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by cecilpl2 5y ago
Perforce is still the defacto standard in the video game industry where it's not uncommon for a game's source assets to run into the tens of terabytes. That said, Toy Story 2 was developed in the late 90s, and while Perforce exist
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
Of course you get to withdraw more money than you put in, because you owned productive assets. Stocks are the middle class's ticket into the ownership class.
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One bit you are missing is that it's entirely possible that today is the cheapest the S&P 500 will ever be. What if your 50% crash only comes after the market has tripled? Another is this: What if the market crashes 40% but then go
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
In fantasy, I'd recommend Lord of the Rings, Wheel of Time, and Malazan as some of the best examples of deep worldbuilding. Wheel of Time in particular.
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> instead of investing in small inventors, they'd just freeze them out until they lose their rights (or use that threat as leverage to buy the patents for less than they're worth). I'm trying to understand your point but i
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
Wordle is the sourdough of Omicron.
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Paying money for a tool means having a person develop that tool for you.
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
In Canada we use email for person-to-person money transfers. I transfer money to my contacts by email address. They then get an email which informs them they have a pending transfer, and allows them to deposit it into their bank account. Yo
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
But if those two things (velocity and reliability) are at opposing ends of an engineering spectrum, then different teams will make different decisions about how best to trade one off for the other, and then the org as a whole is unfocused.
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Yeah, lets build a bunch more and stick our descendants with the maintenance cost!
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
Take a step back from your immediate experience. Observe your behavior, your reactions, your emotions. Realize that all of those are programmed, and that you can (with some effort) rewrite the programming to better suit you.
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I found that I could solve the snagging problem by just running by headphone cable through my shirt.
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I guess that just proves my point about discipline being a limited resource. You appear to have put of yours into bettering your physical health and none into interpersonal relationships or compassion. There's no reason to repeatedly i
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
Slight nitpick - Crew Dragon currently carries 4 crew members and there's no particular reason it couldn't carry more (ie the rocket could handle it).
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While you are not wrong about self-discipline being an important factor, there are also genetic components to things like ghrelin and leptin levels and responsiveness. Not to mention also that the willpower to override your habits is a limi
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
Oh that's fascinating. I can eat 1000kcal of ground beef and go looking for more, but 200kcal of gummy worms and I'm hoping I never see them again.
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
I'm your body double (5'10", wear 30/30 pants). I run (1:46 HM) and I lift (1.5x bw bench, 2x bw squat). My RHR is low 50s. I'm currently 180lbs and trying to put on more muscle mass. I'm still pretty lean, wit
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
I guess it really matters whether you are in a cart or not.
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The luck is in how strong your appetite is, which is the real driver of how much food one eats.
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
> My father never exercised, ate what he wanted, and was always skinny. You hit the nail on the head when you said he "ate what he wanted". People who are "naturally skinny" are that way because they don't want
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
BMI is not useful as an individual metric, but as a population-wide average. I don't think anyone would argue that you should lose weight because your BMI is high, nor does anyone believe that the obesity epidemic in America is due to
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
> I felt utterly amazing. Like I could take on the world. I had a hard time focusing at work, because I just wanted to be talking to people (not an extrovert) or going for a 10 mile run. > I can't compare it to cocaine Sounds lik
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
> alcohol does not heal or help the mind Is it not possible that some people find alcohol in reasonable doses to be a net positive mentally and mood-wise?
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
I thought this was an interesting insight into what a fully-automated grocery store looks like. And also wild to think about how different things are when you design them for automation from the ground up. https://www.youtube.com
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
> I've found even a slight curve of my neck creates a lot of discomfort especially when running or walking. Just because you personally had this experience doesn't mean that everyone does.
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
I distinctly remember playing this Flat Earth game when I was a young teenager, over 20 years ago now. It was great practice for exercising my burgeoning reasoning skills and annoying my friends to no end. The charm wore off after a short t
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
Does Explorer Patcher also allow taskbar on the side of the screen, or is it permanently stuck on the bottom?
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
My two most recent job changes have been via LinkedIn. My profile is minimal (no photo, just a short blurb and a super-old copy/paste of my resume). The first was an ex-colleague recruiting me directly for a position he was trying to f
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
I for one do not want to send hundreds of thousands of dollars to someone else without any kind of reversibility or fraud-protection guarantees. I'm willing to pay a token amount in terms of fee and delay in order to ensure that.
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
Of course he did. Intent matters, and this was a reasonably foreseen consequence of the way the system is set up. He knew how npm works and he knew the implication of adding that code is that hundreds of libraries and production systems wou

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