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by smaudet 3y ago
Its usually driven actually mostly by hardware. Which is driven by games (and now apparently AI). Hardware gets better so UI gets more glittery, everyone tries to "stand out" by looking/working best, so the UI "taste&quo
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by smaudet 3y ago
Anything using AI should be considered a massive security risk.
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by smaudet 3y ago
I mostly agree, except this is a simple game. It should be simple to play. If folk aren't seeing the text laid out in front of them, there are a couple tricks - demonstrate, make the instructions pictographic/difficult to dismiss.
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by smaudet 3y ago
I have a context for a fair number of mobile games. The UI felt fairly intuitive to me. Was it great? No. But I also didn't have to spend any time figuring anything put. Context matters the most.
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by smaudet 3y ago
Part of it is laziness or some mental block, but I have observed what I call "computer untrustworthyness", and experienced it myself, even. If you can constantly guarantee that everything work the same all the time, then there are
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by smaudet 3y ago
"As that work began, contaminated soil was discovered in a wider area beneath the building, where it was not expected. DOE paused work in April, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the DOE national laboratory in Richland, was ca
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by smaudet 3y ago
The problem was three-fold: 1. Everyone trying to build a do-all-the-things-junk-ware-drag-and-drop system. Turns out fixed styles are a pain with complex widgets that are supposed to talk to one-another. 2. Turns out that designing somethi
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by smaudet 3y ago
I had an interesting experience lately with a mentalist performer...they were using various subtle powers of suggestion to influence their outcomes to "predict" and "mind-read". And yet when I mentioned the (well documen
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by smaudet 3y ago
The best teams do the most because they have the most trust. The worst teams are usually spending time paying down technical debt, or busy generating it to meet a deadline. Same goes for "rockstars", only its easier not to "l
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by smaudet 3y ago
I don't think he's dumb, but I also think a lot of people underestimate what they are capable of. Its a neat project, but it is one of those lots-of-grinding projects. Any tech professional should be able to pull this off, reaso
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by smaudet 3y ago
The numbers are as follows. 3,855,103 sq m 36,991,981 people in Canada is 36,991,981 / 3,855,103 ~= 10 people per square mile. 3,794,100.43 sq m ~300 000 000 people in US is 300 000 000 / 3,794,100.43 ~= 80 people per square mile.
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by smaudet 3y ago
> The more talent there is in Canada, the more talented work can be done. Eh, no. If you ship a bunch of CS majors off to a cattle farm, they aren't going to get hired to do websites for the cows. You need demand for the talent or
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by smaudet 3y ago
https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/taxes/federal-income-tax-... https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/tax/individ... https://www.retailcouncil.org/re
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by smaudet 3y ago
The impression I've always had of Canada is there simply isn't enough country to sustain their level of socialism. Conservatism can be important esp. when trying to conserve resources. Specifically, despite having higher populatio
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by smaudet 3y ago
"Lower cost of goods and services help everyone." That's nice, but the reason there are so many "socialist" tendencies is there are so many authoritarian, nigh even fascist tendencies emerging. Companies are and hav
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by smaudet 3y ago
I do agree some roles. e.g. sales, have to be done in office. If you want to snooze someone over dinner a remote call is a poor shadow of an option. Less certain about roles that are generally technical. The strongest claim for in-office wo
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by smaudet 3y ago
This is what is meant by the "big corps haven't cracked it". More progressive corps embraced online socializing earlier, and honestly that's all I need. To be sure something is lost socially by not being in person, but t
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by smaudet 3y ago
> The only thing I am sure about is that any guess I would make now would probably be wrong :). I think you could probably make some guesses and some of them would be right, a couple of mine: 1) AI takes over - coding as a practice mostl
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by smaudet 3y ago
I'll throw a wrench in - I like heavy views. In HTML, in desktop GUIs/mobile Apps, in Databases, maybe games. HTML is founded on the principle that your data is semantic, it knows how to submit and modify itself. You have <form
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by smaudet 3y ago
I more or less agree, the main issue with your "Model" is that it doesn't separate Data from Service (or Manager or Database or whatever your data-management layer looks like). A lot of "MVC" has Model as a dumb Dat
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by smaudet 3y ago
"The old 'what if evil terrorist' nonsense." The old nothing bad ever happens nonsense. Have you heard about the Ukraine conflict or does your lack of coherent points include a lack of knowlegde of current events? Then t
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by smaudet 3y ago
Yeah, it is pretty terrible. For one reactor, you would have a point. For many reactors, it is x1000 time cost.
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by smaudet 3y ago
So many unfounded assertions.
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by smaudet 3y ago
"The idea that our primary worry should be that maybe in 300 years countries will be unable to handle this simple technical task that the US figured out in 1960s is bananas." I suggest you open a history book. It is quite likely t
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by smaudet 3y ago
"dangerous levels of mismanagement would only occur in a postapocalyptic setting." I know it's not your argument, but based on what exactly? Accidents (repeatedly) happen. I don't get where this concept comes from that a
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by smaudet 3y ago
"A thief is mostly just scifi nonsense." Yes, militaries, secret services and terrorists don't exist. Russia/China/USA don't exist and wouldn't find it incredibly convenient to cause major damage to each o
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by smaudet 3y ago
"The reality is in terms of safety there were 1000s of things happening in the 70s that damaged far more people then some nuclear waste management." Eh, no. You are making my point for me. All the "nuclear is safe and sustain
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by smaudet 3y ago
To be fair there are diminishing returns to additional hires, typically hiring one additional developer produces maximum 20% additional throughput, often lower after onboarding/hiring too green. You might have to double or triple team
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by smaudet 3y ago
110% is code for "we are broke/greedy a-holes so we can't hire anyone, please instead magically produce more for us - management what's that, isn't it called nagging employees?"
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by smaudet 3y ago
> The worse consequences of these events came from the evacuation of the zones, not from the radiations. As if, had we only not evacuated people and left everyone around, nobody would have died and everything would have been better... &g

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