thfuran

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by thfuran 9mo ago
How do you find yourself using en dashes more than em dashes?
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by thfuran 9mo ago
A handful of words is generally more memorizable than the same number of bits as a random alphanumeric string. You wouldn’t need a very long pass phrase for 80 bits as long as you’re using a large dictionary.
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by thfuran 9mo ago
>Most of my peers would rather work with brilliant jerk than a friendly average person. If that’s true, you work somewhere very strange. Almost everyone hates dealing with assholes.
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by thfuran 9mo ago
Alpha go and stockfish were specifically designed and trained to win at those games.
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by thfuran 9mo ago
Yeah, rendering at smaller sizes is one thing, but icons being made uninterpretable by system provided shadows and highlighting seems like an unforced error.
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by thfuran 9mo ago
If you put the history of the orthography in reverse, it looks like someone getting good at drawing.
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by thfuran 9mo ago
Paying to remove the ads likely doesn’t also remove all the other design decisions based on maximizing ad revenue rather than utility for users.
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by thfuran 9mo ago
So much more time? The difference in frame time between 480 hz and 240 is 2 ms.
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by thfuran 9mo ago
EVGA outright gave up on selling GPUs rather than continue working with NVidia.
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by thfuran 9mo ago
I'd rather have a big monitor with no network connectivity or speakers.
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by thfuran 9mo ago
But the management immediately gets street cred for increasing headcount and managing more resources.
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by thfuran 9mo ago
He’s keeping some around so he can fire half again next quarter for another bonus. That’s the sort of forward-thinking strategic direction that made him the boss man.
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by thfuran 9mo ago
It definitely isn’t. It’s good in many contexts, but zealous adherence to some pithy design principle without consideration is bad engineering and bad design.
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by thfuran 9mo ago
Refusing to support your claims is not effective argumentation.
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by thfuran 9mo ago
Why are you right?
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by thfuran 10mo ago
I don’t care if most people aren’t going to do that. The company flat out shouldn’t be permitted to brick a device they already sold you, and this is a viable alternative.
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by thfuran 10mo ago
>Basically, we have been, since 2010, only spreading out the same number of pixels on larger areas of glass Only if you ignore that 4k entered and then became common in the consumer space since then, followed by the introduction of 8k.
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by thfuran 10mo ago
>None of the models (even AI in general) can capture this None of the current models maybe, but not AI in general? There’s nothing magical about brains. In fact, they’re pretty shit in many ways.
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by thfuran 10mo ago
I don’t think waiting for profitability makes sense. They can be massively disruptive without much profit as long as they spend enough money.
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by thfuran 10mo ago
Who is that meant to entice?
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by thfuran 10mo ago
>Many advertisers may avoid advertising or lower their ad budgets. Great. Once that happens, we can work on regulation to kill even more advertising.
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by thfuran 10mo ago
Yes, I mean from the consumer perspective. You're right that the user of an entirely ad-funded service isn't the real customer. They're still at least somewhat the customer when they're still providing some of the revenu
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by thfuran 10mo ago
I think there is a fundamental problem with an ad-subsidized service. Even ignoring the privacy issues inherent to the way modern advertising works in practice (which you probably shouldn’t ignore), the mere presence of an advertiser as a t
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by thfuran 10mo ago
>The advertiser needs to expect to make more money in the scenario where they run the ad as compared to where they don't They don’t necessarily make more money from every user though.
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by thfuran 10mo ago
>While that might be healthier by the book, one thing it certainly decreases is time with friends and potentially time to network with others or make connections you might not otherwise. I'm a bit confused by the conflation here. Yo
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by thfuran 10mo ago
In an economic sense, any company with enough market share and control to manipulate market prices or limit its own competition has monopoly power and a pure monopoly is the sort of 100% absolute monopoly that people like to derail conversa
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by thfuran 10mo ago
That’s no hand.
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by thfuran 10mo ago
>on a Zync FPGA so you got to choose which bits you did in hardware and what was in software. You mean verilog vs block diagram, or did those boards have like a microcontroller too for more normal software?
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by thfuran 10mo ago
>Assume that every manufacturer out there is equally capable of creating a screen that faithfully reproduces the content to the best ability of current technology. That basically isn’t true. Or rather, there are real engineering tradeoff
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by thfuran 10mo ago
And the comment you’re replying to suggests that since many lived experiences are plausibly heritable, the term is appropriate. In any case, the context in which it is actually used in the article seems beyond all but the most pedantic repr

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