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by Shaddox 7mo ago
Sadly, that matters very little! https://finance.yahoo.com/news/top-10-earners-drive-nearly-1... If this is to be believed, regular consumer goods won't matter anymore, and instead you just cater to the wealthy.
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by Shaddox 1y ago
The fundamental problem is that everyone is expected to pitch in to help train these AIs, but only a handful of people benefit from it.
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by Shaddox 1y ago
The fundamental problem with interviewing is that you're not preparing yourself to understand a business' problem and needs, but you're preparing to have to impress your potential colleagues, a non-trivial number of which are
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by Shaddox 1y ago
Probably the only thing holding the reins on AI takeover is the lack of legislative coverage. Once the AI user is not held responsible for the AI's actions, (and let's face it, this is the likely outcome. It's not like politi
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by Shaddox 1y ago
It's brutal out there. I'm currently 36 years years old. I got laid off in March last year from an outsourcing shop because no work was coming, mostly working with PHP, with some Javascript and python sprinkled in there. I thank
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by Shaddox 4y ago
I think the real crux of the issue is : why does education cost so much in the first place? Because it's excessively bloated. I thought European universities were bloated, but they look like lean running operations compared to American
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by Shaddox 4y ago
I was there for the total eclipse from august '98. It was absolutely surreal! Chickens were going to bed.
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by Shaddox 4y ago
I hope I am not being too inflammatory by saying this but it's ... quite amusing how sheltered Americans are in thinking that a little political tension is a danger to their own country. Bosnia was about to be destroyed and more recent
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by Shaddox 5y ago
Of course, this is just an anecdotal observation, but I think what changed weren't the games, but the players. I was playing Dark Age of Camelot back in the day and we'd spend hours just waiting around, chatting, meeting new peopl
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by Shaddox 5y ago
This article's conclusion isn't wrong but the premise is. Standups are NOT for developers, they're for business types to tighten grip over a project, to make sure everyone is there at a certain hour, reporting to clients, etc
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by Shaddox 5y ago
I'm in the same boat. Honestly people like to say "x social media sucks" but in actuality it's far simpler than that : people suck in general. Only now you get to see it for yourself at a more general level as opposed to
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by Shaddox 5y ago
> I will say though, the US has historically had a very hard time taking ideas from European countries and getting them to work the same way here. I think this is because everyone only sees the upside of the system. When getting down to
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by Shaddox 5y ago
>Like, salaries do not seem to have similarly risen, so who the hell is buying these houses? People and institutions looking for a way to 'park' their funds in a safe investment.
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by Shaddox 5y ago
How is your Phaser experience so far? I like how intuitive it feels, but the fact that it uses the same javascript I use at work makes it a huge turn-off for me.
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by Shaddox 5y ago
To be fair, the user profile also changed a lot over the years. What used to be a 'programmer for power user' space, now it's all about minimalism and pretty, dysfunctional interfaces. I can see why one would become jaded and
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by Shaddox 5y ago
This quote sums it up perfectly : “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber bar
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by Shaddox 5y ago
It has been tried before. What happened is that the established players will start giving it away for free until you are out of business.
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by Shaddox 5y ago
When I went to university, a great deal of exams were oral. You would draw a few tickets from a pool and have 10-15 minutes to prepare your answers. I'm sure there are alternative ways to examine students that don't require such d
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by Shaddox 5y ago
I'm jealous of parking abundant American cities. In this part of the pond, your choices are between walking, taking a face-planted-against-the-window bus or train, or take your car and spin around for 30 minutes at your destination try
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by Shaddox 5y ago
I guess this explains why I feel so trapped. Like a pawn to my own circumstances. To live life is to live in servitude. I'm a slave to my own needs of bread, water and circus. To supply this never-ending need I must serve someone else
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by Shaddox 6y ago
I'm aware that, as a founder, he's obviously very interested in the success of his product. His mentality however carried over the acquisition and past inertia. Giving him the benefit of the doubt, I think his problem is that he&#
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by Shaddox 6y ago
Interesting point of view since it's so directly in contradiction to mine. I always viewed enlightenment as an unique, untransmissible experience (unique as in it's different for each individual, not that you can only have it once
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by Shaddox 6y ago
Ah yes, we had something similar in Romania too, only that it was on national television. I got so many games and programs from it. Since they had reception everywhere in the country I was able to record them from the country side or a mona
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How to catch a spy that is using a numbers station – The KGB Experience(numbers-stations.com)
144 points by Shaddox 6y ago|75 comments
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by Shaddox 6y ago
Hello everyone. This is a translated excerpt from a desecretized KGB operations manual that offers an example on how their counter-intelligence division caught a spy using a numbers station for one-way communication.
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by Shaddox 6y ago
You are correct. This is in a former soviet state.
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by Shaddox 6y ago
> No, they could not monitor all conversations. They could only listen to as many calls as they had agents to listen to them. It was not possible for them to listen to everyone at once, nor could they use this as means of discovery. They
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by Shaddox 6y ago
What's a good browser for personal use nowadays? I have Firefox on my desktop but on mobile the experience is very lacking, with many pages downright breaking. I'm currently trying out brave which seems to at least block ads and t
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by Shaddox 7y ago
Thanks for the clarification.I'll give it a trial run to see how it pads out for me.
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by Shaddox 7y ago
What's the advantage in using this over something like say, Blokada?

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