chrisfosterelli

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by chrisfosterelli 13d ago
> What I don't understand is why Sony is the one being targeted for this when this has been the case with any digital purchase for 20 years? Examples: literally two days ago Sony permanently removed access to over 500 movies for peo
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by chrisfosterelli 13d ago
1956 CE: https://anyhumanever.com/life/1409269740-1599827252-31263759...
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by chrisfosterelli 17d ago
I suspect LLMs would actually struggle significantly with doing it consistently if given purely as a prompt instruction, but you could always constrict the sampling to force words that create a legitimate chain or fine tune / RL in som
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by chrisfosterelli 23d ago
> I lived for many years in China and Thailand, and toilets are free, clean, and plentiful there I don't know about China but this was the opposite of my experience in Thailand. The majority of public toilets I encountered had an at
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by chrisfosterelli 29d ago
Last year estimated spend was $380 billion and this year it's $680 billion [0] just for the big five. Given global projections through 2030 being as high as 7 trillion [1], OPs comment seems at least the right order of magnitude. [0]:
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by chrisfosterelli 2mo ago
I agree that at some point you do, but again I think the fact that Sony Playstation is doing this with larger annual revenue, less studios, AND better margins is an indicator that it isn't the problem here.
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by chrisfosterelli 2mo ago
Yes, I agree. I empathize with Phil in spirit on it. He's a real gamer and tried to create a space for the developers to do their own thing and create what they want. But it doesn't seem to have been great business.
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by chrisfosterelli 2mo ago
> This is still $150M of pure gravy every single year. Sure, this is going to a corporation, but that's more money than most people could possibly dream of earning in ten lifetimes. That actually seems... tiny? Xbox is nearly 17,000
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by chrisfosterelli 2mo ago
I totally agree. Being able to buy three-year cards for gold and then convert them to GP for $1 was an absolutely killer deal in terms of bang-for-buck. I stopped renewing once they closed that 'loop-hole' personally, I only play
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by chrisfosterelli 2mo ago
With due fairness, these are two different sets of leaders and two different strategies. A lot of the strategy you outlined -- buying all these studios, replicating netflix, giving away day one games, raising game pass -- was a strategy put
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by chrisfosterelli 5mo ago
I don't really blame the researchers here but this is yet another article that is happy to have a clickbait headline which any reasonable reader is going to assume will include a picture of "treetops glowing". At least person
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by chrisfosterelli 5mo ago
I have to believe that what we're seeing is a minority opinion that feels like their uniquely backwards logic justifying this is somehow worth sharing as if its new and insightful, while the vast majority of us think "holy crap, t
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by chrisfosterelli 6mo ago
Happy to help. This is the official methods description for the Canadian gov's FM3 data, it's probably the best place to start although the details are mostly covered in much longer publications that require some digging: https:&
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by chrisfosterelli 6mo ago
We do some similar work with hotspot analysis but (as a Canadian company) are more focused on Canadian data where the government already does a fair bit of false positive detection and filtering. It generally gives pretty clean data and we
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by chrisfosterelli 6mo ago
That's a good point.
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by chrisfosterelli 6mo ago
Well it is a professional sport -- there's tournaments worth tens of millions of dollars. But honestly it is probably easier to catch cheaters in that environment. The real issue is that cheaters suck the fun out of the game, and match
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by chrisfosterelli 7mo ago
I agree with what you're saying, but given the egos involved in the current admin there's a practical interpretation: 1. Department of War broadly uses Anthropic for general purposes 2. Minority interests in the Department of War
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by chrisfosterelli 7mo ago
Good point. By 'technical garbage' I largely meant the dated visualizations it associated with all the hacking scenes (the rapid hacking speed I can forgive for the sake of story) but TBH I never fully made the connection between
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by chrisfosterelli 7mo ago
The movie is obviously technical garbage but one thing it did well was capture that early hacker counterculture spirit. I think a lot of us can appreciate that for the warm blanket it is and forgive its technical accuracy and story flaws.
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by chrisfosterelli 8mo ago
I noticed my eyes started automatically skimming right after that paragraph. It's funny my brain has learned to calibrate its reading effort in response to how much perceived effort went into writing it.
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by chrisfosterelli 8mo ago
Health metrics are absolutely tarnished by a lack of proper context. Unsurprisingly, it turns out that you can't reliably take a concept as broad as health and reduce it to a number. We see the same arguments over and over with body fa
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by chrisfosterelli 8mo ago
Software engineering isn't some magical, special branch of engineering in which no one piece of software resembles another, no well-studied steps can be replicated, and the design of which is equivalent to rocket science. If you'r
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by chrisfosterelli 8mo ago
Yes, my claim is absolutely not that they're good at it haha. Estimation is a real problem in a lot of industries, including ours, and I think that's probably common ground here -- I suppose my differing position is that I think t
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by chrisfosterelli 8mo ago
> Contractor estimates are just as prone to schedule slippage and cost overruns as anything estimated by software engineers I completely agree. That's why I chose that example: They're also awful at it, especially these days in
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by chrisfosterelli 8mo ago
When customers ask when feature X will be ready, they sure have an idea of done in their mind.
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by chrisfosterelli 8mo ago
I agree. Software engineering is basically the only industry that pretends this is professionally acceptable. Imagine if government staff asked when a bridge would be done or how much it would cost and the lead engineer just said "it&#
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by chrisfosterelli 8mo ago
Yes, as someone who is usually flying with my GF, I love this feature! Unfortunately air canada's implementation is abysmal and anytime there is a pilot announcement it interrupts the game long enough to break the network connection an
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by chrisfosterelli 9mo ago
Yes, that seems to sort of be the criticism and mixed results. Although not everyone has a complete protein diet so theoretically although it breaks down the idea is you then have all the things you need, should your body choose to use it t
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by chrisfosterelli 9mo ago
Among endurance athletes collagen supplements have become increasingly popular the past couple years -- from what I understand the evidence is kind of mixed though e.g. https://thefeed.com/products/pillar-performance-co
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by chrisfosterelli 9mo ago
> 3. With all the modern corporate doublespeak trainings, there is 0 chance that something would be called “desperation score” in us business. This is a good point. It'd almost certainly be called something like 'payrate sensit

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