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by m12k 6y ago
IMO the Burst compiler that can "jobify" and multi-thread your code relatively painlessly is the most impressive piece of tech Unity has produced (disclosure: used to work there, though this was made after my time there). It'
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by m12k 6y ago
Just spitballing here, but it might be possible that these individuals have an immune system that is pre-disposed to an auto-immune attack on their platelets. If so it might have happened eventually anyway (hence no deviation from normal st
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by m12k 6y ago
I've been discovering more and more high quality open source apps for Mac recently. My other favorites so far: https://github.com/iterate-ch/cyberduck https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle h
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by m12k 6y ago
Correct, the lower priced international goods help give the population of developing countries more purchasing power with their low wages, but at the cost of those wages never going up significantly. They get stuck in a local optimum - and
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by m12k 6y ago
The Saudi royal family is busy buying as much of Silicon Valley as they can, to ensure they can still live atop a mountain of cash once the oil runs out. As for the rest of the country - yeah, they are royally fucked (pun intended) since no
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by m12k 6y ago
I'm reading the book The Divide at the moment. It makes the argument that it takes time and the right conditions to build up an industry - infrastructure needs to be built, education and a skilled labor pool with the necessary know-how
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by m12k 6y ago
I agree with all points - giving blanket consent up front misses the point entirely. But I've been thinking if it's possible to flip the idea on its head: Make a kind of "sex partner review escrow service". What if inste
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by m12k 6y ago
I think the point about involving the people that you're supposedly helping before forging ahead is really important. An ally that picks the wrong fight on your behalf is almost worse than an enemy.
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by m12k 6y ago
My theory is that because the US has been shifting right for decades, parts of the US leftwing has to some extent resigned itself to thought policing and arguing semantics instead of fighting for actual policy changes. When you can't f
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by m12k 6y ago
Reminds me of Pratchett: “Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
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by m12k 6y ago
Their job isn't to kickstart the VR revolution, their job is to ensure Facebook owns it.
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by m12k 6y ago
Yeah, the Quest 2 looks like a great piece of hardware, but I'm getting one if and only if a jailbreak comes out.
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by m12k 6y ago
"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure"
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by m12k 6y ago
‘too many businesses and organisations are reluctant to use data – either because they don’t understand the rules or are afraid of inadvertently breaking them’ TBH I'm glad companies stay away from my data if they don't know how t
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by m12k 6y ago
I've been reading some pop-psy books recently (Stumbling on Happiness and Thinking, Fast and Slow) and a recurring theme is that we remember many things in a different way than we experience them in the moment. This can cause weird bia
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by m12k 6y ago
Interestingly, most definitions of life that would characterize a virus as alive, would also characterize ideas and culture as living (unless you add some explicit requirements like "must have DNA" or "transmission between ho
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by m12k 6y ago
Sure, the American ass-in-seat mentally is not efficient. The American for-profit healthcare system is not efficient. And the American way of leaving its poorer citizens to fend for themselves instead of investing in them is not efficient.
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by m12k 6y ago
I agree that a singular focus on efficiency without regard for unintended side effects or negative externalities is crazy too. "Sustainability" should be right up there with efficiency as a main tool - doing something efficiently
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by m12k 6y ago
I'm stunned that week after week, I'll come across the same shelf, with one variant of a thing sold out by midweek, and the unpopular variant next to it virtually untouched, as always. The amount of statistics or programming requi
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by m12k 6y ago
Efficiency is the reason we can have this conversation instead of standing out in a field, manually trying to coax a living out of the unforgiving soil every day. Efficiency isn't the goal, but it's one of the best tools we have f
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by m12k 6y ago
Yep, refrigerators also wreaked havoc on the "blocks of ice" delivery industry, but trying to prevent that change would have been as useless as trying to hold back the tide with your arms. The effort should be put into ensuring ev
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by m12k 6y ago
From the article: "There are 24-hour surveillance cameras too, which alert the store's manager Domenica Gerlach if there's a break-in or a stock spillage. She looks after four stores in the region, usually visiting once a wee
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by m12k 6y ago
An NFT really is just a commemorative plaque that says "I own [URL HERE]". It doesn't come with some crypto-backed security that only you can do anything with whatever is at the URL. It doesn't give you any legal rights
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by m12k 6y ago
You should give Hades a try. It's built from the ground up to be replayed - in fact that's woven into the story in a very compelling way.
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by m12k 6y ago
In case you're wondering, yes, sscanf is on there.
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by m12k 6y ago
Whenever someone says that something is too expensive because it costs X, I can't help but think they have too static a view of the world. Solar was too expensive until it wasn't. Batteries in cars were too big and expensive until
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by m12k 6y ago
There's a world of difference between a mortgage (where you own an asset of similar size as the debt) and credit card debt.
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by m12k 6y ago
The free market is great at incentivizing companies to solve problems - but also to later "unsolve" solved problems so the company can keep their high profit margins even after the solutions have become trivial (see also Gillette,
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Which is a side effect of being consistent with the way we write all other numbers, with the value represented by each digit declining as we go left to right.
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by m12k 6y ago
It would make sense that it depends whether the clouds have a higher or lower albedo than the surface they cover

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