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by patagurbon 8d ago
By the end of it's lifetime Bungie had created quite a bit of variety in the Destiny 2 content library (although there's always a bit of orb dunking, plate standing, and symbol reading). And if they hadn't rebuilt the engine
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by patagurbon 14d ago
> two years under Biden with Democrat control of the House and Senate Nobody has controlled the Senate since ‘09. The veneer of bipartisanship created by the filibuster meant that Congress has done nothing since ‘09 (outside of a few s
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by patagurbon 14d ago
I think a lot of these beliefs are downstream of some perceived aloofness and intellectual elitism in the party combined with sour grapes about how 2016 turned out for certain grassroots demographics in the party. I don’t think the vibes ar
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by patagurbon 14d ago
They help launder this idea that every issue has two reasonable sides. Which is patently false There is some kernel of value to seeking out information from diverse sources. But groups like Ground News pervert that to mean that the left and
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by patagurbon 14d ago
Dubya did some of the most horrific things in modern American history, and filled the pockets of many of his associates im sure. But in terms of the letter of the law unfortunately he couldn’t be held accountable for much of it because it w
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by patagurbon 14d ago
100x is dramatically undercounting here. The most corrupt things Biden has done were: 1. Hide the extent of health issues. Par for the course in politics at this point for some reason. This is broadly just downstream of him believing he cou
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by patagurbon 14d ago
.NET has not been a particularly Windows specific framework for almost a decade now.
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by patagurbon 14d ago
I was about to argue against this with something like "soon everyone will just follow the average Claude/GPT generated trip to every destination"... But I realized that this is mostly a strict upgrade to how many many people
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by patagurbon 14d ago
They dictate what their employees are paid to work on, there are no VC investments in The Julia Programming Language It’s true that MIT and a few other organizations have more influence than others simply because they employ more developers
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by patagurbon 14d ago
There are no language share holders, and note that this account was created an hour ago just to post vague nonspecific gripes about Julia. There are some real issues in the ecosystem. Specifically there is a high proportion of “gradware” be
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by patagurbon 18d ago
Not sure what the dev intended, but the title and page imply that writing the app is idiomatic, not that the app itself is idiomatic (to the host platform)
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by patagurbon 3mo ago
We have the physics but not the engineering. See the Breakthrough Starshot project for instance
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by patagurbon 3mo ago
The whole problem with CalHSR is precisely that they can’t spend any real money… There were governmental barriers like CEQA and local NIMBYs but the primary cost culprit is that the legislature has continuously kicked fully funding the proj
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by patagurbon 4mo ago
Kinetic strikes sure. It seems like space marines would be incredibly easy to shoot down. They would be on a ballistic re-entry and must slow down without extreme g-forces before they reach the ground.
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by patagurbon 6mo ago
SRY testing was done at the 1996 games and for a while before that. 8 cisgender women tested positive at that games. Far more than the number of transgender athletes who have ever participated. This resulted in genetic testing being chang
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by patagurbon 6mo ago
There is no evidence of widespread electoral fraud in the US. There is a political talking point that “aliens are voting” in our elections but it has been proven false again and again. The purpose of this is to put up barriers for legitim
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by patagurbon 6mo ago
In reproducing code that requires the license be reproduced alongside it.
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by patagurbon 7mo ago
What does specialized to the process mean? Lots of JIT tooling these days readily supports caching and precompilation. Invalidation is hard but things like reloading global references are hardly intractable problems especially for an org as
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by patagurbon 8mo ago
That Erdos problem solution is believed by quite a few to be a previous result found in the literature, just used in a slightly different way. It also seems not a lack of progress but simply no one cared to give it a go. That’s a really fa
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by patagurbon 8mo ago
The zoning laws are far from the only tool used by municipalities to dramatically reduce supply. Permitting, requiring expensive changes at various points in the process, local building boards requiring extraneous modifications and often fo
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by patagurbon 9mo ago
I'm not opposed to alternative research organizations, funding structures, etc. But this does seem like a fairly direct attempt to shift funding from universities into private firms, a funding structure which IMHO is much easier to abu
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by patagurbon 9mo ago
The store I worked at for a while had a surprising number of real bearded experts, alongside at least a few younger folks who really understood the internal systems. It was great, but clearly was eroding as the experts retired and young fol
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by patagurbon 9mo ago
Their internal setup was also an absolute mess as of 4 years ago. A horrific hybrid of extremely legacy systems and new systems created around COVID which are both nicer and also deeply lacking in features we needed as floor workers. I un
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by patagurbon 10mo ago
Do you have evidence for this? I don’t think Nvidia is switching to Ultra Ethernet, just adding it to the product line-up
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by patagurbon 11mo ago
> are women just poorer? Within living memory absolutely 100%.
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by patagurbon 11mo ago
What parts of the biology of sex mandates different treatment? Do you mean that medicine should be tailored to biology? Yes obviously, and even very progressive research hospitals take great pains to ensure the treatment is tailored to biol
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by patagurbon 11mo ago
I bet they’re reading the room. They will have some problems if they’re the only ones who sign, but fewer if there’s at least two others who join them.
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by patagurbon 11mo ago
Who, what? Elaborate. Waving your hands like this is meaningless. What are these progressive views? What is this scientific evidence? Who are these people trying rigorously?
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by patagurbon 11mo ago
Again, I am not in favor of those things. I am perfectly happy for interviewees to be filtered for basic respect for people of all walks of life. I hope the reasoning there is obvious. Regardless governments must let the natural academic
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by patagurbon 11mo ago
None of the other universities have agreed yet. What do you mean by laser focused? Do you have specific policies to address this? If not then this is a natural part of the unfocused nature of knowledge work, and the natural weakness of huma

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