milesvp

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by milesvp 1y ago
Even better when the customer just plain orders the wrong thing. I have a vivid memory of my pregnant wife and I at breakfast one morning, and she ordered apple juice. When the waiter brought apple juice she said she’d ordered orange, and w
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by milesvp 1y ago
> we didn’t see a proportional explosion of good game, just more attempts. I'm not sure the 2 of you are disagreeing. We definitely saw an explosion of indie games. In 2010, there were less than 10 indie games released on steam per
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by milesvp 1y ago
I haven’t needed windows for a game in over 3 years. between proton and lutris I have all the games I’m interested in covered. There are multiplayer games I can’t play, but I have little trouble with blizzard games. I’ve had a few games I’v
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by milesvp 1y ago
I would argue that learning in groups is potentially exponentially more effective. There is a lot of individual interactions that go on when people are all learning something at the same time. Tidbits that they each share with one another.
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by milesvp 1y ago
I’ve seen some interesting research suggesting that higher minimum wages lead to lower turnover, which can lead to some very real cost savings. I had an interesting epiphany while watching a business lecture about calculating costs associat
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by milesvp 1y ago
I once worked a night shift stocking job just after college. I was in phenomenal shape without hitting the gym. I was at my lowest weight with a ton of lean muscle as a result of moving heavy loads and stocking paint every night. I also did
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by milesvp 1y ago
>5 people over a span of 6 months As a very seasoned developer, I have seen lots of projects built by a single person in a short time that “would normally” be built with more people over a longer period of time. What is invariably missin
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by milesvp 1y ago
I think this can't be understated. It also destroyed search. I listened to a podcast a few years ago with an early googler who talked about this very precipice in early google days. They did a lot of testing, and a lot of modeling of p
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by milesvp 1y ago
I think you may even be missing a lot of things we completely take for granted today. I saw a talk by a long time RPG indie dev a few years ago. Said 30 years ago, he needed a full time employee to do all the things he gets for using steam.
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by milesvp 1y ago
Yes, you have to be very careful when querying LLM's, you have to assume that they are giving you sort of the average answer to a question. I find them very good at sort of telling me how people commonly solve a problem. I'm luc
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by milesvp 1y ago
Yeah, I don’t know, I suspect you’re right. I know that 25 years ago there were big flat speakers thay drove sound with little holes. Those things could only handle high ends despite being very large themselves. But I know that with DSP you
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by milesvp 1y ago
I feel like you're being disingenuous with your choice of franchise. 30 years ago there were much worse toys. There were capsule machines that randomized what toy your quarter would give you. There were toys that you could buy random a
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by milesvp 1y ago
I am a firm believer that the brain has finite resources. It is fundamentally no different than a muscle, in that, the muscle has resources at its disposal, and using those resources causes them to deplete faster than they can recover. This
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by milesvp 2y ago
XP also inexplicably required at least twice the ram as 2000. when XP came out that was a significant cost, and I personally was able to salvage many laptops at the time by downgrading them from XP. Eventually XP became the default for me b
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by milesvp 2y ago
Normal economics almost certainly does talk about exporting currency. It’s a key point in freshman macro economics, and central to modern keynseian theory. And while there are some solid alternative to keynes, I doubt that even hayak would
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by milesvp 2y ago
> Instead of being seen as a safe haven, U.S. debt itself started to look shaky There's also a more basic answer to why US debt got more expensive. There is no such thing as a "trade deficit". You cannot import something w
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by milesvp 2y ago
There is a class of problems I no longer use search for. I find LLM’s give really good results for things like command line usage. Or even things like configuring an application. Basically anything that can summarize lots of disperate sourc
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by milesvp 2y ago
The way I understand it is that some people put off filing as long as possible because they get a better return on other investments. They’re willing to pay interest and other fees on their taxes in order to pay as late as possible. I haven
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by milesvp 2y ago
I don't know about any credible economist currently making positive predictions (marginal revolution might be a good place to keep your finger on the pulse), but I did see a paper a few years ago that showed protectionist tariffs in br
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by milesvp 2y ago
War games was incredibly unusual too. The script writers, this was their first screenplay, they had no idea thay no one in hollywood cared about technical accuracy in scripts and spent a whole lot of time trying to get the tech details corr
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by milesvp 2y ago
My experience with LLMs is that they are vastly superior to google at the moment for doing research on topics you know very little about. They make doing research fun and productive again, in a way that google has failed at for over 15 year
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by milesvp 2y ago
The last time I had to care professionally about bandwidth pricing for CDN price optimization in the US, wholesale bandwidth pricing was following a pattern similar to Moore’s law, with either bandwidth doubling, or price halving every 18-2
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by milesvp 2y ago
Youtube has been feeding me a lot of business advice lately. If you are truly interested in pivoting from tech to sales. Right now the best advice is coming from Alex Hormozi (ignore some of his hard work ethos, it’s not nuanced enough unti
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by milesvp 2y ago
To quote patio11, “The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero He was talking about the banking system. But he was also hinting at something bigger. There is a game theory problem often referred to as the meter maid problem. What is the optimal
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by milesvp 2y ago
Oh, and you missed an important one for me, which is that many phones will only use half duplex for the codec (possibly made worse by noise cancelling that will cut the speaker when the mic is active). This is annoying because I used to be
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by milesvp 2y ago
Strong disagree here. I've been trying to learn Zig, and I'm thwarted enough by chatgpt giving me outdated information on Zig's unstable API that if I didn't have a strong incentive to learn it for it's cross compil
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by milesvp 2y ago
What you describe is one of the fundamental “problems” of associative memories. Which is doing or recalling a thing in one context does not mean you are capable of doing or recalling the exact same thing in another context. Neurons light up
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by milesvp 2y ago
Presumably this is Garry Neuman of Garry’s Mod fame. I love that he’s looking to keep these assets from being lost.
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by milesvp 2y ago
Heh, PirateSoftware, he talks about this, being both sec ops and having worked at blizzard. Apparently it's really common for the big coin farmers (which blizzard doesn't like, and would ban if they could identify all the players)
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by milesvp 2y ago
It’s funny, I did a lot of python programming early in my career, and I didn’t realize just how afraid I was of refactoring until I started doing embedded work. Even as bad as the weakly typed C type system is, I found the compiler to be a

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