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by grog454 4y ago
I used to fear this, until I read posts on a similar site about how frequently founders botch this and how understanding the IRS is with these situations. Obviously this only applies to the US. When I saw my first success, I paid a CPA ~$10
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by grog454 4y ago
The thread you linked reasonably concludes its "routed" P2P. In other words, P2P with, (1) a forced route through, and (2) a form of network address translation at, blizzard's server. My speculation: this almost exclusively t
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by grog454 4y ago
This is independent of lockstep vs. predictive and more to do with topology. SC2 (and most RTSs) are peer to peer, there is no server game state, just two clients that synchronize to each other. In that case, one client lagging will absolut
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by grog454 4y ago
> Tt requires both client to have the full game state to run the simulation, > The second issue with lockstep is that if one player is lagging, all players are lagging Where are you getting this? My game Nebulous uses lockstep, and i
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by grog454 4y ago
If I was given this question my first inclination would be to ask what your current understanding of the process is and you want to know. If that didn't help, I'd start with the absolute highest level "the google.com website
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by grog454 4y ago
> And if one thing that COVID has taught us is how incredibly unnecessary you are to maintaining civilization--unless you are some supply chain developer Wait what? So you somehow realize that if you're a software engineer supportin
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by grog454 4y ago
What is bottom up vs top down process? It isn't mentioned in your link. > The best value creation process is just an iterative/incremental cycle, with lots of power in the court of the value creators over the value extractors.
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by grog454 4y ago
> It is the responsibility of publicly traded companies to disclose known risks to their investors. Legally maybe(?) but practically this makes no sense. In the real world it is the responsibility of an investor to understand what they
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by grog454 4y ago
The other posts in this thread make it sound like internal promotion has higher barriers than an external apply/interview/offer process. Bizarre when you think about it, but it does seem to be the norm. The person you're repl
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by grog454 4y ago
What is an example of a situation in which this is desirable: > come close to outputting all possible numbers once before getting into re-runs In a dice rolling game, you want as close to true random as your PRNG can get. In card drawing
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by grog454 4y ago
> learn in great detail the specific, minute differences between each replica factory's attempt at a counterfeit vs. the original. Can you provide some links to examples?
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by grog454 4y ago
> Don't understand paying more than, say $300-400 for a watch, absolute MAX Based on some of the other posts in this thread it seems like there are some people who wouldn't understand paying less than $3000-4000. Interesting
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by grog454 4y ago
Actually, it too was talking about impossibility (see title); a much stronger assertion and usually wrong.
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by grog454 4y ago
"a teaspoon of neutron star material would weigh around a billion tonnes." https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/n/neutron+star#:~:text=... .
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by grog454 4y ago
>I've been using a Mac now for work and personal use for a little over a decade and I dread every time I need to use my Windows machine for certain work tasks. For me it's the opposite. Maybe I'm missing something obvious
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by grog454 5y ago
If the purpose of Elo's system was to predict the outcome of a game between two players who have no or limited prior interaction, it can be "misapplied" to great effect. While unfairness and randomness (starting as black vs.
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by grog454 5y ago
> it seems strange that the United States is sending over $800 million in weaponry, but won't send over satellite imagery. I'd guess this is because you can't publish satellite imagery without revealing a lot about your in
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by grog454 5y ago
I had to do exactly this to stop a company from delivering heating oil to my house. This increases the amount of time required to cancel by at least an order of magnitude.
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by grog454 5y ago
I think the question (as presented) simply doesn't select for this kind of analysis and as long as the asker is aware of that, it's not a problem.
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by grog454 5y ago
> Luckily, I learnt it by buying a house which appreciated fast and showed what a disaster savings would have been. The better way to learn this is to be able to look at a graph like this: https://inflationchart.com/spx-i
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by grog454 5y ago
> No one I know who ended up very successful did so by living conservatively and within they're means. They're people who aggressively pursued improving their conditions, often times because they were forced too precisely becau
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by grog454 5y ago
> Has to be pretty rare outside of accountants and lawyers today. Add WFH to that list!
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by grog454 5y ago
>It was very interesting comparing people that really made an effort to use the game code vs candidates that just deleted most of the stuff to implement their logic. What does "very interesting" mean here? What does this partic
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by grog454 5y ago
You are right but either the checksum needs to be inspected at application layer or the 1/10^7 was undetected bit flips. At the time I read about general bit flip probability over the internet and it was consistent with what I was seei
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by grog454 5y ago
>I'm not convinced that would have really solved the problem. It almost certainly would help. When you attempt to delete a world of warcraft character you are prompted with the character's level, among other info. This is the b
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by grog454 5y ago
On the subject of bit flips, I am able to detect these in the client to server UDP packets in my game. With specific logging enabled I would see an error about once per minute while receiving about 15,000 of one type of packet per second. I
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by grog454 5y ago
And the greater the degree of overlap the weaker the implicit argument. If it's a uniform distribution of discrete features then each feature is equally "important" and worth equal resources and dev time. If 81/100 compa
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by grog454 5y ago
>"Nobody uses more than 5% of its features, but every company uses a different 5%." >The saying is apocryphal and unlikely to be accurate Well its mathematically impossible to be accurate as soon as you have > 20 users.
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by grog454 5y ago
Multi-pane windows. https://www.google.com/search?q=decibel+drop+from+multi+pane...
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by grog454 5y ago
I agreed with your first sentence but not the rest. It's not a problem because pain is not inherently a problem. Yes it's going to hurt to find out someone doesn't want to go through with plans. It's going to hurt even m

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