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by honkycat 5y ago
Sure, there are geniuses that can spawn out of anywhere that occasionally rise out of bad situations. They are notable because they are EXCEPTIONS to the rule. But there is massive inequality and poverty in the United States. Here is an exa
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> Does it matter? Watching everything through the myopic lens of "privilege" is wrong. May I ask why? You see it all the time, unironically: "How a 23 year old couple bought their dream home!" and it ends up in the a
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She's a child. I'm sure this kid has his moments as well. Harboring resentment for your teenager for being moody is like the frog and the scorpion. it is in their nature! Not to say isn't maddening, mind you.
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I am not skeptical of the kid being able to do this. Good for them! I'm sure they will grow up to be an inquisitive and brilliant member of society. However, like many, I feel like this article could be papering over... something. OK I
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For procedural animation: I have yet to find the path to learning this skill. It is very opaque, and I think you just need to attack it with your brain and learn it. For shader and graphics programming: I liked this tutorial series as a &qu
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My workflow tends to be: - Build it in blueprints for rapid iteration - Port it to C++ for refactoring and long-term code quality I was bullish on the node based programming, but over time I've liked it less and less. I've been a
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I've been doing a lot of programming in Unreal lately, and I agree: It is hard. The docs are shockingly terrible, and 99% of the time I just end up reading the source code of the engine for documentation. It is also re-igniting my pass
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I read eev.ee's tutorial on platformer physics when doing a little gamejam. Worked great! What a talented person!
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The other day I was trying to find a good website for MTG deckbuilding on google. It was so astrotufed. I could not find anything other than blogspam.
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What was "relentless" about parent's comment? So now any level of criticism is "relentless"?
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not at all. I respect trade work, but I also don't idealize it. It sucks in a lot of ways that are very similar to how software engineering sucks. As a SWE I get respect from my peers and family for having a "smart job", make
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Slaughterhouse-5 by Kurt Vonnegut. It is a book about turning beauty into ruin. About the stupidity and cruelty of man. And also about the authors love of humanity and finding joy and love in the fate we all share. Vonnegut stared into the
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There was a great tweet today: https://mobile.twitter.com/kevinroose/status/148927407968513... Kevin Roose: Can't imagine why this platform is shrinking Facebook top ten: The top-performing link posts by U.S.
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What I would like to see: - Enun Types - A special operator to cut down on `if err != nil { return err }` and just return at that point. - Named arguments, and optional params with defaults - Default values on structs - ...macros? We alread
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I learned to read using this game, along with Chrono Trigger and a smattering of PC games. I was an extremely advanced reader for my age, thanks to obsessively playing these games growing up. They had me re-take the standardized tests becau
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you're not talking to a brick wall you're just wrong just admit it
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The middle lane is for traveling at the speed limit. The left lane is for passing. The right lane is for merging and driving slowly. I'll just go ahead and link you to a drivers ed page since apparently you need to learn how the roads
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by honkycat 5y ago
This is exactly my point, rootusrootus. You string words together, but you do not have a coherent point on how roads should work. So how the fuck am I supposed to drive to please you? Does everyone need to drive at a reasonable pace, in the
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Two years ago I quit my job, then covid kicked off and I was out of work for 6 months. During that time I was relying on recruiters to hunt down leads for me. Nothing was coming up! They kept trying to feed me full-stack and front-end roles
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> When I got my Tesla, it was immediately evident that _no one_ travels the speed limit. They travel 5-10mph over it on anything other then a local road. or they drive way under it. It is amazing to me how angry and insane people driving
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And managing dozens of apps on a giant VM using raw chroots and cgroups and your own scripting is desirable to Kubernetes? I don't see what you win here. I don't want to have to write my own rolling updates, canary deployments, ne
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Joe Rogan has a huge viewership. Him being a "talkshow host" is side-stepping the issue. I'm sure Tucker Carlson ( who Joe Rogan DWARFS in terms of audience ) would also describe himself as a "talkshow host" ( legal
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I remember seeing this at the time, and trying to lick a cartridge. No effect, tastes like nothing to me. This is because I am a non-taster. I have notoriously blunt taste amongst my loved ones, sometimes they won't even waste good win
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It's funny, because MMPR is an Americanized "Tokusatsu" show. In fact, the original series was a re-cut Tokusatsu show, with American actors spliced in between Japanese action scenes and props. Some notable examples are Giant
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> I want a simple life where I program and run programs... I feel like this is an oversimplification. The company I work for has tens of thousands of concurrent users, plus dozens (hundreds?) of business partners all of whom are integrat
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depends on the loan. Some loans are locked in ( most mortgages except for really bad ones ).
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My recommendations: Mental Health _____ Get on an anti-anxiety medication if you can / want to. They can be really helpful to take the edge off for a while until you return to normal. My therapist is the one I info-dump and bitch about
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Great article, made me think! However, I think it needs to be trimmed down. Making your argument in the final paragraph of the article is not great. Hoist the "Final Words" section to the top and make it a "tldr" introdu
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I'm always shocked by the lack of ambition from my friends who land "low-effort" office jobs where they aren't doing much. Personally, I would: 1. Work on personal projects to build skills for something I actually care a
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I grew up in Forgottonia, about an hour from here. I have to say... A lot of the problem is brain drain, lack of nature and recreational activities... And the factories did leave. Forgottonia gets its name because it missed out on a lot of

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