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by badprose 16d ago
Quarterly Financial Targets? Questionable Functionality and Technology?
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by badprose 22d ago
> Until you actually need to run a business. Did you mean to say "Until you actually need to sell to a business."? They did do very well for a long time mostly by focusing on consumers...
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by badprose 1mo ago
> I wonder how they will cope over the next few years Perhaps they will pool together enough widespread stories of issues with AI (drones, surveillance, misleading advertising, etc) and create a political movement to try to ban or regula
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by badprose 2mo ago
Isn't this basically the same structure they currently use i.e. individual contributors, managers, and producers?
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by badprose 3mo ago
Do we know how much choice OpenAI has with the arrangement? They call it a "request", but could they have been ordered directly?
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by badprose 3mo ago
its always seemed like a prank to me; and I'm impressed that he never broke during the performance to ask "are you people really falling for this???"
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by badprose 3mo ago
They're victims of success. Lautrec was so infamous some people (read: me) are too scared to play the game without a guide now. "What if I missed some NPC and I can't level up anymore?!"
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by badprose 2y ago
I don't see how having homeless people everywhere in LA and SF is related to whether they have a functional legislature. Is there some law that California could pass to solve homelessness and they're just too dysfunctional to do
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by badprose 2y ago
What is the banksy lie?
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by badprose 3y ago
A lot of those words were explaining why they're excited to develop software for it. What did you want them to write about instead?
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by badprose 4y ago
Are there a lot other TTRPGs that have some software required to run them? Also this sounds like it would be fun to play based on these examples in the rules: > Example 3: Brody declares his character's intent: "I want Wasp to
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by badprose 5y ago
They do use Redis. They have a page on their tech here: https://stackexchange.com/performance
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by badprose 6y ago
Publishing on your own website is more akin to putting up a signboard on your front lawn than writing a book for publication. People are free to view it and take pictures for their own records, but I could still take it down and put somethi
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by badprose 6y ago
Netflix already has interactive content: see Bandersnatch and Minecraft: Story Mode.
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by badprose 6y ago
Most people don't learn the term from commercial aviation, they learn they term from movies where someone turns on the "autopilot" then goes to handle whatever is happening at the back of the plane. I assumed autopilots in pl
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by badprose 6y ago
It's not just YouTube that's automation obsessed. The groups filing the DMCA takedowns are also automatically scanning and flagging content on YouTube.
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by badprose 6y ago
I’m generally always on the latest released version. It _has) gotten better, but its still not good enough. For example, having two @Published variables in the same class with the same name causes a crash in the compiler with no pointers
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by badprose 6y ago
This is extremely exciting for me. I started writing a toy application for my iPhone using SwiftUI a few months ago and have been very impressed by Swift (coming from C#). So far, SwiftUI has felt exactly like what I wished XAML would
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by badprose 6y ago
If you use Windows, Stardock has a tool, Groupy ( https://www.stardock.com/products/groupy/ ), that allows you make everything a tab. One of the examples on their website groups all Adobe applications in tabs. Micro
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by badprose 8y ago
> Firstly, I would have used an https url instead of http and secondly, I would have made it look for images with a width & height greater than 200px rather than equal to 200px. I didn't know Shortcuts were powerful enough to pu
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by badprose 8y ago
> they'll just have to write "we added feature x, which we'll slowly roll out to all eligible users." This would be vastly preferably to the current: "Bug fixes and performance improvements"...
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by badprose 8y ago
I generally prefer to work in different environments at work and at home (usually .NET at work and iOS at home). That being said, I use C# at work, and recently started using F# for side projects (which does actually feel fun to write (for
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by badprose 8y ago
The benefit is that a human could jump in and take over either side of the conversation. Anyone can have a conversation, but not everyone can author an API.
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by badprose 8y ago
> Douglas found more solace in the fact that the benefits of two-spacing, as described in the study, appear to be very minor. Speaking of which, did we ever learn how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
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by badprose 8y ago
"Scrum is probably the worst way to build software, except for all the others."
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by badprose 8y ago
And I thought getting a customer support person who says, "they system won't let me do that" was bad enough!
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by badprose 8y ago
I think its lots of jobs that didn't need full-on computers in the first place.
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by badprose 9y ago
I don't see how this purchase changes anything. How was "TunnelBear: an independent VPN provider" ever any more trustworthy than "TunnelBear: A service from McAffee"? In both cases, I have no idea what they're
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by badprose 9y ago
> FWIW "m" is almost a secure password on a root account with an SSH that allows password authentication This is very counter-intuitive. Is the idea that guessing both the username and the password together is much harder than
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by badprose 9y ago
Going over sme of the brands on that list, this was a bit shocking: Applebee's founded 1980. Buffalo Wild Wings founded 1982. Hooters founded 1983. The way they write these articles I thought these companies were as old as Macys

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