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by halgir 3y ago
That makes sense from a psychological perspective. People generally don't take kindly to artificial scarcity, while natural scarcity (such as number of plays being inherently limited by an otherwise good-enough medium) is much more acc
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by halgir 3y ago
Startup idea: DRM-locked audio files that can only be played once.
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by halgir 3y ago
I'm no developer, but I took an introductory programming course in uni. I remember for our exam (code a specific game in python), I spent literally days getting nowhere, because I just couldn't figure out how to implement the begi
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by halgir 3y ago
George RR Martin famously contributed to Elden Ring's lore and worldbuilding.
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by halgir 3y ago
Where do you keep those to avoid cluttering the "real" backlog? Separate Jira (if applicable) project?
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by halgir 3y ago
He seems like a genuinely solid dude. I also got lots out of his older blogging and the book Startup Communities, and was surprised by his high email availability for random questions.
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by halgir 3y ago
Testimony is a form of evidence, and in a judicial setting is often enough to convict without any supplementary physical evidence.
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by halgir 3y ago
No way - reading this I thought I recalled one of the papers (Starcraft from the Stands). Pulled up my Zotero library, and sure enough, I cited it in my BA thesis almost ten years ago. What a pleasant coincidence - thanks for the contributi
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Research looks into how smart speakers could be used to detect domestic violence(abc.net.au)
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by halgir 3y ago
> Does that sound so bad, if it's by design? Not at all. Just important to keep in mind when setting those goals.
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by halgir 3y ago
If you have five different goals and only need to hit three of them, you're incentivized to focus all efforts on the three easiest ones, and ignore the other two entirely. Or if you only need to hit 80% of each, to go for all low-hangi
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by halgir 3y ago
Without commenting on whether they normatively should adopt that culture, they should not be surprised if refusal to adapt to that custom results in business failure.
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by halgir 3y ago
Thanks for that extra info, that was interesting. I've also been taught that viking (víkingur in Faroese) simply means person who lives in a bay (vík in Faroese). But it does sound likely it would originally refer to someone from Viken
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by halgir 3y ago
Next year I'll be six. [1] [1] https://youtu.be/dWfrMMNeK2k
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by halgir 3y ago
What a coincidence, I experienced this for the first time when falling asleep a week ago. It was clearly inside my head, so first I suspected it was somatic and was quite worried. Some quick googling and I found the hilariously named "
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by halgir 3y ago
The matter is not in a different universe, but in our universe. Just a different spatial plane of it. Much like a 3D structure intersected by the plane of a 2D universe is surrounded "by itself" in the third spatial dimension. In
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by halgir 3y ago
> And dark matter is just matter from other universes. This is a fun idea. You can illustrate it by drawing your classic 2D universe on a piece of paper, sprinkle metal dust around, and move it with magnets held above or below the paper.
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by halgir 3y ago
They're so perfectly imperfect, and that's why we love them.
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by halgir 3y ago
> I hope that by "trickle down to the workers" you aren't talking about technically illiterate workers who are not actively contributing to the automation effort. I'm talking about every single human being who has bee
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by halgir 3y ago
You're right, sorry for the cynical tone. I do hope the level of automation we're aiming for will benefit everyone, not just a few individual owners and us lucky tech workers who have found ourselves in demand lately.
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by halgir 3y ago
Oh boy, I'm excited for the massive wealth creation of this exponential growth to trickle down to workers.
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by halgir 3y ago
> Citations are going to be recommended automatically. I'm sure many of us remember writing assignments, and at the very end hastily finding citations that support what we wrote (No one? Yeah me neither). That could now all be autom
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by halgir 3y ago
The reverse could be equally true in many cases.
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by halgir 3y ago
I think (hope) they mean as a passenger. The various bumps and turns are likelier to throw off your aim on a virtual keyboard compared to a proper tactile keyboard.
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by halgir 3y ago
I recently negotiated terms on behalf of a group of laid off employees, and one item I pushed on was that they get to keep their laptop. The company said that wouldn't be possible for everyone, because many laptops were leased, and so
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by halgir 3y ago
Parking is a service that you receive in exchange for money. Our society has accepted that those who have more money are able to purchase more goods and services. Fines are not payment for services rendered, but a deterrent for behavior we
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by halgir 3y ago
I'm building my own Large Chair Model with stricter restraints on emergent behavior. I want no part in fueling the rise of sentient chairs.
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by halgir 3y ago
Similar story, my computer makes a small whine when I move the mouse cursor. Not the screen or speakers, the actual PC. With both wired and wireless mice.
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by halgir 3y ago
That's just bad discipline on your part. Just because the options are there doesn't mean you have to constantly look at your chair every five minutes. My company is building a chair that doesn't compromise on features for whe
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by halgir 3y ago
> and look at me, im sitting around in a forum talking about bikes. You're sitting around in a forum talking about talking about bikes. If that helps.

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