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by shantly 7y ago
I do not know, but have a suspicion, the esports gambling is a bit more intertwined with the esports itself. I'd be surprised if we don't have some scandals come out of that, if anyone ever decides to take a close look.
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by shantly 7y ago
In that there’s actual wagering being done over outcomes, and platforms built to facilitate same.
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by shantly 7y ago
It’s probably because there’s an actual gambling industry related to esports. Just like betting on horses at the track, or gambling on football, or whatever.
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by shantly 7y ago
Nah, I'm a 40-hour-a-weeker myself, I'm not sure it's strongly correlated with that. Some folks, you say "do you think you can do [thing you're basically familiar with] in [language and platform you're not]?&qu
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by shantly 7y ago
My experience watching a shop deal with transitioning to new Macs was that it was impossible to actually know a macbook+cable+device combo would work until you tried it. You could research all you wanted and there was still a chance it&#x
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by shantly 7y ago
I'm not sure what causes it—and I'm not even sure it's a bad thing, certainly it must not be hurting these folks careers too much, and maybe it's even helping them—but there's a certain path for developers that ends
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by shantly 7y ago
There has to be some reason that a language that benchmarks like Java is used to build so many heavy-feeling bloated programs that eat way more memory than seems reasonable, even from big "tech first" companies. Either lots of hig
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by shantly 7y ago
I need a couple showers a day or my bedding would start to collect oils & such so much that it starts causing skin issues when I sleep in it. I mean it does anyway but slowly enough that I can go a reasonable amount of time between wash
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by shantly 7y ago
If I've used Wolfram Alpha correctly, a 7nm span of silicon circles the earth 5.4874958×10^-16 times at the equator.
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by shantly 7y ago
Man, BeOS was amazing. I don't really have anything else to add, but damn did it crush Windows and Linux desktops of the time. Performance and general UX pleasantness, both. And it was at least as stable as they were (yes, the Linu
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by shantly 7y ago
I'm pretty sure Amazon offsets a fair bit of their "free Prime shipping" costs by raising prices, perhaps selectively. UPS and Fedex can't really do that since they're not also setting the price of goods sold.
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by shantly 7y ago
According to their selection criteria, low-activity public repos without many stars will also be skipped. So, "share only code no-one cares about and don't work on it much" seems to also be an option.
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by shantly 7y ago
Privacy and encryption schemes operating over the Internet already assume hostile actors can see your traffic at any or all points between your device and the other end, so that's not an added concern (and yes, lots of entities are s
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by shantly 7y ago
Yep, it's the high reliability & quality of the first party software (Safari, their office apps, notes, and so on), the excellent battery life (largely due to the software—run a browser other than Safari and watch that benefit take
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by shantly 7y ago
A glance over some dictionaries reveals I'm leaning on an essentially archaic and poetic sense of "bias" here to evade its meaning exclusively an unreasonable judgement, it seems.
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by shantly 7y ago
Am I wrong in thinking that "echo the biases they're fed" is a pretty complete, concise description for what "AI"/ML systems are supposed to do?
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by shantly 7y ago
Same problem, I have to essentially disable it to make a Macbook-with-Touchbar usable. Go to its settings, disable per-app configuration so it always stays the same, then, from whichever part of it you accidentally brush most often (for me
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by shantly 7y ago
World's full of 2nd-tier places to visit that are damn near as good as 1st-tier, but have 1-5% the visitors, putting them way the lead, experience-wise, except for taking instantly-recognizable "I been thar!" photos. World
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by shantly 7y ago
Most of the decent, semi-mature decentralized VPN or VPN-like meshnet things I can find are GPL or LGPL, so App Store incompatible, meaning no Apple phones (or tablets), at least.
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by shantly 7y ago
You’re catching shit in part because the “strange language” is a kind of standard tool in its niche (automatic graph layouts & drawing). It’s called “DOT” and may be regarded as venerable, if a touch obscure. See: https://www
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by shantly 7y ago
Haha, thanks. Nah, I wrote that just now and don't have, like, a source I go to for this stuff that's not pretty well-known already, or a blog or anything. Maybe I should start one. Not exactly ready to explain anything else like
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by shantly 7y ago
> If you're willing to let a value slide, its not a value. I suspect this is so strict that if we poked at it it wouldn't allow for the existence of values. Simply, it's probably nearly impossible to make a useful list of
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by shantly 7y ago
> as in, I don't know what a data structure is Basically everything you work with in programming is a value (the number one-hundred-seventy-five, for example: "175") or the address—location in computer memory, say—of a val
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by shantly 7y ago
Can confirm, have seen that exact thing happen.
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by shantly 7y ago
Risk of having a statement misconstrued or taken as a much bigger deal than it is is why people (who want to actually land a job) are so fake in interviews to begin with. It ends up mostly being a test of whether you can put on your "i
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by shantly 7y ago
If you don't mind sharing, what was it from Auth0's "call us" column for pricing that bumped you up to that tier? Middle one is still high, but under $25k, let alone $50k, for 7k MAU.
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by shantly 7y ago
Bingo. Risk is what keeps me off anything without a cap on billing. If I spend $25/mo on Digital Ocean, that number's not gonna change unless I tell it to. My site may go down, but I won't accidentally run up a five-figure bi
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by shantly 7y ago
I think there's a lot of inefficiency, actually, in a lot of orgs, because devs are highly paid but can't (for whatever reason) be permitted much status at all, which includes other employees whose job it is to do data entry &
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by shantly 7y ago
Developers do this. On the flip side, "product owners" or clients or "stakeholders" or whatever will, not infrequently, propose a little feature that is someone else's entire product . I always try to point this
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by shantly 7y ago
You know you're screwing up UX when just pulling an 8 or 9 year old copy out of the repo, making it pass tests, then deploying, would result in an immediate, massive improvement. Though as other commenters note, making the interface ni

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