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by gjulianm 5y ago
But there are cheap tricks here too. The trademark Zimmer wall of sound to make a scene "impressing", the wide long shots of CGI sceneries where no one lives, the dark/cloudy environments to avoid showing more detail...
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by gjulianm 5y ago
I didn't read the book, didn't have any idea of the plot or anything. At about 1h into the movie (just before the invasion happens) I remember I thought "man this movie is pretty slow". Then the invasion happened (and it
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by gjulianm 5y ago
I honestly don't like too much these kinds of takes. People still read long, boring books, still concentrate and pay attention to certain media... Responding to criticism that something is boring, slow-paced or whatever with the equiva
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by gjulianm 5y ago
I wouldn't call "sprinkled undertones" a few visions describing very explicitly a holy war, but to each their own.
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by gjulianm 5y ago
The problem for me is that the movie wasn't leaning into ideas and concepts either. I see a lot of comments about political, religious and ecological topics in Dune but I saw almost nothing about that in the movie, other than very shal
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by gjulianm 5y ago
That seems extremely restrictive. I get being careful around heavy use of templates, and even more with containers where allocation/copies/moves can be really tricky; but there is a lot of space for using templates in a simple but
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by gjulianm 5y ago
> here's the big one, individual teams were expressly forbidden from creating their own templates. What do you mean by this? General template code was forbidden or just templated containers, STL style?
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by gjulianm 5y ago
Well, it's pretty easy to spot which information is not exactly right, what is unknown, and what is outright false. It's not that difficult. Somehow the misinformation discussion gets derailed into "but what is actually the t
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by gjulianm 5y ago
Some degree of misinformation will always happen, of course. But there's a lot of difference between "I heard that the vaccine changes your DNA, is that right?" and "The vaccine is untested and made to control you, meanw
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by gjulianm 5y ago
Some important context to actually evaluate the benefits, from the published article [1]: - Only five patients were enrolled, median age 56 years. - One of them died, so 20% mortality in the study group. We can't conclude anything from
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by gjulianm 5y ago
> To kick off the flamewar: is discussing any treatment but vaccines still == "spreading anti-vax misinformation"? No, only if the discussions on other treatments are done without misinformation and some basis on science. For e
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by gjulianm 5y ago
> "Well, yes, the web page takes 28 seconds to load, but it's because we do several hundred database queries that are really slow, we do it in a slow language, we pull in dozens of unnecessary third party libraries and also our
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by gjulianm 5y ago
From what I've been reading in quite a lot of comments, people are indeed confused that an NFT is or can be some kind of legal ownership title. If people thought it was a joke, you wouldn't see so many people thinking that it&#x27
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by gjulianm 5y ago
I am seeing what the GP comment says in a codebase I manage, around 47k LOC. Not massive at all, but enough where the problems mentioned above start to pop up. This is an application that runs in servers to analyze traffic data, so it has b
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by gjulianm 5y ago
If that reason were true, you'd see new buildings now being built american style, now that we have wide access to the stock market, but it isn't happening. Even single-family houses are built with bricks.
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by gjulianm 5y ago
I tried using PyPy several times, but I always run into problems due to the C extension and other libraries I use. Also, last time I checked it wasn't very up-to-date with respect to the mainstream Python version.
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by gjulianm 5y ago
My main issue with multiprocessing is that the pickle module is incredibly unhelpful when something can't be picked. Given that there's quite a lot of context shared between types of analysis, and that context tends to change a lo
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by gjulianm 5y ago
Part of the heavy lifting is in C extensions, but part is in Python code that's hard to migrate to C, and that's the part that takes more time now after migrating the low hanging fruit. I'd get a bit of benefit, but far from
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by gjulianm 5y ago
I do care about the CPython GIL. I develop a program with a lot of analysis and output to custom formats. The things that can go to the underlying C extension go there, but the development cost is far higher for migrating stuff there. I&#x2
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by gjulianm 5y ago
None of the issues you mentioned are fundamental to the employee system. I am not familiar with the issues you mentioned in Spain, for example. You can see issues in any system. But that doesn't mean it isn't working fundamentally
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by gjulianm 5y ago
Except for the part that the companies will punish them for rejecting orders, and that they can't negotiate the price of the orders nor set any price themselves.
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by gjulianm 5y ago
They can choose to not work with you and instead work with another client that has specifications that fit better with their work.
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by gjulianm 5y ago
It's funny that Uber decided to force employment laws to avoid paying social security, taxes and other obligations related to regular employment, but won't force employment laws to allow employees to work any number of hours they
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by gjulianm 5y ago
> It no longer works in on demand economies, with variable hours and self employment and people working multiple jobs. Why? There are people who work variable hours, self employment and working multiple jobs. They're called freelanc
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by gjulianm 5y ago
> But millions of people a month will see your Twitter avatar. Except for the part that I can take the image, copy it and make it my Twitter avatar. NFTs do not offer any way to actually enforce uniqueness and ownership. I really can&#x2
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by gjulianm 5y ago
Everytime that comment is referenced, people forget that the rest of comments were mostly positive plus constructive criticism or challenges they'd face.
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by gjulianm 5y ago
> https://docs.truefi.io/faq/ > https://medium.com/goldfinch-fi/introducing-goldfinch-crypto ... Both of these sound like they made a regular bank, or a p2p lending platform. You could make e
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by gjulianm 5y ago
Except that in this case, the collateral needs to be actual money. While in real life you can give someone a physical thing, you can't give it in the virtual world (and NFTs do not matter here: if I have the NFT title to your house but
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by gjulianm 5y ago
> Crypto uses too much energy ignores Ethereum converting to PoS in six months If it doesn't get delayed yet again. And if it works. Also, right now it's BTC the one with the biggest market cap and name recognition, and I don&#
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by gjulianm 5y ago
> Is it deflationary? Yes. So was almost all currency before the 1970s. Do you have a source on that? As I recall deflation is associated with economic depressions, and from what I'm seeing it looks like the inflation rate has been

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