bellgrove

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Trump considers renaming Lake Ontario to 'Lake America' as trade war escalates(theglobeandmail.com)
18 points by bellgrove 23d ago|9 comments
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by bellgrove 1mo ago
I think the author comes from a very specific perspective; RAD tools, as I understand it, generally has only one, or a very few, software engineers per product. The way I would write code on a personal project is very different than the way
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by bellgrove 2mo ago
As a consumer what is the incentive to not use a card? In North America, at least, there are points programs that heavily incentivize my usage of credit cards plus other benefits like travel insurance. I also trust in the consumer protectio
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by bellgrove 3mo ago
Perhaps this depends a lot on location. Parking is a nightmare at my local Costco. The employees are friendly enough most of the time. I truly admire the value and business model but Costco is pretty much the absolute worst shopping experie
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by bellgrove 3mo ago
Social networks definitely existed, they just didn’t gain the same momentum/popularity as Facebook. As others have pointed out there was MySpace - but even before that there was Friendster and Asian Avenue. I’m sure there were probably
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by bellgrove 9mo ago
Lots of inner monologues that have a sort of stream of consciousness feel to them. Plot is secondary or non-existent. But I do feel like his movies usually have a coherent theme and he gets it across successfully. I don’t know anything abou
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by bellgrove 9mo ago
Interesting - I got something completely different out of The Thin Red Line. To me it was fascinating to see how different people processed the war and their different struggles, whether philosophical (Private Witt), with relationships back
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by bellgrove 1y ago
Agree. To me the general reaction seems to be mourning or indifference. I don’t see why the latter is a problem - there are so many gun deaths in the US; I believe there was yet another school shooting the other day too.
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by bellgrove 1y ago
I haven’t seen any of this, anecdotally. Don’t confuse indifference with celebration. You all had a school shooting the other day too and I’ve hardly heart about it because it is overshadowed by this news.
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by bellgrove 1y ago
I think today it is a lot easier for businesses to do what Amazon does - but a lot of that is true because of Amazon. Shopify, stripe, and logistics & last mile providers fill some gaps but they were not as widely known or as easy to in
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by bellgrove 1y ago
Respectfully, this argument reads like it is completely ignorant of the e-commerce landscape over the past 30 years and how much Amazon has shaped and innovated in the space. Not to mention that today they have several verticals beyond e-co
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by bellgrove 1y ago
Having worked there in the past, Ubisoft is awful. When I was there previously there was an aggressive push for UPlay (now Ubisoft Connect) integration into all products. Then there were the bullshots for promos/E3/etc. There were
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by bellgrove 1y ago
Not an American, so maybe I don’t have the same depth or insight into the candidates, but as bad as Kamala might have been, I think she would have been better than Trump. But then again I think a potato would make a better president than Tr
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by bellgrove 1y ago
> Is there data for this question which would back restricting populations from having tools of self defense against tyrannic government(could happen in Canada too one day) and make it high priority for society compared to other problems
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by bellgrove 2y ago
Can you elaborate?
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by bellgrove 2y ago
Anecdotally I've found that almost all alcohol-free cocktails on the menu are priced the same as regular version cocktails; like $15-$20! In Canada, at least, I believe there are licensing and taxes that contribute to the price of alco
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by bellgrove 2y ago
I feel like there’s some software adage about the last 10% being the hardest. It certainly holds true from my experience - even if they are 90% of the way there, it’s not a linear path to 100%.
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by bellgrove 2y ago
Interesting... Drukqs was my introduction to RDJ when it was released and to be honest I have never really gone back to give it a dedicated listen. Perhaps his other works stand out more to me because it was released (or I discovered them)
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by bellgrove 2y ago
I love most of his work. Drukqs is his weakest (but still good!) album IMO - Avril 14th is a great track. His Analord series is also amazing and Rushup Edge under another alias - The Tuss.
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by bellgrove 2y ago
I wonder if some (or all?) of this scorn is due to LotR's pop status - many probably consider it the pinnacle of fantasy without having read through much else in the genre of that era; for many more it probably is everything they know
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by bellgrove 2y ago
I thought he was rather well known in fantasy circles. He definitely does not have the same pop-cult status as Tolkien but his Elric series as well as Gloriana are worth reading, IMO.
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by bellgrove 3y ago
Maybe it's age - maybe it's because I don't use Reddit "properly" - but I feel like it has got worse over time and as the user-base has grown. I prefer to remain a lurker; no account, just viewing r/popular or
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by bellgrove 3y ago
Have you considered not using an engine at all, in favor of libraries? There are many amazing libraries I've used for game development - all in C/C++ - that you can piece together: General: stb https://github.com/n
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by bellgrove 3y ago
I completely agree. Plus, part of Amazon's candidate evaluation is to consider whether they are (or clearly have potential to be) better than 50% of your peers, as part of the hiring bar. Between that and stack-ranking/forced-attr
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by bellgrove 3y ago
He received $28k from his father and $10k from his mother - in 1995 dollars that is not an insignificant amount of money. But, as far as I know, I agree that it feels false to paint him as someone who succeeded because of generational wealt
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by bellgrove 3y ago
Slightly of off topic, but how did Fridman get to the point that he could pull big tech C-execs and celebrities onto his podcast? He has such a monotone voice (no shade meant, I am the same way, no matter how hard I try otherwise) and - thi
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by bellgrove 3y ago
I really loved the Gormenghast series. Worm Ouroboros. Gloriana and the Elric saga by Moorcock.
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by bellgrove 3y ago
Perhaps I went into this series with unrealistic expectations but I found it pretty disappointing. Same for Rothfuss. There is a huge volume of older fantasy novels that are a much better investment of time, IMO.
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by bellgrove 3y ago
I haven’t seen someone use the phrase begging the question properly in… forever.
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by bellgrove 3y ago
Given his reputation, why would any software engineers want to work for one of his companies?

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