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by alerter 4mo ago
You're absolutely right! This is the smoking gun.
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by alerter 5mo ago
I work for a consultancy that does vessel tracking as one of its main products, and yeah it's expensive! afaik they have remote teams with sensors at key points and a bunch of people using AI/software to manage things like GPS spo
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by alerter 9mo ago
Yes, this is well put. I was heavily influenced by Casey back in 2014 and the advice I give juniors now is always that first point about "getting the clowns out of the car". There's a lot of crossover with the "grug brai
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by alerter 1y ago
Interesting take, and there is some truth to the "practical vs ideological" split, but I feel like it's a bit mixed up here. The actual division I see is between programmers arguing for simpler, more direct solutions to probl
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by alerter 1y ago
I moved from startup to enterprise a couple of years ago. I never realised a job could be simultaneously so easy, while also being so frustrating. It feels like there's very little commercial or technical juice, and very low standards.
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by alerter 1y ago
Probably my single favourite programming article.
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by alerter 1y ago
> Builder hired 300 internal engineers and kicked off building internal tools, all of which could have simply been purchased Tempted to say there was a bit of corruption here, crazy decision. Like someone had connections to the contracto
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by alerter 3y ago
Oh I totally understand that. Public sector IT is littered with failed projects, massive overspends and lasting functional problems. There are numerous examples from the last few years alone - hundreds of millions spent on broken software.
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by alerter 3y ago
Interesting, though I have no idea why the government is using AWS in the first place. This isn't a startup hacking away trying to find PMF, or dealing with unpredictable marketing-driven traffic spikes. We know we need these services
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by alerter 3y ago
I don't really agree with this. There may not be a mathematically perfect solution to the problem of paying artists, but that doesn't preclude criticism. Apart from anything else, Spotify isn't trying to find the fairest appr
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by alerter 3y ago
I agree that 2000 was a cleaner overall design. Adding realism for the sake of it is a dead end. That said, there are a lot of games where the details of the simulation compound on themselves in interesting ways (Dwarf Fortress, Dominions,
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by alerter 3y ago
Completely agree. I'm frustrated that Oculus and VR tech in general has been lumped in, via the "metaverse", with a bunch of less useful and less interesting crypto/NFT stuff. All I wanted was some cool niche flight and
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by alerter 3y ago
I'm living in the UK (Edinburgh) and I definitely feel like everything has gotten worse. The facts - on waiting times, strike days, inflation, wage stagnation, inequality etc. - speak for themselves. But there is also just a general fe
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by alerter 4y ago
Haha yeah, I made something similar for my own use. I bet thousands of people saw the ChatGPT interface and instinctively wanted to pipe stuff / save it easily without fussing with manual copy and paste. It's still a fun project a
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by alerter 4y ago
Agreed. I think the (now obviously justified) cynicism over blockchain hype has led a lot of left-leaning people to see AI as the next bubble. It doesn't help that major non-technical consulting firms have been producing nonsense for y
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by alerter 4y ago
People will complain about political correctness, but this is just the market and intellectual property law in action. In my experience, the ‘left’ doesn’t want the public sphere to become coddled and inoffensive. Advertisers and media comp
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by alerter 4y ago
I always wondered if it was a mistake for Facebook to try to rapidly casualise VR after acquiring Oculus. If they spent even a small fraction of their metaverse billions developing high-end, niche products (flight/mech sims etc.) then
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by alerter 4y ago
This practice led to a big defamation case involving a Scottish politician. Seems like the company involved was basically a tax avoidance scheme. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-51832504
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by alerter 4y ago
The original Pokémon games were deep and interesting RPGs that could nevertheless be played by children. They were hugely successful because they were genuinely well crafted games. Niantic gutted mechanical complexity in the name of accessi
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by alerter 7y ago
I think it's a better way of getting VR off the ground than the "social" mass market stuff that Facebook is pursuing. The industry should focus on building high quality niche stuff first, like FPS games and flight sims, then
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Labour pledges free broadband for all(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by alerter 7y ago|0 comments
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by alerter 7y ago
This is a really great game, if you can get past the ancient interface. Has a surprisingly tight core loop and a nice, pared down approach to 'grand strategy'. Despite all the buttons, it's actually got very little simulation
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by alerter 9y ago
This is very interesting and, as someone currently working in political reporting/summarising, also terrifying! Good thing I can code.