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by harles 3y ago
> … I assume they haven't taken them down because they make money even when they sell garbage. I’d be surprised if this is the case. The money they make is probably a rounding error compared even just to other Kindle sales. Much mor
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by harles 3y ago
I was just reflecting on why I fire up Paint more often than GIMP, and this is the reason. Especially when all I want to do is paste an image, add a small annotation, and copy it back out, there’s no tool as fast.
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by harles 3y ago
The espionage really is next level in China. It’s not just reconstructing software (that’s part of it) but stealing binaries (and source where they can) for everything along the way. I worked at a large tech co with an assembly line in Chin
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by harles 3y ago
It’s pretty hard not to overlap with big tech companies. Everything has been touched internally. My understanding is the same though. Unfortunately whether a clause is legal or not may matter little - you’ll run out of cash for legal bills
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by harles 3y ago
I saw that, but I honestly think it’s a non-story. That’s ~$80k of stock. I sold more of my company’s stock the last quarter (just as part of my vesting schedule) and I’m no exec. I’m sure that’s just a small part of his vest for the quarte
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by harles 3y ago
I think this comes down to ambitions. Unity wanted to be an advertising company and when that goal started slipping away, they did something drastic. Epic wants to be a store and a virtual production platform. Who knows what they’ll do if t
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by harles 3y ago
That was my understanding. They did it (or least claim to have made the change, maybe they left in a loop hole) in response to the Spatial OS debacle. They tried to crush competition in their ecosystem through retroactive TOS changes that t
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by harles 3y ago
I think this is called a single round game. They screw everyone over and will never be trusted again, but get a one time payout in the process. It just seems like a company of Unity’s scale must have a better plan than that.
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by harles 3y ago
I hope so, but if it’s likely to get smacked down by the FTC, it’s unlikely Unity would try this path. I’m sure this has been in the works for a long time and all the backlash was anticipated - they just expect huge profits on the other sid
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by harles 3y ago
Gotta love the description on theses: > No need for power, just press on the battery and use it.
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by harles 3y ago
Don’t forget about integrated browsers in apps. Gmail, Facebook, and I’m sure a million other apps do this so even when you leave, you’re still in their app.
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by harles 3y ago
Base 10 is sufficient. Any base 2 number can be represented exactly in base 10. If you need rational numbers, you need something other than floating point.
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by harles 3y ago
I love dnf and apt, but I dread attempting to uninstall anything using them.
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by harles 3y ago
> Attck: Hacker can build own facebook app and get victim's facebook access token and use that access token to login into imgur account I’m not sure I follow this. This sounds like “phish user credentials, then use user credentials.
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by harles 3y ago
Its Entity is a pointer by a different name - in that it comes with all the classic problems of pointers. They just happen to live inside Bevy’s memory manager.
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by harles 3y ago
Bevy absolutely allows circular data structures and I’d be surprised if any complex game ships without any - Entity references can easily be circular. Most ECS frameworks are their own memory manager which, sure, prevents running afoul of t
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by harles 3y ago
AI for sure. I’d steer clear of prompt engineering though - it’s hot right now, but I expect it’ll be a flash in the pan. Whichever areas you pick will almost certainly be disrupted by AI, so stay on top of it. Generative AI seems like a sa
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by harles 3y ago
IANAL, but this is what design patents are for. They’re much shorter though - 15 years it looks like for fonts [0]. [0]: https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/my-word-design-patents-on-...
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by harles 3y ago
Caloric restrictions was my first thought as well. Also, the fact that we’re talking about this person means he’s an extreme outlier. I’d expect reaching 98 is much more common outside of prison.
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by harles 3y ago
> increased levels of C-reactive protein (CRP), which the liver makes in response to inflammation in the body, can promote social media use among middle-aged adults and college students. Sounds like they found correlation and called it c
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by harles 3y ago
I hope something comes of this. Going to an optometrist felt like going to a car dealership the last time I went. Blue light filtering was that worthless upswell they wanted to push on everyone. This situation reminds of Cheerios claiming t
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by harles 3y ago
There’s definitely a Marxist undertone to the whole thing. What I really don’t get is the conclusion which suggests tearing it all down. Why not build more “Ivy+” and attempt to lift others up rather than flip the table? Yeah, it’s a tall o
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by harles 3y ago
I really doubt there’s intentional fraud here, but they were forced to publish (or pre-print to be pedantic) early. [0] This certainly led to less rigor. [0]: https://twitter.com/8teAPi/status/1684385895565365248
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by harles 3y ago
Somewhat tangential: clicky switches, like Cherry Blues, tend to click twice for each stroke. I think this leads to people assuming there are twice as many strokes going on. Tactile switches tend to only click once (when they bottom out). S
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by harles 3y ago
Scams usually don’t make their victims millionaires. I think that’s much too strong of a reaction. The FAANGs I’ve been at, and especially where I’ve managed, high impact work is rarely passed over when it comes to both comp and promo. The
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by harles 3y ago
Yes, it’s unfair but I think it’s also necessary. Every big tech company I’m aware of has lagging rather than leading promotions. You need to already be doing the job at the next level and have demonstrated it through your work. For directo
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by harles 3y ago
There’s no allegation that they actually wanted it or attempted to extract tax data. They have it now, but it seems more like gross negligence rather than some nefarious plot.
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by harles 3y ago
> Statistically, companies that raise venture capital are vastly less likely to succeed than those that are bootstrapped. Any citation for this? I’m highly skeptical of this claim.
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by harles 3y ago
It needs to be a warning to the industry, which requires real consequences for those involved. A warning could encourage abuse by others - there’s little to lose except having to stop after getting caught.
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by harles 3y ago
Does anyone know if carbon credits actually work? In theory, they seem great. In practice, I’d expect them to be rife with abuse.

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