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by shoo 7d ago
Apparently, this UFO series was one of the influences that went into the 1994 game UFO: Enemy Unknown (X-COM).
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by shoo 7d ago
US Department of Agriculture publishes a national potato & onion report (issued daily!): https://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/fvdidnop.pdf Readers may wish to skip ahead to page 4, where onions are discussed.
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by shoo 7d ago
Pricing is per onion. You could order some and weigh them, and report back.
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by shoo 8d ago
there's also the (apocryphal?) tale about a brokerage investigating which of their clients' stock portfolios had the best performance, and discovering the best performing portfolios belonged to the clients who were dead. https:&#
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by shoo 10d ago
Quite a few successful businesses have their origin story in the founders starting business A, running into some annoying problem, then starting business B to solve that problem. Be the party robot liability insurer you want to see in the w
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by shoo 12d ago
Excellent article. I am a fan of approximation, but this is a great moment to pause & be thankful for access to non-ersatz coffee.
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by shoo 14d ago
that was the one where you heal by biting the heads off lizards
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by shoo 15d ago
You could go further -- much of the 'why' context might be captured outside of the source code completely, say scattered across design documents / commit messages / issue trackers / test suites / powerpoint dec
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by shoo 16d ago
Is that actually true though? Maybe Americans get higher incomes because US companies structurally sell to larger markets than Australian companies, so - at least for those roles with scale / leverage - the role is more productive &amp
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by shoo 1mo ago
see also: in 2016, Soren Johnson interviewed Sid Meier about his career & the games he designed - there's over 6 hours of discussion with Sid split over 4 podcast episodes: https://www.idlethumbs.net/designernotes&
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by shoo 1mo ago
tangent: this unfortunate design choice by the old Sierra adventure games has been discussed a number of times on the Designer Notes podcast, focused on game design [1]. Soren opens each discussion by asking the guest which is the first gam
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by shoo 1mo ago
there isn't a market for gamers buying games on CDs these days, so it's not really a problem that needs to be solved
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by shoo 2mo ago
In 2016 Trump got 46.1% of the popular vote vs Hillary Clinton's 48.2%. Expressed as fractions of the total US population in 2016: - about 28.5% of the population was not eligible to vote (due to age or other reasons) - about 31.
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by shoo 2mo ago
space filling curves can also be used under the hood in data structures that support efficient spatial queries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert_R-tree
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by shoo 2mo ago
> To target a space-based laser for the Strategic Defense Iniative (commonly known as the "Star Wars" program) I'm guessing this application would be selecting an ordering to engage multiple simultaneous targets in minimal
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by shoo 2mo ago
DoD may be a good idea for a business context where one of your main priorities is getting the most efficient use out of memory bandwidth & cache. E.g. if your job is writing game engines or middleware used by AAA games with fancy graph
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by shoo 2mo ago
> I haven’t seen those thoughts about community when I have read about patterns in SWE Maybe a bit of a tangent to your point: one major difference that jumped out at me about Alexander's work vs the software engineering 'patte
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by shoo 2mo ago
A related concept is liability. Suppose you're a service provider - a contractor who performs maintenance services. You sign a contract with your client, BigCo, where you will service their plant's fancy $1m machine every month, a
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by shoo 2mo ago
Am I right to guess that neither your dev nor prod machines ran IA-64? If so that's not ideal, but beggars can't be choosers & a spare box from the infra team available right now is better than getting a box built to meet your
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by shoo 2mo ago
It depends wildly on the type of game. e.g. if you're playing a single player turn-based strategy game, you might be taking a few seconds between each decision & UI interaction. Some hard turns you might step away from the computer
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by shoo 2mo ago
Couple of guesses: your usage patterns may have been similar to usage patterns of other customers that are often problematic, so some automated anti-abuse system made some statistical decision & banned you. you're a false positive,
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by shoo 3mo ago
I'm not a potential customer for this, but i have worked on a few commercial projects involving combinatorial optimisation. Misc thoughts: - I'm not familiar with the LABS problem, but the LABS benchmark page is interesting &
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by shoo 3mo ago
> there are no plans at all to improve the last mile infrastructure The economics of laying fiber to the premises are heavily driven by density of potential customers * probability that a potential customer will sign up if you run fiber
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by shoo 3mo ago
> things like employer matches in retirement accounts seems completely reasonable to model this as income. > health insurance contributions If your employer provides a health insurance benefit that would otherwise cost you $X / y
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by shoo 3mo ago
When thinking about years of work until financial independence, its worth understanding the impact that savings rate has - the fraction of post-tax income remaining to invest in growth assets after expenses. If you're not familiar with
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by shoo 3mo ago
If the client has an extensive suite of automated tests assessing if the software is meeting its requirements, it should be possible for them to flush out most regressions within minutes or hours, not weeks. If the client hasn't invest
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by shoo 3mo ago
The paper could be improved by including a strong classical non-Ising-machine solution approach as one of the methods benchmarked against. E.g. take the same 8-core Ryzen machine they use to implement their simulated Ising Machine HbSB meth
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by shoo 3mo ago
In some cases it could be driven by the shape of the work & where the funding is allocated: If there isn't enough guaranteed recurring work, it might not make sense to have a full time position, particularly in a country where its
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by shoo 3mo ago
when i worked for an australian bank, one co-worker in a nearby team had been working on the the banks systems as a sysadmin for over a decade. the bank would go through cycles of "we need to reduce our headcount and outsource everythi
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by shoo 4mo ago
Like you say, there's a fair bit of nuance. Data representations that prevent invalid states being represented are extremely helpful in many domains. I'd strongly recommend making invalid states impossible to represent for schema

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