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by nkrisc 2mo ago
> I'm certainly not pro-surveillance state Right after expressing complete acceptance of living in a surveillance state.
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
> I just kept doing multiple passes through it, each time I noticed one of my answers contradicted one of the others, I would make adjustments to harmonize, which indirectly refined my understanding. This strategy saved my ass on so many
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
Unique identifiers should be public. There shouldn’t be any leaking. That also means they should be used simply as an identifier and not as any for of authentication or secret knowledge.
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It was still a significantly different era than today. Let’s call it Middle Web. Maybe Late Middle Web.
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But how many of those bootcamp people actually went on to get software jobs? One of the big criticisms of that whole phenomenon that I recall is that people were graduating them and then were unable or unprepared to actually get a job in th
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
Because the outcome is meaningfully different when every citizen can be passively tracked at all times versus a few cops sitting around writing down license plates. The former is massively damaging to our rights, the latter is almost useles
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
They can. That’s fine, let them do that. The difference in scale is so great that it becomes the meaningful, defining factor.
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
They are creating an environment where they incentivize it and profit from it. Whether or not that’s meaningfully different from directly commissioning it themselves seems like a minor quibble to me. It’s no different than a mob boss sugges
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
Cold calling people at work is different than calling them at home when they’re not working.
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
If they can use their imaginations to pretend it’s a real grave, they can use their imagination to pretend a different pretend grave in a different location is the real one.
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
Based on the name I have to imagine the author knew this. A knife is a dangerous tool if used improperly, and invaluably useful when used properly.
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
Since it’s a fictional grave, you can build it anywhere you want, as many times as you want.
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
But “open source” doesn’t mean you have to accept PRs or deal with other people, right? Can’t the source just be hosted somewhere with no PRs or issues or comments or anything? If they don’t want to do even that, then that’s fine, it’s thei
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
As a consumer, I don’t want you to find me. I’ll find you when I need you. There are places that list businesses, like the yellow pages of old, or place ads in publications that are relevant to the services or products you offer. If you sel
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
It’s not public data. Just because it is unintentionally publicly available does not make it public data, except in the strictest, most pedantic interpretation (that would never hold up in front of a judge).
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
A designer, yes. A painter, no.
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
Because there is so much good he could do right now with what he and Meta already have, but they don’t, because it will lose them money. For example, hiring more people to moderate content on Facebook and stop ads featuring CSAM from bein
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
What they likely mean is that pointing to one exception that is notable only because it violates the general trend is not evidence against the trend.
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
Yes, whether reasonable or not, it seems they had a position they weren’t willing to negotiate on, and so they stuck to their guns.
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
That assumes they know that about how the system works. If you aren’t knowledgeable about it then the specifics aren’t really relevant.
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
I’m not suggesting you hit a new player with a wall of configuration options. Guide them into the gameplay experience as you intended it, but also allow them to make changes to settings as relevant to the game. I liked when games used to in
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
It could be someone else’s decision, it depends on what the rental agreement says. If it’s not specified, then that’s a good lesson learned for next time.
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
To not be a pushover. The alternative is also not getting what they want: a cold yoga space. So this is probably the better outcome.
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
In this case there is enough implicit context to infer the correct meaning, but that is not always the case. However I still think it is phrased poorly as it does initially seem to imply your personal assistant has become an AI agent, but t
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
I don’t think this has much practical application as an entire system. Nor is it supposed to. It was built just to achieve and artificial goal with arbitrary constraints. That doesn’t make it any less cool or interesting, but that doesn’t m
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
In this case you have enough implicit context to correctly infer the meaning, but the particular sentence construction strongly implies that the server can now make phone calls.
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
In that case it would still be more clear to say “my phone is my server now”. The current title is just a bad English construction. Not a big deal and absolutely forgivable since I don’t expect everyone to know perfect English.
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
If you asked any native English speaker what “my X is a phone now” meant, I would wager that nearly all would say that it means that X can now make voice calls, like a phone.
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
Before reading about optimizing the A* algorithm, read about the algorithm itself first.
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This will depend on the game of course, but the best is when you can adjust the difficulty of mechanics individually. City builders do this a lot where you often have lots of difficulty settings you can adjust to tailor the game to your pre

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