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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
Age combined with seeing the trite and cliche hooks to get people to read/listen/watch the usual self-promoting puffery over and over again. Sometimes it’s just the author discovering something mundane and wrapping it up as a TED
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
> What I don't understand is how followers of this philosophy overlook the obvious, basic, overwhelming flaw. How do you overlook that? Followers of sama? Simple: in it for the money. The only tangible philosophy that sticks ends up
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
Scumbag? Based? Not sure what to say on this. If NYT loses, we all win.
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
About as well as automation of devs.
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
> I know that if you go back far enough in these posts of mine, you will find some real crap in there. Sometimes that's because I had a position on something that turned out to not be very useful, or in some cases, actively harmful.
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
NeXT and Apple are stories of a founder bulldozing ahead with a vision, his coming and going coinciding with the respective companies’ high and low tides. The discussions around a “thing” are framed in the context of the of the thing, the f
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
Put another way, the logo can be anything.
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
Some decent commentary here: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1giwi4s/why_chi... We had a few days ago an article on a similar subject, but just the rise of China in terms of over all tech. S
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
If you can advise them, I hope for their sake they’ll move to the States because they’re underpaid in most so-called first world countries.
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
Didn’t CAD automation software also adopt it? I remember MasterCam, SolidWorks and others needing hardware dongles. The market for that is tiny compared to music but, the money made basically guaranteed given adoption rates. Even today I th
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
One use of an AI tool potentially would be to try to correlate the angle that a publication would benefit from by pushing a particular viewpoint. In other words, I want to read not the article, but what WSJ gets from it. That’ll tell me if
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
Framing it differently, they have skin in the game.
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
Primitive Tech is more useful than 3B1B from that perspective.
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
Not sure why this is downvoted. It’s the absolute summation of this sort of thing. Anyone who grew up in that time period can immediately relate to both the personal feeling of it, as well as the anonymity and isolation of these things from
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
We used to talk about this but people shot us down as racists and didn’t grok what was happening in front of them. Played right into that fiddle.
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
WARNING: Do try this at home.
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
This time it’s different and it changes everything and it’s our best one yet.
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
Another reason to avoid The Atlantic.
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
C# is Pragmatic [0]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41761346
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
Technical ability and programming are orthogonal.
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
Because it makes for excellent headlines and advances the author’s career.
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
Because the author isn’t a bona fide dev and couldn’t tell shit from shinola wrt code quality. Like a lot of other research it’s nonsensical.
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
One follows from the other.
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
> As we are moving more and more towards physics-based rendering, engine are shifting from imitating what's observed to properly defining the world and its interactions and get realism as a byproduct. Sigh. Anyone who’s done physica
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
> For some context, Google’s largest fine so far was €4.34 billion (approximately $4.7 billion), issued by the EU in 2018 over antitrust violations related to Android — minuscule next to Russia’s current demand. Yes, Russia is aware of t
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
> Nevertheless, the behavior of large groups of people can be described quite well using mathematical models. The whole article is amusing. What absolute fucking puffery lmao.
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
> But a good graphics rendering engine will do it. Correlation/Causation: lots of things in graphics rendering work because of observed phenomena. A “good graphics engine” is only as good as the eyes that implemented it. Todays engi
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
Next time someone says “gee I’m glad we aren’t anything like Reddit!” I’ll have the replies in this thread to point them to. Keep ‘em coming fellas.
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
In case it isn’t obvious: You pay a salesforce architect (like the ones in this thread) thousands of dollars per day and not get jack shit in return for years. Or you can DIY one of these small shopify sites, grow from a small business to a
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
No it isn’t. It fucking sucks. Most everyone who learns HTML comes across the validation attributes, the god awful built in date pickers and other shit, and they throw it out in favour of custom built better UX implementations. Maybe in the

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