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by frozenlettuce 2y ago
that's the source of some cheesy anime clichés like having every character react and say something while an arrow is still mid-flight - in a manga it makes sense but when animating it makes it feel slow (looking at you Saint Seya)
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by frozenlettuce 2y ago
the initial idea was a general-purpose language, but obviously the scope for that would be too big. I think that having "natural language frameworks" for some application types can work: REST APIs, CLI apps, React components... .
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by frozenlettuce 2y ago
I'm experimenting with something like that, to allow creating a web API from some descriptions in markdown. https://github.com/lfarroco/verbo-lang
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by frozenlettuce 2y ago
https://g1-globo-com.translate.goog/politica/noticia/2024/08...
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by frozenlettuce 2y ago
They are complying with local laws. For more absurd that it may seem, they are receiving requests from the Supreme Court to do illegal stuff.
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by frozenlettuce 2y ago
https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2024/03/07/corruption...
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by frozenlettuce 2y ago
I guess that you missed this from some weeks ago? https://www.yahoo.com/tech/google-maps-may-not-offer-1124362... The link in the OP is an example of what people may encounter if they follow said routes https:/&
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by frozenlettuce 2y ago
Here in Brazil, it is not uncommon to hear about people being kidnapped/shot/killed because Google Maps decided to direct them into a zone controlled by organized crime. When news came out that those routes were being chosen to ma
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by frozenlettuce 2y ago
I worked in an oil & gas company when that happened. Luckily, we had no customers in the Middle East at that time
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by frozenlettuce 2y ago
Got to try profiting on some incoming regulation - I'd rather be seen as evil rather than incompetent!
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by frozenlettuce 2y ago
Sogamed old ui is a good inspiration https://web.archive.org/web/20030620073042/http://sogamed.co...
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by frozenlettuce 3y ago
I played it for the first time in 2017 and I was somewhat sad to have played only WoW between 2005-2013.
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by frozenlettuce 3y ago
the difference is that no SCOTUS member is opening inquiries in processes where they are the prosecutor, victim, and judge at the same time. Fun fact: Brazil's Supreme Court can legally do that _if a crime occurs in the Court's de
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by frozenlettuce 3y ago
Brazil's foreign policy has changed lately. It has been siding with Iran, Palestine, Venezuela, China and Russia.
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by frozenlettuce 3y ago
File browsing has been a solved problem since Windows XP. I hate that Finder doesn't provide a button in its UI to go one level up (instead I have to use cmd+up). The fact that it hides the actual drives makes me think that this is all
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by frozenlettuce 3y ago
In 2011 almost 1k people died after heavy rains in Brazil that caused a whole valley to be flooded (surrounding mountain ranges canalized massive amounts of rainfall into it). On Street View it is possible to see how high the water went, by
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by frozenlettuce 3y ago
If they switch to canvas rendering and include some twist (eg. shoot x but not y, limit input rate, etc), then I think that a considerable computing effort would be necessary to break the lock
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by frozenlettuce 3y ago
I can imagine people getting random Pepsi placements in their AI-generated images
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by frozenlettuce 3y ago
How would a product like that be monetized one day? This week openai released the Sora video, alongside the prompts that generated them (the aí follows the description closely). In the same week, Google releases something that looks like la
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by frozenlettuce 3y ago
Hey! I'm also developing a game with some Advance Wars inspiration. I also had a UI challenge when developing the interaction with tiles that have a unit + a city. Instead of displaying a window to select the desired entity, I opted to
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by frozenlettuce 3y ago
I'm leaving that unedited for posterity, thanks for pointing that out
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by frozenlettuce 3y ago
I was replaying Resident Evil 2 and this typo broke the climate for me: "Platform Eleveter" https://twitter.com/ResiFacts/status/1189139062197604357 (in moments like that you are reminded, "oh, this
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by frozenlettuce 3y ago
In Brazil it is still used as a photocopy term (much easier to say "tirar uma xerox" than "tirar uma fotocópia"). Other common terms that we use that came from brands: shaving razor -> gilete (instead of "lâmina
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by frozenlettuce 3y ago
_The rate of Down syndrome for both maternal and paternal age greater than 40 years is approximately 60 per 10,000 births, which is a six-fold increase compared with maternal and paternal ages less than 35 years of age._
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by frozenlettuce 3y ago
The sad part was seeing any franchise or TV show be coopted by corporate suits - to the point where you can be banned for not liking the latest episode. The situation reached a point where every franchise has the "official" boring
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by frozenlettuce 3y ago
too little, too late. my impression is that google is not one, but two steps behind what MS can offer (they need a larger leap if they want to get ahead)
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by frozenlettuce 3y ago
I've been playing with purescript and found out that they have a similar library, thanks!
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by frozenlettuce 3y ago
yeah, biting the bullet seems to be the way to go. As you mention the lots of "man-hours that have been spent on trying to perfect logging", when doing research the usage of that time might be ok, but when building a product you m
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by frozenlettuce 3y ago
yeah, I've been trying to get this mindset as well - even though sometimes I feel that I'm "cheating" :)
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by frozenlettuce 3y ago
My complaint with FP: Sometimes I just want to do something silly, like adding a log somewhere. If I choose to add said side effect, now all my functions are marked with an io signature (so there might be _other_, nastier side effects hidin

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