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by oersted 11mo ago
You have a point there, I was using “hybrid” as a catchall for any special seed that comes from a dedicated producer as opposed to stored seed. You are right that I don’t know enough about this, I was just judging your comment on its intern
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You are putting words in their mouth. There is no reason why such an RSS app wouldn’t link to the original source instead of scraping it. The app doesn’t need to be a central source of monetization for the creators either, that’s usually th
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by oersted 11mo ago
So you are saying that these special hybrid seeds that are the first generation of combining two strains are the only ones that can perform well? And that using any other seeds, even the second generation of that same strain, is so bad and
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The last Stranger Things series, of all things, is probably the single most expensive media production in history. More expensive than Marvel films, than both Avatars, than all of Games of Thrones, than Rings of Power per episode… It even d
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by oersted 11mo ago
It is definitely mind-rotting crap, but I think they are very strict with technically inappropriate content. I agree that they are not doing a good thing, but one can’t say they aren’t doing massive efforts around it either.
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by oersted 11mo ago
There must be more to that story. Netflix, HBO, BBC and a bunch of others keep pumping out these kinds of crime dramas exactly because they are quite conservative bets. They are extremely cheap to produce, a handful of mid-range actors on v
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by oersted 11mo ago
I mean they have invested a ton into their kid-friendly mode and there have been quite a number of “adpocalips” where ad revenue for many content creators was dramatically slashed due to YouTube’s over-zealous moderation. It is a serious bu
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by oersted 11mo ago
I have been a big fan of Valve since the Orange Box days and I always dreamed of working there, but let’s not kid ourselves. This is all enabled by the massive monopolistic cash-cow that is Steam that requires a tiny team to maintain. Simil
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Gamers are quite vocal about such things, people end up hearing about it even if they don’t check directly. And this being primarily a live-service game drawing revenues from micro-transactions, especially a while after launch, and the fact
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by oersted 11mo ago
Relying on the model’s own “memory” to answer factual queries is almost always a mistake. Fine-tuning is almost always a more complex, more expensive and less effective method to give a model access to a knowledge base. However using the mo
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by oersted 11mo ago
Does this version support custom GPU shaders? I have been looking for a command-line with cool-retro-term aesthetics that can run in the browser for a while.
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by oersted 11mo ago
Interesting! For me it says 1 in 17,179,869,184+, but scrolling through all the variables, the vast majority should be the same for any MacBook Chrome user. It would be great to see the stats of each individual characteristic.
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by oersted 11mo ago
I think you are projecting the sense of the word from computer security onto people. But "vulnerability" always has that second sense in common speech, as in "showing vulnerability". If a person is actually open to being
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by oersted 11mo ago
Just to clarify for others because it’s a tiny bit clickbaity: The Patriot missile didn’t kill 28 people accidentally, it simply failed to intercept an enemy missile. And it wasn’t launched on an incorrect trajectory either, the radar was l
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by oersted 11mo ago
That’s interesting. The main difference seems to be that those other tiny organisms only encode how to produce some metabolic products for the host but cannot reproduce independently, so they are quite close to being organelles. Instead, th
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by oersted 11mo ago
Just to note the it's the same in Rust with tokio::spawn (and alternatives).
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It’s often less about engineering effort and more about taking some small risks to try less mainstream (but still relatively mature) alternatives by reasoning from first principles and doing a bit of homework. From our experience, you can
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by oersted 11mo ago
What really needs thousands of hosts nowadays? Even if you have millions of users. Computers are plenty fast now and leveraging that is not any harder if you choose the right stack. And even if you are building with microservices, most stan
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by oersted 11mo ago
That’s fair enough but that’s a luxury position, if costs are not concern to you then there’s not much point in discussing the merits of different methods to manage infrastructure efficiently. And yes of course such costs are nothing if you
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by oersted 11mo ago
After 8 years operating like this, I have had approximately the same number of critical outages in standard Cloud as with these providers. One included a whole OVH building burning down with our server in it, and recovery was faster than th
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by oersted 11mo ago
As a CTO of a number of small startups, I am still struggling to understand what exactly AWS and other cloud providers give you to justify the markup. And yes we’ve been heavy users of both AWS and Google Cloud for years, mainly because of
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by oersted 11mo ago
It's great, but that's not what I meant. Farthest Frontier has the kind of strict grid of Anno, and is reminiscent of the older more predictable and mechanical pathing of classics like Caesar or Pharaoh. Newer indie city builders
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by oersted 11mo ago
It's a shame that Pioneers of Pagonia doesn't stick to the same strict path-network mechanic, that was my favourite part of the earlier Settlers that later went away. From the recommendation of another commenter, here's a mor
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by oersted 11mo ago
I did try going back to Settlers 2 last year and it was just as good as I remember it, it really holds up. At least the remake which is also the one I played when I was a kid. https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_settle
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by oersted 11mo ago
I never played the first, but Settlers 2 was fantastic. I always preferred it to later installments because it had a strict grid of nodes, creating a complex graph of buildings and paths, rather than the more freeform pathing. It was such a
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The thing is that it didn't work for that objective. It didn't seem to have any meaningful impact on all on the Metas and Googles out there. They control the user base and people depend on their products, it was trivial for them t
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by oersted 11mo ago
I will not attempt to make a judgement as to the effects of this, but just so you get an idea of the enormity of the change: World population: 1960: ~3B 2025: ~8.3B It was a VERY different world. That growth might not have gone anywhere but
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by oersted 11mo ago
What type annotations? In Rust almost all the types are inferred outside of function and struct declarations. In terms of type verbosity (in the code) it is roughly on the same level as TypeScript and Python.
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I suppose this could also be used in reverse, to suppress the "harmful direction". But probably it wouldn't work as well because the space of harmful responses is more diverse than the space of refusal responses. Anyway, this
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> My background is in sterile large molecule manufacturing within biotech, the kind of work where even a single microscopic breach within thousands of gaskets and kilometres of stainless steel can trigger an investigation lasting months

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