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by screye 2y ago
We're in a 5 year slump for gaming. The best games are improvements on known formulas.(Elden ring, Wukong : Dark Souls, BG3 : Divinity, etc, GOW, Last of Us : Sequels). Alyx & Flight Simulators are exceptions, and neither are games
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by screye 2y ago
That minority only flourished for a brief period in the 20th century when universal literacy was achieved through schooling and proliferation of white collar work. For most of history, writers were a tiny minority. It exploded 100x in the l
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by screye 2y ago
The Venn diagram of those who'd be influenced by a WaPo endorsement and committed Kamala Harris voters is a perfect intersection. For 50 years, WaPo has endorsed the democratic candidate [1] for president. No mystery here. It's a
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by screye 2y ago
Tokenizers face an odd compute issue. Since they're part of the pre-processing pipeline, you can't quickly test them out for effectiveness. You have to restart a pretraining run to test downstream effectiveness. Separately, As muc
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by screye 2y ago
Seconded. Would recommend using a tool to save your codebase as an upload-able file. Parent comment (simonw) has written a tool. I use another called ai-digest. Pick any one. It solves the 'my model doesn't understand my codebase&
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by screye 2y ago
That only works if the whole team coordinates. If one person writes broken code in half the time, while you take twice as much cleaning the mess.....then you're going to be perceived as ineffective.
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by screye 2y ago
Your point is correct. But 50% of people in 50s also smoked cigarettes, a known appetite suppressant. So yeah, culture driven lower portion sizes + meds driven lower appetite is a well-tested combination with known positive outcomes.
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by screye 2y ago
This is genius. I skimmed it the first time, and it took me a good 30 minutes to appreciate the wide applicability of your insight. A whole family of problems across domains : supply chains, manufacturing lines, AI pipelines, resilient soft
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by screye 2y ago
For some context, this is the end of an era for the Tata family. They've had an odd pseudo nepotistic passing-on-the-torch framework for 100+ years now. The Tatas adopt promising children in the extended family, instead of passing owne
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by screye 2y ago
Can't forget having to signal away from military. Accessible drone AI can be used to stop petty crime, man the borders, catch drug smuggling boats & ofc, kill people effectively. These uses are drenched in politics, so have to sign
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by screye 2y ago
I agree with your premise, but golf is a bad example. Golf is heavily subsidized. It's the poster child of a sport that wouldn't exist if it had to pay fair taxes or abide by free market pressures. There are a handful of activitie
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by screye 2y ago
What changed ? US population is stable, enrollment has increased, and all of these universities have been prestigious for a while. I understand that UCs have pivoted to pseudo-private school status by increasing tuition and international st
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by screye 2y ago
The released dune movies follow a cliche hero's journey. (At face value) Talented hero faces tragedy -> adopted by outcasts-> is the promised savior -> learns their ways -> defeats the challenger -> wins heart of ladies
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by screye 2y ago
> political, economic, social turmoil I can see a happy medium, where (ex)colonizers return artifacts to neutral safe harbor near the home country. If Indonesia is unstable or if museums don't meet standards, then let artifacts be h
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by screye 2y ago
Is USC that hard to get into ? My understanding is that Stanford, Berkeley, Caltech and UCLA are more selective and UCSD has better academics. If you're a selfmade tech founder millionaire......maybe have some faith in the caliber of y
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by screye 2y ago
To be fair, good private schools ($60k/yr ) and their associated activities easily add up to a million over 12 years. It's a lot of money, but not unheard of, even among upper middle class families. At the same time. If you invest
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by screye 2y ago
I don't understand. The Pakistani army maintains a strong grip on the nation's leadership. I don't see why the US would need to intervene here. The US picks favorites. But doesn't intervene in Pakistani matters. Welfare
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by screye 2y ago
The recitation error is a big deal. I was ready to champion gemini use across my organization, and the recitation issue curbed any enthusiasm I had. It's opaque and Google has yet to suggest a mitigation. Your comment is not hyperbole.
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by screye 2y ago
> elect Pakistan is and has always been run by the army. It sounds bad, but in 2024, radical populists such as Imran Khan sound even worse. One option is to twist their arm into good economic policy using loans. Wold Bank has already att
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by screye 2y ago
Question for active professionals during the Moore's law era of computing. Back then, were executives writing such grand proclamations about the future ? In my experience, when things are working, executives are quiet. The outcomes spe
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by screye 2y ago
It's the inevitable conclusion of American meritocracy. In a world where you can achieve anything, someone without achievements must be incapable or, worse, apathetic. Pair that with routine measurement, and it creates a real compoundi
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by screye 2y ago
Reminds me of an anecdote about a lead engineer for metro rail projects in India. The lead engineer has over-designed the infrastructure by 3x over the standard. The junior engineer thought he was incompetent. Turns out, he's paid the
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by screye 2y ago
Could you elaborate on the takeaways that challenge existing priors ? The points in the OP boil down to: * Focus on your product * Hire well * Be extra diligent towards bottlenecks * State your metrics clearly * Communicate often and immedi
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by screye 2y ago
It's easy to validate the veracity of 'War mode'. If survival hinges on a critical deliverable, then the promised reward must be in line with the stakes. You can't have an employer offering a 20% bonus for keeping them a
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by screye 2y ago
If 100% of a job is easy enough for a fresh community college grad, then it is easy enough to be outsourced for 1/10th the cost. The 5% of the job that is hard, is what you're paid for. It is what keeps the job onshore, and it is
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by screye 2y ago
13 billion euros = 2 miles of subway in SF downtown [1] [1] https://www.transit.dot.gov/sites/fta.dot.gov/files/2024-05/...
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by screye 2y ago
At face value, surveillance to limit drunk driving is good. Problem is, no one trusts car manufacturers or the NSA to keep their eyes off the data. Car crashes are the leading factor for years of life lost among Americans. Obesity, cancer a
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by screye 2y ago
What sort of large animals need a pick up truck ? Anyone who owns horses or cows surely doesn't live in cities. The original comment appears to be talking about urban areas in particular.
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by screye 2y ago
Elden ring derives from souls like games, and Sun Wukong's combat is in the same family. Nothing wrong with it. Combat styles in gaming are inherently derivative.
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by screye 2y ago
Has anglo-Canada ever been meaningfully distinct from the US ? It is as tightly bound to the US as Puerto Rico. I can't imagine Canada adopting economic, military or cultural policies that favor US enemies without being strong-armed ou

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