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I use lambdas for nearly everything at a games startup. The "Serverless framework" - https://www.serverless.com - has built-in concepts of dev/stage/prod and routing from URLs -> function etc. Logging goes
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I use JustWatch for this. Justwatch shows the new / popular / interesting content across streaming services, with a comprehensive search and wishlisting. I wish Plex would just help me do what I need it to do - watch and download
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I'm guessing at least six photos, judging from the six tripods. (They could be stands for lights, but like I said, just guessing.)
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I remember a very old video where they rendered 3d scenes for frames 1 and 5 (examples) but interpolated the frames in between, or something like that, instead of re-rendering the whole scene. Maybe they were only redrawing some triangles i
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More like "Things to do in Denver when you're dead."
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This is entertaining, but also cringe; clients and product people aren't generally idiots. They just have requirements that they can't adequately express. Requirements capture is part of every eng job I've had.
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Reminds me of the Washington Pizza Index: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clint...
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> One student said it was a receipt for the sale of a cow. The prof said that was one real possibility. Another said it was a love poem. Prof agreed again. Isn't this the plot of "Foucault's Pendulum?"
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Strava has: * the database of "segments" created by users * the leaderboard data for each segment * the network-effects of being "the place to record data" If you create a self-hosted Strava then it isn&#x
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Just for clarity, that article is about the M1 Pro and the M1 Max chips from October.
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There's a great audio clip from Ira Glass about the gap between your taste and your ability. https://vimeo.com/85040589
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> the cynic in me can't help but think [...] the supply chain of tests [...] is being used as a means of controlling the current number of "cases" reported. Check the dashboard for your county to see if the PERCENT of test
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The cost may be minimal, but the value of giving a bad reference is zero.
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Every time I feel "this would be a good interview question!" it is not. It's usually something juicy that I chewed on for two days. How can I expect a candidate to solve it in 45 minutes?
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Any Zachtronics game. "Human Resource Machine" and "7 Billion Humans"
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Teamwork; you have another drone carrying batteries or whole drones in and out.
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> since it worries about people of the wrong race learning too much. It doesn't. It worries about the students being warehoused in sub-par schools while claiming to give everyone the same education.
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The podcast "Nice White Parents" makes a good case that gifted programs in NYC were essentially used to create two separate-and-unequal systems of education for black and white students inside the public schools. If you don't
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1994-95 is when operating systems for PC and Mac start shipping with a TCP/IP stack preinstalled.
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It is allowed in the US. https://www.consumerreports.org/overuse-of-antibiotics/what-...
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There are nightlights that are normal switchplates on the front, with springy connectors on the back that get power from the screws on the side of the light switch. https://www.amazon.com/Single-SnapPower-SwitchLight-Built-A
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Some of the depositors were assessed "many, many $25-$35 fees." Could have been rewritten as "repeatedly assessed $25-$35 fees" but it's understandable to me.
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There are platforms like Fig and Wefunder that do this sort of thing now.
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To play when you insert / pause when you remove.
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As far as I can tell the current artwork NFTs are just beanie babies or tulipmania; they're valuable because the buyer thinks they have a resale value. I suppose some minority may buy them just for bragging rights, a la "I am Rich
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Once your environment is configured and you're writing good types, the only errors you see are when you do something that violated your type rules - like calling myRecord.names gives you an error "Property 'names' does n
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The clbuttic problem involves replacement; original source is (AFAIK) here: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/The-Clbuttic-Mistake-
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Saturday Night Live peaked when you were in high school, and has been downhill ever since, with occasional flashes of brilliance.
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This is like a real-world equivalent of the "cleaning lady unplugged the machine" urban legend.
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For me, routine and discipline. Walk at lunch every day. Monday, Thursday and running days. Tuesday, Friday are push-ups; Wednesday and Saturday are weights. I have a paper day-calendar that I mark when I work out; helps in case I miss a

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