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by mjg2 9mo ago
I agree. Parents in the 21st century need to realize the call is coming from inside the house: it's their obligation to protect their child. Unsupervised usage without full due-diligence will lead to incidents like what the blog auth
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by mjg2 9mo ago
It's all hypothetical for a transaction 5 years in the past. The future you propose is one where Epic is not actually the same: they have more liquid capital towards the mission their stakeholders decide, and less influence on Godot. H
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by mjg2 9mo ago
Ostensibly what u/skibidithink replied. We should have a healthy distrust of international corporations giving for unapparent reasons beyond being in the same sector. We can gesture about how a gift has no obligations, but no one gets
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by mjg2 9mo ago
I disagree. I think ConcernedApe is actually genuine with his charity and we should see this as a standard for corporations to follow.
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by mjg2 9mo ago
It expands their empire like Microsoft pledging to "support" Open Source: it's disingenuous, self-serving, and develops a "claim" of authority over the sector. It allows them, the makers of Unreal Engine, to develop
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by mjg2 9mo ago
Why is Valve's behavior relevant? I mention charity because that's what donations are. It's no secret Epic Games follows Microsoft's patterns for control of the industry.
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by mjg2 9mo ago
I wouldn't call anything Epic Games does charity: it's all empire expansion for them.
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by mjg2 10mo ago
I try to separate the art from the artist when critiquing, so no bones to pick :) As a topic or metaphor, I'm not advocating for suicide to be avoided, but your post struck on the toxic bravado that VCs have, especially Silicon Valley
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by mjg2 10mo ago
There are some good nuggets of wisdom here, and I think the author should be less crass about "startup suicide"-- it's just an organization and it failed. If someone outside of the founder team is calling it a suicide, they
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by mjg2 10mo ago
Absolutisms like this are challenging to strike right because an establishment of context is needed. This post's sentiment sounds like regret and resentment over past events (there is trauma), and the author knows to not put their hand
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by mjg2 11mo ago
First, the fact we have moved this far with LLMs is incredible. Second, I think the PhD paper example is a disingenuous example of capability. It's a cherry-picked iteration on a crude analysis of some papers that have done the work al
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by mjg2 2y ago
as a programmer and a classically trained pianist, this section: > For example, the notes C, E and G (The C major chord) can have any of the following names, based on what is considered to be the root note. > root note chord name >