schnevets

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by schnevets 6d ago
All of the Shaun the Sheep stuff is phenomenal
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by schnevets 7d ago
Agreed. Elsewhere in this conversation people mention simple games that procgen well: Spelunky, Terraria, Dwarf Fortress, Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup These are games painting with a 16 color palette while the technology exists for any shade in
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by schnevets 7d ago
I vaguely recall an episode of the Triple Click podcast around 2023 where they had a serious AI fanboy who was rah rah-ing about future procedural generation in games. It might have been Casey Anthony, but I'm unable to re-listen while
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by schnevets 14d ago
Yeap. In my pantry right now, I probably have 12 reusable bags. Some of them have been used hundreds of times (and have the battle scars and stains to prove it) while others were used once because I had to run into a grocery store unprepare
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by schnevets 15d ago
I canceled Spotify a few months ago have been using a free Amazon music trial. It's staggering how the Amazon interface is just worse in every single way. Concurrent to this streaming evaluation, I inherited a Sonos system and by the g
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by schnevets 15d ago
Follow-up guide: How to get rid of 100 lbs of potatoes in 6 months
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by schnevets 16d ago
So Vanguard owns one-eighth of ADC, an REIT whose stock price has declined 2.65% in the last 5 years. Surely there is space in the market for a smaller, leaner, possibly privately-owned REIT whose values more closely align with 2026 values
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by schnevets 16d ago
Researchers are careful to note that the Underpants Index most strongly reflects soil fertility, meaning nutrient availability, rather than soil health in the fullest sense. A soil loaded with nutrients will break down cotton fast, but
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by schnevets 22d ago
Upvoting this for asking the candid question that so many commenters dance around. I can't imagine a 22-year-old confidently walking into an interview (or getting introduced to a team) and assuring everyone that they have the "har
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by schnevets 29d ago
I smirk and laugh this little slideshow and then remember that my own work involves internal tools to promote governance and productivity while formalizing requirements to two outsourced developers. I don't think I'm one of the re
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by schnevets 1mo ago
I wouldn't even compare it to a tool. People frequently "build their own house" where they sub out 75% of the skilled labor and act as a General Contractor/glorified gopher. And you won't get purity tests from the l
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by schnevets 1mo ago
Half of my property is woods and there are multiple fallen oaks that are slowly returning to the ground, but the canopy remains exposed. I'm constantly torn between letting "nature take its course" or speeding things up with
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by schnevets 1mo ago
Feedback loop is right. I think there are parallels to the Blank Check podcast playing "The Box Office Game", where those cinephiles try to determine the Box Office Top 5 on the week a particular film was released (even though the
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by schnevets 1mo ago
Recommendations have gotten noticeably worse since the glory days of Discover Weekly. It's possible that my tastes have just stagnated in my mid-30s*, but I just found myself listening to ~40 essential artists, so I decided to just buy
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by schnevets 1mo ago
The growth rate is surprising to me. Anecdotally, I know at least 5 families who have canceled the service and are outspoken in their distaste (even if many just jumped to equally dubious all-you-can-stream offerings). For most folks, it se
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by schnevets 1mo ago
I mean, isn't that the exercise? I love MTJ's Bubble Bobble, but it is a simple game. If a "Rip O Matic" took Bubble Bobble and replaced the bubble blowing dinosaur with a sword-wielding samurai (but kept the levels, spe
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by schnevets 1mo ago
The streaming service is a Cathedral: You've paid your tithe to the temple of HBO Max? Marvelous, please come in, my child and gaze upon our wonders! What? James Cameron's True Lies? It is not in our collection, please remain here
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by schnevets 1mo ago
It's funny that this was written in 1989, right after the Japanese pulled the industry out of the 80s Atari crash, where shovelware destroyed consumer confidence in Atari products (I know that is a simplification, but the Nintendo Seal
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by schnevets 2mo ago
This was a video I needed to see today! While most of tech is navel-gazing about the not-too-distant future, it feels so nice to see a presentation that looks straight out of Babycastles circa 2011.
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by schnevets 2mo ago
But with MAME comes a bunch of licensing implications for commercial use. 9000-in-one cabinets just flagrantly disregard these implications and I have encountered bars that sidestep these rules ("I'm not charging to use this machi
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by schnevets 2mo ago
Back in college (2010), a friend started working at a bustling coffee shop, and pretty soon our friend circle included her "coffee crew" of friends from the shop. Every Monday, a paper with shifts for the next two weeks were poste
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by schnevets 3mo ago
I think the fad that most closely aligned with current AI absurdity was mid-2000s outsourcing.
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by schnevets 4y ago
Years ago, my friend and I had a tumblr called Loo York City where we reviewed bar bathrooms in NYC. We had some fun nights drinking at bars and writing up grandiose assessments about life based on where you go pee. The page received no tra
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by schnevets 4y ago
I think the improvements and increased acceptance of prefabricated construction and machine learning can make for an intriguing combination. I am by no means a construction specialist, but if you distill ML to new innovation from historical
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by schnevets 4y ago
Observe a trivia night focused on a specific TV Show (like Simpsons or Seinfeld trivia) and you'll see this phenomena en masse. People make connections based on plotlines, celebrity guest stars, or even head writers on episodes and the
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by schnevets 4y ago
The question is: Would that be more cost-effective than just outright buying Ubisoft or a similar-sized publisher so your device has some content?
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by schnevets 4y ago
I don't do a lot of interviewing at my company, but I encountered my first fraud candidate two weeks ago. He said he was having connectivity issues and asked about not joining video. I offered to work with HR to reschedule but he said
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by schnevets 4y ago
It's not quite "dying", but there is a pattern that is so obvious it's confounding: > Small group of experts form Boutique Consultancy focused on specific technology (Cloud, SaaS Product, Framework, Open-source tool,
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by schnevets 4y ago
I am curious how the leanest of "cutting-edge" startups will adapt to these new employee expectations. In the short-term, designing a company as "remote first" is a huge boon, but I could foresee a bounce-back to close c
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by schnevets 4y ago
To start, malls tend to be built on highways removed from a municipality's center. Many of the people in this area will need certain amenities (for example, schools) and will have commutes. The entire surrounding area would have to be

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