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Yes here's the patent. The independent claims are frustratingly broad if you're trying to think through practical NPC world sim systems. https://patents.google.com/patent/US2016027…

I've recently come off a team that was racking up a huge Splunk bill with ~70 log events for each request on a high traffic service, and this is all very resonant (except the bit a…

What's the right way?

I've used it in anger on a project with an unreasonable start time in its test suite. Put an alert sound on VS when breakpoints were reached let me start a test with debugger attac…

I still haven't settled the nature of free will and determinism, aka who's actually controlling the trains, them or their drivers?

I know the article was about movies that persuaded viewers to _go_ to a certain country, but I am reminded of a former colleague who explained to me that it was actually a TV show …

This was the best I could find https://www.invasive.org/gist/products/handbook/20.triclopyr... (see Mode of Action)

> The Prime Minister of Canada just did a state visit to India, where he was not warmly received, and made to look foolish on the world stage. Have you considered the possibility t…

The graphics weren't elaborate, I just remember things like the illustration of a storefront before you worked on an inventory spreadsheet, or the ascii picture of a telephone and …

I have fond memories of the early DOS version (1.something). Its tutorial was a masterclass (included full screen ascii graphics illustrating the scenarios) and as a kid playing on…

Thanks, was unaware of the movie!

I've been on the look-out for that too. Have lined up Mike Royko's "Boss" on Daley in the interim, though the bookshop owner wasn't as fond of Royko's writing style...

Somewhat (by a few decades) behind the times here, but I finally found a set of Robert Caro's Years of Lyndon Johnson books at a 2nd-hand shop earlier this year. What a ride. I kno…

Before my brain caught up I was just about to ask you what brewery is it that can do a 99% Indian Pale Ale...

Similar here. It's like I suddenly have access to an instant MidJourney that I can prompt with any suggestion. Sometimes a late night whisky before bed seems to help the process. F…

Tell me about it - I implemented this just yesterday except with a focus on functions rather than objects.

I feel like the better pricing strategy would be something similar to what the geospatial API platforms like Google Maps do, with their explicit no-caching or time-limited-caching …

Wasn't this the basis of the failed Olestra products? https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/619261/olestra-fat-free-...

I think the big thing that happened around that time that marked the sunset of the Golden Age of Google was Google Books (launched 2003) and critically the response. It was the las…

Surely you'd just be employed by the internal HR company and on the books each product company would be contracting your services according to timesheets.

On the original blog post announcing Whisper there was a demo ("Accent" under the drop-down) of it transcribing a Scottish accent. https://openai.com/blog/whisper/

I ctrl-f'ed for this one. First exposure was SOHCAHTOA and memorization without building intuition. I struggled and had no real understanding. Two years later a physics teacher dra…

Site seems crushed under load. https://web.archive.org/web/20220929224847/https://www.amazo...

Think they meant "AWS or GCP and only backup to S3 or GCS respectively"

React, presumably, with its approach that a UI is well described by nested functions operating on state. It's a good point. I remember long discussions on mailing lists for various…