krisgee

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by krisgee 5y ago
>Perhaps the government should open companies that are meant to lose money and are tax supported (for-loss conpanies) that compete with the industry with solutions that are good for the people but bad for business? Many government owned
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by krisgee 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-nasir This is one of my favourite things. It's an incredibly old, historically important text in a dead language and it's just a customer complaint. >&q
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by krisgee 5y ago
I thought it was going to be banknotes generated by ML based on the world's currencies.
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by krisgee 5y ago
That's associated with a big travel purchase so you can cut that possibility out pretty quickly.
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by krisgee 5y ago
It should literally remind you of the east coast cod fishery in Canada which was once the most productive fishery in the world and is now basically nothing. It got wrecked by giant all in one factory trawlers out competing local boats, caus
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by krisgee 6y ago
>- A friend of mine, when showing him the statement 'x = x + 1' was confused; surely, x cannot also equal x+1. I think the best thing that my CS 101 prof did was always refer to the assignment operator as "gets" so yo
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by krisgee 6y ago
I dreamed myself a sci-fi miniseries and it was extremely weird so it's not just you. I work in games/entertainment so I assume it's just how my brain organizes stuff.
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by krisgee 6y ago
>Seems like you need some kind of divine recognition, as otherwise you're just a dictator. I'd argue you have it backwards there. You start as a dictator (you and a bunch of people who agree with you take over some part of land
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by krisgee 6y ago
>There is an (appointed) upper house in Canada and the UK at least, that in theory can act as a check on parliament. If anything needs reform it's the fucking Senate. Basically the same problems as the US Supreme Court has where who
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by krisgee 6y ago
Do you not have maximum time between election? We have that in Canada.
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by krisgee 6y ago
I still think it was a bad call allowing Harper to get away with prorouging parliament twice and giving the cons time to paint a coalition government as somehow "unconstitutional" and "undemocratic". It's MORE democ
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by krisgee 6y ago
Well the main source of turmoil would be in replacing the office since theoretically all the powers in the country devolve from the head of state. I gotta say that I find the rabid anti-monarchal take a lot of americans have online kinda we
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by krisgee 6y ago
Interesting my CS degree had a required introductory Computer Engineering course which itself had a pre-req first year course where we learned digital logic (among other stuff). We didn't go quite as far as this book seems to but defin
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by krisgee 6y ago
>Can journalist check Gamasutra nad gdc vault before writing blog post on genre No because if they take time to do research they'll miss the views they could have gotten if they just slam out a piece and (basically) nobody is going
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by krisgee 6y ago
Just like how private sector health insurance isn't predatory at all huh.
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by krisgee 6y ago
>These days that dispute is ridiculous - obviously prejudice and bias can be built into technological artifacts. It's one "if statement" away. And with machine learning we're building our biases into the algorithms ex
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by krisgee 6y ago
The stance they've taken is that as President they won't ban or delete tweets because they're matters of record. There have been a lot of hints that after he's officially out the ban hammer is in play again.
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by krisgee 6y ago
I mean 5 hours is pretty much a days work realistically so if you look at it that way it seems pretty reasonable to me. Project 1 is basically a "you'll take a day to do this" project 3 is basically a week's work, etc. I
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by krisgee 6y ago
My god, Apple requiring a price for apps would be best thing that's happened to the mobile environment in AGES. I'm a mobile game dev and I would sacrifice a child to go back to the days when people would pay 0.99 for a game.
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by krisgee 6y ago
I'd assume that the move would be to take the option out then file an anti-trust suit.
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by krisgee 6y ago
Even if they did this is now an argument that the app store review process is not "fairly applied" which will be noticed in the current environment.
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by krisgee 6y ago
>Remote work also allows people to do that, but until the virus it hadn't really been considered as a serious option in the vast majority of workplaces. Yes but the cruical difference is that now, if I ask for remote work to move an
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by krisgee 6y ago
>This makes me wonder if some new colorblindness glasses manufacturer is planting "viral" content. This is it. Last couple of rounds of these "magic glasses" have also followed the same pattern, trying to prey on colo
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by krisgee 6y ago
Oh please. There's nothing legally wrong with it but you'd have to be pretty dense not to see the moral issue with labeling something in a way that would signal it as "high end" to consumers while it's actually just
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by krisgee 6y ago
>but for the average coffee connoisseur, excellent equipment is attainable for a few hundred dollars. I think this is generally true of most hobbies (jokingly it's what I use to define a hobby, something that you can, but don't
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by krisgee 6y ago
Real Ale in a bottle would continue to condition slightly so depending on the yeast strain I'd expect bottled beer to change flavour slightly. Also because of the way cask ale is dispensed it's pretty much always oxidized after th
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by krisgee 6y ago
The main ship itself is named after a Mind from Hydrogen Sonata and all the support craft on it are named after Culture ships as well. I guess the guy's just a fan?
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by krisgee 7y ago
I use Duck for most searches now but I find if I'm trying to ask a question or search weird error codes or something Google is still better for that. I still use duck to input but use the g! command.
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by krisgee 7y ago
>Interestingly, he actually acknowledged this criticism in his own work, beginning his book with the following "plea to the Readers.": This is the main tell of a snake oil salesman. If someone's selling something that work
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by krisgee 7y ago
Same, the only time I used a TI graphing calculator was during one unit of high school math. I don't think we used them during the test for that semester either. The general rule was scientific calculator only.

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