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by brolumir 1mo ago
Excellent old soviet cartoon based on this story (english subtitles) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oxP3TyuQx0
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by brolumir 1y ago
While this is clearly an old post, I'm not sure about the actual date. On the bottom it says 1999, but there's also a citation for an article from 2001. > For many more details consult the Young Scientists' Network or read
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by brolumir 1y ago
This reminds me of a somewhat related topic - who won the space race? Growing up in Soviet Union, we were taught that it was the USSR - when Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space. Then I came to the US, and was taught that it was the U
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by brolumir 2y ago
It's tough to prioritize migrating to a new platform for the engineering blog, without a very good ROI. Airbnb's eng blog was set up on Medium a while ago, it's doing fine, they have no real reason to spend a lot of resources
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by brolumir 3y ago
Yeah, I should've been more clear: it wasn't really investing in a friends company. I agree it can be a source of funding when other sources aren't available, but in this case it was a total scam - the company was specificall
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by brolumir 3y ago
Really wish this existed in the 90's when my family moved to the US from eastern europe. A non-exhaustive list of scams my parents fell for: - Investing money in a friend's company - this was the most painful as it was perpetuated
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by brolumir 3y ago
This is literally me. I'm very happy with my life - my spouse, my kids, my extended family, my small group of friends that's been together for 20+ years, and my career. I have very little interest in socializing / meeting new
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by brolumir 3y ago
The original team is working on a sequel: https://pistolshrimpgames.com/uqm2/
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by brolumir 3y ago
> Kent Beck, ex-fellow at payroll infrastructure fintech Gusto ... Really weird way to introduce Kent Beck
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by brolumir 3y ago
Hmm, when I try to change model name to "gpt-4" I get the "The model: `gpt-4` does not exist" error message. We are an API developer with a history of successful payments.. is there anything we need to do on our side to
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by brolumir 3y ago
Man, all these comments from folks who've discovered this site in their youth many many years ago makes me feel old ... because I remember when that site was first started. I was a member of the metal-rules.com forums (RIP) and the fo
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by brolumir 3y ago
Unfortunately, in practice that works only most of the time . At least in our experience (and the article says something similar) sometimes ChatGPT would return something completely different when JSON-formatted response would be expected.
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by brolumir 3y ago
Agree, this is a bad question that gives absolutely no indication on whether the candidate will perform well in the role as a software engineer. > The fastest I had a candidate solve the entirety of the problem with all bells and whistle
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by brolumir 4y ago
And a great Phish song by that name too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbMTa1yeSyw
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by brolumir 4y ago
Absolutely. There's a world of difference between a professional voice actor narrating an audiobook, and AI/amateur. Personally I can't listen to anything narrated by anyone other than (good) pro voice actors, it just kills t
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by brolumir 4y ago
There’s https://www.progarchives.com for progressive rock and related genres.
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by brolumir 4y ago
Not one mention of children in the article - the #1 reason people that have them prefer to work from home.
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by brolumir 4y ago
While the game itself is not getting remade, there is an “inspired by” game in the works: https://www.callofsaregnar.com/
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by brolumir 4y ago
Am I the only one who thought of this video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xubbVvKbUfY
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by brolumir 4y ago
Great story, but I wonder about the logistics of effectively DM'ing 25 players. I'm assuming not everyone plays in the same session? Otherwise - how do you handle battles with a party of 25 PCs?
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by brolumir 5y ago
What's missing from the open source model is the monetization. The incentives for contributing to open source and using open source products are misaligned - this is why it's been so hard to build businesses around it (with some n