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by evilduck 2y ago
Steam predates MS selling games within their first-party OS-bundled apps, so it's not the exact same situation to begin with.
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by evilduck 2y ago
Steam was doing sales before the other stores popped up and I was acquiring games faster than I could play them even then. Increasing sales frequency means little to me, and is even a little annoying since I now feel like I should be consta
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by evilduck 2y ago
But it has sort of happened on Windows with gaming. I’ve got games on Steam, GOG, MS Store, and Epic. It’s annoying and I very much preferred the state of things a decade ago when it was just Steam. Android has curated a market of users who
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by evilduck 2y ago
> make the script control a finger bot on an X/Y harness, Too many points of mechanical failure. Just use a RPi Pico W (or other USB HID capable microcontroller) to emulate a keyboard and have it stream key codes at a human pace. Ma
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by evilduck 2y ago
Pilots have it easy because they actually have a series of tests they can take to prove they can do something. Once they have it then that's done, proof acquired. I have around thirty thousand hours working as a software engineer and h
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by evilduck 2y ago
Besides the web client, https://cider.sh exists and is in various distro package managers already too.
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by evilduck 2y ago
Cosmetic surgery for vanity has helped improve the techniques and procedures and even the number of skilled practitioners that can then help those with disfigurements and deformities.
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by evilduck 2y ago
LLMs must be trained for full-in-middle completion to be useful in this scenario, but think “the next stage of autocomplete that uses the context around it” more than “writes entire functions”. I’ve found it great when manipulating data bet
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by evilduck 2y ago
There’s a military, and by proxy a government and a country’s populace behind a pilot who are all invested in a pilot’s success. In battle or on missions they don’t get many do-overs and pilots and planes are expensive to mobilize and to lo
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by evilduck 2y ago
A more gratuitous interpretation is that someone who does this is making an attempt to stave off the expected vapid replies that occur whenever you mention polarizing topics or people.
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by evilduck 2y ago
Besides the founders, who gives a shit if they have a good exit? As a user, them destroying chunks of the e-learning space and cashing out is something I view as a negative.
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by evilduck 2y ago
I'm American and have spent the majority of my life in the US, so limited perspective and all, but Bibles are literally disposable here. There's plenty of instances of overzealous churches setting up on a corner and forcing cheap
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by evilduck 2y ago
Something like a drive between Denver to Kansas City is utter torture for me because it's nearly void of any mental stimulus, doesn't matter that I can cruise along at a high speed in a straight line the entire time, I'm worr
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by evilduck 2y ago
Maybe? I don’t need to read and calculate every iteration of some loop to understand that it’s mapping. While if I need to determine the actual output value of a function, I might.
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by evilduck 2y ago
HDCP is easy enough to downgrade and then remove.
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by evilduck 2y ago
Blindsight by Peter Watts also discusses what can be intelligent but not conscious. In the current hypefest of LLMs it’s interesting to consider that they may be similar.
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by evilduck 2y ago
Containerizing every Go project helped me mitigate Go's opinions on my home directory but needing to do so in the first place was irritating.
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by evilduck 2y ago
> The most productive year of my group at that job. Brought out two new versions of our OS to support multi-processor configurations and use new memory modes. But did this significantly impact the business in a positive way? If it was a
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by evilduck 2y ago
They also mentioned that the school was maintaining enrollment numbers despite lower application rates. The only way that works in a low tier state school is that admissions officers are relaxing academic standards.
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by evilduck 2y ago
I still think it’s a bit harsh to judge it as contradictory without the rest of the paper. Another valid interpretation: “The Civil War was inevitable [given the sequence of historical events], but it didn’t have to be that way [if we hypot
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by evilduck 2y ago
It's basically required by the internet gods that you must make up total nonsense when complaining about Apple.
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by evilduck 2y ago
I've never seen outsourcing of a company's core product result in anything but litigation. If a team legitimately made a 2000% leap in throughput and it wasn't just from manipulating metrics, and then that still wasn't g
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by evilduck 2y ago
> Apple is struggling to be profitable Genuinely curious, how does one come to the necessary conclusions that then lead to making statements like this? What supports the notion that Apple is struggling to be profitable?
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by evilduck 2y ago
Ethnic grocers are also not national chains trying to extract every cent of profit from a community.
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by evilduck 2y ago
What's inconceivable about the lyrics being generated? A single song's lyrics easily fits into the context window of virtually any LLM, and with some of the bigger and better ones (Opus) you could probably feed it every known song
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by evilduck 2y ago
Python has like a dozen competing solutions in their package management space. Python is clearly the problem, not the user. Their docs don’t say that, they advertise exactly what the GP ran. Python needs to unfuck its ecosystem.
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by evilduck 2y ago
Sometimes the instruction sets change (like the relatively recently added AVX10 extensions) and you have a workload that specifically needs those? I'm just guessing though.
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by evilduck 2y ago
I don't think that's what I was driving at. Monolith users in this scenario would be knowingly using copyrighted content with the clear intent to "de-copyright" it for distribution purposes by mixing it up into a new out
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by evilduck 2y ago
What's your plan for getting called on by others to speak?
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by evilduck 2y ago
Two and three are really the same problem and are solved by periodically running the same workload in duplicate on other systems and comparing results to detect unreliable sellers. Same as all the captcha systems. It's an overhead requ

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