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by zeidrich 11y ago
Why are you concerned? It's an approach. It seems to work pretty well. It's possible it could be improved, does that mean we should not display the results of this because it might not be the most efficient result? I didn't
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by zeidrich 11y ago
He's a really smart guy, but there are lots of really smart guys out there. He's a really lucky guy, but there are lots of really lucky guys out there. There aren't many really smart, really lucky guys out there. One of the
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by zeidrich 11y ago
A big thing about pixel art and it's issues today is that what he mentions as pixel art, isn't so. I mean, he argues about the way the devices scale his art up and change aspect ratio etc. But on the other hand, he compares a pict
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by zeidrich 11y ago
New concepts are easy for kids to grasp. But they often fall short in their body of knowledge. Operators that you're expected to know, and jargon you're expected to understand are a bit challenging for kids. I'm sure he&#x2
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by zeidrich 11y ago
Yeah. It's essentially creating a power vacuum. People don't work without structure, ad hoc structures develop. The conjecture is that this is a good thing, that these ad hoc structures are more natural, and you will have natura
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by zeidrich 11y ago
Edutainment is always iffy business. The problem with this is it is trying to make a game out of doing algebra. In the end the only point of this is doing algebra. Contrast this to something like Kerbal Space Program. This is a game about
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by zeidrich 11y ago
There are statements about legality, about outrage, about who should be punished, about the corruption of organizations. That's not interesting to me. I'm not happy about it, but I'm actually more disappointed. The thing is,
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by zeidrich 11y ago
As a kid, my programming career started with Visual Basic, a little bit of that and qbasic. But my dad had a copy of Visual Basic with our old computer back in the early 90s. That along with Gorillas on qbasic was really my first entry int
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by zeidrich 11y ago
Sometimes doing things in this way can demonstrate time complexity in a very real way. On a computer a bubble sort of a large list might take a few milliseconds. Do it with strips of paper and you're immediately thinking there's o
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by zeidrich 12y ago
First of all, it's not a race. Statistically speaking you aren't number 1, and that's OK. It doesn't mean you stop trying, but you can stop competing. I'd say find out what is important to you. What is important
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by zeidrich 12y ago
Lets assume that this fellow isn't rich beyond belief. I'm sure he's not. Say he can take a really nice photo. To take this photo he has a number of expenses, he needs a certain amount of training, he needs to take a certai
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by zeidrich 12y ago
This is a fine point of view if the commons are willing to give him comfortable living accommodations, good food, relaxing holidays, camera equipment and trips around the world to take these photographs. They could definitely do that. The
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by zeidrich 12y ago
They seem to be creating two classifications, one sort of "correct, pristine" meme that somehow mutates randomly and is somehow more natural; another which is apparently a bad thing, which is a meme that is manipulated to intentio
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by zeidrich 12y ago
No. It wasn't a marketing pitch, it was interesting. If you want to incenvitize some behavior you can offer an extrinsic reward. Certainty in an extrinsic reward causes overjustification. An uncertain extrinsic reward seems to mute the
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by zeidrich 12y ago
I think this makes a lot of simple sense. Say you are a service company. You have 20 employees, and one manager. The manager makes twice as much as the employees, because customarily managers make more than their subordinates. In a small b
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by zeidrich 12y ago
I'm not sure what you're getting at. You're conflating the battle.net platform that they have built, which is the launcher, the updater, etc. with concerns that people had over matchmaking and chat support. Uplay is a horren
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by zeidrich 12y ago
There are two different words in English too right? "Debate" and "argument", the former implying a civil one, the other one meaning where people are angry at each other. "Debata" is even just one letter away fr
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by zeidrich 12y ago
Not all AAA games do try to jam themselves in to the cinematic space. A lot do, but then you have to think about what it means to be a AAA game. Basically, what is it that causes a game to require a huge budget? A huge budget is generally
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by zeidrich 12y ago
I don't think we have lost anything. I think we gained something incredible over a short time. Nobody lives forever. What Terry Pratchett has given to us will live longer than any person. I'm not sad that he has died. Everyone
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by zeidrich 12y ago
There are alternatives. Apple has chosen to make it so that the alternatives require not using an iOS device. But there are alternatives.
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by zeidrich 12y ago
There are different kinds of enjoyment. On a certain level in our brains, we have different kinds of needs. One need is for novelty. The other is a need for familiarity or confirmation. When we enjoy something, when we feel something that
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by zeidrich 12y ago
I don't really care for this article. The link that they provided was on how exercising your willpower increases overall self control is an abstract for a paper about how people whose "self-regulatory resources were experimentall
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by zeidrich 12y ago
Well, on one hand, glass is supposed to be something that you wear around like an asshole. This looks like at least its marketed more towards being an alternate or augmentation to your display. So if you're wearing it, it's going
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by zeidrich 12y ago
That is an interesting advertisement. I am more interested in reality though. There are some difficulties like head tracking for instance that would be hard to work out. The advertisement shows the images stationary in space, that's
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by zeidrich 12y ago
He had spare time, the doctor didn't.
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by zeidrich 12y ago
I don't think that anyone really thinks science is a good job. You rarely talk to anyone who says "I want to make a lot of money so I'm going to be a researcher!" Normally people (want to) become scientists because they
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by zeidrich 12y ago
My feeling when it comes to addiction is that it becomes a comforting or at least comfortable thing. When we feel stress, we tend to act irrationally, in a way that comforts us or puts us into a more comfortable situation. If someone is ir
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by zeidrich 12y ago
You can get it without the downloader, but it is non-obvious as you have to choose the other download options. To me that implies downloads for different platforms. The installer is horrible, and I think that the last I looked at it, the o
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by zeidrich 12y ago
Without abolishing VAT, what would be a way to ensure that it is properly collected by the buyer's country without putting undue stress on small sellers? One thing I can think of is that you could target the payment processors. They a
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by zeidrich 12y ago
Academic papers use a lot of formulas and equations that can be easily described in English, but instead are described mathematically. I often find that when I read them, it really slows me down. "We refer to a neural network function

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