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Comment · 1 day ago
in the game, the success is guaranteed. Time in = gold out.

IRL, success is NOT guaranteed. time in does not necessarily yield additional income.

in the former case, the reward pathway in the brain is satisfied, so why risk it?

Comment · 1 day ago
I wonder how well LTO optimizes for these sorts of things, vs doing all of the legwork to compile-time resolve polymorphic functions and objects.
Comment · 3 days ago
Not really. American Corporations have successfully changed the culture to a point where asking about salary is considered a flaw to the worker. It somehow demonstrates a lack of loyalty.

Things are getting better, but HR still routinely preaches that you should never share your salary with anyone else. A lot of times they infer you will be fired for it.

Salary negotiations are sort of constrained to cost of annual living increases, or promotions. outside of that, you are not expected to ever talk about salary. ever.

Comment · 3 days ago
ehh... social media is a net negative on suicide rates (meaning more suicides). It would not be hard to argue social media enables deaths.
Comment · 3 days ago
without a doubt someone made a lot of money by arguing against the regulations required to prevent this.

we need to eliminate profit-based motives for safety critical areas.

Comment · 4 days ago
i would intentionally drag my old crt tv to rock band sessions in college because it had zero latency compared to the lcd flatscreen in the commons area.

good times...

Comment · 4 days ago
As i sit here listening to the diablo 2 soundtrack while working (lol), i dont recall a ton of D2 issues... Most of the time the problem was my dial-up connection.
Comment · 4 days ago
the russian servers must be back online
Comment · 5 days ago
they were doing far more than propping up twitter. they were also doing tons of engineering on the side like bootstrap, and shaping fundamental internet technologies.

Musk, in traditional private equity ways, killed anything that wasnt immediately making money. Then he made it pay to play and monetized the hell out of it. All of that BEFORE he opened the far-right floodgates.

Now its a shell of its former self and coasting on the momentum it once enjoyed.

Comment · 5 days ago
there's a difference between using a tv as a response to bad behavior, and using a tv as a social event to build familial bonds.

youre gonna have a hard time convincing me that rugrats and bluey are a negative impact on development.

that said, tv for a 0-1 does feel icky. like i wouldnt recommend tossing them in a bouncer in front of a tv for hours.

Comment · 9 days ago
keep it simple. They promised a door key with 10 grooves cut in it, but instead they gave you a door key with 1 groove cut in it.

And when that clicks, extend the metaphor, literally, to a key with ~384 grooves.

Comment · 9 days ago
im gonna have a real hard time believing enron executives were innocent
Comment · 9 days ago
prosecutors measure success by conviction rates. they cant have a dismissed case bringing down their averages
Comment · 9 days ago
Its more like every byte should have entropy in it. When you limit yourself to a single byte of entropy, you only have one byte of possibilities to guess (256 possibilities), when you should have had 384 bits of entropy, now you only have.... 8

Its the range that changes.

you can either try and guess the key from

range(0, 255) (which is easy!)

or

range(0, 39402006196394479212279040100143613805079739270465446667948293404245721771496870329047266088258938001861606973112319)

(it exceeds the heat death of the universe)

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