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Warren Spector – 40 years and I'm still here(gamedeveloper.com)
172 points by writeslowly 3y ago|44 comments
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by writeslowly 3y ago
The author is proposing that these “Workplace EFT” examples need some sort of fix, but I think it’s actual preferable to make the same decision as your coworkers and neglect them until they become a larger problem, since the alternative is
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by writeslowly 3y ago
The second item is "Better understand coding information in AI overviews". Is there really such a big demand for this from the average google user, or is it just something that's easy to do with these language models?
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by writeslowly 3y ago
I assumed .io was still under the UK government, which is pretty stable as far as central governments go, but it's hard to actually tell whether it's them or some sort of venture capital thing from wikipedia.
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Google’s Photo App Still Can’t Find Gorillas, And Neither Can Apple’s(nytimes.com)
11 points by writeslowly 3y ago|1 comments
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by writeslowly 4y ago
When I graduated from school in 2010, my primary experience from a previous internship was working in an outdated style of C++. Interviewing for C++ positions was so intimidating that I ended up removing all references to it from my resume,
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by writeslowly 4y ago
As someone who got into photography relatively recently, if you’ve only used modern lenses, old (or extremely cheap) lenses can be really interesting to use as well. My 1970s Olympus 50mm f.14 or low budget Chinese f1.2 give me interesting
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by writeslowly 4y ago
I tried it on the photo linked below and it makes the string instruments look like they're made of brass. Not trying to bash it since I thought it was pretty impressive overall, but I'm curious about what leads to this type of fai
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by writeslowly 4y ago
Would you actually need to have the vibrating motors correspond to north to make it work? I assume that your mind would eventually map things even if it was motors vibrating at different fingertips or something else that didn't easily
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by writeslowly 4y ago
I feel like a lot of the discussion is around using these things to directly create new artwork, but these technologies (and GPT-3) feel like a method of digital divination to me. It's basically a more sophisticated form of casting an
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by writeslowly 4y ago
I think it's a pretty natural mindset to have for many people who work as software engineers. If you see something useful or interesting, the first reaction is often to notice what needs to be fixed or improved. It's also a field
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by writeslowly 4y ago
#4 (general caution/conservatism) also seems believable to me. If things were going very well pre-covid (like if you’re a Google or Facebook), and you don’t know how much of that was attributable to the office environment for your part
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by writeslowly 4y ago
Not knowing Apple’s approval process, is it possible to pull a “Ship of Theseus” on the App Store, like release a full-blown social network app and then gradually replace features until it functions as a simple camera app instead?
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by writeslowly 4y ago
This article says it's an artifact of cold war politics https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/opinion/sunday/how-math-g... I'm not personally familiar with the history, this just turned up wh
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by writeslowly 4y ago
I have one of those, but the wireless doesn't work well for me (shuts off after about 5-10 minutes, takes a few seconds to turn on again, and runs down the battery in less than a week), and the it defaults to a really crazy looking mov
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by writeslowly 4y ago
Maybe you first noticed it while using earplugs (since they’d block out basically everything else) and now it’s become difficult to ignore? I had something similar happen with noticing floaters in my eyes constantly over the pandemic
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by writeslowly 5y ago
I noticed this recently when trying to find primary sources for flat earth claims. They don’t exist on Google, for me at least. You can still find them on duck duck go if you search for something like “flat earth ice wall” but Google just r
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by writeslowly 5y ago
> We hope this starts an industry trend for others to also provide these sorts of proactive warnings in their products. I guess they're hoping Tile (or whoever else) will feel obligated to create similar nerfs or annoyances on their
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by writeslowly 5y ago
Those Sony headphones do processing to the signal regardless of whether you're using wireless or a 3.5mm. They can still make sound with no power but it feels more like a backup in case the battery is dead. It seems like a sensible des
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by writeslowly 5y ago
Gas turbines in power plants can get very complicated when it comes to recovering waste heat. Some of them can hit something over 60% efficiency (vs cars where I think a typical ICE gets somewhere over 20%?). I think it’s mainly comes down
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by writeslowly 5y ago
Sometimes when I read these the discussions I get the impression that software engineers think "real" engineering is about making life or death decisions all the time, but a lot of the work is so systematized it can turn into enor
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How Does This Get Read?(dalkeyarchive.substack.com)
1 points by writeslowly 5y ago|0 comments
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by writeslowly 5y ago
It would have had to be an interpreter that was available off the shelf when this was being designed (so late 90s or early 2000s?) that ran on vxWorks on an old PowerPC processor. That could have limited the available choices.
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by writeslowly 5y ago
I've experimented with this and the results seem to vary depending on the headphones. I have a set of planar magnetic hifimans that don't have enough sub-bass out of the box, but can easily make tons of sub-bass with eq adjustment
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by writeslowly 5y ago
Google Translate was a popular way to bypass filters when I was in high school since it could be used as a proxy and nobody blocks google.com
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by writeslowly 5y ago
I've never considered this question before, but if people did live forever, requiring people in certain positions of power to be subject to some sort of incurable, debilitating disease or guaranteed death seems like a pretty reasonabl
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by writeslowly 5y ago
NASA was experimenting with this in the past with Robonaut (apparently it also started as a collaboration with DARPA) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robonaut
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by writeslowly 5y ago
To me it feels like AI-assisted divination. It's like staring into clouds of smoke or a crystal ball until you find something that looks significant, but using a computer algorithm instead. Divination has been around throughout human h
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by writeslowly 5y ago
I found it relatively easy to spot the fakes, but the titles on some of them were pretty good and made me wish they were real. Like reading science journals from a whimsical fantasy universe. Some of my favorites: "A new onset of pri
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by writeslowly 6y ago
The Flight Unlimited series in the '90s had a great crash system where you could watch your plane get ripped apart and the pieces bounce along the terrain until you restarted. It wasn't entirely realistic, but it was pretty impre

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