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    Comment #49023899

    I guess getting H-1Bs with relatively equal compensation (but maybe worse work habits) is still a lot better than getting jobs offshored to somewhere that has 1/3 of the costs.

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    Comment #49023870

    There are so many news about this topics nowadays, that I think they are going to blow the horn of the final attack shortly after.

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    Comment #48936519

    Sorry but intentional for what reason? I guess people need to change things from time to time, which I understand.

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    Comment #48732857

    I want to do something similar. Specifically, the project is to create VFS similar to the one in Linux 1.00 in xv6-riscv. I completed the MIT xv6 labs and read the VFS code in Linu…

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    Comment #48646808

    Actually I did once. I forgot which ads it was, but it was something I genuinely wanted. But yeah, usually I don't bother with ads and just turns them off.

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    Comment #48586074

    I think a lot of the non-professionals start with parsing and do not get exposed to backend. I have read two books about interpreters/compilers and they don't touch the backend ver…

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    Comment #48477454

    The root of the problem is that ordinary people don't make enough noises for any problems they see in life, so they are essentially cattles. Do you care about cattle's opinions? I …

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    Comment #48468709

    Thanks for the tip!

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    Comment #48466395

    I recall that Diablo 1 (and 2) has a lot of enemies that are essentially the same sprite but different palette. Is it the same trick?

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    Comment #48464084

    As a side note, I checked OP's other projects, and looks like he/she was already OK with arts from earlier on: https://staniks.github.io/articles/inferno/ https://staniks.github.io…

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    Comment #48463795

    I find the most interesting things are the internal tools -- like the Python script to generate the gib animation, or the other Python script to generate 2D spritesheet from Blende…

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    Comment #48308667

    It's too late for me, as I'm already in the prison of family and kids, but you probably still can!

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    Comment #48284653

    Is there any extensive interviews with Japanese Console programmers? I feel all these interviews focus on the writing/design side, which make sense for popularity, but I do hope th…

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    Comment #48272799

    I wrote my side projects with as little AI as possible. You can still do it in VSCode AFAIK. But this is just for fun.

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    Comment #48272774

    I intuitively agree. Some of my good ideas come from sprint walking...and sitting on the toilet.

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    Comment #48239479

    This is so annoying. I tried to see what passkey is, and tried to sign in, and MSFT always tried to ask me to use authenticator, and when I clicked other ways to sign in, somehow i…

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    Comment #48225285

    I actually agree with him, but maybe they will lower the salary further because of that, to make US workers more "competitive".

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    Comment #48225261

    I prefer linux laptops but maybe MacOS is not too bad comparing to Windows at least.

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    Comment #48224612

    Can relate. A lot of the times it is the process that is slowing people down, and it is unrealistic for any corporation to do security audition for everything developers need on ti…

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    Comment #48207718

    That's one of the perks of being a global empire.

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    Comment #48202550

    I probably wouldn't believe that "shredding". Also there will be legal consequences I think?

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    Comment #48199775

    Kinda top 0.1%, and all those who are directly integrating AI into the companies' workflow, so that they get richer temporarily.

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    Comment #48198476

    Yeah. So many people drinking the cool-aid dreaming oneself to be the 10%.

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    Comment #48197333

    It's more like "I'm Holy and All, bow before me. Why don't you like me? I don't understand" type. I mean at least Jesus gave free wine and bread.

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    Comment #48195405

    Mostly UAE and Bahrain I think.