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by ud_0 5y ago
Hi, well it's probably not a good rate when you're just starting out. But I'm in my forties now, and it's basically an ongoing auction for my time that's driving up the price gradually. I have no opinion on whether
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by ud_0 5y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote, based in Germany I am an all-rounder programmer with decades of experience in many areas, available for freelance work. I'm up for: - game development (I would love to help out with weird custom engines
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by ud_0 5y ago
If you make a game for a given platform, it makes sense to target the most common configuration, which in this case was 512k (not 512M btw). Even though RAM expansions eventually became popular, I guess publishers would be hesitant to put a
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by ud_0 5y ago
I admit I failed that question, and I understand the impulse to then challenge the way the question was constructed. In school, it's something I did regularly, partly because some of the questions were indeed weakly constructed, but al
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by ud_0 5y ago
Say you're getting mugged and the mugger opens with "If we accept that you don't have any right to your possessions, don't you agree that I'm justified in taking all your stuff?" It is not an intellectual or rh
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by ud_0 5y ago
This is wrong on so many levels. I've been writing code commercially for more than 30 years. > This is also what Software Engineering has become: you memorize, regurgitate and participate in agile the masquerade. Creativity is shun
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by ud_0 5y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote, based in Germany I recently went from my full time programming job - doing mostly business and scientific software - to a freelance setup. I'm up for: - game development I would love to help out with cust
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by ud_0 5y ago
Could you elaborate a bit on what you mean by "as bitter as this"? Reading the story with no context, it seems almost reverential to Christianity: We're in the far future and space-faring humans still worship the old religion
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I know they're distinct things, I just wonder about the way visualization is described. From the way non-aphantasia is characterized here one could assume that the difference is just how much control people have over the content of the
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The problem with this test is I have nothing to compare it to, and the answer spectrum provided is not helpful because it seems concerned with things like how vivid the colors of mental images are. If I don't actually "see" t
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by ud_0 5y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote, based in Germany I'm transitioning from my full time programming job to a freelance setup over the next few months. I'm up for: - game development (I would love to help out with weird custom engines
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by ud_0 5y ago
The ASKAP scans at 888MHz. From the paper, which luckily is publicly available: > It exhibited a high degree (∼ 25%) of circular polarization when it was visible. We monitored the source with the MeerKAT telescope from 2020 November to
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by ud_0 5y ago
Wahlomat was a great starting point for me as someone who is not up-to-date on current party agendas. However, its weakness is that it breaks down answers into yes/no options. For me there were lots of items that required more than tha
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by ud_0 5y ago
> But the authentic ones are willing to do it for free. The only scientists who can afford to work for free would have to be independently wealthy, that's not very common. I don't think there is anything wrong with charging m
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But this specific endeavor is about protecting our orbital infrastructure, it has nothing to do with curiosity. We depend on satellites. Yes, the byproduct will be that orbital cleanup also protects science equipment and access to space in
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by ud_0 5y ago
> There is enough garbage on the surface of the earth to worry about. Every single time there is anything happening with space flight, there is at least one comment saying "We should literally solve every single problem here on Ea
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by ud_0 5y ago
The only reason why so many companies are openly in support of LGBTQ+ is that right now it costs them almost nothing and effortlessly paints the illusion of a human face onto their public image. I don't expect that to last. There are m
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by ud_0 5y ago
Hang on, the 15 minute interval requires constant human action, it's not enough that the phone itself is reachable? How does that even work? If that's true (which is sincerely hope it's not) being woken up every 15 minutes du
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by ud_0 5y ago
Forgive me if I misunderstood your intent, but this feels a little like moving the goal posts on me. In my comment, I was addressing the specific claim that we know little enough about neuronal complexity so the number of atoms in a cell co
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by ud_0 5y ago
> There's no rule that says it couldn't potentially use a large fraction of those atoms for its functionality There is no question that a neuron uses a large fraction of its atoms for its functionality, as is every other cell
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by ud_0 5y ago
> Would that be oppressive? To be ascribed one authoritative meaning and purpose from outside is probably the definition of totalitarian oppression, yes. You may argue that it's oppression in a delightful state of bliss, or that y
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by ud_0 5y ago
> Like what's even the point of all this, of life, of us, if in the end nothing matters, everything decays into nothingness. I don't understand this reasoning. If the universe had a different end state, or if it collapsed in
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by ud_0 5y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote, based in Germany, generalist programmer I'm transitioning from my full time programming job to a freelance setup over the next few months, so initially I can take small projects only. Things I can do: - game
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by ud_0 5y ago
In Germany, I was pleasantly surprised that some parties up for election have (regionally) expressed the will to abolish relgion-based studies in public schools. It makes me a bit hopeful, especially since I recently got the impression that
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by ud_0 5y ago
Freya Holmer made a very nice visualization of bezier curves by showing the "helper" lines here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVwxzDHniEw Worth a watch for a quick introduction/recap on how these curves wo
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by ud_0 5y ago
I think there is a potential issue with the overall concept and dichotomy between "owning" a device to "own" your data, and using external services that must be rented to make that happen. But it sounds like a fixable ma
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by ud_0 5y ago
> Why is there a extremely pervasive belief in the HN crowd that there is The Right Way and every country must immediately adopt it (and if they do not, they are making a mistake)? I can't speak for the others, but for me it'
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Desktop Linux in no way compares to iOS market share, and even if it did, it'd require a different type of attack. Apple is vulnerable precisely because it is the one single vendor in complete control of anything related to the iPhone.
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They know they can essentially wait out the public outcry, plus they can even buffer things a little bit by calling their critics "confused" and introduce measures that don't address anything but sound reasonable to lay perso
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There is no meaningful dissent under this system. Resistance fighters are also not going to happen in the near future, because these need broad population support, at least regionally. I would argue that the Taliban grabbing control of the

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