promano

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by promano 4d ago
Starcraft III would be as far from a new IP as you could go while still making an RTS. Except for a Warcraft IV, I guess.
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by promano 2mo ago
They also don't care which URL was accessed when the goal is scraping as much text as possible for AI training.
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by promano 3mo ago
I'd bet the kind of people who care about the RAM usage of their media player haven't used Windows Media Player in a decade and disable as much telemetry as they can.
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by promano 3mo ago
And even if you don't have seasonal products, you still need an end date to mark when you stop selling a product; otherwise you have to do something hacky like defining "<price> = NULL means we stopped selling the product af
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by promano 3mo ago
Google's whole business is built on top management abandoning its moral compass. Sergey Brin and Larry Page wrote that "advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of
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by promano 4mo ago
Maybe we need a separate campaign, "Kill Games": any games whose existence requires players being "shaken down" should not be allowed to exist.
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by promano 4mo ago
A token is approximately word generated by a LLM; a few dozen tokens gets you a line of code... so measuring token burn rate is the same as counting lines of code. All it took was a change of name, and we're back to the most primitive
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by promano 4mo ago
We had a way of measuring velocity, but who cares about estimating stories when we could be spinning up more agents? Burn a bunch of tokens and those stories will be DONE before you could even find your planning poker cards!
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by promano 11mo ago
Correlation is not causation and all that, but anime was better without Crunchyroll.
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by promano 1y ago
They obfuscate it more than just pressing "Yes". You get a big warning saying Microsoft Defender has protected you, and the only clear option is "Don't run" https://cdn.advancedinstaller.com/img&#x2F
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by promano 2y ago
There was an audit of the VPN servers earlier this year: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/fourth-infrastructure-audit-comp...
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by promano 2y ago
The Business Source License is not an open source license. Open source does mean "free to use without encumbrance" - see points 5 and 6 of the Open Source Definition at https://opensource.org/osd