- mcdeltatTime to start hoarding data storage hardware before computer vendors make free, local storage impossible?
- So I'm guessing most people are downvoting this as a knee jerk reaction to the comparison with slavery, but I think the core point is quite valid.
At some point, if people are unhappy working towards some goal, you gotta re-evaluate if the goal is worthy. I consistently meet people in other industries who really enjoy their job, whereas in tech, most of the people I know consider their job to be one of the lowlights of their life. And I don't think it's a stretch to say many, many tech jobs are not serving a worthy goal.
So it's disappointing to see people who can't look past "but business value bro", as if we got where we are because capitalism is some holy, inevitable universal law.
- Fair point about lying. I agree, outright lying is not ethical and would be more manipulative, I agree. Is the author lying?
- > We are nice to people because cooperative societies out performed the non-cooperative ones on the macro level
I.e. biology gets what it wants... We want to survive, mother nature wants us to survive, society wants to survive.
I am absolutely not suggesting that outright jerkish behaviour is acceptable (although to suggest jerks have no social success is probably untrue; plenty of people who are attracted to jerks). I am arguing that if there was no personal advantage whatsoever to being social and nice to people, we wouldn't do it. We'd be lone animals, spread out across the land rather than concentrated in towns and cities. There's a spectrum of selfish behaviour, right? We are somewhere in the middle because it's advantageous to be.
- So for the same set of actions, it's fine if you're unaware of the underlying mechanisms, and manipulation if you are aware?
If you dig through the weeds of it you can argue just about everything we do socially is manipulation. We are social because we're social animals and will die without help from other humans (well, particularly thousands of years ago). At the end of the day, we are nice to people to get things from them that we need - food, shelter, knowledge, strength. It's always been like that. But because it makes us feel fuzzy and good, apparently that's not manipulation, that's being nice.
- > Compressing data means you save space on the disc... If you conveniently ignore the fact that common.lin is duplicated in each map's directory and is the same for every map I tested, which kinda negates part of this.
This is an interesting thing I've noticed about game dev, it seems to sometimes live in a weird space of optimisation requirements vs hackiness. Where you'll have stuff like using instruction data as audio to save space, but then forget to compile in release mode or something. Really odd juxtaposition of near-genius-level optimisation with naive inefficiency. I'm assuming it's because, while there may be strict performance requirements, the devs are under the pump and there's so much going on that silly stuff ends up happening?
- Yeah I also had this thought. Despite popular belief, the film look is not magic. Especially since the article mentions they already had monitors calibrated for the film look during development. Why couldn't they replicate that for the digital release? The digital release it so blazingly different, I have a hard time believing that is the best they can do with modern colour pipelines. I mean the colour grading is completely different! Surely either it was intentional or a fairly simple case of poor colour management.
- I don't think it's so cut and dry.
For some (even many) measures, over a long period of centuries, on average, yes the world is probably going up. For other measures perhaps not. And at a small time frame very plausibly not.
Example: housing. Yes compared to 100 years ago the houses are almost certainly safer and better equipped. On the other hand, now I will likely never get to own one because cost of living is insane, and will be subject to financial stress for N years.
I don't think it's a valid argument to dismiss all criticism of modern life just because statistically I would've died at age 2 in 10000 BC.
- This is a really cool idea! It seems really hard though, I tried for a while and didn't get far. Would be keen to see one that's a little easier, maybe with less * qualifiers and more + or ?
- Interesting thing I've noted with wildlife photography competitions is they're often about the backstory of the animal, not so much the photo. Here there photo by itself is not particularly interesting (IMO) but because of the animal and the conditions, it's considered award winning.
- Wouldn't this "val" be the same as "final"?
Also related, it annoys me that Java has final but otherwise poor/leaky support for immutability. You can mark something final but most Java code (and a lot of the standard library) uses mutable objects so the final does basically nothing... C++ "const" desparately needs to spread to other languages.
- Oh no, to save the world we'll have to take the train to work instead of a car...
- If you can sell a call option you can construct a portfolio that's effectively short tickets
- Maybe a dumb question but what exactly is wrong with banning the IPs? Even if the bots get more IPs over time, surely storing a list of bans is cheaper than serving content? Is the worry that the bots will eventually cycle through so many IP ranges that you end up blocking legit users?
- Agreed, the issue is more that the average person doesn't care about photos. Even now you can tell what is real vs fake in photography and people don't care, they eat it all up. The good, the bad, the fake, doesn't matter because no one gives a fuck. If you actually appreciate the art of photography then you already do and will continue to regardless of AI or whatever.
- Hot take perhaps, I don't really agree with this. It's the same tired "worth by self work" claim that is given for all kinds of personal issues. I won't claim that it's strictly false (obviously working on yourself is beneficial), but it's disappointingly and frustrating reductive.
A lot of (most?) people get some sort of self love more or less by default, not because they are necessarily super self aware, but because their upbringing fostered that. They're emotionally normal and well adjusted. You don't have to be a philosopher to love yourself.
For those of us that did not get appropriate love in their upbringing, or even learnt self hatred, we will spend significant time down the track learning acceptance. That's when you need a lot of self awareness, because you will need to uproot a lot to move towards a more helpful emotional system.
- Elixir just keeps chugging along steadily releasing great features and improvements. It's an astoundingly well designed language and the creators have a solid approach to its development. It's a shame I don't get to use Elixir day to day.
- I don't get why various governments/systems/etc have an obsession with the first name + last name format. It just has so many assumptions that fall over so quickly. Why can't we treat name as a single, generally opaque field and leave it at that? Exactly whose day is being ruined by not having a perfectly sanitised first name and last name?
- So true. It is abuse because the customer is largely trapped. I try my best to avoid subscriptions and tech for everyday things, but I have done the thought experiment for a possible future and it's kinda scary. Say I like photography - what happens when cameras get so "advanced" that they need a subscription? I'm basically screwed because the average Joe can't build a camera from scratch (or maybe you can if you go to extremes like devoting 10 years to it). What then? Bye bye all hobbies which involve nontrivial tech?
- Would some message passing hardware actually be "better" in terms of performance, efficiency, and ease of construction? I thought moving data between hardware subsystems is generally pretty expensive (e.g. atomic memory instructions, there's a significant performance penalty).
Disclaimer that I'm not a hardware engineer though.