saturdaysaint

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by saturdaysaint 5mo ago
In voice conversations I tell it not to reply at all or only say “Understood” until I use some kind of code word. Not perfect, but less intrusive.
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by saturdaysaint 1y ago
Fascinating, then, how the head of DOGE has deep financial interests in China. It’s really not out of bounds to suggest that his benefactors could’ve pulled some strings to kneecap the US.
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by saturdaysaint 3y ago
I found this to be an informative and well-laid out argument in favor of motion interpolation: https://www.wired.com/story/motion-smoothing-defense-hdtv/ I have come to prefer it. I think this comes as a combinat
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by saturdaysaint 3y ago
If you use ChatGPT or find it to be a compelling technology, there’s good reason to root for a reversion to the status quo. This could set back the state of the art consumer AI product quite a few months as teams reinvent the wheel in a w
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by saturdaysaint 4y ago
This attitude of acceptance is probably the most helpful attitude the vast majority of the time, but I was lucky enough to have parents that radically minimized their possessions in their early 60's and moved into a retirement communit
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by saturdaysaint 4y ago
I see the relationship coaches of this stripe all over all sorts of social media, and I just rarely if ever see insights that couldn't have been imparted by your average friendly stranger at a bar. What I mostly see are slightly-to-mo
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by saturdaysaint 4y ago
Yeah, there's room to quibble when it comes to Warzone, but it really doesn't add up to much in my view. The most gamebreaking advantages - The Roze skin and the broken Mac-10 blueprint - were basically accidents when it was a fa
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by saturdaysaint 4y ago
I play Fall Guys and Warzone, both of which offer cosmetic modifications that are unlockable both through gameplay and by purchasing them. IMO, the cosmetics are little more than flair that add a little bit of fun and personal expression t
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by saturdaysaint 5y ago
This line of argument doesn't hold up to the slightest scrutiny. First of all, it's quite pedantic and naive to assume that governments and medical bodies in the richest and most advanced countries haven't worked through sim
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by saturdaysaint 5y ago
I feel like TikTok is significantly underdiscussed, almost like the tech and business press are assuming it's a flash-in-the-pan more similar to Snapchat than Facebook. It is almost certainly having a major impact on the business of s
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by saturdaysaint 5y ago
To me the best explanation for this is as mutually-assured-destruction insurance if Microsoft takes the biggest title in the Activision portfolio, Call of Duty, away from Playstation. As a Sony fan, I'm cautiously optimistic that the r
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by saturdaysaint 5y ago
That's hours of "testimony" from conspiracy theorists who all have long records of making flagrantly incorrect statements on COVID. Johnson's big leadoff panelist was a Texas cardiologist who is far from a respected aut
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by saturdaysaint 5y ago
Kids. We have 2 toddlers and are expecting again. Both of us had parents who were teachers, which meant their working hours lined up perfectly with our school hours and holidays. Raising multiple kids is pretty tough if you don't hav
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by saturdaysaint 5y ago
I feel like almost any new kit I look at is composed of big specially-molded bricks that would seem really odd and difficult to find a use for if they were deconstructed in a big box of bricks. Maybe I'm misremembering or am being too
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by saturdaysaint 5y ago
I'm sorry this isn't much use to the parent poster, but I think these conversations really need to happen years if not decades before it's time for the change. 70-somethings can be lively and wonderful, but as a generalizati
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by saturdaysaint 5y ago
I agree. It feels like most Lego sets on the market have several major/foundational pieces which are essentially useless outside of the model they're built for - some huge chunk of molded plastic. A big part of the joy of Lego s
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by saturdaysaint 5y ago
Not sure when it's coming, but they announced an Android app when the AirTags were announced.
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by saturdaysaint 5y ago
I wouldn't bet against Mike Judge - he went on from B&B to create Office Space, King of the Hill, Idiocracy (painfully underrated), and most recently Silicon Valley.
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by saturdaysaint 5y ago
I hope that nobody reading this has an unsupervised psilocybin experience in 2021. We are so close to being able to pay for a professionally supervised experience (and you can almost surely find one today if you look in the right circles a
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by saturdaysaint 5y ago
In the most frequent circumstance - my 3 year old hitting his 1 year old sister - my first step is to pick her up, give her sympathetic attention, and whisk her out of the room. So safety is no longer an issue, and the hitter has a moment
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by saturdaysaint 5y ago
I've done this too, and I have one of "those" hard-headed boys that loves to roughhouse, but I've come to believe there is no escape from "Where attention goes, behavior grows." You might be inflicting a punis
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by saturdaysaint 5y ago
A lot of this article (possibly the majority?) is actually spent explaining why Instant Games haven't taken over the world, despite some success stories. This is why he goes into some detail on Apple - if they can't go on iOS dev
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by saturdaysaint 5y ago
I mean, you're not completely wrong, but if you say "not interested" to a handful of emotion-stirring or shocking things, it's amazing how savvily the algorithm will steer you away from that content and often into more i
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by saturdaysaint 5y ago
These are early adopter products that are, for some good reasons, expressly aimed at a fairly small subset of wealthy and technologically inclined people. Given the nascent state of the technology and the extremely high liability, they pro
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by saturdaysaint 5y ago
Now that tactical shooters have gone from a hardcore gamer niche to arguably the primary way many teenagers hang out with peers, good spatial sound is a huge opportunity. If someone could make $200 headphones where you could easily perceiv
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by saturdaysaint 6y ago
Exactly. I've been on Tik Tok for a few months and I feel like I've seen a hundred times as many interesting and relevant videos that have actually improved my life and inspired purchases as I've ever seen on YouTube, mostly
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by saturdaysaint 6y ago
Gentrification is often discussed as a phenomenon fairly specific to poor urban areas. A lot of the frequently mentioned problems of gentrification (displacing people and altering neighborhood character) don't really apply if a well-t
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by saturdaysaint 6y ago
Power really isn't an excuse these days. There's a huge library of great games on Steam that run beautifully on a $600 laptop. Look at how many great games are on the Switch, which is about as powerful as an iPhone 6S. It's
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by saturdaysaint 6y ago
I was riveted by Half-Life in 1998, but I recently picked up it's well regarded remake Black Mesa (which updates the graphics to approximately 2006 levels) and IMO, it doesn't hold up at all. Nothing about it is epic - it feels
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by saturdaysaint 6y ago
It's remarkable how their fundamental "lateral" insight of the last decade was so blindingly obvious in this age of the smartphone - portability is king. I wonder if they collected data from the 3DS and WiiU and could tell th

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