ramesh31

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by ramesh31 3y ago
Maps exist to define ownership. Everything else is tertiary to that. Lewis and Clarke weren't "blazing a trail" for the pioneers. They were measuring the land that the US government had just purchased.
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by ramesh31 3y ago
Love the idea but please pay for a UX professional. This UI just screams "we have $component_library, why would we ever need a designer?".
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by ramesh31 3y ago
Tell me you've never hunted or know anything about combat without telling me. This would be completely useless for camoflauge as it fails in the very first most basic point of camoflauge, which is to conceal the sillouhette. These thin
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by ramesh31 3y ago
>Amazon didn't pivot from a detective story to an action story. Abraham and Franck (aka James S.A. Corey), the authors, did. After the arc from the first trilogy of books wrapped up. Well then I don't know what to think now. Th
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by ramesh31 3y ago
Just every character of the main crew in general. The SyFy seasons were very Firefly-esque; regular people doing their best to get by and fulfill their own personal goals. Then all of the sudden it's just "OK, we're all space
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by ramesh31 3y ago
> I find that more often than not, when I pick up a sci-fi novel, it turns out to just be a detective novel innn spaaaaace Detective novels in space can still be good, and much better than the current crop of Hollywood garbage. I'm
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by ramesh31 3y ago
Sci-fi as a literary genre is so great because it's like Broadway; if you're being snobbish about it you're missing the point entirely. It comes from the tradition of mass market serials that have always been considered low
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by ramesh31 3y ago
>However I'm a bit perplexed with the solution to remove lifetimes [0]. Isn't it a poor's-man GC? This is essentially just ARC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Reference_Counting
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by ramesh31 3y ago
Does this mean some poor farmer somewhere is seeing a windfall? Or is it literally just corporate price fixing like everything else now.
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by ramesh31 3y ago
>Designing the UI around hand/eye tracking was smart but not supporting VR controllers at all is stupid. It was a strategic decision. It says "This is not a game console, it's a general purpose computer", and paves th
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by ramesh31 3y ago
>GPUs were also called exactly that in the early to mid 90s and now they're a trillion dollar industry Yes, and they remained exactly that until a new use case opened up in the last 5 years that average people found highly valuable.
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by ramesh31 3y ago
>I want to be transported and immersed into another universe, not see AR stuff floating around between the same four walls of my tiny apartment that I see all day everyday. It would drive me nuts and I can do that stuff on the cheap with
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by ramesh31 3y ago
>But using without the Light Seal is a massive improvement. You’re closer to the screen, so it reduces the tunnel vision and expands the effective field-of-view. And rather than a black edge, you have a frame, with outside visibility. Sa
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by ramesh31 3y ago
>I'm not sure what kind of poverty you've seen, but the kinds I'm familiar with both personally and from studies place far more emphasis on maintaining relationships and social capital because that's what they have. L
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by ramesh31 3y ago
> Their experience is that if someone tells you that you will get a marshmallow later, that marshmallow will never arrive. Precisely. And the problem is that experience does not map to reality in all situations. Thus Poor Brain. It leave
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by ramesh31 3y ago
>When you are poor you spend the majority of your brain cycles dealing with your situation. I call it "Poor Brain/Rich Brain", and neither requires you to be rich or poor, although they are heavily correlated. A Poor Brain
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by ramesh31 3y ago
This brings up a great point, that tech debt is literally that; debt. Debt is neither good or bad, it's all down to how you use it. Properly utilized, debt makes things possible that wouldn't be otherwise. And it can be maintained
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by ramesh31 3y ago
There are two types of burnout; physical and mental. Mental occurs when you're bored. Physical occurs when you're too excited. Seek a middle ground to avoid either.
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by ramesh31 3y ago
Beautiful. Classless needs to become the standard for CSS libraries. I'm tired of learning your DSL to center a div. Just make the HTML do what I expect it to.
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by ramesh31 3y ago
The purpose of the UN is to provide a forum for discussion, and nothing more. The UN by definition cannot force its members to do anything, because membership is guaranteed by recognition of sovreignty.
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by ramesh31 3y ago
The inputs are still great for maintaining consistency and a11y. I generally do all my own layouts, and then use Bulma for form elements.
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by ramesh31 3y ago
>Artemus 3 is scheduled for September 2026, that can clearly slip but a 2.5 year deadline suggests it is unlikely to slip that far or get canceled. Artemis has failed to meet a single deadline since its inception, and has cost more than
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by ramesh31 3y ago
There's something absurdly comforting in the banality of this.
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by ramesh31 3y ago
>I kind of miss long polling. It was so stupidly simple compared to newer tech, and that's coming from someone who thinks WebRTC is the best thing since sliced bread. I still use it all the time. There are plenty of applications whe
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by ramesh31 3y ago
Article doesn't mention node size. Any ideas?
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by ramesh31 3y ago
"US defense contractor builds defense hardware for the US defense industry"
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by ramesh31 3y ago
The biggest gain for me has been avoiding Google/SO for API references and "How do I just do this thing" type questions. The productivity increase is insane versus sifting through the nightmare of whatever web results have be
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by ramesh31 3y ago
>I'm fairly confident that not everyone who wants an EV has one already. Right. But everyone who wants (and can afford) a Tesla has one. And that's about 4.2% of the total US market it seems. Sales growth has ceased entirely fo
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by ramesh31 3y ago
This was my immediate takeway from using Quest 3 as well. Zuck has stated forever that he wants a platform, yet when it comes time to do the hard work, we just end up with an Android distro running a React app.
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by ramesh31 3y ago
Market saturation !== 100% total market share. iPhone has a 25% market share, yet everyone who wants (and can afford) an iPhone has one, i.e saturated. It means either innovation or price drops are required for further growth.

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