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by xnorswap 3y ago
If you're asking if I'm still alive, then yes. If you're asking if I have "beat" cancer, then no. My cancer isn't curable. It doesn't even technically go into "remission", although some nurses wi
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by xnorswap 3y ago
Why is "You might have cancer" even an email at all? Shouldn't that be done face to face? When I was diagnosed with the cancer the nurses wouldn't even tell me I had cancer until I was sitting down with the haematologist
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by xnorswap 3y ago
As a Visual Studio user, I have to force-kill it all the time. I've come to loathe the VS experience; I used to love it but it really feels like it's been left behind to rot.
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by xnorswap 3y ago
I thought this was going to be a positive story about how his approach helped teach you to explore solutions via the Socratic method, I wasn't expecting your reaction at all. Many people would hate a manager who only gave solutions, of
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by xnorswap 3y ago
I got "resculpture" which is a real word by Wiktionary: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/resculpture
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by xnorswap 3y ago
I'd suggest if you don't understand why this is outrageous you just take a step back away from this topic, rather than try to comment on a problem you don't understand. You likely come from a culture that lets pharmaceutical
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by xnorswap 3y ago
If the goal is for everyone to own a Van Gogh, then yes those auctions have failed. A goal of national parks should be that everyone has the opportunity to visit at least one over their lifetimes. Or we're left with needing charity to
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by xnorswap 3y ago
Auctions are terrible because of the uneven distribution of wealth. You end up with a situation where the wealthy can do everything and the poor can do nothing . And then there's the super rich, who could buy out the possibility of
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by xnorswap 4y ago
We only switched to selling by the litre in the early 90s (presumably for the sake of EU alignment), it was sold in Gallons until then. Expressing efficiency in MPG is just something that had "stuck" by then.
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by xnorswap 4y ago
Also a good question to test intuition is being asked to sketch e^sin(x) and sin(e^x).
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by xnorswap 4y ago
It's a culture thing, I had a similar experience after the company I worked at was bought out by an American company. In any exchange with the US, any question asked was responded to with, "That's a great question!". It
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by xnorswap 4y ago
I've also not worked for mega-corps, but I've also had good experience with writing things into contracts and having them agreed to. I find it odd that people are fine with contract negotiation when it comes to remuneration but tr
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by xnorswap 4y ago
I assumed this was a blog post from the author of Sublime Text until I opened it. This is the most entitled article I've read for a very long time. It also asserts with no evidence that VSCode is popular because "it is open source
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by xnorswap 4y ago
So what's stopping them writing a letter explaining it was a randomly generated license key and getting unrestricted?
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by xnorswap 4y ago
There's a negative externality of "punishing" anyone not engaging in this AI faux-reality and as with fashion magazines, altering the perception of what people should look like, leading to psychological damage when we don&#x2
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by xnorswap 4y ago
I wish they had a system where the DM could buy up to N seats and a free "player only" client for connecting in. Requiring the players to make that kind of upfront investment can put people off from engaging at all.
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by xnorswap 4y ago
I've recently started DMing, and my biggest surprise when I looked into this is just how poor the general tooling was when I looked for it. I found the user experience of Roll 20 horrible. I fumbled my way around the interface, eventua
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by xnorswap 4y ago
Their $5 plan makes no sense. They're charging 0.015 per search when you're "over limit" but 200 searches would be $3 on "pay as you go" after your plan runs out, which is better than the bundled 200 for $5.
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by xnorswap 4y ago
This feels like a re-writing of history. The world's first jet airliner was of course the de Havilland Comet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Comet It takes a stretch to suggest that it was the plane de
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by xnorswap 4y ago
I didn't think chatGPT was actively learning or updated, so wouldn't that suggest such fears of having picked up that information from interaction with it are paranoia? That's not to say it's an issue that should be igno
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by xnorswap 4y ago
There's an issue too where the flat d20 system makes the AC and +hit scaling really off in my view. If you go from only getting hit on 17+ to only hit on 18+ then you are reducing your incoming hits by 25%, and the scaling only gets ev
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by xnorswap 4y ago
If you don't have a reader view in your browser, just paste this into your global CSS: p { line-height: 1.7; max-width: 60em; font-size: 1.2em; margin-left: 5em; } It pretty much fixes the def
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by xnorswap 4y ago
I'm not sure what your point is, the recommendations improve and evolve over time.
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by xnorswap 4y ago
And yet compare to one of the oldest questions on SO: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/746/format-string-to-tit... Today that question would be downvoted as a bad question, and so would many of the answers. It
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by xnorswap 4y ago
Here's an experiment: Visit new questions: https://stackoverflow.com/questions?tab=Newest Scroll until you find an upvoted question. Count how many downvotes you see on the way. You can often get to page 2 with dozens
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by xnorswap 4y ago
That guy ~40 seconds in is such a stereotypical boomer. "We ruled the world once didn't we?" is a depressing attitude and an attitude that has only got more entrenched as they've aged leading to brexit and the awful cons
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by xnorswap 4y ago
If ChatGPT replaces me, I suspect we'll be the ones turning actual client needs into GPT prompts, because as you say, what people ask for, what people want, and what people need are all different things and it's (currently) usefu
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by xnorswap 4y ago
Yes, this is helpful to me too. I still sometimes get stuck in a loop of starting projects but the reality of how hard actually building something from scratch knocks me down.
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by xnorswap 4y ago
Is it important? It's news , but as the guidelines suggest, "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic". The earliest and biggest lay-offs fall under the criteria of "new phenomenon", but pos
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by xnorswap 4y ago
Is either proposal compatible with later adding a backward pipe <| operator? If so I think that should be a consideration, even if in practice there isn't massive value in a backward pipe operator in javascript. It would be a shame

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