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leothecool
6y ago
I don't disagree, but I still really really have a hard time caring about < 1ms of latency on a 50ms call. But, if I had to pay the electric bill on 2.5 million servers, I would definitely care about wasting resources sending extra
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leothecool
6y ago
The TRS-80 was $600 in 1980. That's still less than $2000 in today's dollars, in the same ballpark as a macbook, and around the same price as a VCR.
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leothecool
6y ago
We can do all this amazing stuff but we can't allocate cloud resources by simply calling a constructor. Wild times.
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leothecool
6y ago
Wait, so my taxes would only double? Not being sarcastic at all: this makes UBI sound possible even without a carbon tax. The top bracket would still be lower than what it was in 1960.
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leothecool
6y ago
Physical cash.
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leothecool
6y ago
The average FB employee stays 2.6 years, so.. maybe? If all they are doing is training an AI on some cartoon avatars, they'll be fine. I imagine it would hurt their VR attempts at VR and games, where AAA projects generally last more
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leothecool
6y ago
If your customers still want the system to run air-gapped from the internet, cloud is basically off the table.
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leothecool
6y ago
Because banks lobbied congress to have this work put on their plate instead of suggesting something that might be construed as socialism.
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leothecool
7y ago
They are successful for programming signal processors. For example Digital Audio Workstations, Shader Graphs, and UDK's Kismet. ETL looks like you could reduce it to signal processing problem. Likewise, general purpose web developmen
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leothecool
8y ago
Is it a mock 7-11 for educational purposes?
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leothecool
8y ago
If the CEO sets the KPI, and the KPI is not achieveable, does that mean he should fire himself for not meeting expectations? He failed at his job, after all.
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leothecool
8y ago
What is special in this case is that the first request's payload contains the address of the second request. It would be like not knowing what insurance company you will have to use until you walk into your apartment for the first time
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leothecool
8y ago
Sure, but can they legally spy on me or search my computer to try and figure out if I am blocking ads?
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leothecool
8y ago
One example is the musicians union.
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leothecool
8y ago
Protecting bad employees is not really what game industry unionization is all about. Its more about standardizing job titles and accreditation, like film industry unions.
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leothecool
8y ago
We are all still programming. The ratio of young engineers to old engineers can be completely attributed to growth in the field. The number of engineers doubles every five years. So, it should come as no surprise that less than 25% of eng