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by somnic 3y ago
Resource constraints would be a concern, yeah, so if you were developing a game featuring LLMs (which would, at this point in their development and maturity, be a gimmick) you would keep that in mind and keep other demands on resources low.
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by somnic 3y ago
VR isn't pragmatically accessible to the average gamer due to hardware requirements and the necessity of setting up the right physical environment but there are still VR games.
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by somnic 3y ago
Discord allowed hotlinking their files until recently, so it wasn't necessarily driving as much engagement as all that.
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by somnic 3y ago
I think that's generally true, but it can still be interesting to see early works from people who go on to hone their crafts. Sometimes just seeing how they progressed is worthwhile, sometimes the unpolished nature can emphasize brilli
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by somnic 3y ago
There's an extension for firefox called Tree Style Tabs. I never really got into it but some people are quite enthusiastic, pretty similar to what you describe though.
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by somnic 4y ago
I get your point, and maybe as someone who's not part of said industry I'm missing something, but it seems like it'd be helpful even to the target audience to actually show how this plugin can transform video.
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by somnic 4y ago
Yes, LVT pushes prices down. A 100% LVT on a property with a present land value of $1M won't collect $1M in taxes every year, it'll depress the price until the amount in LVT is at a low enough level that someone's willing to
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by somnic 5y ago
In cities, there's less need to drive with walkable areas, and a scale that better supports mass transit. Smaller land footprint, and smaller homes take less energy to heat or cool. Economies of scale in providing goods and services. S
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by somnic 5y ago
A manager's anxieties over losing an employee are not equivalent to an employee's anxieties over losing their livelihood. So taking less issue with it is perfectly consistent with it being a moral position.
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by somnic 5y ago
Partly, but also smaller living space is in fact part of the tradeoff that you make when building stuff close together. It's a worthwhile tradeoff in my opinion, but I'm also not saying that single-family car-centric suburbs shoul
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by somnic 5y ago
>Yes, you still want a car for such things, sure it's quaint and nice to have a "walkable" neighborhood, if you're a tourist, but if you live there and have to schlep around by foot with your groceries every day, in a
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by somnic 5y ago
>Maximum employment and productivity are the highest economic policy goals No they're not. Or at least they shouldn't be. High employment is good because it means that everyone's getting some money to spend on things they
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by somnic 5y ago
Firstly, it wouldn't necessarily shift as much burden onto landlords, depending on the tax. The burden would be spread around all earners if it were an income tax hike, or all consumers for a sales tax or VAT. The extent to which it do
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by somnic 5y ago
Personally, I hate that whole thing of having a subreddit devoted to things you hate. Maybe I should start a subreddit about it. Or maybe there are billions of people on the internet now and seeking out only the most infuriating 0.01% still
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by somnic 5y ago
I agree that encouraging people to beg former coworkers is shitty, but I'm not sure this is really introducing anything new. If I have a friend who's looking for a job and they ask me to refer them to my employer, then if I think
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by somnic 5y ago
So instead of an authoritarian policy that you can't have more than one child, forcing a lot of people to not have kids they do want, you want an authoritarian policy that you can't go on birth control, forcing a lot of people to
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by somnic 5y ago
I wonder if the lessening of children's perceived obligations to parents is a factor, too. If cost of living is high but you expect your kids to look after you in your old age then that changes the risks. A few generations of wild econ
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by somnic 5y ago
Renewables aren't ready to take over from fossil fuels yet as baseload power, aside from hydroelectric, which isn't able to be built everywhere and can come with its own significant environmental and social costs. The dangers of n
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by somnic 5y ago
It's not that they don't count. They count just as much as air pollution, heat stroke or hypothermia, from fossil fuels and expensive or unreliable energy. Nuclear has costs, yes. Weigh them up against the costs of every other alt
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by somnic 5y ago
One thing I find missing in xmonad vs dwm is the notion of tags. Being able to summon and banish groups of windows at a time was something I found pretty handy.
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by somnic 5y ago
Easy account switching is the sort of thing that browser extensions would have been developed to cover in the past, something like like RES for Reddit or XKit for Tumblr. That's obviously less relevant when a majority of users are usin
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by somnic 5y ago
I mean, if Brendan Eich's known for anything it's for getting a lot done in 10 days.
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by somnic 5y ago
This only makes sense if tenants are a liability, because you get property value increase + rental income. As long as renting doesn't decrease the property value by more than the net rental income there's gotta be something else
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by somnic 5y ago
This is equivalent to saying everyone must work to earn their basic livelihood. Unless you're doing something funky with your definition of "handouts" here such that doesn't include unemployment benefits or other publicl
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by somnic 5y ago
I do find it rude that people would go to the devs for issues like that. It's one thing if it's not working on a system that's supposed to have support, but otherwise you should really be figuring it out yourself, or going to
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by somnic 5y ago
The assumption that accreditation and education must be done by the same organization is absurd, really. Public schools evidently have the exact same incentives. The answer is that third parties should be evaluating education, not administr
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by somnic 5y ago
I mean, isn't that just status quo bias? You can come up with a story for how anything will result in negative consequences. If we didn't have medical gatekeeping you could just as easily come up with a story about how requiring p
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by somnic 5y ago
Another thing that happens these days is that a game of telephone has gone from "there are lots of valid ways to understand things, so don't punish kids who get the right answer with a different method than the one and only way yo
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by somnic 5y ago
IIRC there's some research that suggests maths education before 8th grade doesn't really do a whole lot long-term. I doubt that'd be true in a perfect world with personalized maths education for everyone, but I'd buy tha
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by somnic 5y ago
Kurzweil used to treat exponential curves as if they were "hockey-stick" shaped and there was a meaningful turning point in the shape of the curve itself. So it's arguing against that silliness, not claiming that exponential

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