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by davedx 2y ago
Yeah it's interesting how newer cultures syncretise aspects of much older ideas like that.
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by davedx 2y ago
I once spent a load of time making a "galactic civilization simulator" (in C!). First it spawned a galaxy of stars using RNG. Then it seeded civilizations at different home stars throughout the galaxy. Then it iterated an algorith
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by davedx 2y ago
There's a fantastic film about TV Licensing called The Duke, I highly recommend it: https://inews.co.uk/culture/film/the-duke-review-jim-broadbe... > When the film opens, [Kempton Bunton] is refusing to pa
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by davedx 2y ago
Yup. I worked 3 years and 10 months (yes I just checked) before I was first hired as a "Senior Software Engineer", by a very normal desktop publishing development company, in 2007. Not via LinkedIn, nobody I knew was on it back th
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by davedx 2y ago
I’ve worked on some huge nodejs projects, it’s a great language for “serious projects”. It has costs and benefits like any other language. If you use TypeScript then IME many of the costs are mitigated. What exactly makes JavaScript so unsu
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by davedx 2y ago
Finding bugs maybe sure. Further up this thread someone commented about “images getting cut off” on Hypership. It’s feedback but it’s not valuable. Feedback from real users who are actually trying to execute tasks with your product is valua
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by davedx 2y ago
Yes. Surprise surprise, most businesses generate most of their initial sales via cold calls/emails/DMs/other automated marketing. That’s the real world
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by davedx 2y ago
Such sites that do not allow Apple passwords I now skip as a user (unless it’s a government site), it says enough about how you view security and there are plenty of competitors that don’t do this
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by davedx 2y ago
I stumbled across a website (think it was a CRM or CMS, I’m evaluating a lot at the moment) that wouldn’t accept an Apple generated password the other day because it didn’t comply with their password strength rules. These days that’s the ki
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by davedx 2y ago
They’re doing well in spite of Musk, not because of him. Shotwell is running that company not him.
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by davedx 2y ago
The most recent Brownlee video of it was spot on IMO: https://youtu.be/fgm5uZaS3-E?si=Wkf4_vxGEtaS0eNa
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by davedx 2y ago
Because everyone tells new businesses to “find and/or create a niche!”
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Is it time for "everything apps"?(huly.blog)
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by davedx 2y ago
The Mars Direct book is worth reading not only for things like transport and mission design but also a wealth of other good ideas about how to “live off the land” when we get there too. Truly worth reading for anyone remotely interested in
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by davedx 2y ago
A game like GTA has way too much functionality and complex branching for this to work I think (beyond eg doing aimless drives around the city — which would be very cool though)
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by davedx 2y ago
I don't think it is. Getting arbitrary access to corporate support ticket chains seems pretty high impact to me? Isn't that a gigantic data breach (also probably a GDPR breach) already, before you get to the Slack takeover?
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by davedx 2y ago
Eh I much prefer my Model 3 to my wife’s Mach-E because of the longer range it has. Even with fast chargers on the motorway it’s inconvenient to have to stop regularly to charge and delays your journey. 450km is nice for the Netherlands; if
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by davedx 2y ago
That's not entirely true. Waymo have remote control operators, these would have the same - you don't need 100% foolproof autonomy to operate a fleet of cars like this. I am also highly sceptical of everything about Tesla's pr
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by davedx 2y ago
My Tesla still beeps at me because it thinks I'm about to drive into pedestrians or parked cars because there's a bend in the road. I honestly think at this point Tesla's FSD AI is way, way overfitting on a few US cities.
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by davedx 2y ago
Also: > “The autonomous vehicles, we’re going to stop from operating on American roads, remember this,” Trump said.
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by davedx 2y ago
This has a corollary in software and refactoring: don’t refactor duplicated code too early; keep it separate until it’s very clear the refactoring is correct
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by davedx 2y ago
But that's false - China broke up Ant/AliBaba. The CCP doesn't want a single company controlling their entire economy any more than the US does - granted not for exactly the same reasons
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by davedx 2y ago
What's common sense about the App Store rulings?
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by davedx 2y ago
"Won't somebody please think of the browsers!" This is not a good reason to break up anti-competitive monopolies: that it would harm the technology their monopoly depends on
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by davedx 2y ago
Most people do not understand this because Alphabet's financial filings are chronically opaque and break out very little of how the financials of the different parts of the group interact. How do you know how much Google funnels of its
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by davedx 2y ago
Yeah the fact that there's no concrete demo beyond the basic JavaScript snippet/demo makes me wonder how well this actually works. I wanted to know how users are informed to press shift repeatedly to use the button? It's weir
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by davedx 2y ago
Seems more like a harmonization effort than what Google is proposing here? Or maybe I'm reading it wrong. If I don't get one of these mandarin-approved certifications, will I no longer be able to do business? [The Google audits ar
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by davedx 2y ago
I live here, I have a fairly good idea. The EU has quite aggressively pursued different big tech companies over the last few years. The fines have become quite material.
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by davedx 2y ago
Can you expand on what you mean? Which commercial certifications has the EU pushed?
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by davedx 2y ago
They're partners, not just agencies you independently get to choose, right? That's what I'm getting at with the racket part. You don't get to interop with one of the biggest cloud providers in the world unless you comple

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