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by ryoshu 3y ago
I really hated growing up with Transformers and He-Man and all of the other TV shows that were animated versions of toys I played with. Wait. I didn't hate that at all.
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by ryoshu 4y ago
So what you're saying is it's a matter of time?
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by ryoshu 4y ago
Mixed reality as a term dates at least back to 1994 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality%E2%80%93virtuality_con... . Microsoft adopted it because they were doing surface mapping and occlusion culling, something that
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by ryoshu 4y ago
They generally are, but if you say net 30 and set a % penalty for not paying in net 30 (common), when a multi-billion dollar corporation decides to do net 90 and won't pay the penalty, what are you going to do as a freelancer? Sue them
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by ryoshu 4y ago
FTX is over $1 billion and the table maxes out at $550 million, so that should be fun. Lawmakers should revisit that.
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by ryoshu 4y ago
What are the subsidies of nuclear compared to wind, solar, fossil fuels, etc. Do those subsidies include the cost of externalities like nuclear waste disposal/storage vs. pollution from fossil fuels or disposal of things like batteries
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by ryoshu 4y ago
we need to account for the danger of disposal/long term storage of the dead batteries for solar as well. But I'm not sure what the calculation for that is vs. nuclear waste.
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by ryoshu 4y ago
Most libraries have ebooks these days.
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by ryoshu 4y ago
https://www.kaedim3d.com/ is working on 2D -> 3D.
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by ryoshu 4y ago
20-ish years ago in Orange County, CA we had a cab driver we would call instead of dispatch. Super chill guy and good conversations with prompt service.
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by ryoshu 4y ago
You haven't been forced to join a union in the US - or pay dues if you don't join - since 2018 when the SCOTUS ruled against the practice ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus_v._AFSCME ). You could potentially
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by ryoshu 4y ago
Any time you want to rubber duck because there's a hard problem you can't figure out and talking it through with someone else is useful.
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by ryoshu 4y ago
I prefer to use real problems with the work that have already been solved. It shows what the day-to-day is like, you know there's at least one solution to the problem, and you aren't asking someone to work for free.
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by ryoshu 4y ago
Professional designers I work with, on some of the top brands in world, always have references on what they want to copy or steal. Don't feel bad about it.
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by ryoshu 5y ago
If the China Investment Corporation offered $60 billion to take Twitter private would Twitter be forced to entertain the offer?
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by ryoshu 5y ago
If North Korea offered $60 billion to buy Twitter would Twitter be forced to sell? Not comparing Musk to NK, but money isn't the only consideration when an offer to sell comes in.
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by ryoshu 5y ago
The first ransomware attack was in 1989.
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by ryoshu 5y ago
If you don't report the problem the problem won't get fixed. This is for social issues as well as software issues.
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by ryoshu 5y ago
So price fixing?
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by ryoshu 5y ago
Visa has been breaking laws: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_Inc.#Litigation_and_regul...
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by ryoshu 5y ago
If you bought pets.com stock after their IPO they lost your investment.
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by ryoshu 5y ago
They have brand deals too.
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by ryoshu 5y ago
It's like how billionaires are able to get loans by putting up collateral and greatly reduce their taxes. Bezos isn't actually worth $200 billion until he sells the stock, which is a bit like what would happen here. He's goin
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by ryoshu 5y ago
I once interviewed for a director role and the first round went something likes this: Interviewer: How would you reverse a string? Me: boggle Any language I want to use? Interviewer: Yes. Me: Okay, Ruby. "somestring".reverse! In
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by ryoshu 5y ago
I've shipped production code in 17 different programming languages. I wouldn't say I'm proficient in any one of them, they are all just tools to solve a problem and the knowledge of language specifics comes and goes. Need to
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by ryoshu 5y ago
As a hiring manager for over 15 years I prefer people who can pick up a language based on the need. Good problem solving is language agnostic.
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by ryoshu 5y ago
A greyhat should launch ransomware and then not decrypt when the ransom is paid. Make the ransomware industry unreliable.
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by ryoshu 6y ago
This happens in private industry too. I can set my watch by the fiscal calendar of certain groups in public companies having to spend their budgets by the end of their year so it doesn't get cut the next year.
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by ryoshu 6y ago
https://www.facebook.com/Proud-Boys-Canada-102480378379388/
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by ryoshu 6y ago
Exactly. We aren't necessarily pushing the payroll onto the customer, we're discounting the cost of a dish at the expense of the server. And to the parent's post, that's an arbitrary decision that sometimes works out and

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