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by slx26 6y ago
If everybody was such an optimist... well, they would eventually become pessimists when they realized good intentions alone aren't enough, but there are few optimists with good plans. Ok, there are also very few pessimists with good pl
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by slx26 6y ago
Ideally, making efficient websites shouldn't be that crazy: you only want to minimize roadtrips, minimize the size of the content to transfer, and maximize caching. With http and html alone, you can't really do this. The caching i
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by slx26 6y ago
Yeah, and here I was talking about arguments and consensus when most people are indeed playing other games on top of it. Good points.
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by slx26 6y ago
Let's imagine we have a group of 100 people and we want them to reach consensus on a controverted topic. Let's apply a divide and conquer approach: pair people 1 on 1, and if they can agree (even if the agreement involves differen
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by slx26 6y ago
dedication
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by slx26 6y ago
Yeah. You can optimize as many metrics as you want, but you never have all the metrics. You can optimize your kid's soccer/chess/piano/judo skills too. Maybe it will allow them to live the life of their dreams. Or mayb
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by slx26 6y ago
People with experience are acknowledging this has value for newbies. That you already learned the lessons doesn't mean they aren't valuable to others. Sure, not the most exciting and creative piece of writing we have seen this yea
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by slx26 6y ago
Wouldn't they be easy enough to triangulate quite precisely anyway?
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by slx26 6y ago
Your local pub might be trying to offer an alternative to local people staying on their homes watching tv instead. Linux and peertube are trying to offer an alternative to something of a much bigger scale, and most likely with more pressing
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by slx26 6y ago
It happens with language. Although you can label both as "opinions", one of them is, probabilistically speaking, a more substantiated opinion.
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by slx26 6y ago
Observing the movement of pieces quickly reveals that the board is divided in 64 squares. Squares being black and white or any other set of colors is actually irrelevant. They can basically fully understand the game from this, no need to ma
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by slx26 6y ago
Yeah, I think this is a good point that doesn't appear often enough in discussions about work in modern life. For example, when talking about work week length or women joining the workforce, people rarely stop to debate about the histo
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by slx26 6y ago
Hey, bartwr, thank you very much for writing so clearly and in such an approachable way about the work you do, providing a more holistic (over)view of the field and the challenges involved. I assume that your other more technically detailed
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by slx26 6y ago
I honestly think that what's novel here is the phrasing and a bad twist involving guilt and innocence. Look: the idea that moral corruption can be contagious is not new at all. We are very inclined to mention it explicitly when talking
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by slx26 6y ago
That was very informative and accessible, thanks again!
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by slx26 6y ago
Hi, could you or someone else with the right knowledge give some examples of those optimizations/hacks for ray tracers or point me to some place that explains those in more detail? Thanks in advance.
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by slx26 6y ago
I don't even know what should be done with people like this. Are there any appropriate deterrent measures? Do scammers on that level require psychotherapy? What can be done about all this?
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by slx26 6y ago
Yeah, related to this, I wanted to comment on this paragraph on the article: > There should be no reason to ever study a game where a beginner stands a reasonable chance of winning. I want a game that rewards experience, that permits fur
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by slx26 6y ago
I believe this is a poor essay on a very important topic. With the evolution of society, the nature of the jobs we do has changed a lot. In part that's ok: "modern living standards" involve more services and products than wha
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by slx26 6y ago
When you are kind to others, that tends to create a connection and a shared space with others. You belong more. But what if you only make anonymous donations, or help others in ways that are "kind" but do not allow others to conne
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by slx26 6y ago
NPC's were much better placed in the Witcher 3 because you had way less NPCs, they were on more distinctive locations and they gave good side quests more often. So, each one was more meaningful. Sure, they weren't much more intera
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by slx26 6y ago
You are right, but what people are complaining about is that they can't interact with that world. You can't poke at it. If we had short loops of the game scenes displayed in a museum we would praise it, but people want videogames
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by slx26 6y ago
I agree scale is very important and it still has too little visibility. Everyone knows the quote "with great power there must also come great responsibility". Well, scale is indeed power. An action applied to one person might not
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by slx26 6y ago
Yeah. For perfectionists and procrastinators, it's good to focus more on small chunks of work in order to make more measurable progress... but in general, I feel that what the world needs is people moving less (movement is not always p
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by slx26 6y ago
Hey, congratulations to everyone involved in the project. These are the "little" things that make art, internet, people and life more interesting. Maybe not a lot of people will say it out loud, but keep it up anyway!
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by slx26 6y ago
I actually have a reversed view of what you say about good/bad faith. I think bad-faith communicators are a group small enough that if enough people actually had the ability to have meaningful discussions (which requires being able to
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by slx26 6y ago
While I agree this an important factor to keep in mind and I'm personally very supportive of the idea, I don't think this really addresses the author's concern, which is not too much free speech as in "too many people be
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by slx26 6y ago
I think this is actually very insightful. What if we agree with Knuth, and we add "but only sporadically and in a limited way"? That's a much more subtle and interesting line of thought.
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by slx26 6y ago
I like that people write about this kind of things, as it shows they care about the direction they are walking towards. The essay is more an exposition of uncertainty and personal preference than actual arguments, but it's a good start
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by slx26 6y ago
Yeah, you just feel you actually got it right.

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