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by buzzardbait 2y ago
The AI is just one of many things I like about it. In short, whatever Civ does, Old World probably does it better, all without giving mega-bonuses to the AI. It has a lot more going on than Civ (1 turn in OW is equivalent to about 3 turns
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by buzzardbait 2y ago
I've been playing a game called Old World, which is basically Civ with decent UI and AI. The UI is intuitive and uses a nested tooltip system similar to Crusader Kings 3. The AI is pretty decent at war, it will flank you, use its stren
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by buzzardbait 2y ago
My initial reaction to this comment: "Wow, what a judgmental anonymous keyboard warrior. It couldn't possibly be that bad." ( clicks the link ) My reaction 2 minutes later: "Oh..."
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by buzzardbait 2y ago
The user has never been the primary factor in my choice of tech stack. Just like my employer doesn't care what car I drive to get to work. It's mostly about the developers and the best tools available to them at that point in time
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by buzzardbait 2y ago
In the 20 years that I've been working on sizeable closed source projects, it's also mostly about communicating. Even if the team is small, it's mostly about communicating. Occasionally some developers don't want to co
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by buzzardbait 2y ago
In the early 2000s those liberal arts departments went as far as Southeast Asia to recruit international students who paid a lot more than domestic students, especially at the time. One of their outreach programs in Myanmar is called the Pr
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by buzzardbait 2y ago
He also bought it without test driving one. Not the best judgment. Now I love my Tesla as much as when I bought it 3 years ago, but with it being my first EV I treaded as carefully as I could. I booked multiple test drives for the Tesla as
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by buzzardbait 2y ago
Remember that the division you see is amplified by polarizing voices that are naturally amplified by the medium that is the Internet. If you actually traveled to the US, did a long road trip across the country and sat down and talked to act
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by buzzardbait 2y ago
I too have the opposite experience. I've had my late 2022 Tesla Model Y and I like it just as much as I did on day one. In fact I like it more now, since the car has received several new, big features after lots of software updates. I
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by buzzardbait 2y ago
Future racism is explored in The Expanse. Humans have colonized the solar system, humans on Earth are on the brink of war with the humans on Mars, and they have slurs for each other.
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by buzzardbait 2y ago
I think that is something that a lot of people don't get about Trump. He chooses what vitriol to spew, then acts in a different way.
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by buzzardbait 2y ago
If you dig deep enough, you might find that Japan has plenty of other problems that people in the developed west don't, but of course the grass is always greener on the other side.
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by buzzardbait 2y ago
Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. Also, there is often a tradeoff between aesthetics and affordability. The cost of living has gone up, and most people struggling to climb the property ladder would happily sacrifice the former for the
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by buzzardbait 2y ago
Apologies, I didn't see your comment in the below thread until now. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42379970#42385296## That thread is now closed to replies, so hope you don't mind me replying to your questio
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by buzzardbait 2y ago
I can only surmise that the intended audience was like-minded academics. Most anti-globalists who believe in purity of culture aren't going to bother with the length and verbosity of this essay.
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by buzzardbait 2y ago
Yes. Although I suspect many would disagree since there's an entire subreddit dedicated to them! r/antiwork
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by buzzardbait 2y ago
Perhaps not, but I think you can be "very successful" while remaining ethical. Most people want to be successful because success brings happiness. But there is a level of success at which happiness starts to plateau and yields dim
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by buzzardbait 2y ago
Success comes from hard work and perseverence. Success comes from being at the right place at the right time. Both of these statements can be true at the same time.
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by buzzardbait 2y ago
Works for me
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by buzzardbait 2y ago
IQ is definitely not spared. It doesn't take a Mensa member to realize that human intelligence cannot be reduced to a single number.
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by buzzardbait 2y ago
Not the original commenter, but pointing out problems and complexities is not hand-waving. Nutrition science is incredibly complex. If it wasn't, obesity would be solved by now.
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by buzzardbait 2y ago
Fun fact: The author of Newtonsoft was/is employed at Microsoft to work on System.Text.Json. It's sort of like a redemption arc.
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by buzzardbait 2y ago
The spec might not be perfect, but some of the most popular parsers play fast and loose with the rules. (Looking at you, Newton "I permit //comments in JSON" Soft)
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by buzzardbait 2y ago
For legacy code that's already using a lot of Newtonsoft, I understand. For new code, developers should default to the first-party option. System.Text.Json is supported by .NET versions as old as Framework 4.6.1.
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by buzzardbait 2y ago
Using is testing. The whole point of automated UI tests is to mimic usage. A random click on a website might not be a great test, but it is a test nonetheless. And if it fails enough times, someone somewhere will be held accountable.
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by buzzardbait 2y ago
I wasn't doubting your original point, more like complementing it. Though on this: > Getting info from individual sites and sources that you've personally and organically discovered and vetted feels like it would be a far far f
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by buzzardbait 2y ago
Not the person you're replying to, but maybe "ditched" is a strong word. A few thoughts about the various forms of social media you've mentioned: Browsing HN for 30 minutes is probably a better investment than browsing T
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by buzzardbait 2y ago
The complaint is mostly about JSON parsers, not the JSON spec itself, which as other comments have said works quite well in practice. In .NET land the most popular JSON library is Newtonsoft which plays fast and loose with the JSON spec and
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by buzzardbait 2y ago
I'm confused. The top reason for declining is this: > The surge in AI has been built on the backs of creative people like us. Artists’ work has been harvested in order to train large language models and they have not been informed o