tlobes

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by tlobes 5mo ago
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” -Upton Sinclair
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by tlobes 10mo ago
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair HN has seen this quote many times; tech workers willfully or naively ignore the harm their contributio
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by tlobes 6y ago
For OSX users, this seems to run best in Safari Technology Preview.
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by tlobes 6y ago
Tested Sumerian and it's a barebones 3D web tool (modeled after Unity but more akin to ThreeJS editor) that can be controlled via script by other services. One example is being able to do some tasks like in-browser AR.
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by tlobes 6y ago
I'm always curious if deceptive actions like these are approved by an individual, a committee, or are perhaps a byproduct of unrelated tasks driven by lazy oversight shrouded by process.
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by tlobes 7y ago
Flying into LAX from Asia last week, I had expected to spend a few hours at the airport before officially entering, but alas, it was worryingly expedient only being asked “did I travel to China in the last weeks?”
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by tlobes 7y ago
Enhance
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by tlobes 7y ago
Apex Legends, a property from Respawn Entertainment though technically under the EA/Origin umbrella, has a different approach on cheating by using a combination of deep learning from previous matches and shadow-banning cheaters to play
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by tlobes 7y ago
Joe Rogan's booking and showrunning team(s) needs a lot more credit where it's due. The politically and professionally diverse guests they are able to get, no doubt with the assistance of Joe himself, is absolutely incredible. You
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by tlobes 7y ago
Is the issue of anxiety and depression among Gen Z being brought to the center stage internally at FB? I’d feel a whole lot better about the company if I knew that an actual effort was being made to right some wrongs in it’s wake of addicti
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by tlobes 7y ago
My HEDT at home serves as my VR development machine and doubles as a gaming rig. I generally save basic research, design, and sandboxed coding for my MacBook Pro at a coffee shop. If I had a similar performing laptop that could replace my d
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by tlobes 7y ago
Given that the latest Mac still uses an Intel CPU, I’d say the range is [5,7] years at minimum, based on Apple’s current vintage/obsolete policy, before x86 support is dropped from OSX.
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by tlobes 7y ago
I’m curious to know how much room there is for optimization in their code
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by tlobes 7y ago
Are there any private prison models that were shown to be more effective than their peers or public counterparts? While I agree that the vast majority (if not all) of private prisons, and those who participated in profiting from them, are u
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by tlobes 7y ago
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40600593 Similar story in the Weimar Republic from 1918-1933
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by tlobes 7y ago
I'm stuck with a $4000 brick I cannot use without frustration. Given that I'm still paying it off, this really hurts motivation. Another issue that seems to be overlooked is the overly big force touchpad that, in combination with
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by tlobes 7y ago
I'd agree with the exception of the utterly awful keyboard & trackpad design that appeared in 2016 that seemed to skip any meaningful QA process inside Apple. The popular dust complaints aside, a brand new machine has immediate pro
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by tlobes 7y ago
I’d love to have been a fly on the wall when WeWork pitched their business model and seemingly unique approach to coworking that somehow validates the amount of investment they have received compared to any other coworking space.
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by tlobes 8y ago
I signed up for this after moving out of my apartment and temporarily set up forwarding to my a freind’s address. It’s a great service, though I realized no confirmation was needed for me to start getting this info.
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by tlobes 8y ago
Most likely this. I have a few dev accounts, one which I know I used the feature at some point, another few which did not and those were not reset.
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by tlobes 8y ago
The article only mentions the engineers being laid off, not the managers who botched it, nor the executives who hired with incompetence. The reward structure of such a corporate environment would seem counter-intuitive to success.
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by tlobes 9y ago
Crazy thought. When a company with a ton of accumulated assets (data) craters, do the rules of bankruptcy and/or mitigating their losses to investors force them to just sell these assets outright? This may not happen in the next few de
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by tlobes 11y ago
Ex-famo.us (pre-pivot short-term contractor'ish) here. It's sad to see famousJS go to the grave, but I'm excited to see dmvaldman's samsaraJS ( http://samsaraJS.org ) evolve into something great (cakaaaaaaw!).