djtango

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by djtango 5d ago
Reading is the least stimulating than other forms of "content" mediums. Reading about a spell duel is neurologically (and physically) going to be a very different experience than watching flashing colours on screen with loud blast
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by djtango 5d ago
Am I the only that is happy that "cheap unregulated doctors" isn't the solution to shaking up monopolistic health care?
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by djtango 5d ago
I care a lot less about the KGB knowing the ins and outs of my body than my health insurer...
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by djtango 8d ago
The strange and ironic thing here is that the subject and object of this statement can be either country. My wife is from Manchuria and my father is from Singapore. As much as my wife and I like the Japan of today, Japan appeared less favou
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by djtango 10d ago
> Modern cameras rely on sophisticated image-processing algorithms to produce the final viewable image, so certifying that an image accurately reflects what a real camera sensor captured requires a chain of trust covering the sensor as w
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by djtango 13d ago
Why was it connected to the network?
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by djtango 15d ago
It's complex vs complicated. A compiler may be very difficult to build but it is largely complicated. Human issues are often complex and may not even have a real solution. Consider human issues like Brexit and the Good Friday Agreement
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by djtango 15d ago
Video games are much easier than what Shopify do which will be a long tail of business cases and local permutations for all the countries they operate in. Commercial software is usually a simple core and a long tail of business exceptions
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by djtango 23d ago
"they" like to gaslight us that cities are safer than ever. That it's social media scaring us into thinking our cities are less safe. But in actually safe countries (Japan, Switzerland, Singapore) kids are already taking them
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by djtango 27d ago
> plan with a stronger and more expensive model, and then use a cheaper model to do the "grunt work Doesn't this sound like the model that led to bloated poor software produced by code monkey sweatshops where an architect fobbe
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by djtango 2mo ago
Let me check my maths... So population of london is 9M Say your network and you is 250 people. (friends, colleague, family, neighbours, community) Probability (P) of not being chosen[0]: 1-200/9M Probability of your network (PN) not be
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by djtango 2mo ago
Thanks for sharing! We're blessed that such a hobby is lucrative enough to pay our bills. Not many hobbies are, and usually this leads to wage suppression as there's too much supply. My pet anecdata is how a violinist playing for
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by djtango 2mo ago
My high level understanding is there are countries where things like IMEI barring aren't enforced and the actual unlocking of the phone is possible. Via jailbreaking or flashing I presume
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by djtango 2mo ago
It always shocks me how people like to excuse crime in London. 70000 phones snatched in a year. 3000 stabbings a year. The phone snatchings are so common that I can name several victims from completely different walks of life. Maybe the mos
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by djtango 2mo ago
I think it was implied through the conversation but the other thing I have come to realise is that your hobby and craft should be about producing not consuming. Too many people think they like videogames or films and think they should there
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by djtango 2mo ago
Hobby should only become job if you enjoy the craft of it and if the profession / job rewards craftsmanship. People in it just for the money won't care about craft - you see the same thing in plumbing. And when there's enough
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by djtango 2mo ago
It's ok - who cares about Europe anyway, they will be irrelevant imminently. How about they create a new national league in the US, say called the National Football League and sell that to commercial interests then whoever wins that th
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by djtango 2mo ago
My favourite is the food you get in Xi'an which is pretty distinct from what you'd ordinarily consider "Chinese" food (ie Sichuanese or Cantonese) The flatbreads, cumin and lamb dominance all speak to the Silk Road histo
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by djtango 2mo ago
How much of that is pegged to global literacy I wonder. You won't have popular standardised recipes until chefs and homemakers are literate
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by djtango 2mo ago
Extremely cool idea! Are you planning to share the source or prompts at all? Do you know what are the scaling limits of this kind of graph? EDIT: In the past people used to pore over each line of series like asoiaf to hand compile their own
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by djtango 2mo ago
Finally an advantage for Chinese after being penalised during the early stage of compute!
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by djtango 2mo ago
I have to admit that people interpreting current affairs/hot moments in real life through the lens of anime tropes really tickles in a way I never believed possible. The aha moment was when people made ones over the Pam Bondi DOW over
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by djtango 2mo ago
I didn't get it when it first was a thing (like 15 years ago) but now I watch streams of esports/pvp and I watch longplays to scratch an itch for games I have no intention of putting the full time sink into but need to experience
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by djtango 2mo ago
I was very curious about Dataflow programming years ago - I think a lot of people were coming at this problem from various angles. This specific library immediately reminded me of Javelin from Clojure [0] [0]: https://github.com&
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by djtango 3mo ago
Yes I am very paranoid about CTE. For years I've dialled down the sparring intensity and mostly train technically, working on timing. I appreciate that studies show that the brain basically never heals but sometimes you've got to
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by djtango 3mo ago
As an avid gamer, I'd argue the actual physical threat of being hit is hardwired into us because it is tied to our survival instinct on a primal level. I like to do all kinds of silly stressful challenge runs in games or sweaty PvP and
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by djtango 3mo ago
Your confident ignorance motivated me to at least dig up some cursory research on this space, I hadn’t previously bothered because I live and breathe this stuff (pun not intended). As a young impressionable, I set out to understand and over
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by djtango 3mo ago
I find this is definitely true for americano and pour overs but I don't drink enough espresso to know if this also true? I at least feel the sentiment that you want to drink an espresso fairly quickly although I do enjoy savouring it a
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by djtango 4mo ago
Community is the one that I feel is most under threat these days...
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by djtango 4mo ago
How did you know you almost blacked out? I'm most terrified of the stories that you can fade without knowing

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