csharptwdec19

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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
> It is interesting that they initially offered subscription model without unexpirable license. I wasn't even aware they ever did licenses that 'fully expire' but I'm glad they have their current model.
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
My fear isn't an AI with malicious intent. My fear is AI with a logical intent that understands humanity is the problem.
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
> The level of trickiness/subtlety of the problems you encounter can determine how much benefit you'll see from TLA+, although I believe people often underestimate it (in a way, all bugs are a result of programmers underestimat
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
Very cool. > Thus the full image can only be refreshed once every two frames, effectively limiting the maximum framerate to 30FPS - although the test scene runs at closer to 20FPS (primarily due to some bottlenecks with the logic on the
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
> Do we have a total effect of ads and fake news on society? Something that's actually reliable and not propaganda itself? It seems extremely difficult to be able to differentiate between an ad letting people know that a product exi
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
> The other point is that with ads and articles you have to engage with them yourself. Something can grab your attention, but you can decide to ignore it anyway. That's a slippery slope, when we remember that researchers are constan
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
Or, worse, your kid is that kid that sees it as "Oh, I can open this, I must be a grown up then"
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
"Manhattan" was about DirectX, not the XBox. (That's why DirectX had the weird weird radioactive logos, even before the XBox was an idea.) It wasn't about consoles but gaming in general. Programming Games for DOS require
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
Stupid thought, especially thinking about Netflix's history as one of the earliest services that streamed licensed content, it would not surprise me if this was at some point a way to minimize how much unencrypted data was in memory or
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
> Entertainment is a multi billion dollar industry. Companies like Disney are making record profits. Instead of relying on taxes and fees to make government-approved entertainment why not simply... make content people want to watch? Well
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
In the case of the UK, the purpose of the Taxes is to pay for the programming that is broadcast over the airwaves, i.e. it funds the BBC. This is somewhat of a 'compare and contrast' to the US Model, where either stations are fund
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
> Anyway I don't know what your point is, I'm not even sure if you have one. They're not "marketing" their pricing, nor the fact that you are "forced to design systems that use less resources". I think
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
The shift from 'Developer/Programmer' to engineer has indeed been part of a push away from creativity towards cookie-cutter work. An interesting analogue would be the Automotive industry; As time progressed, Companies focused
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
It depends on how the Justice department feels, to some extent. GM in the 50s and 60s actually kept an eye on their market share, and sometimes would kill/cutback projects or products that may have threatened going over a certain perce
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
I always operated under the assumption that it was just safer for them from a liability standpoint. Between the risk of somebody unable to properly handle the physical feedback loop and/or respect for their anatomy required to safely c
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
> Seems weird that retailers are complaining over a $100 cost (very generous estimate) spread over 100+ packages Some counterpoints: - 100 as a cost for a truck run sounds like it could be a little low; you've got to load/unloa
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
> At least where I'm at, almost none of my Amazon orders come through fedex or UPS now - everything is delivered by an Amazon driver. That only means the 'last mile' (figurative here) is done by Amazon. I believe there may
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
I've not been at a place while they got sold on Oracle, but I've been at one that was desperately working to get away from it. Over 15 years the relationship went from amicable to "Oracle reps are in town this week, give mana
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
> I get that, but I would have thought it would make more sense to approach TimescaleDB for a licensing deal. That way, right from day one they get a mature product with incredible features and performance. And they'd win developer
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
That's about viable nowadays. Elaborating: Until recently, your best option for running CIL in an AOT type environment would be Mono AOT, which has it's own limitations. Nowadays, however, we do have CoreRT in a state that lets yo
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
Which honestly is pretty sad/absurd. Honestly, a voucher for 1 free battery replacement usable at any-time for every class member would have been a fair-enough settlement IMO. - Would mitigate damages to the class - Relatively
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
The issue is that once the damage is done, it very quickly loses what impact it had as a tool. If a person has been in a corporate or even personal environment where NVC was abused, -any- use of it might cause someone to put their 'shi
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
'Seeking' in this case is trying to get pain meds. > Would they be a seeker if they took home the meds and not actually take them? The drs would then think "why more pain med, they are already on some?" No, that'
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
It's a challenge game companies have had for a long time. Sometimes, being bold means trying new architectures... But the important thing is making sure they are easy to adopt. That's the irony of the 'lesson' of the PS3
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
> This has nothing to do with “doing the right thing” or “accelerating innovation” Correct. True Character is what you do when nobody is watching. :)
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
>Someone I know once got Opioids to take home after a hospital visit, she said she didn't want them, they urged her to take them anyway. Turns out the hospital was sponsored by the producer of the pills. > This is not just over-p
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
I think it's still more technical than business... corners have been an issue for many cameras (especially digital) and curvature is one way to solve that problem. In fact this tends to be -more- of a problem using Legacy glass on Mirr
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
Wuhan's lockdown was extreme however; literally locking people inside their homes. Most western societies will not stand for that. New Zealand had the advantage of having a huge amount of experience with protecting their biodiversity.
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
Well in some cases there are tax implications. No clue whether it's the case here, but by example in the EU, a 'Computer' has different import duties/etc compared to a 'Game Console' (there was some speculation
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
> That is, any sort of astonishing improvements is often a sign of the original version being crappy, so it's also a red flag even if it's ultimately the good news. Actually, I'd argue they are fixing other people's m

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