r_hoods_ghost

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by r_hoods_ghost 9mo ago
It wasn't sparsely populated until you murdered everyone
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by r_hoods_ghost 9mo ago
Yes, the poor European settlers out there raping and a pillaging, burning and a looting,destroying cultures and entire people's to build their shiny palace on the hill. Remove the beam from your eye septic
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by r_hoods_ghost 9mo ago
Yes. America had no empire. Except for the giant land empire that was, and is, America. Or does invading and occupying thousands of square miles of land, annihilating entire nations, and enslaving and slaughtering the natives, a process tha
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by r_hoods_ghost 1y ago
No they probably do mean the jump between the interface in 2.49 which was somewhat unique and very, very different to the current UI, to that in 2.5 which the current interface mostly resembles. 2.8 was a smaller jump that introduced left c
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by r_hoods_ghost 3y ago
Amoral literally means "lacking a moral sense; unconcerned with the rightness or wrongness of something." Generally this is considered a problem if you are designing something that might influence the way people act.
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by r_hoods_ghost 3y ago
I do this all the time and have done with every boss I've had over the past 25 years. None have ever objected. The phrase I use with my current CEO is "I'm not sure what you're asking for, can you clarify?" With my
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by r_hoods_ghost 3y ago
Can you give me a single example of people creating games/movies/books/music etc. bia ML that are of much better quality than those churned out by AAA?
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by r_hoods_ghost 3y ago
Not the op, but it's the opposite, at least in the UK. I worked in hospitality as a yoof, was manager of a small hotel and a receptionist in big (independent) 5 stars. I absolutely did care about extra bookings because I got a big comm
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by r_hoods_ghost 3y ago
He's complaining that the privacy preserving option is given more prominence. OK...
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by r_hoods_ghost 3y ago
Unity is cheaper only in certain circumstances. UE5 is free and then you pay a 5% royalty on gross revenues over $1m. This avoids a lot of the issues faced by indie developers with the new pricing model (having to pay for copies you give aw
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by r_hoods_ghost 3y ago
Do it in a country with much laxer KYC laws for a haircut and then use one of the myriad other methods of transferring large amounts of illegitimate wealth across borders that existed prior to cryptocurrency and which continue to be widely
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by r_hoods_ghost 3y ago
Until the company changes their logo...
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by r_hoods_ghost 3y ago
Not the patent but... incredibly environmentally destructive by design. Utterly privacy violating as you're publishing every transaction you make for the world to see on a public ledger so now your neighbour (and government) get to kno
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by r_hoods_ghost 3y ago
According to the US Bureau of Labour Statistics the mean hourly wage for cabinet makers and bench carpenters as of May 2022 was $20.25 per hour. Even in San Francisco the mean hourly wage was only $26.37. Lesson for today - your instincts a
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by r_hoods_ghost 3y ago
Do you not use POs? Much easier, allows you to approve spend if necessary and means the person paying I voices doesn't need to have an encyclopedic knowledge of your employees and keep up to date with which ones have ledt
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by r_hoods_ghost 3y ago
Ummmm under sixteens have had free bus and tram travel in London for years. Or do you not want them to interact with members of the public and live in a sanitised bubble consisting solely of you and your nanny?
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by r_hoods_ghost 3y ago
How on earth is forcing someone to go to a store, probably only in a few select locations far away from where you live, low friction?
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by r_hoods_ghost 3y ago
Given relativism is a term that started being used in English philosophy in the 1860s and in German philosophy prior to that you'd be dead wrong.
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by r_hoods_ghost 3y ago
Hire a couple of technical writers with experience and let them get on with it, and then make your devs document every new feature and change. Nothing passes code review unless it is accompanied by updated documentation. Getting your devs t
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by r_hoods_ghost 3y ago
"It’s funny how computing might soon include elements of psychology and magic incantations nobody understands" As a sysadmin I can tell you this is already the case...
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by r_hoods_ghost 3y ago
Practice! Also group crits. While the format differs from place to place, in art / CGI / illustration / animation a crit (critique) is a session where everybody lines up their work and then you go around the room and each per
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by r_hoods_ghost 3y ago
As far as I can tell there is no information provided about what information security measures are in place to protect this hugely juicy target full of commercially sensitive info, and an explicit disclaimer saying "hey folks we offer
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by r_hoods_ghost 3y ago
Except a lot of recipe books from the 1950s to 1970s involve tins of mushroom soup, condensed milk, and jelly rather than real ingredients.
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by r_hoods_ghost 3y ago
This is one of the major reasons google glass failed - people objecting to "glass holes" filming them and making their objections felt physically. I suspect that if the type of people likely to drop several thousand quid on an App
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by r_hoods_ghost 3y ago
You're defending an argument that is blatantly self contradictory within the space of two sentences. A) "anything he suggests should be categorically rejected because he’s just not in a position to be trusted." B) "If wh
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by r_hoods_ghost 3y ago
This is essentially the Oxbridge tutorial system where you have an hour(ish) meeting once(ish) a week with one or two other students and your tutor and talk over what you've learned, are set an assignment or three and have to answer an
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by r_hoods_ghost 3y ago
I'm sorry but most ChatGPT output is functionally indistinct from a pg "quality" essay: Make banal observation about recent technological development. Explain it's "disruptive potential" for legacy industry. Ex
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by r_hoods_ghost 3y ago
But the things you listed are all quintessentially 90s. Sure they might still be around, or like zines had a bit of a revival recentlt6, but they're hardly novel or "counter cultural" in any way, unless you call gen-x nostalg
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by r_hoods_ghost 3y ago
Things which existed in the 90s. Zines. Check. Micro fiction. Check. Demo scene. Check...
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by r_hoods_ghost 3y ago
No. What is the point? Mind maps are for clarifying your thinking and exploring ideas. They are an incredibly poor method of communicating ideas to others. I've never had someone present a mind map to me where I haven't then had t

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