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by psyc 5y ago
I disagree that we’re talking about rights at all. I think the issue is really norms and expectations. Do we really need to invoke the heavy hand of law and government as the ubiquitous standard for what is acceptable?
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by psyc 5y ago
> Weird list of non-problems and not understanding how Linux works I would like to add this attitude to the list.
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by psyc 5y ago
I just played Obra Dinn. For years I have been saying “Why aren’t there any games like Sierra’s Manhunter series?” Obra Dinn is the first game that ever reminded me of Manhunter. Also, it was fun and very well made.
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by psyc 5y ago
I once made the rookie mistake of repeating this quote to my SO when they tried to engage me in gossip. Wow that did not go over.
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by psyc 5y ago
500-600
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by psyc 5y ago
My growing disdain for Google isn’t even about their tech. In the beginning, Google’s SRP was an ad or two, followed by ~10 magically-relevant <a> links. For some years they were praised for a restrained approach. Today, the SRP is ad
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by psyc 5y ago
That is interesting, thanks. What I’ll agree to is that it is possible in principle to vary the extent to which you apply traditional engineering concepts to software development. But I believe that’s good ol’ cross-disciplinary insight (ar
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by psyc 5y ago
I can imagine working at a company that does things I consider wrong, and treating it in my head as a game of infiltration and reconnaissance. But there are things I find so personally repulsive that I could never, like ad tech or data brok
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by psyc 5y ago
This comes up often enough here. The number of people who do argue that “software engineer” is a kind of engineer, alongside “mechanical”, “civil”, etc, is always dismaying to me. I’ve always maintained that it’s merely a common title withi
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by psyc 5y ago
The hard part is getting that entry level job. My route was by way of tech support first. It gets easier from there. I’ve never had any difficulty finding a good job. I get promoted at a normal rate. After 7 years, I was getting frequent, h
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by psyc 5y ago
Making the distinction sheds more light than equivocating.
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by psyc 5y ago
Perlin noise comes to mind. I’ve implemented noise “off the cuff” using general math knowledge, which appears visually quite similar. But Perlin’s algorithm doesn’t seem to me to bear any resemblance to the one I settled on. And at least
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by psyc 5y ago
“One thousand years from now, there’ll be no guys and no girls, just wankers. Sounds great to me.” - Mark Renton, Trainspotting
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by psyc 5y ago
The more they take out of context, the more material they have to call out. It’s not like their follower-allies are going to mind that it was taken out of context.
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by psyc 5y ago
That’s fediverse
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by psyc 5y ago
Um… VR porn is being cranked out at a pretty good clip. IMO it is the most compelling application, actually. The effect is quite extraordinary.
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by psyc 5y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaverse
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by psyc 5y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaverse
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by psyc 5y ago
Poe's Law strikes again. This comment is like a Necker Cube. I can read it straight, or as a joke, and it sounds right either way.
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by psyc 5y ago
The context is there is a playground game being played at scale. In order to be accepted in certain circles, one needs to discern who the thought leaders are, display the proper deference to them, and above all adhere to approved talking po
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by psyc 5y ago
Do you believe Netflix ought to reject popular comedians, if they tell jokes that some people could interpret as racist, homophobic, transphobic, islamophobic, antisemitic, ableist, or misogynistic? Do you have any favorite comedians yourse
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by psyc 5y ago
Small point, but she was in the navy reserves. Larger point - she already had a PhD in math, so it isn’t as though she was ordered to take up an interest in STEM.
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by psyc 5y ago
I once sketched a story in which God is frantically working to reorder the possible configurations of the universe, so that no consciousness experiences too much torture or terror in a single timeline. And (maybe) He needs the Crucifixion a
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by psyc 5y ago
1. User interaction paradigms that are intuitive and feel great. I don’t consider this a particularly insurmountable problem, I just find that too many game designers are failing at it, and I don’t know why. The general user experience or c
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by psyc 5y ago
It’s not that. They’re pretty clearly white supremacist / neonazi metal bands, and that’s definitely a thing.
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by psyc 5y ago
The Principle Devs I’ve worked alongside didn’t manage or even directly delegate to anybody. They were glued to the monitor, doing architecture, and writing and supporting tons of code. Typically difficult narrow-domain stuff and frameworks
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by psyc 5y ago
Thank you. I’ve been saying this for years. He could very well have been some listserv lurker who followed the prior art, and just went ahead and solved the outstanding problems on his own. There are far more brilliant programmers out there
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by psyc 5y ago
Standard disclaimer that this is from my fallible memory. I’ve been here just about daily since 2009 or so (at first, under a real-name account that I retired, because times a’changed). Of course, there were far, far fewer users. They had m
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by psyc 5y ago
There were times in the first half of my career when I intentionally cultivated the illusion that I was an expert. Really, I just had a decent overview, plus documentation-reading skills. This led to me being promoted beyond my abilities, a
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by psyc 5y ago
One of the reasons I quit FB was I didn’t recognize my close friends’ online personas. It was too bizarro-world for me. If I asked them about it, they felt attacked. So it turned out I simply preferred not to know what they were up to onlin

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