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by hibikir 2y ago
Police quest was just way too tough for the foreigner unused to American procedures. "Administer sobriety test" is not the easiest of commands without a very broad vocabulary.
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by hibikir 2y ago
It's not just about receiving the ransom, but how easy it can be to access the original funds. The story of, say, someone successfully kidnapping Bezos in a lightning operation and trying to take a good bite of his wealth is quite diff
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by hibikir 2y ago
It's really all about control of the courts. They can, for all intents and purposes, throw laws away, inclusive sections of the constitution with little to no recourse without a level of control of the legislative branch that is extrem
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by hibikir 2y ago
With the existence of the Senate filibuster, passing laws is very difficult even when you win. There are entire topics where significant reform is basically impossible, from anyone. This is why America's supreme court is so important:
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by hibikir 2y ago
The simplest way would be to also pre-fill forced empty spaces. It 'solves' part of the puzzle for the player, but hopefully that wasn't a key part of the fun. You go as far as to explain all of those bits at the bottom anywa
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by hibikir 2y ago
Remember that this is neural networks doing the driving, more than old expert systems: What makes a crash happen is a network that fails to read an image correctly, or a network that fails to capture what is going on when melding input from
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by hibikir 2y ago
Not so few: It was a big hit in the Gathering of Friends convention almost 20 years ago, and BGG con started commissioning 2 new custom painted boards every year: One to raffle, and one to keep. It's a great activity to do while you ar
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by hibikir 2y ago
You are defining valid steps in understanding of software, but attaching them to job titles is just going to lead to very deceptive perspectives. If your labeling was accurate, every organization I've ever worked at would at least trip
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by hibikir 2y ago
Some will have to be built, but the attackers will also work on beating them. It's not like the malicious side of SEO, trying to sneak malware into ad networks, or bypassing a payment processor's attempts at catching fraudulent me
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by hibikir 2y ago
The filler episodes were traditional whenever a popular manga for boys was forced to put way too many episodes for economic reasons. While Naruto is the poster child of the problem, as the ratio of anime only content vs adapted is through t
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by hibikir 2y ago
In that era of gaming, just waiting a few years meant sequels were better just due to extra computing power, so yes, Fable II was better in most ways (although I'd argue the main story was worse). It was still trying to define many gam
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by hibikir 2y ago
Similar things happen when looking at treenut allergies. I have a child allergic to a whole lot of them, even though our first incident requiring medical intervention occurred before age 1. I have no problem believing that severe allergies
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by hibikir 2y ago
It's interesting to look outside the US, in countries where the D&D translations didn't come in a decade early: When facing Cthulhu, Paranoia, Rolemaster, Vampire and the like on an even playing field, D&D didn't real
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by hibikir 2y ago
You are using a pretty deceptive number when looking at the highest selling car. What is the biggest seller for Toyota? the RAV4, which helpfully counts as "not a car".
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by hibikir 2y ago
A whole lot of automation is limited not by what could be automated, but what one can automate within a given budget. When I was coding in the 90s, I was in a team that replaced function calls into new and exciting interactions with other c
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by hibikir 2y ago
It's pretty easy for things to not be actual collusion to end up looking like it, and having the very same negative effects" You don't need handshakes in backrooms. This will be even more popular in situations like supermarke
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by hibikir 2y ago
I have made a career if stabilizing systems... but the secret is that they have to be pretty close to on fire before I am ever called in.
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by hibikir 2y ago
When google won, they were still having 2 text ads per page with a noticeable different font and style as the search results. It was trivial to point out the ad. All the ad growth, from the sensible to the massive, and the change to their r
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by hibikir 2y ago
I saw a fireside chat where a good interviewer did his best to get him to talk about his employees. He Wolfram made it quite clear that in his view, the employees were in constant need of help, as he attempted to make them understand all th
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by hibikir 2y ago
There is only a small window when old is just old enough that you shouldn't be afraid of what happens when you need fast, acute medical help. I have seen many a relatively far flung retirement plan get into trouble when the first healt
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by hibikir 2y ago
There are industries where billing is a service for very good reasons: Telcos have been buying entire billing packages, paying a mint for them, for decades. The issue is whether one needs a battleship sized, super flexible, yet expensive bi
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by hibikir 2y ago
While weight is bad, as far as pedestrian killing goes, height is even worse. A car hitting you in the knees is very different than one hitting you in the liver, in the spine, or straight on the ribcage. The pedestrian can also end up going
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by hibikir 2y ago
My proudest SRE moment was when, in a team that dealt with a key system where seconds meant millions, I was able to find a precursor to the problem, so instead of having to intervene on a page in 3 minutes before disaster, the alarm now had
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by hibikir 2y ago
Internally, they definitely do. I worked at Stripe's monorepo many years ago, and I am working at a larger company with massive amounts of repos. The difference in pain has little to do with mono v multi, but with the capabilities of y
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To provide historical context, 10 years ago there was a local dev infrastructure, but it was already so creaky as to be unreliable. Just getting the ruby dependencies updated was a problem. The local dev was also already cheating: All the
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As far as the phone hardware goes, Google isn't much of a giant worldwide: Samsung, Xiaomi, Oppo, Huawei and probably a few more outsell Google. The pixel is downright rare outside of the US.
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And yet this loss of community has different levels across the world, and yet in all of those countries teenagers still have tiny computers in their hand all day. I spent part of the summer in Spain, and you'd see teenagers hanging out
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by hibikir 2y ago
The idea is not to make scraping impossible, but to make it expensive. A human doesn't make requests as fast as a bot, so the pretend human is still rate limited. Eventually, you need an account, and tracking of that also happens, and
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by hibikir 2y ago
There are many parts of the world where suburbs are shapes very differently, and while they support cars, they don't need them. The 0.3 acre plot, the street with no commercial activity... those aren't requirements for suburbs. Ma
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Should we look at rural areas in Europe? I spent 3 weeks this summer in a small town in Spain. I could smell manure if the wind came from the right direction. And yet, I didn't need to get into a car, because the town center of this ru

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