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by xwdv 3y ago
I wish people didn’t have such a knee jerk reaction to my advice, but for many years I too believed a dev should at least try to wear many hats. All it took was seeing how professionals always do the job far better to change my mind. It doe
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by xwdv 3y ago
Yea this is important. A dev should absolutely not be picking up any kind of phone and talking to any kind of customer. This is a job for sales people. If some nervous dev could manage to make any kind of sale at all, then that means a trai
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by xwdv 3y ago
No, but if you ask it “Are you sure?” after it gives an answer, then it becomes a reasoning task and it often gives a different wrong answer.
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by xwdv 3y ago
If I have a house and you have a house next to me yet neither of us are ever home, we are still neighbors no matter where in the world we are. Similarly, the entire area earth and Venus clear with their orbits is the planet’s “home”, theref
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by xwdv 3y ago
It would be a shame if mighty elephants were evolved to the size of piglets that people keep as pets.
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by xwdv 3y ago
Rogue AI will result from poor maintenance procedures. An AI built to run open ended workloads, but somehow ends up doing so in a harmful way, combined with a lack of engineers able to effectively diagnose the problem quickly enough, and th
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by xwdv 3y ago
I’ve thought of this not for AoE, but for Sim City 4. Currently midjourney can produce art for buildings that could almost be used directly in game, but stuff like shading and lighting needs to be tweaked.
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by xwdv 3y ago
How can spacetime have a “defect”? Isn’t this just a feature?
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by xwdv 3y ago
A lot of GitHub stars on some popular projects could easily get you credibility when applying for jobs, and even be a deciding factor over other candidates.
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by xwdv 3y ago
These keyboards are “interesting” to look at, but I find that the more ergonomic they are, the more they reinforce the idea that you’re a human, who needs human shaped things, and a human is all you’ll ever be. As such, I do not like using
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by xwdv 3y ago
Every version I’ve seen of GPT has shown me that if GPT can write most of your code, then you’re not really doing difficult work anyway. Real world problems are far too complicated for GPT to make serious impact beyond being some idea gener
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by xwdv 3y ago
Yup, if you’re going to coworking spaces to actually work you’re a chump. The real value of the cowork space was to be around other entrepreneurial types and perhaps even meet a young and hot ambitious babe. The “work” was an excuse to just
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by xwdv 3y ago
Why address it? This is part of the fun of these online games. Ultima Online had similar issues, except you could straight up kill people.
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by xwdv 3y ago
Can it spoof the user agent? Unfortunately browsing a site with a strange browser can often get you treated like a second or even third class citizen.
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by xwdv 3y ago
When the ground gets too hot for crops we’ll have to build aero farms that float high up in the atmosphere to grow food and then bring down the blimps when it’s time for harvest.
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by xwdv 3y ago
Because it’s trivial, we know what steganography is. We know it can be applied to any form of media. Article has taught us nothing.
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by xwdv 3y ago
People will want to use it but few will want to pay for it. OpenAI needs to find a way to turn users into the real product.
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by xwdv 3y ago
We lose atmosphere to space everyday.
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by xwdv 3y ago
I’m convinced that just like how humans are attracted to little kittens and puppies, some technophiles easily feel the same attraction to small, harmless looking little computers running tiny software on tiny processors. I feel like buying
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by xwdv 3y ago
A great programmer would understand distributed architectures. You don’t need to live right next to money making or even social opportunities.
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by xwdv 3y ago
No, brand power matters more than anything.
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by xwdv 3y ago
A child born today, will see New York City about 6 inches lower by the end of his full natural life.
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by xwdv 3y ago
I read a book called “Lost Connections” which pretty much solidified my belief that most depressions are actually a reaction to something that a person doesn’t feel right about in their life, and is not making any effort to change, because
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by xwdv 3y ago
I don’t understand the downvoted, you really can just make a pure JavaScript game. Pick up an easy rendering library like PixiJS and just start making a game loop, etc.
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by xwdv 3y ago
You know what’s crazy about the internet? Somewhere out there right now, is a niche community of computer geeks, discussing incredibly fascinating topics and having thoughtful discussions, exchanging powerful ideas, and you have never heard
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by xwdv 3y ago
There is nothing stopping you from making a web browser based JavaScript game right now that you can throw up on a basic webpage and share a link for people to go play instantly. You just don’t want to!
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by xwdv 3y ago
I always thought it would be cool if multiple habitable planets could exist as moons of some large gas giant and civilizations on these planets could fly around the short distances of their planetary system visiting each other. Alas, it is
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by xwdv 3y ago
“There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.” This quote has never been more true than when applied to AI.
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by xwdv 3y ago
I don’t know, the internet is a big responsibility.
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by xwdv 3y ago
$30k Cars are not for people earning minimum wage. Take a bus or buy something sub $5k. Minimum wage uses the minimum viable transportation.

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