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by novagameco 3y ago
In general, I think it's a bad idea to try to orient our entire education system to push everyone into a job that only 1% of people will end up doing. Instead of teaching python to kindergarteners, we should start specializing students
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They worry that if they consider themselves to be publishers of content, they will become liable for the substance of that content (e.g: calls to violence on their platforms). Thus, they go out of their way to specifically deny that they ar
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by novagameco 3y ago
The way I see it (and the way I see all OpenRTB advertising) is that we are helping to give a competitive edge to smaller, more independent sites so that they can survive against huge corporations like Amazon. Without higher yield advertisi
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by novagameco 3y ago
Yeah I used to be a huge facebook addict when it was just me and my friends in high school (and before there were any other social media platforms). I posted comments, pictures, quotes that 14 year old me thought were deep and edgy. When it
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Hasn't journalism always been that way? Was there ever truly a "golden age" of journalism? What I remember from history class is that William Randolph Hearst published lies to sell more newspapers which resulted in the Spanis
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Tech companies sell tech. Advertising companies sell attention. Most big tech companies are just high tech advertising companies. They don't like to say this because it doesn't carry nearly as much prestige to admit that the culmi
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by novagameco 3y ago
You don't need AI to commit advertising fraud; publishers already do so. Detecting fraud is usually about checking what IP range does a request come from: one allocated to consumer internet, or one allocated to cloud providers like AWS
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by novagameco 3y ago
AI is generating content, not consuming it. If people are easily duped by fake or bad products with advertisements or content generated by AI (which, they are) then this will continue to drive revenue for Google. The only reason Google disl
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> the first place do they offer a service for communities, making it a social platform. All social platforms are advertising publishers. Facebook is an advertising company (though they refuse to say so; calling themself a publisher is a
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All ecommerce sites do this if they can; it's just difficult for the smaller sites to normalize product information and share user browsing data across DSPs. Grocery stores have been doing it for decades: when you see a display on the
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I think the stupid part is the idea that the government was intentionally ruining the internet. I also think that around 2016 and 2017, bot spam was pretty easy for anybody with a frontal lobe to detect. The problems we saw in the 2016 elec
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by novagameco 3y ago
This is also known as the dead internet theory, which sounded a bit stupid before 2023: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory > The dead Internet theory is an online conspiracy theory that asserts that
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A lot of the advertising industry (Twitch is an ad publisher which uses tech, not a tech company) is moving away from high-volume low-intent advertising to low-volume high-intent. It's becoming harder to squeeze pennies out of banner a
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Can WebGL run SPIR-V? That was my main issue
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> I had a moment of total freakout when I realized the person across from me at lunch had an iPhone on the table Why?
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I'm on Edge 120 (released a month ago) and can't see it
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Yeah it's like the difference between buying a handgun to go to the range and buying one to rob a liquor store
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I wonder why people haven't coalesced around HLSL; I vastly prefer defining vertices as structs and having cbuffers over declaring every individual uniform or vertex variable with its specific location. It makes much more sense to me t
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Yeah I think there are tons of graphics frameworks for 2D with no built-in entity management system (SDL2, Monogame, SFML), but it seems like when people work in 3D, they tend to make an entire engine. I think people would be less mystified
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by novagameco 3y ago
For a discussion of the Moai and what happened to them and their creators, I recommend the book "Humankind" by Rutger Bregman
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Our lives are imperfect, but that doesn't make them dystopian. Some people hate their jobs, but I strongly believe that most people, especially men, would be utterly miserable if we felt unnecessary. You see this today, even, with many
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by novagameco 3y ago
I believe the best case scenario is one where humans have all of our needs met and all jobs are replaced with AI. Money becomes pointless and we live in a post-scarcity society. The world is powered by clean energy and we become net-zero ca
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I'm not sure if this is because they went on an acquisition spree, or because Riccitiello ran that company into the ground, or both
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What about writing? With Korean, learning to sound out the characters is usually the first step, even if you don't know what the words mean. I'm trying to learn some Thai within the next 10 months or so and I heard it's the s
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I'm optimistic in that I hope we don't have AGI by 2100 because it sounds like a truly dystopian future even in the best case scenario
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I remember looking up how to disable certain features on macOS, and the people on Apple forums usually responded with some version of "Why would you want to do that? You think you know better than Apple?"
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Windows actually has a very powerful CLI and really nice Terminal app. It's great for software engineering, I use it every day!
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I think in C++ it can help to know how they're implemented under the hood just to be aware of when it's allocating heap memory
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I think we'll see the end of desktop OSs before we see macOS or Linux overtake Windows. I know a ton of people who don't use a laptop for desktop PC outside of work at all. Their computing is accessed entirely through a smartphone
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I'm a software engineer who chooses to use Windows. I grew up a windows user. I downloaded the Windows 7 Beta when I was 12 years old (and still think it's the best UI any OS has ever had). When I was in college I used Linux more,

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