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huffmsa
7y ago
Correct. The professional produces goods which are actually used in real life conditions, with real life delivery dates. The enthusiast produces goods which look pretty, but often don't work correctly, or need a lot more hours of work
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7y ago
> "But this isn't academically good code." As others have said, the only real metric of whether or not something is good is if it works in live production.
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7y ago
Wait got my wires crossed. I was thinking id was a subsidiary of Blizzard. They're actually Bethesda/Zenimax. Disregard the GP
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7y ago
Correct, but the National Firearms Act of 1934 which actually bans the sale of machine guns and other automatic rifles is still alive and well. "Assault weapons" is a meaningless phrase.
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7y ago
I'm hoping id Software works a potshot into whatever they're doing for Doom
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7y ago
Paying for a $3k or so license, have the ATF, FBI and whatever other alphabet soup agencies turn your history inside out, and then buying one of hundred few, $10k+ fully automatic weapons. People who buy them don't go on shooting spree
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7y ago
Unless he had one of those drum magazine glocks, he'd have been out of ammo after 15-45 rounds (depending on if he had backup magazines). They could have just parked the APC out front and waited a bit. No need to crash it through the f
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7y ago
> The judge points out that Villasana also testified that he was "not aware" of any policy instructing him to notify the vehicle's owner of its potential use in a drug sting operation Ah, ignorance of the law. Fine for t
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7y ago
> 100 officers, 19 hours and a Bearcat APC Man, when you have staff and resources, I guess you need to justify the bills. Instead of, you know, putting a couple units outside the house and waiting a week. Those must have been some expe
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7y ago
And it costs them nothing (except maybe a new book deal, so win win) to write the paper explaining why they were wrong.
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7y ago
Of course they were bláse about it, it didn't affect their livelihood one way or the other. Do you get paid for saying fancy sounding things, or do you get paid because you did fancy sounding things? Economists are all talk and no ston
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7y ago
The ML layer is probably getting in the way of the end user getting to the smaller samples. Used to be you'd get the best matches from the meta data on a page. Now there's linear algebra both trying to determine what the meta data
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7y ago
But as I've been saying for a few years now, most people don't want to drive . They'd much rather be driven so they can mess with their phones.
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7y ago
That's quickly becoming the main point of differentiation in most reviews since cars in a certain class have become more or less the same performance wise. Speaking from the perspective of just wrapping up the car buying process. All o
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7y ago
Sounds like the past couple years of hardware "whoopsies" have come to the software side. Over-optimization of existing processes, what Mr Cook made his name doing, seem to have gone a bridge too far. Time to go back to making coo
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7y ago
10000kg of explosives. Or 22,000lb for us Americans. 11 tons of high explosive. Good luck with that.
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7y ago
If you have a good internet connection and graphics card you can just capture the screen and intercept the audio separately. It's got a few artifacts here and there, but nothing that makes it unwatchable
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7y ago
There's actually little research that they do, beyond placebo. It works a lot better in animal trials than with humans. Probably because of differenced in our ability to actively cool ourselves. https://bjsm.bmj.com/con
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7y ago
Generally being the operative word. There are certainly cases where it's harmful.
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7y ago
Chronic inflammation worsens chronic illness. Acute inflammation is generally good. Ice should only be applied when the swelling is cutting off blood flow
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7y ago
> If you're going to be sharing files seriously, just install an ftp server. > Less serious people should just use email. Almost the exact same response. No concept of the prosumer / intermediate user.
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7y ago
What if you don't want to put it on YouTube?
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> qutebrowser via webengine So you're an edge case? Modern chrome/ium has ever improving GPU acceleration. And this isn't for people who spend hours, it's for those who want some editing power better than adding a
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7y ago
Why wouldn't you out it in a browser? Saves tons on OS specific builds, works on any machine you log into. Google docs, Invision, canva, all browser based. And then, if you really want to make a desktop version, you take a shortcut and
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7y ago
Subscriptions are cool right now. It's an easy way, especially when you're a new company, to show that people like your product and need your product enough to use it on a recurring basis. One off purchases are great for consuma
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huffmsa
7y ago
I think you were rejected this go around for your own good. You don't necessarily need YC. You're growing at a growing rate. You're not at any kind of impasse, you're not making a transition. You'd be giving up 7%
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7y ago
It's that sound that the brain tries to amplify up to normal volumes. The sound of the little hairs swishing, blood flowing, shit (literal) moving through your guts. A decent write-up here https://www.wired.com/2015
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7y ago
Noise isn't really what these people are complaining about, it's manmade noise. The loudest thing I've ever hear is the sound of total silence. Your brain is so used to hearing something that it will manufacture sound when
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7y ago
My parent's have a Bosch that is so quiet you can talk over it without raising your voice at all. The only real indication that it's running is the timer indicating how many minutes remaining it projects onto the floor. No LEDs, n
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7y ago
That's not the point. The point is that just because "the majority of" thinks one thing,those who disagree shouldn't have the label of heretic branded to them and completely ignored.
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