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by teamonkey 2mo ago
That’s a weird value to get funding for right now. If a publisher wants to fund something cheap and niche, maybe a bit of a gamble, it’s too much. If they want to fund a more fleshed-out title that is likely to succeed with a bit of marketi
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by teamonkey 2mo ago
PCG is authored, its usage has intention.
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by teamonkey 2mo ago
> Because what loosened those patients’ grip on reality was prolonged exposure to a voice that sounded informed and assured, and always felt supportive and patient. Elites have been surrounding themselves by Yes Men for centuries. Is thi
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by teamonkey 2mo ago
Yes, but the testing bit is what makes it a scientifically-proven method and not a folk remedy. There are also a lot of folk remedies that have been disproven as medicine. They too were ‘common sense.’
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by teamonkey 2mo ago
This is a misunderstanding of how scientific research works, why it is done and how it is done. Reducing the number of people who can do science will not pay off in the long run.
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by teamonkey 2mo ago
The purpose of hiring grad students isn’t to advance science, it’s to train experts.
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by teamonkey 2mo ago
In a thread talking about the Dunning-Kruger effect, no less
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by teamonkey 2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_instrument
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by teamonkey 2mo ago
My favourite theory is that the climate crisis is stressful to think about, reducing its impact requires everyone to make sacrifices, and there’s a lack of control over the situation. People will be inclined to latch on to anyone making an
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by teamonkey 2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_no_one_rid_me_of_this_tur...
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by teamonkey 2mo ago
The current trend is saturation. The current rate is over 4000 new games a month on Steam. The problem isn’t that great new games aren’t being released, it’s finding them.
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by teamonkey 2mo ago
I think it describes the methods needed to obtain and process a large amount of data in a field where getting a small amount of data is expensive and requires incredible hardware.
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by teamonkey 2mo ago
Bluntly, I think this just highlights why software engineering is not a serious engineering discipline. There are some exceptions, like safety-critical systems, but on the whole, software is not designed and developed with a rigor comparabl
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by teamonkey 2mo ago
You don’t need spinning reserve, but you do need enough reserve power that can supply grid-forming generation on demand. Batteries can react fast enough to peaks and troughs in voltage load, so long as there are enough of them where neede
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by teamonkey 2mo ago
It’s not an either-or.
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by teamonkey 2mo ago
‘(Lisp would like a word)
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by teamonkey 3mo ago
Nobody is trying to remove all street lighting. There are plenty of practical suggestions on here and in that document about how things can be improved without reducing safety.
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by teamonkey 3mo ago
I posted several metrics by which the power used by these data centres is ‘excessive’. You’ve decided that those don’t matter and you’ve created some other metrics by which you could consider the power use typical. But just because you’ve f
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by teamonkey 3mo ago
Merriam-Webster says: “Excessive: exceeding what is usual, proper, necessary, or normal” https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/excessive The power use of data centres is objectively exceeding what is usual or norm
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by teamonkey 3mo ago
> considerable decline Again, I think, citation needed, since conservative media does like to bang on about this a lot, but I’ve not seen actual proof that education standards are falling, or worse than they were when I was at school.
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by teamonkey 3mo ago
> This person is hilarious, for non-UK people who are wondering what this is, this is a joke candidate for an MP who is getting a lot of attention because of the political system in the UK not working very well. Yes and he’s running agai
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by teamonkey 3mo ago
I went looking for stats saying the UK has declining literacy rates but could only find ones that said that literacy was improving. https://www.ons.gov.uk/explore-local-statistics/indicators/e...
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by teamonkey 3mo ago
In addition to the other comments it’s worth pointing out that MPs are not allowed to resign. They’re elected by the people. They can be moved into another public service role, and there are ceremonial roles designed to ‘shelve’ MPs, but ot
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by teamonkey 3mo ago
Of course it’s excessive. Questions should be asked about any one industry using 23% of a nation’s generating capacity, when it was not built for this purpose. Of course it’s excessive. Ireland’s electricity is not cheap or in such plentifu
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by teamonkey 3mo ago
Objectively, yes. It means to consume excessive or plentiful amounts of something, and 23% of Ireland’s electricity generation capability is objectively an excessive and plentiful amount.
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by teamonkey 3mo ago
I don’t really see the link between data scientists and datacentres, or even AI researchers and datacentres. The data scientists aren’t the ones working in the data centres. There’s no real advantage to having the data they’re working on ne
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by teamonkey 3mo ago
Anything up there needs to reflect as much as possible to avoid building up heat. That which it can’t reflect is absorbed and needs to be emitted as efficiently as possible. Vantablack would likely make it absorb heat readily and glow in t
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by teamonkey 3mo ago
I think there’s a human bias where we remember predictions being wrong more strongly than those being right. The study shows that they weren’t wrong or right in equal measure, they were right more often, considerably so. But that doesn’t me
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by teamonkey 3mo ago
I don’t disagree with the problems you mention, but US and European wages are high, and margins keep getting tighter and tighter. A lead studio with a small headcount can outsource work internationally for often much cheaper than the same j
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by teamonkey 3mo ago
A unique look is 99% art direction.

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