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by snackbroken 2y ago
> If you don’t promote your work, no one else will. This has not been my experience. If you do interesting things then there are plenty of people who are willing to bring attention to it. I've been cold-emailed by journalists wantin
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by snackbroken 2y ago
Human babies are born significantly premature as a compromise between our upright gait and large head-to-body ratio. A whole lot of neurological development that happens in the first couple of years is innate in humans just like in other ma
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by snackbroken 2y ago
The inference and on-line fine tuning stage can run on a few thousand calories a day. The training stage has taken roughly 100 TW * 1bn years ≈ 10²⁸ calories.
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by snackbroken 2y ago
> Anyway I have had a lot of success introducing programming with roblox scripting. It adds a lot of the "missing" lua library features and the script editor is a decent basic IDE that simplifies tooling, another huge pain poin
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by snackbroken 2y ago
A corporation can donate to charities/provide grants/implement policies that help people based on their actual circumstance rather than their membership of some arbitrary group. For example: Offer wage negotiation coaching to the
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by snackbroken 2y ago
Something I've been wondering for a while is if BitTorrent or other P2P protocols are ever a consideration for pushing game updates? Naively, it seems like an ideal fit since a large swarm of leechers quickly turns into a large swarm o
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by snackbroken 2y ago
It's certainly more of a thing in SV, but it's not just a SV thing. The US in general is about as far removed from the rest of the world on this axis as SV is from the rest of the US. Experiences vary, of course.
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by snackbroken 2y ago
Being of mutual benefit to the transactors is not the same as being of value for your neighbor. A transaction being mutually beneficial to the transactors is neither necessary nor sufficient for the transaction to be generating value. Consi
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by snackbroken 2y ago
In Firefox you can disable this behavior under Settings -> Customize -> Gestures. If your browser does not have an equivalent setting, get a better browser.
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by snackbroken 2y ago
> if you have several tabs, you need a SharedWorker to share the connection between the tabs. You don't have to use a SharedWorker, you can also do domain sharding. Since the concurrent connection limit is per domain, you can add
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by snackbroken 2y ago
In addition to the usual backup/restore policies, at $previous_workplace we disabled the "normal" prod DB admin accounts from running the usual suspect destructive queries (drop, alter, update, etc.) on the production DB. If
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by snackbroken 2y ago
> how do you sanely present to a user the fact that there are new messages to read, but they're scattered throughout the history of the message log arbitrarily far back? Like this[1]. It's how Element does it, and it's per
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by snackbroken 2y ago
This[1] bookmarklet strips everything that isn't preformatted plain text from a page. It seems to work on both gametabs[2] and ultimate-guitar[3] and probably others that don't try to get fancy with their typography. Hopefully it