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by mdip 3y ago
I honestly can't remember if I've seen this done before or if it was some early morning dream[0]. My pet peeve is user interfaces that provide no "discovery" aspect. I'm not referring to those obnoxious "intro
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by mdip 3y ago
Taking the immorality of all of this away for a second, you can't help but marvel a little bit at this. I don't know that "fixing sports betting with minimal hassle from the authorities" could get much more optimized t
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by mdip 3y ago
Frankly, if you're marrying a person who requires you to spend 3 months on a diamond ring, it may be time to remember an important bit of wisdom: Never enter into a contract where one party benefits by breaking it. I'm not knockin
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by mdip 3y ago
> The video mentions an exception for educational content. Fine, but who decides what is educational? What about some of the truly horrific WW2 content. Is that educational? Hard to blame YouTube for being very cautious here. Ed
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by mdip 3y ago
I'm with you on this ... What seems to be happening is a whole lot of anec-data that has various problems which do not allow someone to draw useful conclusions. The problem a lot of folks have is "We've been planting things i
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by mdip 3y ago
I had one of those "blessings in disguise" circumstances around 2017. I had just purchased a shiny new "phone of my dreams"[0] to have it land face down on the concrete two days later resulting in a few large cracks. I
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by mdip 3y ago
About 15 years ago I made quite a bit of money recovering data from damaged HDDs using various low-tech means. It started when I threw a very expensive (at the time) 1.5TB HDD. It had various things going on with it but I recall it wouldn&
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by mdip 3y ago
Gotta say -- that looks ... kinda awesome. I'm sorry the relationship didn't work out. I can completely relate, though. I think just about every "coolest physical thing" I've made ended up going to an ex-wife or e
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by mdip 3y ago
Maybe. OK, I grasp what the author is getting at -- there are certainly times when I've gone needlessly complex expecting a set of problems that not only never materialized, but the ones that actually materialized were poorly handl
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by mdip 3y ago
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, I guess. I'm not at all surprised there's this much drama around this. It sounds like it's a matter of a little time and we'll know what's going on. > E
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by mdip 3y ago
> As alluded to those same pop science magazines promised a fusion future too. I get it ... But how many of them predicted their use in ~36,000 advanced medical imagery devices world-wide? I'd love fusion power (and flying
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by mdip 3y ago
> I don't think it's given that all superconductor breakthroughs will require 40 years to get to that point Absolutely right. People generally understand that "collective human knowledge[0]" grows but they t
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by mdip 3y ago
The biggest problem was being taken seriously. Everyone gets an eye-twitch from time-to-time. I made a special appointment with my PCP and was told "get more sleep", reduce stress and eat more things containing potassium... I
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by mdip 3y ago
You're right -- I mix the two up because I've rarely seen someone get injections that hasn't done the Botox thing. I assume it's the Botox that makes their lips move ... strangely?
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by mdip 3y ago
That's a pretty fantastic idea! Of course, I'm far from an expert in anything related to medicine and I'm sure there's some reason this is dangerous/wouldn't work but I'd love to know why...
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by mdip 3y ago
I saw the title and that was the first thing I thought of. I was sincerely hoping that "magic drug" wasn't referring to its use in cosmetic surgery[0]. As I'm not a member of anything medical-field related I was unaw
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by mdip 3y ago
While this may be correct when all possible types of deliveries (weight/distance/geography) are taken into account there are definitely cases where drone delivery is going to be substantially cheaper than similar delivery by vehic
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by mdip 3y ago
Many thanks for the reply; you make some excellent points. I agree completely on the "theory" side of things. One of the reasons CS degrees have value is in these foundational aspects. While they can be learned outside of that
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by mdip 3y ago
> the economic model of teaching *this* is bad. I tend to agree with this statement over "the economic model for teaching everything is terrible". Bear with me as I'm trying not to be petty by taking issue with t
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by mdip 3y ago
It's funny you mention that ... I have both discovered and forgotten the novelty of a headlamp at least 5 times in the last decade. At the time (1980s), I'm not sure there were very many good headlamp options but either way, I was
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by mdip 3y ago
I've had much the same experience in my life (though less with game development and more with other forms of hobby development). Gotta say, though, like the name :)
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by mdip 3y ago
That would a pretty accurate depiction of future years, though who was holding the work-light changed hands when I was about 13 :)
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by mdip 3y ago
Second for this -- I worked on a product that used their back-end API several years ago (just before they were acquired). Great group of developers over there.
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by mdip 3y ago
> Autodesk is the oracle/adobe of the CAD world So many things come to mind with that one sentence, it's mesmerizing. I don't have a lot of direct exposure to Oracle, but I remember grief with Adobe and Autodesk p
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by mdip 3y ago
Mostly agree with the author but hadn't thought terribly deeply about it in the past. The N/`CHAR` data type has served as somewhat of a code smell. I use the following approach when deciding (against) selecting fixed-width char
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by mdip 3y ago
Thank you for the thoughtful, honest, introspective essay[0]. I have a 15-year old son who -- like a lot of kids -- is interested in making games for a living. I've shared other pieces with him about "what it's really like
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by mdip 3y ago
It's an interesting read but I kept finding myself questioning the conclusions that were drawn. I always assumed it was that phenomenon where we're seeing a false pattern in randomness. If I'm reading things right, here, th
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by mdip 3y ago
Assuming it's possible for a given function/role/company's product, which is quite common in world of software development, I find the whole trend of moving people back into the office at least a little perplexing and,
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by mdip 3y ago
Thanks for sharing that -- on its own it was a great read. At first, I was not surprised that they saw 1% of GuildWars players had these issues. My reasoning was given the time of the article (2012) and pointing to a more distant hazy poin
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by mdip 3y ago
> The city has a dedicated hazardous waste disposal site in each borough — but the hours of operation for these sites are limited. Where I live, the waste hauler offers a single day per year where consumers can take hazardou

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