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dunemaster
4y ago
You mean CS is unimportant for 99% of all code monkeys. But it is absolutely necessary for bleeding edge development and creating libraries that people who deem CS unimportant. It’s like saying that math is a complete waste of time because
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dunemaster
4y ago
Ah yes, you’ll forget almost everything learned at school, so just close down close right? Why stop smoking and getting drunk all the time when you die anyway?
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dunemaster
4y ago
I don’t think that anecdotal evidence benefits the evidence behind psychedelic therapies. I lost a lot of weight by eating gummy bears around the same time I started to exercise and eat less. Is that a convincing argument for gummy bears as
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dunemaster
4y ago
About three fiddy
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dunemaster
4y ago
But le software is le eating le heckin worlderino
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dunemaster
5y ago
Absolutely this. All great writers were extremely prolific and disciplined about their craft with no exception. This whole myth about some genius lying on the table and thinking about the order of arranging words is a myth that romanticizes
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dunemaster
5y ago
I think that many games are just too expensive on their platform and the interface is all over the place. There are so many options and covers which completely overwhelm the average user and they end up buying nothing.
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dunemaster
5y ago
Unlikable mary sue character who constantly toots his own horn and boasts about how smart he is, boring cookie cutter world building straight from a how to book. This made the protagonist extremely annoying like a teenager who thinks he’s s
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dunemaster
5y ago
Ok boomer. How you respond to the comment says a lot about you and how you think.
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dunemaster
5y ago
Product owner, scrum master and everything agile is the essence of a bullshit job.
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dunemaster
5y ago
This article could have been 1/8th of its length and the message would still be clear. Modern writing is vague, overly detailed and inelegant.
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5y ago
>le technology le bad This is the most boomer thing I read on this platform and that says a lot.
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dunemaster
5y ago
For me it was the other way around. The first book was so bad that I stopped reading fiction all together because I realized there are more important things I can do with my limited time.
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dunemaster
5y ago
>Patrick rothfuss before lord of the rings This has to be bait
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5y ago
Why the dots?
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dunemaster
6y ago
A very high probability of being wrong doesn’t make it right though.
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dunemaster
6y ago
By merely bruteforcing chess positions? A 300 page novel is vastly more complex than a chess game
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dunemaster
6y ago
Not until neuroscientists even remotely understand how consciousness forms
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dunemaster
6y ago
As a freelance concept artist and illustrator I pull regular all nighters but when I’m into the zone drawing worlds and characters from pure imagination, I lose track of time and space. After some time of not sleeping it feels like my head
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dunemaster
6y ago
Are there any writers of technical books here that write in their second language? Do you translate it to english or just write it in english?