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by bryondowd 5y ago
I think the point was that secular wars are generally for resources. Nuclear war practically eliminates the possibility of gaining resources, because you're likely to lose more than you gain as your cities get vaporized. So the drive t
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by bryondowd 6y ago
Guessing this is humorous, but it does seem like a job that could one day benefit from being automated. The job is highly rules-based, and the rules are well documented requirements. The biggest two problems that immediately come to mind: 1
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by bryondowd 6y ago
There's no shortage of applicants. They get tons of applicants every year, but the FAA academy can only accept a limited number to their 3-4 month training program. Then they wash out roughly 50% of the trainees with their final exam,
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by bryondowd 6y ago
Worth noting that this mass firing is coming around for a second wave of hurt. They re-staffed most of the ATC force with military personnel who were around the same age, all at the same time. Now that block of people are hitting the ATC&#x
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by bryondowd 6y ago
Arguably, building trust and social relationships with coworkers can create opportunities you wouldn't otherwise have. Networking is the common word for it. The more people out there in the world, and especially within your industry, w
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by bryondowd 6y ago
I'd argue that the digitized versions would likely last several years. After a catastrophe stuck, one of the instructions after securing immediate survival would be to transcribe the contents to whatever media is available for longevit
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by bryondowd 7y ago
Can't think on a real word example, but abc would match bcd in the above algo, as both permute to bc, but they are distance 2. So, any case where one letter is deleted and another is added at a different position.
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by bryondowd 7y ago
I've never heard of a termination based on individual performance being called a layoff. In fact, I'm fairly certain it's defined as a termination due to factors outside the employee's control. A layoff is when the posit
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by bryondowd 7y ago
This just isn't true, at least in New Jersey. For NJ Unemployment, being fired only renders you ineligible if you are fired for misconduct, which is further defined as requiring intent or sufficient negligence to imply a disregard for
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by bryondowd 8y ago
Depends where you are. Pretty sure I've made under $25/hr most of my development career. And that was just fine, in the Atlantic City, NJ area, because the cost of living was pretty low and I had no interest in moving or commuting
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by bryondowd 8y ago
Your link shows it bottoming out in 2009-2011 after the housing crash, well below the 1992 ratio. And then a steady and mostly linear climb from late 2011 to the end of the data. After that early 90s recession there's a steady rise to
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by bryondowd 8y ago
Had a very similar experience unintentionally. A coworker was making mixed drinks with Everclear, which was 190 proof (95% alcohol). I badly misjudged how much I was drinking, and it was one of three times in my life I threw up from drinkin
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by bryondowd 8y ago
Can confirm, dealing with code in a foreign language is not easy. A few years ago I had to re-implement from behavior in our application that had been baked into the firmware of our old printers, since the new ones were supposed to be off-t
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by bryondowd 8y ago
The bar for Medicaid for a two person household in most states was $22,715. Pretty good chance she was over that.
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by bryondowd 8y ago
Where's the problem? I've been leaning towards the idea that maybe every election should have a hand count. You can get your electronic count first for the early announcements, but it should be verified by the hand count. What&#x2
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by bryondowd 8y ago
Your link seems to indicate that the spec hadn't changed, that was just speculation that was disproved on inspecting the wreckage, and it turns out the design was basically bad in the first place, due to very tight safety margins and t
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by bryondowd 8y ago
I've seen a number of people pointing at this likely being more an issue with untrained pilots than the plane itself. EI, the flight crew on the crashed planes may have had considerably less experience than the minimum requirements mos
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by bryondowd 8y ago
Not that special of a case. There's around 10-11 million VFR flights per year, versus around 15-16 million IFR flights, according to this FAA doc[0] How many of those VFR flights have/use autopilot during their flight, I can'
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by bryondowd 8y ago
Seems like you're conflating Smart AI with an optimal game playing algorithm. An aimbot isn't hard time create, sure, but it's not exactly smart, either. Nor is it fun. I agree it's harder to make mediocre but fun AI, an
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by bryondowd 8y ago
Interesting talk, but it really pretty much confirmed a lot of my assumptions about Civ AI. He pretty much admits that they are constrained on developer resources and AI code only makes of a small percentage of the game. Because of that, th
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by bryondowd 8y ago
The only Paradox game I've played is Stellaris, which has god-awful AI. Looks like it uses the Clausewitz engine, so perhaps that's the reason. But the AI empires are terrible at balancing their economies, and it doesn't take
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by bryondowd 8y ago
If your game doesn't give competitors perfect knowledge of the game state, it would make sense for the AI to track previous activity of its current opponent as part of the 'play state' for making decisions. For instance, if i
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by bryondowd 8y ago
The "tank huge amounts of damage" thing has annoyed me going back to the old RPG games on NES and SNES. How do we make the game harder as the player progresses? Give enemies more HP and DMG values. Ok, how does the player combat t
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by bryondowd 8y ago
Yeah, that sounds less like a 'smart' AI gone wrong and more like a typical cheating AI. In this case, instead of an actual cheat it's just able to act at superhuman speeds. Similar to the speculated issue with the Starcraft
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by bryondowd 8y ago
What talk is that? Last time I tried a Civ game, I was underwhelmed. That AI just isn't fun to play against, to me. And the games run too long to play against humans in a reasonable timeframe on normal settings. I'd love to play C
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by bryondowd 8y ago
Considering how many successful games are released targeting a niche market, there's probably a pretty sizable niche market of 'better than average players' that some studio could take advantage of. Market size is only half t
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by bryondowd 8y ago
Depends on the game. The entire genre of strategy games could probably benefit from smarter AI. More so for 4X style games. Mostly, the current AIs act like players, but make terribly inefficient decisions that get 'balanced' at v
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by bryondowd 8y ago
I believe the solution is probably more along the lines of taxing everyone fairly, and using some of the funds to provide free or affordable childcare to everyone who wants/needs it. Likewise with other forms of family support/adv
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by bryondowd 8y ago
In my experience, the robocallers are more likely to leave voicemail. You just get the first 10 seconds of their recording chopped off and the rest in your mailbox. So now you've just moved your issue from live calls to having to check
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by bryondowd 8y ago
This caught my attention so I looked for a source. Looks like this rate is the number of people who are Employed (60.7%) or have been actively seeking work in the last week (4%) out of the total population of people who are 16 years or olde

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