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StarFlight. It was one of the first games I played that felt infinite, at least for a while.

On the other hand Vision Pro's price will go down and quality will go up. Apple has the deep pockets to continue to invest until the technology really delivers at a mass market pri…

So they are using the following GPT-4 prompt: -- compress the following text in a way that fits in a tweet (ideally) and such that you (GPT-4) can reconstruct the intention of the …

JoeScan | Vacouver, WA | Software Engineer (C++/C#)| ONSITE | https://joescan.com Are you a wiz with gnarly requirements who chews up bugs and spits out stunningly documented code?…

Compared to numpy, octave has a nicer syntax for matrix math, but a bit idiosyncratic as a general language. It doesn't have anywhere near the ecosystem of Python/NumPy/SciPy. It i…

On the other hand needing to sell yourself, and being judged on how well you present yourself seems very much a part of being human. I agree though that the "human capital" languag…

I wonder how well their internet infrastructure and game servers will handle the enormous spike in traffic 8pm - 9pm Fri, Sat, and Sun.

But if corporations are amoral, why shouldn't they pretend otherwise? It is to their benefit, and they are obliged to make decisions to their benefit regardless of moral considerat…

Sounds like the skills needed to make a big impact with JoeScan. https://joescan.com/people/careers/ We are not exactly a startup, but are small and growing fast. We develop very h…

We aren't exactly a startup, but we are a small company that is doing developing exciting technology, and offer the opportunity to make a big impact on the product, and our custome…

I work in sawmill technology. Way back in history 2x4 were cut to 2" x 4". In a modern sawmill 2x4s are never cut to 2" x 4". They are cut to a thickness and width such that given …

I'd guess that this is similar to the Netherlands, where it is primarily a function of household debt, and many households having negative net housing equity. [ https://ec.europa.e…

Any enthusiast message board would be unable to remove political offtopic material without losing section 230 protection. I don't really want to wade through a bunch of political r…

I would imagine Amazon is likely to be sued if they continue allowing Parler to remain on their cloud without dramatically improving moderation of violent and illegal content. Sure…

It is an interesting questions. My feeling is if-then-else falls some where between invented and discovered, something like mathematics. Once we had discovered the need for conditi…

I'm not sure how this stands up if you control for the the obvious selection bias. After all most people aren't going to switch jobs unless there is a substantial pay hike. Much of…

40 years of history showing failure, of course for most of that time they have had between a millionth and half the computing power we have today, and most of those years had now w…

While I think the articles most point is reasonable. The choice of stocks as an example is a poorly one. Because prices are reacting in large part to news. To the degree that the n…

In some cases it is reasonable to expect more. But, if other people are offering the same obvious solution for $25, then $25 is a reasonable reward, regardless of how much it saves…

Pinker wrote an interesting and thought provoking book. Certainly he is trying to make a point, and is a bit selective in the data and how he presents it. But this critique is not …

By luck and skill you found a temporary systematic bias that other players missed. It was even luckier that you found it without a lot of upfront losses. But you could have made ma…

I don't believe they have a 99.999% SLA. That was their historical up-time. I just misread their statement. They probably meant the up-time before this incident. "Throughout our hi…

How can they claim 99.999% uptime, when they just had several hours of service outage? I'm not sure how long they've been providing DNS hosting, but by the most generous assumption…