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by jaegerpicker 5y ago
Yep totally, one of the things I love about Sci-Fi is that there could be a mix of The Culture, The Belt, and Nasa based stories and it's all Sci-Fi. I happen to be a massive fan of near future Sci-Fi because I draw hope from it. I lov
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by jaegerpicker 5y ago
I mentioned this elsewhere in the thread, so at the risk of repeating myself, how does The Martian not qualify as Sci-Fi, hard Sci-Fi at that? Sure the majority of the tech exists today but not all of it (habs, the ships themselves, etc) an
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by jaegerpicker 5y ago
Sure, I'm more than happy to debate if The Martian is Sci-Fi or not. I actually don't feel offended about that at all. I disagree that it's not but certainly not offended. I was offended, actually annoyed but whatever, to sug
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by jaegerpicker 5y ago
Um Science fiction is literally fiction about science. I'm not sure how ANY definition of Sci-Fi doesn't fit The Martian. It's about Scientist's using Science to do something that we literally can't do today. We bel
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by jaegerpicker 5y ago
Showing what life on Mars would REQUIRE is too narrow? Too local? Yes it's about one person surviving but it's also about what it required to survive on Mars, the political reality of what space exploration depends on. Did he miss
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by jaegerpicker 5y ago
Not to be offensive but this article made me feel dumber just reading it. THE MARTIAN isn't enough to inspire people to pursue science? Why? Because it uses clever ideas to "work the problem"? I'm not sure about his back
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by jaegerpicker 5y ago
Almost no one can do game development as a small company without a large platform of some kind. The economies of scale are just too much for small indie dev style game studios to overcome. Speaking as someone that was an indie dev and has b
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by jaegerpicker 5y ago
And Streaming games does that even better over WebRTC in the browser and we have that today! With a good internet connection (like 5g that is rolling out) the experience is fantastic. I bought my kids iPad Mini's for christmas, they ha
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by jaegerpicker 5y ago
Quest hardware doesn't suck though. The future of VR/AR is absolutely wireless and absolutely NOT PC based. PC VR is a niche market and always will be. I have a Rift and rarely use because who wants to be tied to a wired device th
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by jaegerpicker 5y ago
100% I was a massive Google VR/AR adopter. Usually I'm a big iOS fan but I switched for a while because of Google's work there. I believe strongly that AR is the next major platform but I HIGHLY doubt Google will have a place
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by jaegerpicker 5y ago
For a company with the resources of Apple? I'd imagine their Threat Hunting/Identification and classification systems are top notch. There are a number of know taxonomies for different attacks around and I'm quite sure Apple
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by jaegerpicker 5y ago
I wonder if this could be used to expose those that are in sensitive position. IE offer attacks at people you think are in important positions and watch how they react to the news. For example if you work somewhere sensitive and you have an
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by jaegerpicker 5y ago
I've seen this be sorta true over the last 25 years at numerous places but only in limited environments where 99% of the code written was scripting based web languages. I most often work in Python now professionally (mostly security),
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by jaegerpicker 5y ago
To be clear on my opinion you can integrate blueprints and CPP code but it's not as seemless as I'd like. Given that blueprints run in a VM and your CPP code doesn't there are certainly blocks. They are working on fixing that
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by jaegerpicker 5y ago
Not a massive fan of Blueprints, as a game developer who is also a long time software developer/security engineer. I think for non-coders it's a great system and can be helpful to view data flow/execution paths in a visual wa
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by jaegerpicker 5y ago
Battlefield 2042 has a portal mode (their name for it) that allows gamers to "design" a mixup of a variety of older and current battlefield game assets, maps, and modes to create a new game experience with other gamers. For a simi
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by jaegerpicker 5y ago
Because that is absolutely unlikely in the extreme. I've worked with and lead teams of outsourced non-US developers. It very often (not always but much more often) ends unfavorably compared to local-ish remote teams or local in office
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by jaegerpicker 5y ago
Now a days, it's very much true. I've worked for FAANG companies, a number of mid-major sized tech/internet companies, have had a engineering job for 20+ years, been a CTO and co-founded a VC backed company. All without any d
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by jaegerpicker 5y ago
Even as a staff engineer it's not worth trying to fix. Run, run as fast as you can. It's one of my questions I always ask, even for front end based gigs. How does DevOps/Infra work at your place. Unless they have a gleam in t
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by jaegerpicker 5y ago
Totally, it's the low hanging fruit of the political discussion. Someone says something that should change, instead of attacking the argument they point and yell look they aren't perfect!!! We can't listen to them.
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by jaegerpicker 5y ago
I'm done with you, clearly you have a bone to pick with Environmental activists or more likely you are a troll trying to get a rise out of people that care about. I never said they were prefect, that's not a requirement to do good
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by jaegerpicker 5y ago
I also grew up in a evangelical Christian fundamentalist family (Pentacostal - Church of God with snake handling and speaking in tongues, the whole crazy line of shit), so I feel like I'm pretty aware of that line of hypocrisy. To say
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by jaegerpicker 5y ago
That's not at all the case, none of the companies they refused were in their supply chain. Also that's a ridiculous argument, you use this product that EVERYONE in the world uses and modern society demands, but you don't have
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by jaegerpicker 5y ago
I'm sure you could find some crazy ass on the internet preaching that. Patagonia isn't saying that. Plastic used to improve a product isn't bad, it's bad if it's made and the raw materials are gathered in a environm
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by jaegerpicker 5y ago
That is a terrible take and wholly opinion based - NOT ACTUAL REPORTING, no one including Patagonia is saying don't mine or don't use oil based products. It's utter bullshit. We can use those products but be responsible in ho
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by jaegerpicker 5y ago
It's not a either/or situation. We can work on both, Space and Saving the Earth in fact are likely deeply tied together IMO. Space exploration has so many important technologies needed that I can't imagine it not being a mass
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by jaegerpicker 5y ago
Yes hopefully all the analysis would happen on device but that limits anything like a google home/alexa. Last I looked neither device allowed processing on device.
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by jaegerpicker 5y ago
I'm a huge privacy advocate but it makes some sense. If the police and government is corrupt and using this tech, creating a non-corrupt open-source community driven alternative to combat the corruption is probably a net win despite th
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by jaegerpicker 5y ago
I think that's the root of the problem in software development. Development requires VERY smart people to solve hard(ish) problems. The catch, the majority of problems are stupid simple and easy. So smart developers are generally engag
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by jaegerpicker 5y ago
This is very similar to my path. I grew up poor and had a bad time in school, so I didn't make it in college as well. Once I started working in the industry though, I went all in all the time. Made myself the kind of engineer that peop

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