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by thom 2y ago
I think a lot of this is subjective. The ideal you're trying to serve in an RPG is making the player identify as deeply as possible with their character. For some people, having complete, instant physical control and a sense of place a
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by thom 2y ago
I'm sure I'm not the only one that in Morrowind onwards (heck, Starfield too), I always drag various followers along for the ride to avoid playing solo. In Oblivion it was weeks before I even started the main quest because I wante
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by thom 2y ago
Bexowulf.
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by thom 2y ago
To be clear: the win here is that there's no longer duplicated (or worse - less capable and outdated) code to do the same things in both the bootloader and the kernel, however the two versions of that code might be deployed.
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by thom 2y ago
Fascinating to me that this only mentions phones once in passing, and even if it had made a big deal about that seismic change in the industry, it would still be wrong. It doesn't mention Microsoft's struggles in the console marke
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by thom 2y ago
Didn't realise how big a cultural phenomenon this was. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ws0QtAiiXQ
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by thom 2y ago
I'm always slightly sad when software developers are confident that software can't possibly make them more productive.
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by thom 2y ago
The book seems to be available at: https://www.ancientportsantiques.com/wp-content/uploads/Docu...
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by thom 2y ago
Raoul McLaughlin in The Roman Empire and the Indian Ocean estimates that customs taxes on trade through Red Sea ports could have accounted for fully _one third_ of all Roman income in the first century AD. It’s always been fascinating to me
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by thom 2y ago
Been thinking about knowledge management a bit lately, and maybe doing it well is just impossible and you should let the AIs embrace the chaos for you. But I still have this lingering question: what number employee should your CIO be (if an
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by thom 2y ago
But neither of those outcomes is desirable from a wider viewpoint. Society doesn’t benefit from companies only innovating by stealing from each other, nor does it benefit from active collusion.
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by thom 2y ago
An awful lot of complexity hidden behind the word 'unhobbling' here, for example page 33. Not to say we can't overcome those challenges, but they're by no means tweaks in the margins.
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by thom 2y ago
Computationally a very interesting problem though, optimising for minimal edit distance (in both text and sound) weighted by frequency. Coming soon to a coding interview near you, no doubt.
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by thom 2y ago
I don't know if this is buggy or if the approach is just flawed, but there are a lot of missed opportunities for clearer mappings here. Another comment showed an example where 'response' maps to 'spahns' which is a
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by thom 2y ago
The article explains why the former is often just security theatre.
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by thom 2y ago
Blogs aren’t just content, and there’s no correlation between the resources available and the quality. They’re popular (both to read and to write!) because they’re a venue for authentic human voices. Like adding “reddit” to a google query t
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by thom 2y ago
Coupled with deleting my Twitter account, having a newspaper subscription has given me a much more mindful relationship with the news. It’s also just some space carved into my day, and as I’ve grown older I’ve realised how much I value thes
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by thom 2y ago
This is why I very heavily favour functional tests or broad use-case based integration tests that are implementation agnostic. Save your highly coupled unit/property based tests for algorithmic code or weird edge cases when things are
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by thom 2y ago
GraphQL always felt to me like it solved the easy part of the problem and offered nothing to solve the hard part. I have a similar response to things like Zanzibar. At the end of the day I want to go and get some stuff out of a database, an
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by thom 2y ago
But those services know about each other and have to communicate, right?
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by thom 2y ago
These just seem like sagas, but with the drawback that you now have an additional service for every saga (so now you have N+M problems?) Also if you centrally own all business processes, why did you land upon a microservices architecture in
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by thom 2y ago
Gotcha, nicely done.
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by thom 2y ago
Was this before or after Nova? I’ve found CLion quite pleasant coming from Emacs - it’d been years since I wrote C++ and I’d never used CMake so I was finding myself spending too long feeding Emacs to get an environment I was happy with. It
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by thom 2y ago
This is what alienates me when I try to use VSCode every year or two. It has a wonderful extension ecosystem and seems generally quite competent, but there’s no culture of just putting stuff in a text buffer like every other thing. Extensio
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by thom 2y ago
I generally use windmove, and have Ctrl-Shift-F/B/P/N move to the window in the respective direction.
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by thom 2y ago
Removing this anxiety was one of the most unexpectedly powerful changes in my life. And then in a moment of hubris I signed up for an American Express card and now have to relive it every time because a good portion of vendors in the UK don
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by thom 2y ago
Yup, this is the way. Natural language is an excellent search/specification front end. But without disambiguation and perfect clarity on how a query was interpreted, you cannot trust a black box for real work.
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by thom 2y ago
Definitely fun to ponder, speculate away! Parmenion lost to Memnon before Alexander turned up, maybe he wasn't so hot? Alexander's logistics on the journey home certainly seemed a mess, maybe he shouldn't have alienated so ma
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by thom 2y ago
Been a while since I was in this position but that first £100k used to be a cakewalk. SEIS made it almost a no-brainier for any high net worth individual to invest in startups.
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I very much appreciated the Landmark Arrian, which has extensive footnotes and images of terrain etc. They also do an edition of Xenophon’s Anabasis (another story a Greek army frolicking in Persia). https://thelandmarkancienthis

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