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by fardo 3y ago
> When people focus on productivity, they end up focusing on being busy. I think this is a common behavior by inexperienced people in new spaces, but is quickly thinned out as people move up in skill. The most consistent sign of an exper
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by fardo 3y ago
I’m less concerned about sales flows making repeated contact than the author is. Spam filtration at all endpoints has become so effective and options to unsubscribe sufficiently effective that the impact as a user to receiving repeated cont
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by fardo 3y ago
I see this as capitulation in the face of dwindling player counts [1] that WoW will need to pivot focus to keeping the tight-knit core of players coming back, rather than trying to attract new ones. It would therefore seem they’re done grow
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by fardo 3y ago
> the lack of testing Having worked on very long-running projects, testing or well-funded QA doesn’t tend to save you from organizational issues. What typically seems to happen is tests rot, as tests often seem to have a shelf life. Even
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by fardo 3y ago
To be fair, Firefox is also FOSS, contains an integrated password manager with extraordinarily well-integrated browser compatibility, and by opting to use a master password to encrypt or decrypt the store also gives you control over securit
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by fardo 3y ago
Explain your reasoning why you disagree, clearly, in a neutral tone, and concisely with data and example observations - if management ignores you having done so anyways and drives into walls, you can sleep easy knowing you’ve at least done
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by fardo 3y ago
It adds hundreds of hours of gameplay, new endings, multiple planets, and much longer progression chains that really push your ability to optimize to the limit. If the base game isn’t enough to keep you interested anymore because it’s gotte
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by fardo 3y ago
> until people return to "local" communities If the app NextDoor is any indication, going local doesn’t seem to help either, its as negative and fractious as any other online community. At some point, one gets the feeling “the
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by fardo 3y ago
Each new entry in a franchise is contagious against old entries in two ways 1. It typically carves out new canon about its universe, and 2. Closes old loose ends Canon when added haphazardly can: A. retroactively create in-universe plot-hol
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by fardo 3y ago
In many cases, the act of recording is itself an abusive action. Privacy is valuable, desirable, and the freedom to converse knowing there isn’t a recording running is itself the freedom to speak without all conversations being subject to c
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by fardo 3y ago
> Does anyone have any insight into why reinforcement learning is (maybe) required/historically favoured? From a concept stage, it has attractive similarities to the way people learn in real life (rewarded for successful learnings,
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by fardo 3y ago
The way I typically think of it is • Model is “whatever you need to store persistently, how you represent that data, how should the data be structured and stored when it’s at rest (eg in a database, nosql environment, or big data query syst
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by fardo 3y ago
Or create more loops, since for example adding For (;;) { print(“hahaha you didn’t say the magic word!”); } In another loop would also prevent termination without program shutdowns.
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by fardo 3y ago
With $279 million, one would hope the recipient would have the inclination to throw together whatever security they felt necessary. Money makes a lot of problems go away - with this kind of money, one could buy a Hawaiian 10-20 million doll
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by fardo 3y ago
You can try almost anything in a courtroom, whether something’s likely to work is wholly another matter. When in doubt, legal processes tend to try to defer to precedent and prior case law. My guess is they would see a parallel between othe
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by fardo 3y ago
I’m glad to see work like this. Haptic interactions in general always felt like the weak point in VR applications. I’ve always found it incredibly uncanny navigating through 3D environments in VR without any kind of force feedback, or any s
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by fardo 3y ago
Too exploitable in two ways: First failure mode is that the metric for two bills being “the same” will be too narrow, in which case the rule will be ineffective due to legislators playing with the punctuation or paragraph structure, or Seco
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by fardo 3y ago
Once you’ve doing this, is there a value-add Brave is providing over just using Google through a VPN? As someone without much familiarity, this alternative seems circuitous if Google results are what you actually want.
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by fardo 3y ago
> Where would that even apply? That sounds like it could be useful in legal and policing contexts. One complaint I’ve often heard about body cameras in policing is the possibility of footage that was created and did indeed exist being “l
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by fardo 4y ago
From a practical perspective, because of inertia and all managers seemingly being "burned once, twice shy" on re-designs. If my company already uses spreadsheets and teams of people skilled at manipulating them, it might not be ve
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by fardo 4y ago
There are several uses. They are (Edit: not, see below) used for post ordering, but do provide a reputation signal within the community for other users and moderators, provide a mild directional incentive towards producing quality, provide
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by fardo 4y ago
> This will certainly require a lot of reworking of these traditional curriculums that consist heavily of asking the student to generate bullshit, but maybe that wasn't the best way to educate students this whole time. That process
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by fardo 4y ago
>Lawyers cost money a lot of money. AI lawyers can help lower those barriers to entry. For traffic court, perhaps, but these AI tools don’t seem guaranteed to not make this problem worse at broader scales. These AIs will also be availabl
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by fardo 4y ago
>If so why? Devils advocate, because increasing isolation of the necessarily public information a governmental service manages from the government organization servicing it is a good thing. The role of title transfers could itself be arg
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by fardo 4y ago
>There is a good chance SBF will be released on bail so he does not have to spend time in detention in NYC. The charges against him are all nonviolent crimes I don’t agree with this theory, as I think it’s rather likely SBF will be viewe
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by fardo 4y ago
> The best way to do this would be to have a deep fake of someone famous saying or doing something ludicrous. Fortunately, someone’s made sure to get deepfake “Biden” and “Trump”’s opinion on the rapper Chief Keef, which does the job qui
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by fardo 4y ago
Each year we grow closer to the “verification can” [1] universe. It’s a shame that users could be punished for using their own accounts as they choose. [1] https://i.redd.it/ct7ytf6sxkr61.jpg
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by fardo 4y ago
>in what ways can it become more severe Spitballing a few ways it could be? Right now all reddit users have the same rights and privileges to use any subreddit. I expect this to change and all these rights are going to get parcelled out,
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by fardo 4y ago
When someone's been scammed, it's very hard for them to admit they have, because it makes you feel like a rube. You want to create a safe environment where they feel like they still have support and aren't ridiculed for makin
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by fardo 4y ago
Most of the moat seems to be some combo of • Website today seem much more aware of how search would ultimately seek to summarize and off-site catalog their content to siphon away incoming users than when Google started, so you don’t have th

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