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by klik99 3y ago
On one hand - there are a lot of angry birds clones and tutorials showing you how to code an angry birds game, the choice of game here probably greatly helped the outcome. On the other hand - the way he iteratively programmed it ( https:&#x
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Yes, and a more apt comparison to the militarized destruction in the article. He waxes poetic about how the army worked through the city but in Brazil it’s shown as simultaneously dumb brute force and bureaucratic, I feel like he doesn’t me
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What's funny about this is that multiple people at this bank think that a terrorist group would just freely advertise itself this way. Like some local cell leader names his accounts "Groceries", "Home Repair", &quot
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Not just that - also "She completed her studies, but was not awarded a degree because of her sex; Cambridge did not grant degrees to women until 1948."
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I'm not entirely sure if the mental model is somehow a layer deeper than the prediction that humans do. I used to believe it, and still use it as shorthand, but these days I'm not sure it's accurate. The triangle example does
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your use of fud indicates that you are old enough to remember 90s microsoft so I'm surprised that you don't feel a huge dollop of skepticism was warranted for the windows store. If you weren't active in the 90s, then I can un
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Yes, this. I was going to reply with the same thing but thought it wasn't worth. There is a lot of hate towards Epic due to EGS, which I get - but Tim has never said anything about losing income due to other stores existing. Sure he&#x
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I get it - I'm against revisionism in theory but practically there's a strong argument that all history is revisionist. I am conflicted, but I'm going to argue the "ok with revisionism" side of things - "Ok&quo
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for people outside of tech, apparently not. I get it - all they know is this thing they've been called many times and just see it's a pejorative. It's a little grating when he says it was misused intentionally by tech overlor
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Luddites were very careful not to hurt any people (I think in one case they were cornered by defensive action, but that was clearly in self-defense), and they even only targeted specific machines they had problems with, leaving all other ma
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I heard Brian Merchant on 99% Invisible and this take is slight historical revisionism, but I'm ok with that. It's revisionist because he's conflating the earlier movement when workers tried to negotiate with factory owners a
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Yeah I feel that matrix is misleading in a non-obvious way - it's selecting specific things that this app does all of (IE, mixing benign features in with things that are actual yellow flags, not including other yellow/red flags th
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> That is literally not true. Ok, I was exaggerating. Rather - It is either the dominant or one of the major strategies for VC funded SV companies at early stages. Aggressively lose money acquiring users. Even happens outside VC. The wir
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> TEMU is estimated ( Link ) to be losing $30 per order. Its ad spending and shipping costs (1-2 weeks from China, expedited to U.S. delivery) are astronomical. One is left wondering how this business could ever be profitable. This has l
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Not arguing anything - it's more an interesting thought experiment. This view doesn't change much other than never finding the "true unified theory of everything", which I'm not sure how many people think is truly p
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This argument completely ignores the observer which is bound by the same limits of our processing - indeed they are paired together. Entering purely theoretical space here: On the timescale of eternity this might be a local pocket of some l
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“Better than you expect” but still not ideal. It’s doable, but I just don’t get the same enjoyment out of mouse heavy games. But with cloud save it can be great to dip in when not at the computer
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Sibling answers are good but if you want to go deep, twitter/game dev mastodon is a great place. I try to follow anything that looks or sounds interesting, though it often takes years before actual release.
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Yeah but B listers can make a very good living, often times with more steady work than A listers since they don’t have to manage their reputation as much. They’re the session musicians, or the AAA dev working on his indie project on the sid
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There's a lot of VC money from firms formed by ex-game folks that are investing in teams that come from AAA. I do contract work for a few examples of this and I have to say they are the best large team projects I have worked on - becau
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The 2022 survey is interesting - he marks "Write python code to implement algos like quicksort" and "Answer easily googleable factual but open-ended questions better than an expert" as "already happened" and th
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Around 2007 I remember complementing apple ux to a long time multiple eras of job graybeard apple employee and he sighed with frustration and said "apple really cares about user experience when they're not doing well, but as soon
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I really hate to be put in the position of looking like I'm minimizing this, because I made the same point in my post that suicide rates are an obvious indicator that there is something wrong here. But just want to point out that this
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I was wrong to use the word "obviously", and would change it to "in my opinion" if I could still edit that post. And definitely did not intend to minimize mens problems - I'm a man myself and have first hand experie
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Yeah exactly. I let this kind of thing slide because obviously the problems facing minorities/women as groups are far worse than the problems facing men as a group, but just shifting the conversation from "I think group A of peopl
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I recently watch "Upstart Crow" which is full of jokes about this - a running gag is Shakespeare claiming he created all these phrases and another character citing exactly the date and author of an earlier reference. Well - it&#x2
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> More interesting is the historical context behind the play. It’s based loosely on events around the founding of Jamestown, Virginia. The character of Stephano, is likely based after one of my ancestors, Stephen Hopkins, who led a faile
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This is a lot to respond to here, so I won't be able to respond to all of these. I didn't respond to valuing kin and culture since it wasn't clear what you meant by that. To be honest, it's still not totally clear - when
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Great point, I completely disagree with this viewpoint but I can understand the POV. If you view the world as a zero sum game and that cultures meeting act like wolves fighting over territory, then you can hold a nationalist view without su
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Pi 2: Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow

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