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by spcebar 1y ago
I'll add, from Soul of a New Machine, "Not everything worth doing is worth doing well."
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by spcebar 1y ago
There's stories that bridge the gaps between the two models of explosions and fires and legally actionable fast moving breakages that bring new people into start-ups who put these processes into place and generally shift the culture to
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by spcebar 1y ago
Oh man. Early in my career I was working a job I didn't like and doing work that was by necessity incredibly hacky and tedious—not an interesting challenge, just a grinding one. It involved overwriting template files that weren't
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by spcebar 1y ago
Something is nagging me about the AI-human replacement conversation that I would love insight from people who know more about startup money than me. It seems like the AI revolution hit as interest rates went insane, and at the same time the
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by spcebar 1y ago
The study is here: https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bsa... It's an analysis of cognitive decline from "active coping and grit". The study is being done exclusively on a black
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by spcebar 1y ago
RAM brought back that funky sound which had been completely absent from contemporary dance music. It was a revival of old elements, mixed with modern electronic sound. A masterful mingling of elements of the past and the future coming toget
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by spcebar 1y ago
How does people using it offset the amount of energy used to train it? If I use three hundred pounds of flour learning to make pizza, the subsequent three hundred pounds of flour I use making delicious pizzas doesn't make the first 300
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by spcebar 1y ago
Rick Adams, creator of Temple of ROM, runs the online museum for Colossal Cave: https://rickadams.org/adventure/ If you're interested in the history of the game, strongly recommend giving it a look. Lovely, patien
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by spcebar 1y ago
I had the exact same experience hosting my own text adventure on a Telnet server! Endless bots trying to log into the "press 1 to start, press 2 to load" screen. My secret dream was that a bot would write some weird sequence of co
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by spcebar 1y ago
In theory a web developer is already overriding these styles, and if they're not, they can. Default browser styles are never to be taken for granted.
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by spcebar 2y ago
One of my favorite books by my favorite author. Tracy Kidder gets to the heart of everyone he profiles like no other. Strongly recommend his book House if you like Soul of a New Machine. Funny anecdote: I've read Soul of a new machine
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by spcebar 2y ago
> // I dislike having a prefixed unit as the base reference. What a horrible decision. Why don't you just have it go to ten and make ten a little louder? Really delightful.
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by spcebar 2y ago
Conversely, a story from the opposite end of the extreme: Fresh out of college I got an interview at a company that made games. It was exactly what I wanted to do and I made it miraculously far given the fact that I had zero real world expe
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by spcebar 2y ago
Original study: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(24)... It's worth noting that the chimps were in captivity, so it's not like there were researchers crouching in a bush in the jun
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by spcebar 2y ago
> Let’s be real: In effect, pronouns are a form of generational warfare. Oh, **** off. I agree that grace is something that sometimes gets lost in the cutting edge of liberalism. The article touches on this—in some cases, yes, it's
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by spcebar 2y ago
The technical term is babbling! It's a step on the road to acquiring language and it occurs in different phases at different ages for different infants. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babbling
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by spcebar 2y ago
I certainly can't claim it's the best, but I combined Conway's Game of Life and the falling sand game and I think it's neat. https://benergize.com/games/conways-game-of-life/
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by spcebar 2y ago
This looks cool and useful, but I think you're advertising it from the wrong angle. Here's some unsolicited advice which you can take or ignore. Source: Former ecommerce developer at a fancy agency that worked for companies of vas
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by spcebar 2y ago
The buildings across the street from the city hall plaza are an interesting counterpoint or maybe complement to brutalism. They're the same cement architecture but the concave areas of the faces are filled with brick, so it looks like
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by spcebar 2y ago
Keep trying with the chat bot. Mine's been chillingly responsive and very impressive. It's probably just a frontend for ChatGPT but it's very well done.
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by spcebar 2y ago
Project wise probably little, though I'm sure hiring will be affected by economic conditions set by economic policy. More materially, I'm a less productive coder when I'm filled with anxiety and dread from headlines everyday.
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by spcebar 2y ago
Fun fact about that intersection vs many intersections. Most intersections around Boston will give pedestrians the walk light automatically on a cycle, and the "push to walk" buttons don't actually affect the cycle. At that i
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by spcebar 2y ago
Location: North Carolina (authorized to work/citizen of US & UK) Remote: Ideally Willing to relocate: For the right role Technologies: Unity, Godot, GameMaker, JavaScript, C#, PHP, Linux, Mac, Windows, Shell, AWS, Azure, GCP Resum
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by spcebar 2y ago
You might be talking about the intersection of Boylston and Tremont (if you went to a school by the common you know this light well). As a pedestrian it's a shitty light because of those drivers you're describing, as a driver it&#
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by spcebar 2y ago
Can you give an example of what some of those layers might be in an application?
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by spcebar 2y ago
Getting "TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'scoreThreshold')" when loading the Pong example.
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by spcebar 2y ago
I think religious fasting is more about the symbolic significance of fasting as an act of self denial and self cleansing, but there are plenty of religious dietary restrictions in religions that probably stem from ideas about health and foo
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by spcebar 2y ago
I can't help but worry that the people behind Sable will just go and start another shell company and once again engage in this bad behavior.
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by spcebar 2y ago
A user can be satisfied because they're receiving an answer, but it might be a totally wrong answer, maybe in some obvious way like 2+2=5, or in a much less obvious way, like generating a /mostly/ accurate biography of a pers
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by spcebar 2y ago
I've found YouTube Music's recommendations very good. I somewhat routinely do 14 hour drives and I always end up hearing three or four new songs I love. As I've listened to various songs it's done a great job of figuring

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