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by djtango 3y ago
While I get why the exaggerated "all according to keikaku" is poor translation, I've always been a fan of things like translators notes and not trying to translate things like jutsu and rasengan (anyone remember spiral blast?
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by djtango 3y ago
...why doesn't Alexa confirm the actions it's going to take. "Starting the microwave for 20 minutes..."
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by djtango 3y ago
In hindsight I guess No Man's Sky panned out like a super protracted crowdfunded game with a large scale prolonged beta-phase. Which I guess is true for a lot of other games too. Props to Final Fantasy XVI for shipping a finished produ
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by djtango 3y ago
Isn't distilled water also bad for your teeth?
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by djtango 3y ago
Having worked in ecommerce that's incredibly hardcore even though I appreciate the sentiment. That will probably also disincentivise users from leaving reviews because users will see their reviews disappear. And actually what's to
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by djtango 3y ago
My fav bit about MW is they went hard on the role playing bit. Could level up all these random skills which then compounded with skills and enchantments. Being able to jump crazy far and breathe underwater were my favourites. The idea of al
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by djtango 3y ago
Yes I find being overladen with quest markers and journals so immersion breaking. And it also devalues conversations with non quest demoting NPCs because the game mechanics are laid bare. In Final Fantasy pre-12 the game obfuscated progress
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by djtango 3y ago
Had to scroll down surprisingly far to find this comment. The iPhone moment for this space IMO is... the iPhone (sans phone) Imagine something of google glass form factor tethered to a personal computing device (the size of an iPhone) for e
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by djtango 3y ago
As much as I'm pro privacy how much of this is just to push people onto apps...
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by djtango 3y ago
Ah - bugs will be bugs!
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by djtango 3y ago
Ah, classic HN Saturday morning - finding myself dreaming up Hungarian notation in English to disambiguate grammatical types nTime vFlies avLike an nArrow, nFruit vFlies avLike a nBanana It's ugly but if we all adhere to this
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by djtango 3y ago
> From what I understand PFOF is only problematically profitable in the options market where NBBO spreads can be quite wide, but I’m pretty sure Citadel is not even a major player there. Not sure if it's the same niche but bloomberg
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by djtango 3y ago
Balancing water on your head actually sounds like a good way to learn spinal control!
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by djtango 3y ago
Had a skim, this seems relevant [0] > The Na+ hydration shell, which is formed by three water molecules, is quite stable while the K+ ion can only perturb the water structure in its immediate neighborhood so that it is unable to attract
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by djtango 3y ago
I know enough Hokkien and Teochew that Taiwanese won't sound completely alien. I'll add it to the list haha - thanks!
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by djtango 3y ago
Anyone got good Mandarin content to recommend? Have a goal to be fluent by 40... Am watching Three Body but the dialogue is sometimes a little tricky to follow. When I think about how I assimilated Japanese from Anime, the reason it's
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by djtango 3y ago
I'll admit that I kind of enjoyed scales on the piano because I could mindlessly practise them when I was forced to practise, but I feel like there's a point where if you don't know them, you're limiting yourself in all
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by djtango 3y ago
I don't deny that AI from the lisp days is out of favour today but I recall Neural Networks sat in a niche corner of maths mostly dormant for quite a while too... I'm not an expert in either but am confident that progress is non l
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by djtango 3y ago
>Microservices and serverless components are tools that do work at high scale, but whether to use them over monolith has to be made on a case-by-case basis. Tldr build the right thing. >"AWS sales and support teams continue to sp
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by djtango 3y ago
Probably an unpopular take and my experience is almost 10 years old, but I would be surprised to see the Amazon I worked at try to bury something like this. If the product isn't what the customer wants, it isn't what the customer
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by djtango 3y ago
I haven't used Sheets as extensively as I've used Excel, and once upon a time I was a real Excel machine who knew all the alt menu navigation by heart (great precursor training for vim) but I have slowly become a Sheets convert. B
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by djtango 4y ago
I know someone who studied ML as black boxes kind of as her PhD (I don't really know the specifics so don't ask me) but I did find it interesting that if we're dealing with a sufficiently opaque and complex black box, we have
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by djtango 4y ago
Disclaimer: used to work for Amazon a long time ago I'm a little surprised to hear this as Amazon has only ever been a fantastic CX when it came to returns and this was by design from the early days. That said, I can see a confluence o
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by djtango 4y ago
Who cares about protein folding when a hyped up ELIZA can confidently tell you lies /s
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by djtango 4y ago
Lack a source but for many this will be the first generation in a long time where today's new parents will be unable to provide an equal or better quality of life to their children - especially in big urban centers which have seen the
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by djtango 4y ago
Sounds a lot like gellman amnesia. And we know by the readership of the news that most people discount GA
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by djtango 4y ago
Don't some people make a living solely off bounty hunting..? Please don't shatter my reality like that
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by djtango 4y ago
True for many things - doctors are now a lot more hesitant to remove the appendix for example. (it serves as a buffer for your gut flora iirc)
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by djtango 4y ago
First I've heard of this and am glad others realize screen sharing and video conferencing are not a commodity just yet. Curious how this compares with Pop (of screenhero lineage)
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by djtango 4y ago
Aren't you describing reddit?

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