saberience

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   by saberience 6y ago

   I wouldn't agree that BOTNS "revels" in violence or torture at all. I personally wouldn't enjoy a book that revels in torture or violence, but I've read the BOTNS series many times (5 or 6). Sevarian clearly doesn&#
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   by saberience 6y ago

   I don't agree with it, but I can perhaps see that as you go through the story, more about the setting and "universe" of the novel is explained and revealed and so it means that your imagination cannot invent as many possibili
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   by saberience 6y ago

   Maybe I'm missing something but does it say what library of images was used to train this model? I couldn't quite understand the process of building DALL-E. Did they have a large database of labeled images and they combined this d
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   by saberience 6y ago

   For all those who are saying now "Who's Gene Wolfe??" I strongly, strongly, urge you to read his tetralogy "The Book of The New Sun," it's one of the finest sci-fi/fantasy series I've ever read and I
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   by saberience 6y ago

   You realise that someones race, age, gender, disability etc are all easily inferred as soon as you meet someone in person? It doesn't matter what you do here, if someone wants to reject someone based on gender, race, etc, they can do s
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   by saberience 6y ago

   Yeah, I saw the title of this blog post and it immediately depressed me. The idea of tracking my time minutely in some effort to be more efficient or "productive" seems to be the antithesis of being human.
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   by saberience 6y ago

   This comment depresses me so much. You track your own time obsessively and use it as a reference in performance reviews? This sounds like a dystopian hell out of Big Brother.
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   by saberience 6y ago

   Bitcoin's price has become a self fulfilling prophecy at this point. There have been so many stories about it hitting 100'000, 50'000, even 500'000, that these current prices seem "low" in comparison. i.e. the
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   by saberience 6y ago

   You don't work for Blizzard do you? When I worked there engineers (not my team thankfully) designed their own alternative to protobuf to try and save more bytes over the wire, which in my opinion was a really poor decision. Rather than
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    by saberience 6y ago

    BTW, I have ZERO problem with game teams using engines. If I were to start making a game now as an indie developer I'd almost certainly use Unity too. I was more making the point that starting by building an engine is a huge commitment
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    by saberience 6y ago

    This is all your opinion. As someone that literally lives in Zone 2, I rely on Citymapper literally every day and in my actual experience as a Londoner, Citymapper beats Google every day. If Google were better, I'd use Google, but it&#
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    by saberience 6y ago

    Teams of 1-4 people making indie games are either: 1) Using an existing product like Unity or Unreal Engine or GameMaker. 2) Using their own engine but with very basic graphics. "Ghost of a Tale" uses Unity. "The Forest"
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    by saberience 6y ago

    I live in London and for commuting around via public transport OR walking I always use Citymapper, which is massively superior than Google Maps for directions. I suspect they are using Googles APIs underneath it all, but their UI is better
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    by saberience 6y ago

    If I had to make a guess I would say that most people's diet/lifestyle/stressful job is about 1000X more impactful to their expected lifespan than microplastics in their diet. Sure, it sucks and I'm happy scientists can
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    by saberience 6y ago

    It's not that I don't care. However, I object to the huge amount of media/news stories driven by fear which leads to a generalized anxiety and depression about basically everything. If you read the modern news and take it at
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    by saberience 6y ago

    I was asking whether it might be good as a provocative question asked in the more philosophical sense. I don't assume they are good, but I do object to simple fear-mongering over yet another new thing to be afraid of in our world, espe
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    by saberience 6y ago

    Ok, we get it, microplastics are everywhere and have been for most of our lifetimes. Can someone explain why this is a bad thing or even IF it is a bad thing? As far as I can tell, humans have been dying from the same illnesses for the past
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    by saberience 6y ago

    Microservices are easier to understand and debug. This should speak for itself. If you ship a service which is well defined and only handles a reasonable amount of functionality, reasoning about its runtime behavior, memory, CPU usage, IO,
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    by saberience 6y ago

    This is such a clueless comment. Tesla, a start-up with zero experience in cars managed to make cars without any issue at all and become one of the most popular luxury car makers in the world. So Apple, the world's most valuable compan
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    by saberience 6y ago

    How many components on a car are engineered at a 5 nanometer level? Your comment is going to age like milk... For a company like Apple, making a car is child's play.
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    by saberience 6y ago

    No, you made my childhood! I was kind of a lonely kid and discovering computing (via the Mac) and getting these shareware discs and playing Ambrosia games was like finding something really magical. Thank you! And if anyone is reading this n
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    by saberience 6y ago

    You're arguing about people leaving Democrat states in a post about people moving to Austin? Do you think Austin is a republican area? Austin is about as blue as it can get. No one is leaving Democratic states to go to some hell-hole R
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    by saberience 6y ago

    I can still remember his voice saying something like "ahhh pain" when you got damaged!
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    by saberience 6y ago

    Dude, your mention of ResEdit just gave me major flashbacks! I remember first using ResEdit to "hack" games like Escape Velocity so I could gain more resources, make my ships more powerful, and so on. God I loved their games SO mu
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    by saberience 6y ago

    Morality has improved over time though and is still improving. I mean, if you look at how gay people were still treated in the 90s, it was terrible. Most gay people were afraid to be publicly "out" and forget about any sort of tra
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    by saberience 6y ago

    I think there's a big difference between selling data for profit and the government literally forcing you to give up data based on national security laws or else forcing you to close your business. There's almost nothing Apple can
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    by saberience 6y ago

    This is bollocks and the sort of mythology that CEO's also love to create about their "beginnings." Read up on Elon's family background and father, he didn't grow up on a farm or in an orphanage in darkest Congo...
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    by saberience 6y ago

    What are you saying about UK ships not knowing how to navigate? The US navy is far, far worse in that respect, the British navy hasn't had anything near as bad as this happen anytime recently: https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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    by saberience 6y ago

    So, as someone that works for an enterprise that uses AWS... if we went colocation, how would we replicate: SQS/SNS, DynamoDB, ECS (EC2 and Fargate), Lambda, Kinesis, ECR, ALB, Aurora, S3, Glacier, EMR, EKS, multiple AZs, multiple regi
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    by saberience 6y ago

    Is this using CloudFormation (shit) or can it be used with Terraform (not shit)?