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721.
by smokel 3y ago
I think the idea with companies is that management decides. If you don't like that, you can discuss it, go someplace else, or even start your own company. But demanding it, and calling management stupid would be my last resort.
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by smokel 3y ago
I was responding, slightly in jest, to the "Which is plain stupid" argument.
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by smokel 3y ago
Perhaps they like working together in a physical space. It's not all about attracting sociopathic talent.
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by smokel 3y ago
If you'd extend touch to sensor input for gravity and acceleration, I suppose theme parks and carnivals provide the art form you are looking for. Making this kind of categorization leads to a question to which the answer probably says
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by smokel 3y ago
Simply putting the comment text in Perplexity [1] leads to the following result: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/scientists-find-about-a... [1] https://www.perplexity.ai/
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by smokel 3y ago
I was being sarcastic, sorry for that. Critical thinking might work for a few people in higher education, but it surely doesn't work for all of us.
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by smokel 3y ago
Sure, but there are so many skills to focus on, that one can hardly expect people to stay off drugs because one lesson was spent on how bad it is. Companies are constantly inventing new ways to get people hooked on their platforms (or produ
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by smokel 3y ago
There are even more reasons to use a monolith, or to simply use a service oriented architecture. Probably not necessary to repeat here, but microservices add a lot of complexity due to asynchronicity, limited interfaces, and more complex er
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by smokel 3y ago
No, it's not. Where does it say so?
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by smokel 3y ago
> then don't use them This assumes that humans are rational agents. I think that drug addiction, wars in Israel and Ukraine, conspiracy theorists, and free-climbers sufficiently prove that this is not the case. If only life were
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by smokel 3y ago
Also interesting in this context is the podcast series "The Advent of Computing" [1] by Sean Haas. Episode 36 is specifically about CP/M, and there are several episodes that paint the history of the x86 architecture that we&#
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by smokel 3y ago
I totally agree. There are some confusing differences in definitions of art :) I feel sorry for the illustrators, and wonder how they'll be able to sustain their creative passions.
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by smokel 3y ago
Note the "mostly" and "typically". There are some amazing artists who really know what they're doing. The chances of an artist having a PhD in machine learning and a masters at Goldsmiths are statistically speaki
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by smokel 3y ago
> you're having people modify files that you will also change How is this different from the ever changing nginx configuration files? I think the underlying problem is that various programs use different ways of shipping things.
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by smokel 3y ago
Most of contemporary art is unaffected by the current AI craze. On one hand, the art world has been steadily pushing boundaries since the 19th century, and computer technology is just one blip on the vast radar of interesting subjects (othe
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by smokel 3y ago
Thanks for sharing that link. It's risky business to infer anything from job preferences though. Consider that (as far as I know) an extraordinarily large proportion of professional programmers are male -- obviously a cultural pheno
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by smokel 3y ago
Why does aphantasia come up so often on Hacker News? I find it mildly annoying that there is nearly no scientific backing to it, and that we are having the same discussions over and over again. It seems very similar to the RSI craze, back i
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by smokel 3y ago
Ads in TUIs are an underdeveloped market, I suppose.
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by smokel 3y ago
There's also Cheetah [1], Falcon [2], and Lynx [3]? [1] https://cheetahtemplate.org/ [2] http://www.falconpl.org/ [3] https://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/scott/papers/1989_TR3
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by smokel 3y ago
I'm learning to play chess, does that count?
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by smokel 3y ago
Have you tried contacting them to see if they are interested in using it to their advantage as well?
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by smokel 3y ago
Swift, QuickBASIC, Turbo Pascal?
743.
by smokel 3y ago
Thanks for clarifying. The downvotes and other comments teach me to enjoy sarcasm a bit better.
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by smokel 3y ago
> how much did language contribute to our evolution? If you see language as a basis for science, then there are some profound effects due to anti-conception medicine, and rich but ugly intellectuals seem to be doing better than expecte
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by smokel 3y ago
I'm way ahead of you :) Unfortunately, rewriting it without reverse engineering makes it almost impossible to reach the same performance characteristics. These are essential to reproduce proper timing in several games. Also, it may no
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by smokel 3y ago
I've asked this before, but I'll try again every time Basic ROMs come up :) I've written a fully functional emulator for the Philips P2000T, my childhood love, and I wish to distribute it along with the Basic ROM, as nearly a
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by smokel 3y ago
This sounds profound, but when I give it some thought it says very little. Language can easily be interpreted as a technique of the tongue, or of the hand, of the clay tablet, of mark making, et cetera. Obviously, the main contributor to th
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by smokel 3y ago
A bit lengthy, but I for one tend to agree. Basically, most of us haven't figured out how to meaningfully make the switch from real-life communication to online.
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by smokel 3y ago
A lot of communication happens online, but that doesn't make it great. Most communication online is unidirectional, dishonest, or plain wrong. Before the internet, there was television (the drug of a nation...). I fail to see how soc
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by smokel 3y ago
How will we be able to check whether the pixel perfect images are actually pixel perfect, or whether our minds simply trigger the (binary?) signal "looks crisp to me"? I've oftentimes tried to recreate such a vivid image, eit

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