tm-guimaraes

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by tm-guimaraes 26d ago
Well, being secular is kind of a catholic thing. Besides the vatican (for obvious reasons), catholics do have that tradition. To Caesar what is Caesar’s, to God…
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by tm-guimaraes 4mo ago
I think more than meta chasing, the problem comes from laxk of actual community due to the crazy effectiveness of online matchmaking. When all you had where community servers and rooms, toxicity was more manageable. With other players all b
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by tm-guimaraes 5mo ago
Also, the fact that other tech leaders know very well how Sam Altman operates doesn’t help OpenAI secure deals with big tech. Domain knowledge, expertise, is a big thing in tech, because code can be written fast if you know what to do, and
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by tm-guimaraes 1y ago
Network. Sending USD from random bank from random country to another random bank from another random country is a network problem. While it’s solved by SEPA in EUR to EUR countries by pan european clearing and settlement systems, out in the
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by tm-guimaraes 1y ago
When did Political corruption not exist? In what system in history did the people in power have so few rotten apples that corruption was an anomally? Blaming corruption on capitalism is silly. As long has worldhas resources, people want con
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by tm-guimaraes 1y ago
No. It’s about connectivity. Payments basics: Simplest scenario (details overly simplified) When you send money from account A on bank X to account B on bank Y, what happens is that Bank X debits account A on its system and credits bank Y’s
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by tm-guimaraes 1y ago
Stablecoins are actually the future of remittances, the problem is which stablecoin is safe and has enough adoption. (When a big or central bank decides to have a stablecoin, things will change a lot) I work in “traditional” (as in, non cry
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by tm-guimaraes 1y ago
Splitting phone and computer seems silly. The Apple value pack comes mostly from brand value, deep ecosystem interactions, and being pretty much the only big corp ONLY focused on high end personal computing devices. Almost all their revenue
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by tm-guimaraes 1y ago
> beautiful people I’ve watched both the original british “Ghosts” sitcom and the still running american one. And to be honest this is the american quirk that i found the most odd. I’ve actually like the fact they have created different
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by tm-guimaraes 2y ago
Don’t most games with expensive cosmetics lock them behind paywalls? I assume there is lots of cheating because of every game having matchmaking system for fair with rankings. And there’s a huge amount of people that feel locked into low r
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by tm-guimaraes 2y ago
And Europe is actually resisting better than US due to election system. Here in best case scenario they are number 2, and took them a long time to get there after Trump In the US, a populist just needs to win a primary, ie 50% of 50% of th
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by tm-guimaraes 2y ago
> its own philosophical tradition, and the Christianity that merely influences Japanese thought, it doesn't swim in savior narrative like the West's cultural canon. Really? I see Japanese works with as much if not more savior n
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by tm-guimaraes 2y ago
That did happen to the big Central American civilizations. Killing by a mix of inter conflicts and mass desease
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by tm-guimaraes 2y ago
Time to build a new system and time to onboard a new team member without professional experience in a given language are 2 very difficult things. Go is much more optimised for quick onboarding, fast feedback, more “code look” consistency ac
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by tm-guimaraes 2y ago
How does such a huge company do “full deploys” like this? At this number of endpoints, only a few % should have been updated (and faced the problems) before a full rolout This is not a small startup with some SaaS, these guys are in most co
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by tm-guimaraes 2y ago
Major clouds have been investing in ARM alternatives. x86 is still king compatibility matters a lot. But it is not as simple as Su paints for teams of x86 chip designers to switch to arm chip designers and reach top place , specifically be
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by tm-guimaraes 3y ago
> What you mean is probably 'as far as public billionaires goes'. And with regards to 'down to earth' like anyone of prominence they don't care about you or wouldn't help you in any way (and couldn't po
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by tm-guimaraes 3y ago
Also, less risky to start using in house modems on the smaller product segment (laptops with 5g)
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Copyrights' Cost(join.substack.com)
1 points by tm-guimaraes 3y ago|0 comments
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by tm-guimaraes 3y ago
It matters if you want to hack on them
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by tm-guimaraes 3y ago
> It is more about stealing an income stream or someone's time and labor. When I deprive someone of an income stream that they are able to generate without coercian (by forcing others to buy) Very murky argument, because pirating so
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by tm-guimaraes 3y ago
> Absolutely no one in Iraq cares that Americans still had their free speech when they destroyed their country and set them back 30 years Case in point is "doing business with American/Russian companies" not the evils of w
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by tm-guimaraes 3y ago
2 major differences: - the Afghanistan invasion was an actual reaction to a direct attack, not a “you are close to joining an opponent alliance” - in the west people were free to criticize the invasion, while Russians have much to fear if t
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by tm-guimaraes 3y ago
you have it backwards. CS:GO was bought (mande by external studio then bought), Dota2 is a remake of a wc3 map/mod.
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by tm-guimaraes 3y ago
Think of the benefits! Plenty of wrong opinions we don’t get to hear!
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by tm-guimaraes 3y ago
RaspberryPis are a physical good, those have production limitations. They are also quite cheap, sell well, and have kept prices. It’s quite different from a lootbox that has no production restriction (replication is instant and almost free)
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by tm-guimaraes 3y ago
For corporate use I actually suggest Twist (twist.com) From the makers of todoist, they made a comms tool for their async remote workflow and then made a SaaS out of it.
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by tm-guimaraes 3y ago
Bingo. At $work i see lots of projects leaving the monorepo due to that very mess. The problem is that services outside have other CI and maintenance issues that wouldn’t happen in the monorepo. But monorepo got so messy that it got unbeara
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by tm-guimaraes 3y ago
At the end of the day, what nvidia does is just producing IP. All manufacture is by other companies. This means that nvidia capital is spend on testing/development infrastructure and creative labor. So, you don’t need monopoly breaking
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by tm-guimaraes 3y ago
I also recently had some pokemon link battles, trades, ane raids with friends without wifi. (It has a “connected to online services” and “disconnected” states, fun thing is that while disconnected the codes to join rooms (ie local) are 4 nu

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