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by cecilpl2 4y ago
Also, it's often the case that you can't collect all the relevant information from your starting point. Sometimes once you start moving in one direction, any direction at all, you gain more perspective on what the right decision i
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
I've used this technique in the past on various shipped Switch games. It's an API that puts the Switch into "CPU Boost Mode". It overclocks the CPU at the expense of GPU. It's suitable only for loading screens or ot
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
I had an original piece of art framed by a local art gallery a few years ago. This year, they sent me a $50 off coupon in the mail, along with a card and a hand-written and personalized note referencing the specific piece of art I had had t
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
Everyone generalizes from a sample size of one. Well, at least I do.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
To add another datapoint: I'm not even that old (born in the mid-80s). When I was 9 I walked a mile to school with my 6-year old sister, unsupervised (and stayed at home alone for an hour after school until my parents got home). At 12
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
https://elan.school/tag/comic/ Be warned it's NSFL.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
Elan?
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
> And the users doing the curated need to be vetted. It comes back to the age-old question: Who vets the vetters?
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
Many people are able to voluntarily control the tensor tympani muscle, which causes a low-pitched rumbling sound in the ears. https://old.reddit.com/r/earrumblersassemble/ Maybe she has twitches or involuntary ten
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
I think definiteness doesn't need to be a shared context. "I went to the the train station to pick up a map on my way here". "Great, thanks!" It was a specific train station that I chose intentionally or visit regul
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
I feel like this has something to do with whether the identity of the thing is central to the story or incidental. "On my last vacation I went to the beach to work on my tan." vs "on my last vacation I went to a beach to work
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
Can I call it a green whittling rectangular little silver French old lovely knife? This makes no sense. Clearly it's the lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife. Any minor reordering of these adjectives just
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
> Humans are fundamentally solitary. That is our nature Everyone generalizes from a sample size of one.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
My company has a program where I can work for up to one consecutive month from anywhere in the world where I'm "legally allowed to work". I've had difficulty finding out which countries have visa programs that would allo
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
"Literally" has meant "figuratively" for hundreds of years now. How old does usage have to be before it's no longer eye-roll-worthy?
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
The last interview loop I went through, I met with 10 different people along the way. I asked every single one of them "What are the qualities that make for a successful engineer at XYZ"? I got 10 different answers but with severa
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
It's an incredible accomplishment, and the movie is well worth watching.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
For better or worse, when you publish something on the internet it no longer belongs entirely to you.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
Yes. None of those are a thing here in Canada in my experience. We have Interac E-Transfers which is allow you to send money to anyone just by knowing their email address or phone number. Either the person gets an email/text with instr
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
> That is, the art itself has no inherit value. The actual value of a piece of art is whatever you can convince someone to pay for it. This goes for any good or service. Usually when people talk about the "value of something" t
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
It's a bit bizarre that you are claiming this relationship might exist, when you could simply read the TOS and see if such a clause exists.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
But you didn't learn about the millions of cranks that turned out to be wrong.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
> Hacker News always has crazy takes when it comes to anything diet related. It's always strange. HN has crazy takes on everything not within the very narrow sphere of tech expertise that is common to everyone on this board. You not
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
Well, that's interesting. My ex-wife also never once admitted she was wrong or genuinely apologized to me for anything. Her brother was diagnosed Asperger's and I strongly suspected both her parents were as well. Sadly I don'
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
The problem is that junior devs increase in value very rapidly in their first 2-3 years, much faster than any company is willing to increase their salary.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
> In January 2022, we received a report through our bug bounty program > This bug resulted from an update to our code in June 2021 Does this mean the problem existed for 7 months and nobody at Twitter noticed until they received a bug
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
I don't think there's any argument that we, along with animals, are genetically programmed to be altruistic towards our kin. In humans, that genetic programming manifests via feelings of love that make us act accordingly. Why woul
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
Yes, generally. It's what many AAA games use.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
This is a tautological answer. What are those policies and culture?
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
One of my favorite Norm MacDonald jokes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oseqh7SMIvo

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