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socialist_coder
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About socialist_coder
Created as a throw-away account but now using it as my real one. Normal alias is tsteil on most services unless someone else grabbed it first (which is rare).
Currently: * technical co-founder of Fox Cub Games
About: * Polyglot programmer (right now mostly Unity, C#, .NET web-api) * Game developer & gamer * Father * American ex-ex-pat
Past work: * Zynga * Sony Online Entertainment
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Comment #35565861
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/01/09/trends-... US has the worst income inequality of all G7 nations and has been on the rise since 1980.
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Comment #32913682
> low-e glass windows > South-facing windows are backed by local stone floors that capture and radiate heat in winter. Have you done any analysis or testing on low-e vs normal glas…
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Comment #32834064
And 100% of people will live much worse lives 100 years in the future, all because we're blind to see the somewhat obvious result of all this hockey stick growth...
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Comment #32806238
Why is "trending on artstation" a keyword that influences the ML model? seems weird
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Comment #31954173
"When you don't need it" If you're doing any kind of database / external network calls - won't you gain a huge amount of requests per second? I ask partly because on one of my proj…
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Comment #31954015
Does the lack of async still make Flask a good choice for non-hobby web projects?
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Comment #31314648
Based on the comments it seems this practice started when eBay switched to their own internal payments system. A lot of anecdotal evidence in the thread that this is a common thing…
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Comment #30702635
I think the 1 easiest way to improve schools right now would be to differentiate kids by ability. Right now, teachers have a handful of kids 1-2 grades above their peers, a handful…
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Comment #30203438
Yes, I think they probably hijacked the scrolling because they thought they could do it better. It's pretty awful IMO.
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Comment #29091660
> you find a good contractor for your area This is the hard part. All the good contractors do this themselves, or they charge so much you don't make any money on the sale, or they'…
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Comment #29090195
And recommended content. All content should only be surfaced via search, or lists that are the same for every user. And autoplay next content should default to off.
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Comment #29040210
There is no "us" when we have this level of income inequality and workers are treated like dirt. You have to be a fool now to think your company actually cares about you.
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Comment #29039902
I think the core issue is the younger generation sees that the American Dream is bullshit and they aren't putting up with it anymore. We're told from a young age that if you get ed…
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Comment #28580225
In my best Jeopardy voice: I'll take "changing your name to get around a ban" for $500 please
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Comment #28513710
Yeah... this was my first thought too. There is already VR avatar chat. This is not anything new.
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Comment #28484779
Not all forests, obviously. But the ones that people are generally hiking in, the trails are maintained. Not many people go off trail.
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Comment #28483292
This will certainly get appealed and bogged down even more in the legal system, right? What are the chances this actually happens? And when? Secondly, this is such an easy way to i…
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Comment #28401193
Lawns are dumb. Replace it with a garden. When the collapse happens you will be thankful you did.
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Comment #28401184
I could be wrong, but I think that "untouched" forest is not really going to be so nice unless you let natural wildfires come by every decade and clear out the undergrowth, or you …
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Comment #28376647
The article specifically mentions programmers as well... Lower floor because a global workforce increases supply of programmers available to the western market. Higher ceiling beca…
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Comment #28331597
It's the red queen effect though, as soon as you make the IAP, you quickly advance, but then you will soon hit the next plateau. So you're stuck again unless you keep making IAPs. …
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Comment #28230791
Ah, makes sense. Thank you!
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Comment #28230653
> The Fox isn't trying to get 100 meters away - it's trying to get 100 triangles away. Maybe this is obvious but I'm not seeing it... Why would an NPC measure distance in triangles…
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Comment #28227730
Do brokerages give all this info to the SEC so they can do this type of analysis and then be able to personally identify the buyers/sellers? It seems wrong that my personal info is…