thisisonthetest

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by thisisonthetest 3y ago
the theory I’ve heard says that’s extremely unlikely. The US only has ~80 destroyers most of which are protecting their super carriers. They don’t want to police the worlds oceans anymore. [1] https://youtu.be/mcZPOuI-vcU?fe
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by thisisonthetest 3y ago
as a lefty I’ve found what qualifies a good pen is how quickly the ink dries to prevent smudging
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by thisisonthetest 3y ago
I’ve been waiting for a killer feature that will make it more than just an expensive fitbit for me. Every generation I say “surely the next gen will be it” but it never was (I guess I’m a laggard in ‘Crossing the Chasm’ parlance). Personall
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by thisisonthetest 3y ago
> Reuters was unable to review a copy of the letter. The researchers who wrote the letter did not immediately respond to requests for comment. OpenAI declined to comment. Lol for real, like what are we even doing here?
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by thisisonthetest 3y ago
Actually Source was never a popular engine among developers. If you exclude valve we’re talking dozens maybe? And when 250+ games are released on every week on Steam it’s a very rarely used engine
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by thisisonthetest 4y ago
procedural programming (is it data or is it code, it can’t be both) and data oriented design with SOA and deferred buffering for games at least code needs to be highly cache friendly and dumping OOP makes it way easier to reason about progr
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by thisisonthetest 4y ago
sort of related, I wish there were a way to filter suggestions & subscriptions. I only care about videos longer than 4 minutes. Anything shorter is almost always not worth my time. Plus I subscribe to news networks in a foreign language
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by thisisonthetest 5y ago
this right here. I went from a 1080p 24” @144Hz to a 1440p 27” @160Hz and it’s night and day. It was in that perfect sweet spot for size too, not just performance and quality. The bigger you go the further you have to sit from the screen, b
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by thisisonthetest 5y ago
Not really about the article but, I wonder if Dostoevsky inspired the Netflix show Living With Yourself. I thought it was a cool premise, but this sounded very similar. In either case it goes to show the value of being well read
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by thisisonthetest 5y ago
I would counter with the idea that seniority and programming ability are inversely proportional via The Gervais Principal (mentioned on hn again just recently)
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by thisisonthetest 5y ago
CICO is almost as pernicious and ubiquitous. It really grinds my gears when people try to use “intuition” to understand something super complex with no data at all. People talk about “metabolism” the same way. Say the word “toxins” around m
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by thisisonthetest 5y ago
I left long ago for Vivaldi. Glad I was gone for the ads in the search bar by default. That kind of behavior, to me, shows a change in priorities away from the user. In Vivaldi you can set nicknames for bookmarks. So you could type “Ctrl+L”
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by thisisonthetest 5y ago
I am really surprised I haven’t heard anyone talk about false positive rates, false negative rates, or bayes’ theorem since covid tests first became available. I mentioned it to family when the stories of conflicting tests showed up on the
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by thisisonthetest 5y ago
this always makes me laugh: https://youtu.be/3mOVK0oSH2M edit: start at 3:00 mins in
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by thisisonthetest 5y ago
wish there was a spoiler tag, bummer. Well, i was only like 20+ hours away from catching up
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by thisisonthetest 5y ago
> make the numbers dance in your head That is the best description of mental arithmetic I’ve heard, I love it. Thinking about it, I guess I solve problems by moving numbers into certain positions relative to each other based on the opera
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by thisisonthetest 5y ago
I lost my dad to cancer at 14 so I wasn’t in a position to take care of him, I’m sure that adds another layer to the immense challenge of having a loved one diagnosed with cancer. Also, we had caught it very late so we only had six months w
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by thisisonthetest 5y ago
Tons of games have ping systems that are comparable if not much more advanced. Dota 2 has had pinging since 2013 and expanded features like a chat wheel in 2017. Idk how patents work but it’s hard to believe EA gets to claim this as their t