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by smolder 2y ago
Pay-to-win mechanics used to always mean a game was not taken seriously competitively. Now with several genres of game it's expected you will pay money to unlock "DLC" characters (e.g. Street Fighter) that you can't othe
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by smolder 2y ago
Union Pacific (IIRC) still has one in use, aptly named "Big boy". It's been converted to run on natgas as opposed to coal. Jay Leno recently put out a Youtube video about it.
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by smolder 2y ago
I haven't used Uber any time recently but this both made me laugh and feel deeply sad.
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Amazon has spent a ton on developing features that lock in users beyond what is fundamentally 'cloud', i.e. the ability to lease computers as a commodity. I have always warned employers about the downside of adopting all that extr
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by smolder 2y ago
Your use of the word superintelligence is jarring to me. That's not yet a thing and not yet visible on the horizon. That aside, the point I like that you seem to be making is along the lines of: we overestimate the short term impact of
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by smolder 2y ago
It didn't pan out because attempts to replicate it didn't work. He seems like another LSD abuser who thinks every idea they have is good or maybe a grifter who wanted to maintain interest in fruitless theories.
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It's weird that you would state that so confidently when, as wikipedia says, "Hoffer's ideas about megavitamin therapy to treat mental illness are not accepted by the medical community." It didn't pan out.
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Right. It's not about 1 storm in isolation. Climate change is evident through the very clear and measurable patterns of weather over time, not to mention glacial loss, ocean acidity, etc.
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by smolder 2y ago
That's a good point. 1 storm in isolation is not evidence of anything. A pattern of increasingly severe weather events is.
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It's anthropogenic (human caused) warming.
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Perhaps, but the "does it leak?" bar is at least easy to qualify.
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And management consulting. But probably not plumbing, where the work product is very concrete and easy to judge.
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by smolder 2y ago
Loneliness causes suffering, and suffering does inhibit empathy, or so I read once in a pop sci recounting of a study. It would also make sense that a lack of empathy feeds back into the loneliness by harming relationships. Cyclic determini
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by smolder 2y ago
Regarding "shysters always project": it rings true to me, but given the topic, I'm primed to wonder how you could show that empirically, and if there's any psychology literature to that effect.
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by smolder 2y ago
I'm pretty sure I saw a "Forbes" guide on how to beat some video game quest at some point, or some other video game thing people would have been searching for at the time. I understood it to be SEO spam but this whole comment
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by smolder 2y ago
Apple TV can be separate, as can their music stuff. Other than that I'm not sure.
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I hate to say it since I'm generally against this kind of obstructive elitism, but I think that maybe one of the good things about rust is it's user-unfriendliness to amateurs. It has massive utility and ergonomy inherent to its d
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by smolder 2y ago
Discussion of your first link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39726388 I'm not qualified to judge the merit of that theory, really... but my impression is that it doesn't have the explanatory power to be a g
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by smolder 2y ago
> Yeah I just feel like they're talking about a problem they've been unable to solve, rather than a solution. That's right. There is not yet a definitive answer on what dark matter is, just several theories. WIMPs, MOND, p
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by smolder 2y ago
Dark matter is an observed discrepancy between measurements. There appears to be a lot of unaccounted-for mass, based on many experimental results. There are several theories as to what that observed discrepancy could be caused by. This is
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by smolder 2y ago
I won't speak for all of HN but I simply don't like low effort comments. Jokes like this are cheap and exist everywhere online. I come to HN to learn and discuss. I don't down vote an informative post with a joke tacked on, b
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by smolder 2y ago
I just meant that it's somewhat unergonomic when dealing with the instruction set directly, FWIW. Thanks for the reference.
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Much like juggling with your feet instead of hands is subjectively worse.
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The channels with no activity remain grey instead of white. It's important to me that I discover messages when I have some downtime and am interested in so-called discovery, as opposed to having junk interrupt my flow at times when I a
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by smolder 2y ago
I mute every "server" permanently, disable all "mentions" (@here, @role, etc) and it stays quiet except for DMs. If there's something I want to see I'll go look in a channel.
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by smolder 2y ago
See my top level post for more on this. It's not that there is no benefit to higher frequency memory on AM5, but that there is a penalty introduced above 6000 MT/s which isn't easily outweighed by further raising the memory
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I am only hypothesizing here, but I do not expect these to be useful on AMDs current AM5 platform due to the design of the memory controller. The reason is there is currently a drop off in memory subsystem performance when you go above DDR5
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by smolder 2y ago
I would guess it's partly the games you play not having a lot of fast motion and maybe partly that you're not really looking for it.
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This was my attitude towards cars when younger. Always bought cheap used ones and fixed them. It frustrated me to no end seeing people fail at basic maintenance and cut the lives of their vehicles by half or more compared to a maintained on
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My eyes are not best-of-best but the difference between 60 and 120hz in something first-person is dramatic and obvious. It depends on the content but there are many such games for consoles. Your claim that it's "slight" is on

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