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by skeaker 4y ago
This is where I first heard it as well. I remember that it stuck out as being novel in terms of crass humor, but according to the article the term predated it by several years at that point. Makes you wonder about what obscure new words are
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by skeaker 5y ago
How absolutely ridiculous. As far as I'm aware Disney was not using this property and intentionally shut it down years ago. This is akin to a dead author from hundreds of years ago coming back from the grave to arrest you for posting t
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by skeaker 5y ago
I was going to ask a similar thing. Does this AI not pull from a massive pool of countless examples of real human-written code? In the majority of cases, perfect code is far from necessary (put another way, solving Y will generally suffice
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by skeaker 5y ago
That's a really fun and interesting concept! The way that quest names can be more specific than broad genres while still encompassing several books is great, because you kind of know what you're getting into without giving away th
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by skeaker 5y ago
Now you're thinking like the author of git-blame-someone-else: https://github.com/jayphelps/git-blame-someone-else
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by skeaker 5y ago
How do you go about bringing these up over the course of the interview?
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by skeaker 5y ago
Genuinely asking, roughly how old are you? I'm in my early-mid twenties and of the ~100 people I keep in touch with my age range from high school, there has been one child born (by accident if the rumors are true) and zero marriages. O
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by skeaker 5y ago
If time can be filled for free by unwilling participants, fabricating crimes becomes a very obvious option for malicious actors.
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by skeaker 5y ago
I think the author has his whole idea backwards here. We should be looking to lift everyone out of having to work in sweatshops so that everyone can follow their passion, be it making games or other art. The author instead believes we shoul
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by skeaker 5y ago
I've encountered this myself as someone who maintains small open source games. Engineers with vastly more experience than I do have approached me with contributions, but needed me to walk them through installing and using git. You coul
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by skeaker 5y ago
That's quite literally the opposite of how Russel's teapot works. Russel originally thought up that scenario to show how silly it is to put an unprovable idea forward (specifically the existence of god, which Russel absolutely did
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by skeaker 5y ago
School kids live with their parents/guardians, and if they get it it will most likely mean that those guardians also will. That can be very serious for a kid who literally depends on them for everything including food, clothing, housin
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by skeaker 5y ago
Every single useful open source program that was made by a community
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by skeaker 5y ago
I think that would kind of go against the message of unhindered and haphazardly-made AI being a serious threat.
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by skeaker 5y ago
What a fantastically written article. Justo ultimately passing away without completing the cathedral is tragic to me, but I have to say that it is fitting with his beliefs. I wonder what he would have done had he managed to finish it, or if
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by skeaker 5y ago
Seems that collaborative drawing suffers from desyncing, though that may be because the site is under some stress at the moment.
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by skeaker 5y ago
There are plenty of anecdotes of games having real world skill benefits that I think people overlook. One of my favorites is a friend who ended up majoring in business because of the in-game trade economy of Team Fortress 2 of all things, a
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by skeaker 5y ago
I'd imagine that for at least some of them it has to do with appearance. "Facebook is so secure! It's got ten whole password requirements!"
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by skeaker 5y ago
Your point being what? That because USD is uncommonly used in ransomware it can't be used to commit crimes? Do you really think that no extortion has ever taken place via USD? Because I can guarantee you that money-related crimes and s
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by skeaker 5y ago
The 3DS also happens to have perhaps the most fruitful console homebrew scene in recent memory, having full on all-versions unpatchable exploits that are very simple to perform. I wonder if that's in some part the reason that Nintendo
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by skeaker 5y ago
The development cycle for SS13 works entirely off of random contributors throwing up PRs simply because they want to. Hundreds of contributors, thousands of PRs, and tens of thousands of comments and feedback on those PRs is what keeps the
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by skeaker 5y ago
This is true, but there still has been drama with the ownership of the source code in the past. The Goon fork that has always been one of the biggest forks but is also closed source has leaked on a few separate occasions, for example.
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by skeaker 5y ago
I love little things like these, tucked away where they're not likely to ever be seen or used. I guess you could call this an easter egg.
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by skeaker 5y ago
It wouldn't be far fetched to assume that it checks output against a real dictionary
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by skeaker 5y ago
No, but that doesn't mean you should deliberately play into it.
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by skeaker 5y ago
This assumes that the only bugs or other glaring issues that can be found with telemetry are crashes. There can be non-design-related problems with a program that negatively affect the experience without crashing it that can also only reall
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by skeaker 5y ago
This is a fascinating answer that has persuaded me to your side. I recall opting out of Dolphin telemetry because I simply couldn't be bothered to check what would be sent, but seeing not only examples of what data is sent but also how
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by skeaker 5y ago
Repairability has an extreme impact on lifetime, so if you're concerned about the latter, you should care about the former just as much.
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by skeaker 5y ago
Because it relies on the majority of the population to unanimously change their mind and diets. Between economic reasons (alternative diets can be more expensive to a family that has no time to cook every meal), health reasons, traditional
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by skeaker 5y ago
I think this article uses the word "bloated" as a verb, in that those kinds of features cause bloat, but the languages themselves are not necessarily bloated. It's like how saying I'm being fattened by eating a bag of ch

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