spandrew

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by spandrew 7d ago
This isn't an arguement I'm making. There's a difference between DLC and providing "the base game content" – which No Man's Sky was doing. It wasn't an actual game on launch and it's barely one now. T
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by spandrew 7d ago
You pay for a game——if the game is not good, and patches are provided "for free" that doesn't mean much. Here, NMS launched with abysmal content and atrocious systems. Now at least it doesn't have abysmal content. A bad
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by spandrew 7d ago
I disagree with this logic. They launched an empty, hollow game. And the features they've bolted on "for free" haven't addressed any of the core gameplay or emptiness issues people have with it. Most of their new systems
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by spandrew 7d ago
Every year social media hits me hard with "No Man's Sky is good now!" — and I bit and dove in with a few buddies. To say everything in this game is half baked is giving it too much credit. It's 10% baked at best. This is
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by spandrew 26d ago
Amazon also did this for their "Look Inside" feature. To do this they had to spin up massive digital infrastructure——then realized that they could sell that infrastructure and make more money than from the books they were scanning
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by spandrew 26d ago
Everytime a student says this—it's because they're procrastinating on their work. The hardest part about anything new is starting it. Once you build some momentum, interest and focus tends to build as well.There certainly are some
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by spandrew 26d ago
This is too simplistic. There are disciplines, like Anatomy, where you're basically just memorizing bones, glands, and other parts of the human body. For organic chemistry, students need to memorize most of the krebs cycle diagram for
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by spandrew 3mo ago
Why would they give away a trillion dollars when their goal is to make a trillion more?
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by spandrew 3mo ago
Yeah but that's not what the discourse around water and AI is. When people speak about water and AI/dc's, they're indicating that water is being "taken" from other uses. As if a AI usage will oneday cause you t
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by spandrew 3mo ago
I wish people would knock this off. There is zero path to AGI at the moment — and all the Anthropic/pentagon Sam Altman/AI-skynet stuff is scaring people into being fearful (and outright ignorant) to the actual uses of this probab
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by spandrew 4mo ago
This is not correct. People trust their "apps". They know Spotify's algo can feed them novel music. They know Kobo's reader connects to libraries in a way that isn't the DRM-lockin that Amazon shovels. Most non-tec
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by spandrew 5mo ago
You're making a hubris-laden assumption coders know the gaps their baking into their software — that any human has a decent enough grip on the multitudes of spinning logic duct taped together to make the internet run. Most vulnerabilit
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by spandrew 6mo ago
I would never advise anyone buy a Microsoft Windows laptop these days — between the forced updates, the account and service-fee thirst, ads, and consumer unfriendly product release process (forced opt-in). Guess what? With Apple's new
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by spandrew 6mo ago
Yea, the front service desk worker doesn't deserve that shit. Dick move.
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by spandrew 1y ago
Apple used to be like... the standard for how to do this. IMO we're losing a lot of writing craftsmanship across many industries with Gen X'ers retiring
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by spandrew 1y ago
Let me push back and say that is not the point of university. If you take the stance that education's function is to act like a feeder for business institutions; I guess? But that's only one byproduct of a strong education. Anothe
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by spandrew 1y ago
A social media ad company would be the least favourable. At least Google's central ad business is based off of search queries the user gives to them willingly for value.
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by spandrew 1y ago
Not me — Perplexity is so much better than Google. This troll bid made me laugh
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by spandrew 1y ago
I have to admit, everytime I hear the "Two guys hated x, so they built their own!" I see the XCKD cartoon https://xkcd.com/927/ It's not a fair comparison; competition can drive price down, but I pessi
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by spandrew 1y ago
People pointing out NLP are missing the point — pulling and crafting rules to run effective NLP is time consuming and technical. With an LLM you can just ask it exactly what you want and it interprets. That's the value; and as this dea
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by spandrew 1y ago
A future where Miyazaki prefecture become littered with grandparent-fueled Ghibli characters and quickly become overrun with tourists... Or kids at this specific stop are treated to a moment of joy while waiting for their train to come... T
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by spandrew 1y ago
Carbon fibres tend to crack under extreme torque.
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by spandrew 1y ago
It isn't right. Curing cancer is a noble pursuit. And researchers on planet earth aren't a monolith. Even "longevity" research can take vastly different shapes across the labs driving towards it. The mess of research tow
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by spandrew 1y ago
Amazon has been doing this since the 2000's. Fun fact: This is how AWS came about; for them to scale its "LOOK INSIDE!" feature for all the books it was hoovering in an attempt to kill the last benefit the bookstore had over
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by spandrew 1y ago
I dunno about this; that greenlight vacuum they brought to market a few years back is dope af. My first little orb Dyson is still kicking almost 15 years after I bought it. I think their brand isn't just about tech itself, but the util
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by spandrew 1y ago
From a GTM perspective, Apple is fine to be behind OpenAI and others. Other than Search and studying, most consumers just aren't finding compelling use cases for a lot of this tech. The news woman herself said it herself that > I&#x
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by spandrew 2y ago
I, for one, welcome our new Apple overlords. I'd like to remind them as a trusted personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.
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by spandrew 2y ago
AI "Agents" that can do tasks outside of the confines of just a chat window are probably the next stage of utility. The company I work for integrated AI into some of our native content authoring front-end components and people l
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by spandrew 2y ago
> Consider how these dynamics manifest in Silicon Valley, where Facebook's infamous "move fast and break things" mantra shaped a generation of tech culture. This emphasis on speed and disruption at any cost has created wor
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by spandrew 2y ago
I have a friend who went into full-on overemployment mode during the pandemic and never stopped once RTO became a thing. Somehow he juggled 2, and sometimes 3, jobs at one time. Of course he was staving off a performance-improvement-plan (p

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