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by scott_w 1y ago
> Yes, it may suck if you are forced to give up something you are passionate about I'm sure Jews in 1930s Germany were passionate about living in dignity. The Nazis made sure they had to give that up.
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by scott_w 1y ago
He only said "essential," not "sufficient."
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by scott_w 1y ago
By having a team around them. I'd recommend listening to podcasts by former politicians to get an understanding of the types of challenges they have. Rory Stewart regularly talks about his time in government. I recall former chancellor
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by scott_w 1y ago
You're correct but it doesn't quite refute my statement. My statement is that good customer research kills bad ideas before they hit the market (so you don't see the failure). However, it can also be the case that it won&#x27
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by scott_w 1y ago
If customer research are doing their job properly, you won’t hear about the flop because they already investigated and determined it wasn’t worth the investment. Before designing the chip.
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by scott_w 1y ago
I’m pretty sure GTA has never been rated below M which, as I recall, is 17+. Not a massive difference between that and BBFC’s 18 rating…
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by scott_w 1y ago
I mean, these films usually get rated 15 or 18 in the UK, so I’d not say it’s “OK for children to watch.”
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by scott_w 1y ago
That may be the case but then why bother modifying ls when you can just write your own exactly as you want it?
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by scott_w 1y ago
Depending on the implementation (and I don't know which `ls` is being referred to), modifying `ls` might mean modifying an FSF project which require copyright assignment as a condition of patch submissions.
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by scott_w 1y ago
> - Most games would be better off with a bespoke game engine IMO, especially those made by small teams. The only real advantage to using an established engine is the familiar asset pipeline for replaceable artists but you pay for that w
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by scott_w 1y ago
Literally nothing you said stops it being niche. I love triathlon but my sport is niche. I love time trialling, bike manufacturers produce bikes worth up to £20,000 and amateur participants spend hundreds of pounds in a wind tunnel to eke o
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by scott_w 1y ago
> They might not be your field of expertise but calling (for example) Rally as “niche” is insanely off the mark. I say this as someone who’s uncle was a rally driver: it’s niche. > Except you didn’t give an example that had anything t
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by scott_w 1y ago
All of those sports are far more niche than sports where the competitors compete directly against each other. I can give you an example from my own sport: triathlon. It has two broad categories: short and long course. Short course is genera
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by scott_w 1y ago
But spectators won’t, and we are what fund sport, ultimately.
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by scott_w 1y ago
> Maybe I didn't phrase that quite right. I knew a kid who was caught by the FBI carding at just 14... Like I remember him just casually dismissing it as some cute prank. > Got into a little incident where we pissed off some dude
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by scott_w 1y ago
I’m just going to point out that your story shows two different things: 1. A person who didn’t understand consequences. 2. A person of similar age who did. Which is kinda my entire point.
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by scott_w 1y ago
My issue is that their statement about prefrontal cortex development is being used in the context of “young people don’t understand repercussions,” when the two things are not actually related. Not least because young people clearly CAN und
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by scott_w 1y ago
That’s a massively reductionist view of this. Maybe prefrontal development played a role but so many things are part of this you can’t just say the two statements being put: one by OP and one by you. “Teenagers don’t understand repercussion
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by scott_w 1y ago
Because we’re talking in the context of young people who executed a multi-stage criminal enterprise causing millions of pounds of damage, harming multiple companies and their customers, AND TRIED TO EXTORT THE CEO FOR PROFIT. This is not “b
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by scott_w 1y ago
I’m a bit torn on that, honestly. Were this an embarrassing hack like the ones I read about as a teenager, I’d agree. However, they caused millions of pounds of damage to multiple companies (and their customers) and attempted to blackmail t
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by scott_w 1y ago
> Young people have little fear of repercussion as they cant really fathom the consequences. > But it is very well understood and accepted that teenage - especially male prefrontal cortexes don't fully develop until mid 20s. Your
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by scott_w 1y ago
And yet most 15-24 year olds are not committing murder, this sentence: > Young people have little fear of repercussion as they cant really fathom the consequences. is not true.
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by scott_w 1y ago
Yes, maybe these kids never learnt that lesson, for whatever reason. My point is that you can’t make this general claim: > Young people have little fear of repercussion as they cant really fathom the consequences. Clearly, young people c
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by scott_w 1y ago
This simply isn’t true. Yes, teenagers are morons by the standard of a well adjusted 30 year old, but they’re more than capable of understanding consequences for their actions. I hate to sound like my parents/grandparents but I absolut
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by scott_w 1y ago
I don’t know of any real posts on it, it just ends up being kind of a “assume it’ll go wrong,” then figure out how you know something has gone wrong and track it down. Your starting point is, after an issue is reported, add a load of logs a
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by scott_w 1y ago
> With these recommendations and the acceptance of this PEP, we as the Python developer community should broadly advertise that free-threading is a supported Python build option now and into the future, and that it will not be removed wi
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by scott_w 1y ago
That word "discourage" is what worries me. Like, with my code, I either introduced a bug/security hole or I didn't. Yes, I screw up but I can put things in place to logically prevent specific issues from occurring. How o
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by scott_w 1y ago
I think even this point about seeing through all the abstractions being "real engineers" still limits you to, basically, people in their 60s at the youngest. I just think it's a reductionist view and one that's not neces
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by scott_w 1y ago
I’ve seen this happen in a previous job where the IT team of a customer deleted years worth of financial records because they didn’t know about it when they cleaned up the server. Our CEO had to go and help them rebuild their books, at grea
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by scott_w 1y ago
Having had a PS4 and a PS5, I’d say even this has improved.

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