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by maccard 3mo ago
One of my earlier startups, I was a junior/mid level software engineer. I took a skive day to WFH, but was actually travelling to a gig on the train. I sketched out something to pretend I was working that day, and sent him a photo of i
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by maccard 3mo ago
The group needs to be big enough (6+ people) that you’re not just chatting with someone; you’re part of a group and can drift in and out .
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by maccard 3mo ago
I’d say I fall in the “AI skeptic but willing to use it” category. If LLMs can actually clean up after themselves it would actually be a game changer.
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by maccard 3mo ago
We put #define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN 1 #include <windows.h> In precompiled headers to solve that particular problem.
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by maccard 3mo ago
Genuine question a why are you using AI for a hobby project like that? It seems like the worst of both worlds.
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by maccard 3mo ago
There is a lot of words here (I haven’t read the full report and I’m assuming it’s heavily AI generated but I will look later). For an article about the AI economy, there is no mention of economy.
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by maccard 3mo ago
Because the goal isn’t to punish, it’s to get them to do what the law wants them to do. The fine is supposed to be a slap on the wrist - the actual desired behaviour is compliance
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by maccard 3mo ago
A quick google says that the entire city of Chicago draws about 3.4GW - are you saying that one bakery uses over 2/3 of the draw of the entire city?
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by maccard 3mo ago
What bakery are you thinking of that pulls the equivalent of a mid sized nuclear power plant? Because you’re off by an order of magnitude I think. (2.2MW maybe)
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by maccard 3mo ago
At least my car is still using FM radio - 98.2MHz
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by maccard 3mo ago
One of the big ones is people just over clocking way past what’s sensible. Another is stuff like https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/z3xf5r/msi_aft... or https://www.reddit.com/
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by maccard 3mo ago
I enjoyed this. Does the same theory apply to a gamepad? My intuition says yes but curious what you think
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by maccard 3mo ago
On the trackpads - I only ever use my MacBook as a single screen device, so the experience may be different. A long time ago I used it with an external monitor and the experience was very poor compared to windows. > Ugh, this is annoying
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by maccard 3mo ago
It absolutely does - allegedly there’s 6 million listeners to the biggest breakfast radio show in the UK and 4 million to the second biggest. That’s 10 million in a country of about 55 million adults.
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by maccard 3mo ago
That’s what the got a _slap on the wrist for_. 1.5 Billion of a payout to effectively cement themselves as one of the only orgs that can ever create one of these models because the ladder is pulled up behind them.
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by maccard 3mo ago
I agree with you on the precedent > after MS implemented precision touchpads somewhere in 2015, and suddenly Windows touchpads became as precise as those on Macs. There’s still a world of difference between a MacBook touchpad and a windo
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by maccard 3mo ago
The people writing the tools in maya are writing python. Most people on the game itself are writing C++. On a project with 30 engineers or so, you might have one, maybe two people writing “low level” c++, everyone else is writing “high leve
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by maccard 3mo ago
I’ve had this problem with azure in the US or the EU, but I’ve never really had this problem with AWS in Europe.
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by maccard 3mo ago
Im on the engineering side of everything! But yep.
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by maccard 3mo ago
What browser or search engine do you use? I’m pretty sure I can find a reason to morally oppose it for you.
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by maccard 3mo ago
It’s stuff like “we enforce a naming convention for all bones”, or “we do a coordinate flip” or “limit number of material references”. It’s all bespoke custom stuff that exists in every studio but is slightly different, and project specific
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by maccard 3mo ago
Games are still almost completely maya. At a studio I worked in, we had a handful of people who used blender but would export to maya because of all the tooling we had for maya.
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by maccard 3mo ago
Yeah - I agree. It’s also still sad to see that we are beholden to industries dragging their feet. A 10% reduction in 5 years isn’t enough, but they will claim difficulties and issues in the scale. Yet when Covid hit, or AI came on the scen
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by maccard 3mo ago
Sure - but my point is that the waste by businesses absolutely dwarves domestic waste. I used to work in a shop, and we “recycled” (LDPE so not recyclable) more plastic in a week than I have used in the 10 years since I worked there. I’m no
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by maccard 3mo ago
I did a remodel last year. I filled 2 largeskips by the end of it. This is the first large job this house has had in 10 years, and it’s a 130 year old house. The cafe at the bottom of my street has roughly that amount of waste collected eve
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by maccard 3mo ago
Adding a cache layer to keep using the wrong database is an architecture failure - if you use Postgres from the get go you will not need the cache until way way later on anyway. (Side note, I’m team MySql but the same point applies)
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by maccard 3mo ago
So many problems in tech would be solved with $250 spent on an NVMe drive.
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by maccard 3mo ago
Nah, write only upload to S3/R2 is the way to go. Why would you add all of the headaches of sending email to your tiny backup. It’s as much work, and scales 1000x farther than the email approach.
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by maccard 3mo ago
I actually think the article is great - it shows the experience of someone who is a good approximation of a smart user that uses the tech. The posters focus is clearly on running the website, and these are the sorts of things that trip up e
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by maccard 3mo ago
The logitech software is absolutely awful. All of the functionality is on device, but you can manage it with https://logiwebconnect.com/ instead. I’ve used Logitech mice as my daily driver for years with this.

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