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by cpeterso 4y ago
I worked at a high-pressure game company and I remember an engineer showing me a Counterstrike map they made of our company's office building, desks and all. It was amusing at the time, but in retrospect, maybe I should have said somet
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by cpeterso 4y ago
Something like Podcast.ai that generates fake interviews between celebrities. There is plenty of Seinfeld audio to train a voice generator. https://podcast.ai/about
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by cpeterso 4y ago
I’m surprised they don’t just seed using /dev/urandom (or the platform specific analogue).
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How artificial intelligence is helping us decode animal languages(weforum.org)
2 points by cpeterso 4y ago|0 comments
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by cpeterso 4y ago
Related to agile on DoD projects, here’s a presentation from Lockheed Martin about their adoption of SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) for their F-16 software projects. While agilists consider SAFe to be “waterfall in agile clothing” sold by co
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by cpeterso 4y ago
I read recently that the Xbox team maintained Ballmer’s support for their project by leading him to believe the Xbox would run Windows, while they were actually writing a dedicated console OS.
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by cpeterso 4y ago
I’m convinced that Google Maps occasionally routes people through detours to gather data about the detour’s current road conditions and traffic speeds.
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by cpeterso 4y ago
And before Jobs' return to be Apple CEO.
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by cpeterso 4y ago
Or the Centaur pinball game's "Bad move, human!"
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Apple: The only big tech giant going against the job cuts tide(blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
405 points by cpeterso 4y ago|382 comments
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by cpeterso 4y ago
And the League of Entropy, which includes Cloudflare, for data that needs to be random but doesn't need to be secret: https://blog.cloudflare.com/league-of-entropy/
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by cpeterso 4y ago
How is a "big corporation" defined? Limiting the number of employees a company has (1000? 10,000? 100,000?) would have interesting effects. Companies might be less likely to hire junior people. Bigger companies would need to outso
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by cpeterso 4y ago
Like Google's LaMDA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaMDA
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by cpeterso 4y ago
I like the symmetry and readability of “Ada case”: snake_case but with uppercase letters where appropriate, such as acronyms. So instead of XMLHttpRequest or xml_http_request , you would use XML_HTTP_Request .
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by cpeterso 4y ago
And Ruby and Rust.
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Improving PagerDuty’s Operational Resilience to Achieve Our Long Term Vision(pagerduty.com)
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by cpeterso 4y ago
Do you have any more details? If they licensed an engine, a racing game’s engine seems like a bad fit. All Wikipedia says is: “A demonstration of League of Legends built in the Warcraft III game engine was completed in four months and then
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by cpeterso 4y ago
Most users are probably totally unaware of their smart appliances' capabilities or can't figure out the confusing UI. I know that I can't half the time.
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by cpeterso 4y ago
If you are a Street View fan, check out GeoGuessr, a game where you try to guess the location of a Street View. Some pros on YouTube can guess with scary accuracy. https://www.geoguessr.com/
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by cpeterso 4y ago
> When asked to confirm or deny whether the independent ethics board rumored to have been set up as part of the Google acquisition actually exists, he says he can’t, because it’s “all confidential.” Why would the existence of an independ
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Amazon to Shut Down Charity Donation Program AmazonSmile(cnet.com)
4 points by cpeterso 4y ago|0 comments
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by cpeterso 4y ago
For more details, see Mozilla’s November announcement about MV3 in Firefox 109: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/11/17/manifest-v3-signi...
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Wyoming SJ0004 – Phasing out new electric vehicle sales by 2035(wyoleg.gov)
40 points by cpeterso 4y ago|26 comments
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by cpeterso 4y ago
The page is about browser engines, not browsers. Chrome was still using WebKit in 2012. Chrome switched to Blink in 2013.
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by cpeterso 4y ago
What is the origin of the “-eep” suffix used in Veeps, Tweeps, and Peeps? (Though I don’t know where Peeps work.) I would expect Verily employees to be called something like “Verilians”.
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20 years of Safari: A visual history(cultofmac.com)
1 points by cpeterso 4y ago|0 comments
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AI-powered lawyer will be first of its kind to represent defendant in court(cbsnews.com)
135 points by cpeterso 4y ago|166 comments
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Windows 8.1 support will end on January 10, 2023(support.microsoft.com)
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It’s not academic research, but I recommend Marianne Bellotti's "Kill It with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems (and Future Proof Modern Ones)" about modernization of legacy software systems and managing the teams maintaini
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Mobile Native Foundation improving engineering large-scale mobile applications(mobilenativefoundation.org)
1 points by cpeterso 4y ago|0 comments

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