carbonguy

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by carbonguy 5y ago
Well, it's more complicated than that - you see, occasionally the electrons are not shared, but given up entirely.
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Steam Is Down(steampowered.com)
3 points by carbonguy 5y ago|2 comments
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by carbonguy 5y ago
https://downdetector.com/status/steam/ reports a dramatic spike in reports as of roughly 4:45 PM PST.
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by carbonguy 5y ago
I've been fascinated by the ideas of this piece ever since I first read it, particularly by the idea that leisure time is something that many - or most - people actually have a hard time dealing with and integrating into their lives. I
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by carbonguy 5y ago
Yeah, here's one I put together a few years back: http://pontingdynamics.org/tri
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by carbonguy 5y ago
I've been a Clojure hobbyist for many years, and these are a few of the things I've done repeatedly: - Scrape webpages with http-kit and Specter - Visualizations with Quil - Serve static pages with Ring, Compojure, and Hiccup (un)
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by carbonguy 5y ago
I doubt it's THAT high a multiple - in 2020 they earned just over $32 per user [1] and an Oculus Quest 2 retails for $299; one assumes the manufacturing cost is lower, meaning the multiple is likely 9x or less. Of course, the essence o
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by carbonguy 5y ago
> They couldn't get the manufacturing for it, either. A very good point. I think the financing would be less of an issue, honestly; $200 billion a lot of cash up front, but spread out over five or ten years it's well within the
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by carbonguy 5y ago
This is an extremely interesting idea - I wonder if they'll start some kind of "invitation beta" for this fraction of users you describe.
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by carbonguy 5y ago
You are correct, that is the sense that I meant it. I'll edit my comment to clarify.
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by carbonguy 5y ago
> If there is going to be a metaverse, I'm not sure I want Facebook to own it. It's like a bad sci-fi pulp story. I'm confident I don't want them to own it - or for it to be owned by a single party of any kind, for th
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by carbonguy 5y ago
> fwiw "fifth" usually means 750ml (seven-FIFTHty) A "fifth" is also about a fifth of a gallon.
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by carbonguy 5y ago
> What you quoted was directly followed by an example of laziness from the article. Well, it was DIRECTLY followed by an assertion of intellectual laziness in the premise of the article, as your quote so helpfully shows. Perhaps if you w
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by carbonguy 5y ago
> When a person takes a course twice without ever managing to turn in homework, the situation of the student is not completely to blame, since the student didn't take the time to do something - the work, withdrawing in time, discuss
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by carbonguy 5y ago
Your original comment starts with: > The author directly stated seeing repeated procrastination in many situations, yet stated that laziness does not exist. This phrasing, with its use of "yet" to contrast procrastination and l
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by carbonguy 5y ago
> Once you have a fusion reactor running, could you use the fusion reactor itself to breed tritium? I'll have to find the citation, but IIRC the answer is "theoretically, yes" - the concept is that molten lithium could be
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by carbonguy 5y ago
> I think the main hurdle is the transformation of a fluffy real world problem into something of an algorithm. I came to a very similar conclusion after I had been teaching programming in high school for a few years: the difficulty of &q
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by carbonguy 5y ago
And the death toll of capitalism far exceeds that of communism, so by this metric capitalism must be more dangerous still - right?
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by carbonguy 5y ago
> We are creating a culture of excuses for anybody who fails at chasing their dreams or doesn’t even have the motivation to do so; the equivalent of getting a “trophy for trying”, but tailored to adults. You seem to be implying that it&#
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by carbonguy 5y ago
> There's a +billion entrepreneurial hustlers in the world doing whatever it takes to feed their families If your definition of "entrepreneur" is "people doing what it takes to stay alive" then literally everyon
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by carbonguy 5y ago
What part of the evidence in this article do you consider "anecdotal?"
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by carbonguy 5y ago
> But people are hoping Engineers find magic bullets so that our leaders don't have to take drastic action. And engineers are hoping that politicians will just adopt their ideas without further work on the part of the engineers. Who
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by carbonguy 5y ago
First, thank you for sharing how you're feeling - in a lot of ways, this is one of the hardest steps to take, because it acknowledges a reality that one might prefer not to acknowledge, and I respect the hell out of you for being willi
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by carbonguy 5y ago
For anyone like me trying to find the comment that kovarex made, apparently it was removed by the moderator of the r/factorio subreddit. EDIT to add link to mod comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comme
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by carbonguy 5y ago
For what it's worth, and to try and balance the scales here, I'm of the opinion that: 1) you were 100% in the right to point out that Uncle Bob is a problematic figure 2) promoting his work while ignoring 1) is, in fact, a politic
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by carbonguy 5y ago
> as they aren't full-on manipulations of reality, I view them as a useful entry point into a subject. But then, this is exactly the critique the article advances: in this book Gladwell presents a narrative that gives readers (to pu
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by carbonguy 5y ago
Continuing the thread of other individuals who've done interesting work in this area, I've always been a huge fan of Jeffrey Ventrella's "Gene Pool": http://www.swimbots.com/genepool/ His fract
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by carbonguy 5y ago
> this can mean that the lead developer becomes a manager in responsibility but not in resources. I think you've nailed it here - what's been described is a manager under another title, and one who will be hampered in that rol
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by carbonguy 5y ago
> No, I'm asking for a citation that the average American doesn't want a better life for all. Which was the claim I'm objecting to. Frankly, it's unlikely there is such a citation, but that doesn't mean OP is wro
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by carbonguy 5y ago
> I've met a few of the vintage computing nerds in my travels, and am constantly impressed by the depth of their knowledge. Sure, I've met a few greybeards too, and I'm happy to agree that they have tremendous depth of kno

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