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by dexwiz 3y ago
Good read but the claim Turning invented the computer prevented me from believing anything that followed. Did he help develop them? Yes, but he was not the sole or even first inventor.
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by dexwiz 3y ago
Motion blurred backgrounds naturally convey speed or motion. Animation, especially anime, heavily relies on this technique. The subject is stationary relative to the frame, and the background moves. The blurrier the background, the more spe
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by dexwiz 3y ago
Record keeping for the most part. You need something to attach the CI jobs to and PRs are a good choice. There are plenty of cases were a deep review should be preformed. Always presenting that opportunity is good instead of having to do so
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by dexwiz 3y ago
If EV companies get their way, we probably won’t be buying personal cars except as luxury or work items by 2035. Everything with be subscriptions, either leases, short term rentals, or taxis.
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by dexwiz 3y ago
Sounds like you have a culture problem. You can always open a PR and then discuss it in person or over chat. If your teammates take weeks to review your work, then your manager needs to step in. If nothing changes, then the culture is broke
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by dexwiz 3y ago
Yeah, aggregator is a very industry specific term, so I just merged into teclo provider. But yeah, all the issues with short codes, national laws, and reputation, makes it very complex. I worked at a company like Twillio that had contracts
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by dexwiz 3y ago
It's usually even more expensive to support receiving messages than sending them, beyond keywords like Unsubscribe. If you want any sort of threading its going to be extra. Also its extra for dedicated shortcodes. When you get an SMS f
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by dexwiz 3y ago
That is because some people are scared of words like genetics, and its hard to explain secondary effects to the general public. But if you listen to people actually in the know, they will tell you its more about market manipulation than the
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by dexwiz 3y ago
You can't send an sms yourself like you can an email. Instead of setting up a server, you have to work with a telco provider (an aggregator specifically). Any SMS service eventually hands off to one of these. Many SaaS SMS providers ar
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by dexwiz 3y ago
The fear has never been the GMOs themselves, it what GMOs enable. Roundup works so well because they also sell seeds resistant to it. The engineering doesn’t necessarily make a better food but it always makes a better product.
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by dexwiz 3y ago
The USA has long concerned itself with the politics of other countries. And it uses food exports as a tool of financial influence. Money is always a key part of influence, but it’s not the only. Food and weapons are also high on that list.
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by dexwiz 3y ago
Because revolutions happen on empty stomachs. Food security is key for a stable government. So governments push for policies that maximize food output like fertilizers and pesticides. You can blame farmers all you want but national policies
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by dexwiz 3y ago
https://status.slack.com/2023-11/0e7bc0e7a7e7cd87
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by dexwiz 3y ago
I think he has a great point. Its crazy to me how much some have withdrawn into their digital world. There is so much talk today about understanding each other and unity, that it makes me wonder how much of those calls are pure projection.
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by dexwiz 3y ago
You only have radiative (heat moving via electromagnetic emission aka photons) cooling in space. On Earth you also have convective (heat moving via moving fluid) and conductive (heat moving via permeating a material) cooling to move heat aw
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by dexwiz 3y ago
Cooling is a bigger issue in space than it is on earth. The launches themselves have an environmental impact, so doing things in space doesn’t suddenly make it “eco free.” There are other things that should go in space first, like permanent
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by dexwiz 3y ago
> As with much of society, corporate America does not reward hard work so much as it rewards opportunism — the ability to show you’re useful, even if that “usefulness” isn’t necessarily about being good at your job. This is the key. Even
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by dexwiz 3y ago
Finally I can have my very own Maxwell’s demon to sort heat for me. I have to pay him with electricity.
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by dexwiz 3y ago
Sounds like every other enterprise software platform. Unity has reach the IBM level of “no one gets fired for choosing X,” even though X only makes the business people happy.
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by dexwiz 3y ago
It might be so their flower is more appealing to insects. Flowers in the sun may be more likely to pollinate than ones in the shade. Total guess there.
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by dexwiz 3y ago
There is a subtle difference between laynames and technical math names. Lay names have nouns and verbs separate: a number may be multiplied. They are data and functions in programming terms. But in math terms this is combination is also a n
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by dexwiz 3y ago
Not sure if they are today, but Toyota is putting a lot of effort into ammonia turbines. Also ammonia can be fired with coal or natural gas in existing setups. The main issue is neutralization of NOx exhaust.
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San Francisco Has a New Slogan, and Not Everyone Is a Fan(nytimes.com)
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by dexwiz 3y ago
The Roblox characters always look like mini figs to me.
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by dexwiz 3y ago
I think its funny that a generation that grew up on Lego minifigs turns around and mocks Roblox so hard.
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by dexwiz 3y ago
Both censorship and advertising regulations both exist in accordance with the first amendment.
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by dexwiz 3y ago
That’s just survivorship biases of artists thinking there has been a shift in Hollywood. Hollywood has always been a commercial enterprise studded with artistic egos, some deserved some not. CGI had just made mainstream action movies balloo
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by dexwiz 3y ago
I think those mostly comes down to resources. Real rooms make more sense to spend time on. Procedural generation could help with some of this. But you still have to spend resources on assets to fill these spaces.
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by dexwiz 3y ago
I have started to use this in some soup stocks instead of anchovy paste. Very tasty. Throw a few strips into boiling water, strain out after 15 minutes, and you have a decent broth. You can also sub chard out of recipes for it in some cases
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by dexwiz 3y ago
$1 hardly sounds enough to stop bots, just tax them.

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