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jjmarr
4,565karma·1,187submissions·February 8, 2024
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All views are my own. Software Engineer II @ AMD
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Because not everyone can truly be great at their craft, but everyone can memorize syntax. Schools compromise their curriculum so that every student has a chance in the interests of fairness.
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Yep. "Oh you don't have that feature? I'm moving on".
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Because businesses, as a rule, value moving fast. Being first to market makes money and generally results in winning. Oftentimes the circumstances are "we don't know the requirements", …
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But you want that to happen in space and to control the output of energy. Otherwise you just have a bomb.
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Subdivided geographic TLDs are still common in Ontario govts, such as gov.on.ca [1] and tdsb.on.ca for Toronto schools.[2] Both are still in common use. [1] https://kagi.com/search?q=s…
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I ended up playing the 3D Space Cadet theme song on YouTube.
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I tried to use FluidSynth and PulseAudio. Maybe that's why.
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I loved all these games as a kid and I'm 25. I played it on my DS and had Widelands on my computer. The artificial constraint of building roads with little people acting as relays holds up today …
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Wine MIDI doesn't work, so it's a big advantage.
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I bet the tts voice is public and something made by AT&T in the 80s or 90s.
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> I have at least a few readers for which the sound of a man's voice saying "government cell phone detected" will elicit a palpable reaction. Can this be recreated as an audio clip f…
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For those wondering: > Sincere thanks to everyone who pledged a reward for solving this problem. The reward goes to Lyapsus.
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Technology is still involved. Good food is refrigerated and bad food is frozen, because it's cheaper to freeze as that preserves food indefinitely. This is true even at a farmer's market.
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I've had human tutors and a well-equipped AI, e.g. Deep Research-like, can often be better. But an AI tutor at that level can be more expensive than humans. An hour of deep research with a SOTA…
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Allegedly most of them, since they have non-profit mandates and are often tax-exempt. The University of Staffordshire is a public university and is funded by the government to provide education to Bri…
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AI will continue to stratify education. The typical student will get AI generated course content by the cheapest models. Other children will spend $1000s/month on multimodal AI tutors spinning up…
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Well I was wondering if it was vibe coded because Gemini 3 loves Three.js and that's a main selling point of the model.
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Is this with Gemini 3?
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Good. Let me use modules!
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The suggestions on making sustainable cures: “Solution 1: Address large markets: Hemophilia is a $9-10bn WW market (hemophilia A, B), growing at ~6-7% annually.”
“Solution 2: Address disord…
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You can either put payments into the register or the safe. If it goes into the safe, it's nearly impossible to steal because there's a time lock preventing the cashier from accessing it. But…
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I thought the "green" was symbolic of the computer world because of the green code rain motif. Like how yellow = Mexico. This is shocking to say the least.
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Well, I've enjoyed it too, but I'd rather spend that time contributing to OSS if it's potentially the difference between getting a job.
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This incentivizes me to minimum effort school projects so I can focus on personal projects. But most professors want students to be creative and inventive on classwork. I get that this isn't a pr…
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It's considered my responsibility to protect my labwork at my school, and I could get in trouble if someone else plagiarized it from GitHub.
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lol that's egg on my face. I just assumed he wouldn't be working two full time jobs at once. That's wild.