Waterluvian

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by Waterluvian 3d ago
I don’t think they want to nor is it good for them to long term. But I bet they’re institutionally incapable of avoiding it given the KPIs that drive the entire employment ambitions of many managers.
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by Waterluvian 3d ago
My pitbull is a good dog. Sure, it's been carefully designed to be an incredibly dangerous and violent pit fighter, but I didn't actually ask it to eat any faces.
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by Waterluvian 4d ago
I think space being imagined as some magical international waters that protects something from government powers is poisonous thinking. It just means it’s protected by no power instead of a power with an agenda. Practically, if it was ever
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by Waterluvian 4d ago
Please drink Verfication Can™ to continue playing PEPSI™ Presents: Bubsy 3D™ Legends™
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by Waterluvian 4d ago
Consoles sold at a loss before. They can do that again if it enables selling software, which often has pretty fantastic margins.
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by Waterluvian 4d ago
Kind of. That one was closer to C&C Renegade.
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by Waterluvian 4d ago
Gaming is a larger market than Hollywood. Maybe it becomes a distraction for Nvidia, but someone will step in. That might actually be a good thing and why Nvidia wont do that: it creates an under served market in which newcomers can cut the
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by Waterluvian 4d ago
Maybe this is silly of me, but maybe gaming would enjoy an era of hardware upgrades being rather unviable so the focus turns to optimization and aesthetic.
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by Waterluvian 5d ago
Also the Dixel for the male option.
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by Waterluvian 5d ago
I'm imagining a future where a bunch of bizarre laws interact oddly (as they do), and now we've got websites with unnecessary nudity pasted in the corner. "Oh, those? Those are just compliance tits. Ignore those. It's j
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by Waterluvian 6d ago
I want to share a bit about this becuase it is dear to me. My public high school was a "Geography / GIS magnet school" because some unnamed retired geography teacher donated a very large sum to make it happen. I was an undera
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by Waterluvian 6d ago
False colour composites were something I was introduced to in high school GIS and did a lot of in undergrad remote sensing. It was one of those Eureka! moments for me in terms of developing a better understanding of signals and signal pro
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by Waterluvian 6d ago
Strong opinions considered harmful
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by Waterluvian 6d ago
Is everyone wrong, or is there more to it than you can see from where you stand? I don't want to spend much time on this comment so I risk not making a sufficient point, but something I notice is that you're appraising the situati
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by Waterluvian 6d ago
There’s risk to doing anything. There’s risk to doing nothing. A bit off topic but my perception is that organizations bias towards doing something more often than they should.
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by Waterluvian 6d ago
If you put every company that needs/has an app on a spectrum, there is a line somewhere that roughly divides them into two groups: where Electron/React Native/etc. makes sense or not. It's just a normal engineering decis
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by Waterluvian 6d ago
It’s oddly fun to put maximum Stockfish in play against some horrible position and to be murdered by it.
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by Waterluvian 7d ago
Probably nothing. But Meta throwing a boatload of money at Muse is probably cheaper and easier than being evil about it. The problem is, it’s Meta. And like the scorpion said to the frog, “I can’t help it. It’s my nature.”
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by Waterluvian 7d ago
I think the first major issue I had with Elite Dangerous is that there’s, I think, three orders of magnitude of flying around. Which really disconnects me from the feel of it all.
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by Waterluvian 7d ago
I remember when it first came out, there was so much hype but I immediately wondered, “where exactly is the game loop?” I also remember how aggressively defensive fans were about it.
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by Waterluvian 7d ago
I was imagining their moat was having a monopoly on where you go to get documentation for the free product, and that's how they sell the for-profit product. If that monopoly is lost (people get the answers they need without going to t
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by Waterluvian 7d ago
Those with the money and influence have always been in conflict with the masses that actually make the economy run. They would love nothing more than to do away with that problem. It allows them to control the terms of the economy.
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by Waterluvian 7d ago
I think the second half of your statement disagrees with the first. Much like saying, "there's never a need for Scratch, it's just a way for my kids to code fun things without worrying about semicolons."
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by Waterluvian 7d ago
The shape of business moats are changing. There's probably a lot of businesses that are suddenly non-viable as currently designed. Being a bit silly with the analogy: it's like we've discovered gunpowder and now entire clas
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by Waterluvian 10d ago
I think your personal beliefs fit reality if you ignore the parts of reality that strongly refute it. That kind of mentality is getting popular these days. I'll leave you to it.
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by Waterluvian 10d ago
The one time NATO was called on to defend a member was the U.S. asking for help after 9/11. And nobody but the UK followed them into Iraq, shortly after the Afghanistan war began. So there’s certainly strong history of NATO not just
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by Waterluvian 10d ago
There clearly is. Because NATO isn’t getting involved in America’s idiotic war of aggression and Trump is very upset about this. They’ve spent years being very upset about every other NATO nation’s spending, too. So even if you don’t believ
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by Waterluvian 10d ago
Weddings if you’re lucky. They’ll also murder 150+ girls at school.
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by Waterluvian 11d ago
I never did well in English and I usually don’t know it when I see it. But it was immediately evident that the writing style of this blog was sparking joy. Even the intro section was just so well structured that I had to read it again.
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by Waterluvian 11d ago
Yeah… I feel like “falsehoods X believe about Y” need to omit anything a reasonable X would consider to be a bug. Edit: fair point. Maybe not.

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