AMerrit

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by AMerrit 2mo ago
Really like seeing this sorted by compute, really puts into perspective who has the most compute and where.
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by AMerrit 3mo ago
I grew up near an abandoned WWII era airfield. I have fond memories of first learning to drive by going out and blasting along the runway, had to avoid a few spots where trees had grown up through cracks in the tarmac, but it didn't ma
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by AMerrit 3mo ago
Yep, I worked at a small company that got bought by a bigger one. We had a solid if aging product to support which was one of the big players for the niche. Once there was a leadership change, 2/3 of the devs got put on building a repl
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by AMerrit 4mo ago
A nice read. I've been playing around with my own chess program and trying to implement a lot of chess variants like Double Chess and 7 Queen's Chess.
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by AMerrit 4mo ago
I've done similar at my job where management wants us to use all of our tokens before they expire. I usually set it to documentation tasks and other minor tasks just to eat up tokens.
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by AMerrit 4mo ago
Yeah it's def going for an XP clone feel. Although it's not 1:1, I assume to skirt copyright.
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by AMerrit 4mo ago
Yes, this is story immediately came to mind to me. It also shows that the idea of poor people in the global south doing this for money isn't quite the entire story either. Most of the people exposed seem to be young Dutch people trying
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by AMerrit 4mo ago
There are still good niche and well moderated subreddits, but the big ones are pretty annoying. Lots of most extreme version of headline/summary to get the clicks. Tonnes of bot comments, especially with the rise of LLM. Repetitive jok
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by AMerrit 4mo ago
Coursera used to be good, and I've found the occasional good course on Udemy, but neither are particularly great right now in my opinion. Well curated learning materials are such a unicorn.
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by AMerrit 9mo ago
I worked for a small company acquired by IBM in 2011. We had a good 5-6 year run where our product sales went up (largely because so many IBM people were selling it) and we were largely left alone. Once things slowed down a bit the IBM rot
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by AMerrit 3y ago
Some of the things in this are a bit much, but I think some of this comes from the cult of the 10x developer. I feel like I'm a 10x developer on some very specific things, and a 0.5x developer when it comes to others, but that I'm
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by AMerrit 3y ago
I agree with this take somewhat. I used to work with a guy who would talk about his great Sunday afternoon spent coding, or take a week off to write a book about being a more efficient developer. A fine enough co-worker and very dedicated t
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by AMerrit 4y ago
I've been working in an office environment for over a decade now, and every time I start at a new office figuring out the scanners/printers is always a hassle. This really isn't a Gen Z thing as much of a scanners/printe
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by AMerrit 4y ago
I didn't do Starcraft, but remember "Footies" maps in WC3 which sounds exactly the same as "Commandos". It was insanely popular, but never lived on like DOTA did. It is sort of funny to think of it as a sort of evol
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by AMerrit 4y ago
Wow, that comment and the archive.org link he posted seal it for me. I played fy_iceworld a bunch at my local lan cafe a lot 2002-2003 but never thought that it could be something escaped from the internet cafes of Taiwan made by a 15 year
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by AMerrit 4y ago
The freedom to conform
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by AMerrit 4y ago
This sounds more like a case of an ambitious dummy being prodded into being a stooge that leaks IP rather than purposeful espionage on his part.
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by AMerrit 4y ago
Yeah I had dreams of making video games when I was younger (and still daydream about it sometimes now) and even got to the point of doing some work in modding communities and playing around with my own simple games/clones. Lots of thes
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by AMerrit 4y ago
Looks like a schema for data in a SIEM+ but without the actual SIEM software. I like how the categories are broken down in this and the depth of the fields. Very data first, but there really could be more breadth to the categorizations.
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by AMerrit 4y ago
Sure we could double the human population, but it all depends on where we cluster and how much of a drop in standard of living people are willing to put up with.
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by AMerrit 4y ago
TikTok ads are all video based afaik. Since video ads are more "valuable" I totally get how that could give them a nice boost over twitter or snapchat as they grow.
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by AMerrit 4y ago
Interesting that the gap is with lower budget movies. It goes along with my gut feeling that mid budget movies are disappearing (I have no data to back that up), and it's as if the studios have optimized movie making into two types: #1
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by AMerrit 5y ago
They likely mean Alberta provincial politics, which are kind of a mess. The current provincial government has done poorly with the COVID situation, and has spent as much effort battling cartoons on Netflix for being too "anti oil &
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by AMerrit 5y ago
This is exactly it for me. Perl just seemed to be stuck in a stasis with the whole Perl6 mess for over ages while the world moved on. I still maintain some perl scripts and it's great for small tasks, but by the time they got everythin
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by AMerrit 6y ago
Yeah, the big part of this for me is how awful lots of mailers make unsubscribing. After going to conference I usually need to unsubscribe from a bunch of new mail lists, and so many just redirect me to a vague page where I can modify the t
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by AMerrit 6y ago
This sounds very similar to the shop I'm in. Go isn't replacing any of our legacy Java stuff, but we have new tooling to supplement the legacy stuff built in Go.
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by AMerrit 6y ago
Yeah this has always been my take on it as well. From what I remember the earliest lines are just lines and geometric patterns usually seemingly to do with water sources and navigation. Once they mastered the technique for long lasting pict
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by AMerrit 6y ago
That would be the notorious Derek Smart.
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by AMerrit 6y ago
While the world wars certainly would have had some impact, most of the current studies are comparing current populations to what was around in the 80's/90's. This one for example covers 1989-2017: https://journals.
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by AMerrit 6y ago
It's pretty commonly allowed in my experience. Always with a "as long as you aren't competing with us" disclaimer.

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