tdsamardzhiev

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by tdsamardzhiev 5y ago
Our part of Europe is... special.
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by tdsamardzhiev 5y ago
Most regular people don't try to cover up sexual harassment.
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by tdsamardzhiev 5y ago
Not if the alternative to working for Amazon is, well, death by starvation. People say communism falls apart once subjects stop having reasonably similar goals. Market economy is certainly more resistant to this, but is it infinitely more r
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by tdsamardzhiev 5y ago
I've worked with some great programmers who check all the boxes. It gets harder and harder to have a reasonable discussion about programming as some generic type of activity.
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by tdsamardzhiev 5y ago
Everything opens instantly on M1. Enjoy it while software hasn't slowed down accordingly.
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by tdsamardzhiev 5y ago
I remember a time when people could take being called a "doofus" without starting a smear campaign.
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by tdsamardzhiev 5y ago
A popular esports caster said the following a few days ago, and it really got stuck in my head: > "We can't have new games like Brood War anymore, because devs would patch out everything that's fun about it in a few days.&
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by tdsamardzhiev 5y ago
All the manufacturers will seek innovative ways to milk users, and whenever any of them succeeds, all the rest will follow suit.
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by tdsamardzhiev 5y ago
Never understood people complaining of radio ads until I got to hear what American radio is like. They legit play ads after almost every song. Yikes!
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by tdsamardzhiev 5y ago
I'm willing to go further. My parents' microwave has a single knob, and mine has two but I have never used it at something other than "High".
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by tdsamardzhiev 5y ago
Dear UMN folks, please just shut up and do as you're told. This is the best course of action for recovering your image in the eyes of both the FOSS community and the general public.
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by tdsamardzhiev 5y ago
I like pressing the switches. No mush. Feels good. That's all there is to it, in my experience. Compared to my laptop, it makes zero difference with regards to typing speed and arthritis. But yeah, I like it.
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by tdsamardzhiev 6y ago
There is a reasonable middle ground, but all of Big Tech has gone way beyond that, Apple included.
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by tdsamardzhiev 6y ago
People are different. Perhaps he tends to go down slippery slopes with this kind of things. I know I do.
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by tdsamardzhiev 6y ago
Edit: Ah, I see -- you mean the last line in flexie's comment. Alright, it was either added after I read it, or I somehow managed to miss it.
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by tdsamardzhiev 6y ago
Blame? On the contrary, he went the extra mile to explain why it was the right decision for Denmark, but mindlessly copying it was NOT the right decision for Bulgaria, and people died because of it. Acting like our govt did is a very Bulgar
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by tdsamardzhiev 6y ago
Electron blows my mind every time I open Activity Monitor. How on the Earth does Spotify manage to use 2GB RAM and 48 threads for a music player?!
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by tdsamardzhiev 6y ago
I'm concerned that a failure will greatly hurt the progress of spaceflight and the public opinion of it. Other than that.. well, we got 8 billion people laying around, all of us are going to die, and there are very few more glorious wa
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by tdsamardzhiev 6y ago
The Earth is a triangle.
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by tdsamardzhiev 6y ago
Honestly, with both CP and TW1/2/3, I feel that if they scrapped the “numbers RPG” elements, they would’ve had significantly better games on their hands.
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by tdsamardzhiev 6y ago
Agreed. Youtubers talk about the bad stuff in CP because that generates the most clicks, and people who haven’t played the game get the idea that it’s like Anthem. Meanwhile, most PC players are 20+ hours in (On average! In a week!) and ha
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by tdsamardzhiev 6y ago
Maybe that’s just how people talk in ‘77 Night City.
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by tdsamardzhiev 6y ago
The juniors won’t be fired either, but they don’t know that and usually get abused because of it. If a company expects you to crunch, that means there’s too much work. If there’s too much work, it’s extremely unlikely that somebody doing a
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by tdsamardzhiev 6y ago
Quite fitting for a LISP survey.
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by tdsamardzhiev 6y ago
I think Dan Grossman's Programming Languages courses are amazing if you have slept through the subject in university: https://www.coursera.org/learn/programming-languages
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by tdsamardzhiev 6y ago
Fun-centrism certainly helps if you're making something that (1) targets mainstream audience and (2) takes 50+ hours to finish.
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by tdsamardzhiev 6y ago
You're supposed to see the world through the memories of a 9th century Viking (who also happens to be a great figure of the Nordic mythology), of course the invasion of England will be portrayed in a positive light and Anglo-Saxons wou
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by tdsamardzhiev 6y ago
My observation is that most smart people are very prone to depression if they stop and think about stuff. And yeah, the ongoing global pandemic, social isolation and economical crisis isn’t making that any better.
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by tdsamardzhiev 6y ago
I'd argue that by now The Bomb has saved way more people than it has killed (no WW3, etc). And that's not even counting the other achievements of the Manhattan Project, such as the first artificial nuclear reactor.
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by tdsamardzhiev 6y ago
Um, that's how science works. It's an effort to explain the world. Everything is a theory, nothing is final. Some theories (evolution, gravity) are more credible/developed than others.

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