a question that might have had a perfectly fine answer that was accepted back when the question was posed in 2010, now might be very much not the right approach. I feel like I frequently see questions where dow
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by bmhin 5y ago
My take here is that it is too easy to look back on what was learned in college and what you use today in comparison to it's source and conclude you've picked up way more on the job and use comparatively little from the formal edu
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by bmhin 5y ago
> The system is not simply based on notoriety, as some kind of aggregate of follower count or likes, which would be sane and fair step in the right direction. But rather on a case by case basis, where according to the article "white
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by bmhin 5y ago
The auction house was just a terrible, awful idea. It became pretty obvious that they broke the entire premise of the game loop: do farming runs, try to get good gear that aligns with your targeted build, get real excited when that thing y
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by bmhin 5y ago
All very good info that as far as I know is all pretty unique to SES regarding the default/sandbox vs the upgraded production capabilities. The set up makes a lot of sense to prevent abuse and it works just fine out of the box for dev
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by bmhin 5y ago
As someone who naturally gets feelings of aversion when I hear some solutions suggested and who works with folks who can suggest them without blinking, I honestly think "should" never enters their mind. It seems to be a pure engi
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by bmhin 6y ago
> I play poker, and poker players are constantly furious that their 80% favorite hand doesn't win 100% of the time. 80% feels like a lock. I always liked an interview by one of the designers of the game XCOM which relies heavily on
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by bmhin 6y ago
> You can also do hybrid approaches, e.g. continuous deployment to a QA environment, and have dedicated QA teams, while delivering to client on a waterfall schedule. I feel like this approach lets developers still spot check and make sur
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by bmhin 6y ago
It seems weird to say there are issues with connections but everything else is working fine. Like is the API technically fine on their system metrics but no one can connect to use it so it stays as green? Doesn't really help much in
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by bmhin 6y ago
I've wanted this for video streaming too. After getting rid of cable, I'll often want to put something on in the background while I'm browsing the web or playing switch or something. I feel like almost everyone has a comple
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by bmhin 6y ago
> Inter-season gaps are bad enough in broadcast, but with season-bingeing they extend to >11 months and that's just not very attractive. It's also a completely different time frame for the binged show. A weekly released 10
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by bmhin 6y ago
I believe it to. Anecdotally, my old method for studying while in school was just to handwrite out notes as I read. I would not even go back to review them as the act of simply writing it out by hand was enough to retain it. Typing I fee
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by bmhin 8y ago
I remember once encountering an error that had all of the above plus it presented the solution to the issue right in the error message. It was amazing and why I still remember seeing that to this day.