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by yifanl 3y ago
How would we ever distinguish what half-a-proton is in a universe where all protons ever are _always_ paired off?
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by yifanl 3y ago
I wonder if they actually want Tesla to succeed (or at least partially). Because if its true that an auto manufacturer can achieve those valuations, then they can too.
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by yifanl 3y ago
I heard a lot about that Boeing plane in Alaska too. Indeed, I heard a lot about it than the flight my parents were on that week, which by all accounts, went fine.
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by yifanl 3y ago
If iRobot was really in a situation where it was acquisition goes through or "the CEO and a half of the employees will be laid off the day the news breaks out", then I can't imagine they were in an economically viable state t
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by yifanl 3y ago
The throughline of the blog seems to be that the public at large have uncovered that tech (the industry) isn't about tech (the cool stuff we build) anymore, it's just a vehicle for marketers. I suppose there's a cynical quest
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by yifanl 3y ago
If they were interested about maintaining good relations with him, they obviously would not have done so.
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by yifanl 3y ago
I'm resigned that it was all inevitable, but also just upset that we spent all this effort learning to automate away the parts of life that are actually interesting first. How did people decide that writing and art and music and theatr
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by yifanl 3y ago
Waiting for technology to catch up to what you want is exactly what it means to be the sacrificing "fast".
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by yifanl 3y ago
The counterpoint there is that it's plain inefficient if everyone had to own everything. It's great that there's the option for the ones who want it I suppose, but as you've pointed out, from my perspective it's rea
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by yifanl 3y ago
The ones that don't need a DM are usually classified as board games. Assuming you want an experience where an unfolding story presents challenges across play sessions, you can look at Gloomhaven (as well as the shorter Jaws of the Lion
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by yifanl 3y ago
But how can you trust these visions of the future are accurate?
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by yifanl 3y ago
Games publishers big enough to have a catalog worth showing off at E3 realized that they would get more focused attention putting up their own show without letting eyeballs leak to their competitors, which is why you'll see Nintendo Di
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by yifanl 3y ago
The word would be "Kwisatz Haderach" ;)
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by yifanl 3y ago
I don't like to jump to conclusions, but I'm going to jump to malice if their purported solution for user experience is time.sleep(5) based on a user agent lookup, and conditional on when their antiadblock fails to work.
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by yifanl 3y ago
I made this comment years ago, but selective indifference is still malicious.
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by yifanl 3y ago
What does this comment mean? The internet is a commodity (well strictly speaking, it's not, but people agree that it _should_ be one), of course we're talking about the median person.
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by yifanl 3y ago
Am I paying for an ad-free Youtube or a Spotify competitor? I'm not at all confident the money I'd be paying is going to the creators of the videos, or even feature development of the main Youtube platform.
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by yifanl 3y ago
I mean unrelated as in unrelated, I, nor anybody have I talked to want a Youtube Music subscription or yet another podcast app.
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by yifanl 3y ago
Well, you can't pay for Youtube. You can pay for a bundle of some mostly unrelated products that's named Youtube Premium, or you can live with an insanely degraded product experience on Youtube, but you can't pay for Youtube.
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by yifanl 3y ago
For any decently structured argument, analogies are illustrative, not load-bearing. If you find that is not the case, usually the argument is not particularly sound.
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by yifanl 3y ago
The founder of Coca-Cola might. But either way, pointing out the flaws of a loose analogy adds nothing to the conversation.
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by yifanl 3y ago
Mostly to me, it shows the importance of a sane lint/format step in the pre-commit hook, it prevents engineers spending an near-infinite amount of time on this type of cleanup.
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by yifanl 3y ago
Nothing's stopping you from rebloating your OS after running this debloat command.
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by yifanl 3y ago
Under capitalism, the wealthy class tend to be the trendsetters and tastemakers, if no reason other than they can afford the biggest billboard and most magnified microphones, so I don't see a path to the solution you've described,
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by yifanl 3y ago
That sounds like admitting there is no secret sauce? The superpower has been the ability to synthesize output from very disparate training sources, and any answer for "I don't know" would come from needing to synthesize dispa
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by yifanl 3y ago
Charmanders don't evolve into anything, it doesn't exist in the natural world.
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by yifanl 3y ago
Should this not have been accounted for when designing the feature?
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by yifanl 3y ago
That's not a property of the NFT so much as a property of the smart contract handling the sale, isn't it?
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by yifanl 3y ago
The difference between "work" and "games" is how easily monetizable the activity is, not how useful the output of the activity is.
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by yifanl 3y ago
They were paying all of $40 a month, I'd imagine that doesn't buy them very much customer support from any decently sized cloud provider.

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