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- Comment on [politics] ya but, at least Juneteenth still lives! herp-a-derp! 17 hours ago:
We have two summer holidays and one “based on race” because the one “based on race” recognizes the time Union soldiers arrived on the Texan shores and forcibly freed a group of people subjugated based on their race–it just didn’t happen to fall on July 4th.
The two holidays recognize two completely different things it doesn’t matter when in the damn year it occurred.
- Comment on U.S. Allies Are Wondering Whether Supporting the American War Machine Is Worth It 21 hours ago:
Well, you could look at the collateral damage in the host countries of US bases near Iran. That should tell you all you need to know.
- Comment on Why do companies require you to submit a resume but also put the same data into their forms? 23 hours ago:
The company wants a way to rapidly reject applicants to slim the pool of viable candidates to a level manageable by humans.
If a software engineer job posting is made that requires java and got 10,000 applicants having a computer automatically reject any that don’t have “java” in the application reduces the human load.
- Comment on Why do companies require you to submit a resume but also put the same data into their forms? 23 hours ago:
I’m not sure what you are proposing or how it’s relevant to what I said.
- Comment on Why do companies require you to submit a resume but also put the same data into their forms? 23 hours ago:
The company still wants the resume. They just want the information extracted accurately. OCR may not be involved because it isn’t accurate enough to associate specific chunks on the resume with specific questions. If companies just had the form they would have three accurate info, but would have to generate a resume internally for human use (which isn’t a bad idea necessarily). If they just had the resume uploader then they would have to have a person manually extract the information.
So they ask for both–because they want accuracy and the original document and there aren’t tools around to give them both today.
- Comment on Why do companies require you to submit a resume but also put the same data into their forms? 1 day ago:
OCR is fallible. The forms are for the robot to quickly filter based on tags. The resume is for the human to quickly filter based on vibes.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
In the US we have a mix of:
- Price per individual unit
- Price per entire unit
- Price per weight
- Price per volume
And different products from the same category will choose different ones so you have to do the math anyway.
E.g. Sometimes our berries will be sold in split tubs so you’ll get the price for the whole thing and then on the comparison tag a price for half the tub. That will be sitting next to a different brand of the same berry in a package 2oz smaller and it’s comparison text will have the price per Oz, sitting next to that is an entire other brand and it will list the price of the whole unit and in comparison will list the same price again labeled explicitly as “per unit”.
Like every thing the US manages to shit out it’s an utterly terrible system.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
This is blatant consumerist propaganda!
Also shopping not fun. I want to walk into a store and pick up Balsamic Glaze and leave. I don’t want to have to assess the minute differences in weight, cost, and quality of 30 different products that are all in the same race to win over my dollar and maximize their profits.
- Comment on Is It a Bad Idea to Combine Survival, Extraction, and 5v5 Modes in One Game? 1 week ago:
Players are generally resistant to changes made in a game. When you release a game the players that keep coming back are the ones that liked what you’ve made. Those that don’t like it won’t cone back. Many of them won’t even try for a new game mode.
Even if you released with all planned modes your player base would likely fracture into the modes they prefer, but not evenly. Eventually you’ll have to prioritize one mode over the others and you’ll pick, not your favorite mode, but the mode with the highest player count. This will lead to bugs not getting addressed in your less popular modes and player counts eventually falling off.
Consider COD and Fortnite. Each are massive franchises with huge player bases and multiple modes, but there’s really only one or two modes that people play (and those games are produced with massive investments. Hell, PUBG even has occasional seasonal modes–but it’s not getting huge numbers of non-pubg players you boot the game and the core player base is sticking to the mode they play the game for.
My advice here is to pick one mode. The one mode you most enjoy and build that. You can then build a community around people that like the same gameplay you do and your enthusiasm for that mode you enjoy will help that community grow.
You mention you are still new to game Dev. What have you built already? These are all ambitious projects, and it you don’t have the relevant experience yet will be a VERY difficult task. I’d advise making your first couple of projects really small to get a feel for it and learn incrementally. This will help you gain the requisite skills and delay burnout. If this is your first real big project and you’ve done nothing with multiplayer before you’re gonna have a difficult time.
- Comment on Redditors discussing "Is the threat of inbreeding exaggerated?" is it true? 1 week ago:
That’s a member of the Habsburg family. Known for generations of inbreeding.
There’s also the blue Fugates of Kentucky if you want another example of why limiting your gene pool is bad.
- Comment on Redditors discussing "Is the threat of inbreeding exaggerated?" is it true? 1 week ago:
Oh they down bad.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
The backend is the part you control that does work you need to know is good (Translation, conversion, saving, generating, etc.)
The front end is a gentle suggestion that you hope clients use to connect to the backhand (the browser or app code).
- Comment on America Broke Something When It Gave Trump a Second Chance 2 weeks ago:
TLDR: “Something” is never defined. It is left an ambiguous assertion to demonstrate that America has fundamentally changed and that the Dems are lost (they are) if their view of a post-Trump world is a pre-Trump world (it is). Dems need to grow a pair and radically define the future (of constitutional guard rails, congressional power, and the courts).
- Comment on Hegseth Strikes Female and Black Navy Officers From Promotion List 2 weeks ago:
Sounds about white to me.
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 3 weeks ago:
Politicians are a million years old and don’t drive themselves.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
That is fair.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I must admit, I know less of Islam than I do of Judaism or Christianity (being an agnostic atheist former nondenominational protestant christian myself); though I can understand coming to the conclusion that bioengineering is one of the moral tests in a world where humans are allowed to be but lack a specific dominion or subjugation over.
Unfortunately, I don’t have concrete resources for you at this time, as my understanding is borne of years of passive interest rather than specific study.
Do you believe that your moral opposition to this field of study should forcibly be respected by all people or that is a personal guidance you alone must follow?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
A component of a component of a living thing is not inherently alive. We know neurons are alive not because they are part of the composition of the brain, but because they exhibit properties of life. Neurons being alive doesn’t mean that atoms are alive, for instance. Similarly the brain also contains water and fats which are definitely not alive.
You’ve touched on a very old question in biology: “what does it mean to be alive?” and the answer to that is going to change somewhat on who you talk to and what your subject is. Cells are alive, but in a completely different way from both “simple” multicellular life and “complex” cellular life, but I’m not really aware of a clear boundary existing.
Like all fields of study, there are orders of magnitude more information available at higher levels of research than what most people are taught in school. Clinging to the simplified views of biology organized for university or lower grades as being the end all be all of the field is a great way to harbor ignorance and bigotry.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I encourage you to learn more about the subject and close some of your knowledge gaps. You still may not agree with myself on the matter, but you’ll hopefully be able to elucidate your concerns more concretely. As it stands now, however, “idk” and “it rubs me the wrong way” seem like a fear of the unknown which is an insecure basis upon which to construct a belief system or guide your principals.
I’m curious which greater religion you espouse. I’d argue that virtually any human action is one of alerting, and while predation, gathering, locomotion, and vocalization could be ascribed to alter in a manner consistent with a god given design, every action from cooking onward directly alters “creation” in a manner not inherent to our biology. That is to say, once we adopted tools and fire we ascended above the actions of other animals.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
It’s just another frontier of science with its own risks and rewards. Sure there are ways to use or produce it immoraly, but it’s not inherently immoral.
DNA is just a polymer, one we have some capabilities in manipulating. It is not inherently alive, nor do it’s instructions necessarily have to relate to something living. When processed by living things they contain instructions on producing proteins, but they don’t need to be processed by living things and could be used to store arbitrary information in a dense environment.
Neurons, while cellular are not alive in and of themselves. They require a full host to operate, but are essentially weighted dynamic switches (interneurons), environmental inputs (sensory neurons), or outputs (motor neurons). Devoid of a host they are inert, but provided the right artificial environment they can function. “Function” just means operating in that input, switch, output mode though–it doesn’t mean being alive as a macroorganism, being sentient, or having feelings. Using a handful of farmed human neurons to play Doom is more an exercise in controlling the dynamic environment needed for the switch connections to be made, therefore, than an exercise in enslaving a conscience person.
Nature has been the source of inspiration and development since before the dawn of humans. I see no reason it should stop at the doorstep of biology–especially when the extent is cultured environments developed in a lab to be a facsimile of a part of a living thing. A part of living thing does not a living thing make.
- Comment on Put your seat back or no? 3 weeks ago:
If it bothers you [pay about five times as much].
That’s a very grounded and reasonable take.
- Comment on Whites-Only Community in Arkansas Sued for Discrimination 3 weeks ago:
“I was hoping I would be accepted. I see myself as a white woman,” she said. “I wanted that land.
Sounds pretty white to me.
- Comment on Put your seat back or no? 3 weeks ago:
I’m 6’4" (193cm). The seat in front of me reclining means my knees are pressed into the seat back, and that’s uncomfortable for both of us. I don’t want to do that to anyone else so I never put my seat back.
- Comment on Lastest Riot Vanguard Update Can Brick Your Hardware (If You're a Cheater) 4 weeks ago:
That’s definitely too heavy handed. It’s not uncommon for anti cheat to flag someone erroneously, and to just hand an executioner the ability to nuke your computer without any form of redress is asinine and anti consumer, if not criminal.
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- Comment on When there are news stories of people drowning in UK canals (which are waist-deep) why are there so few people showing scepticism? 5 weeks ago:
People can drown in like 1 inch of water. Falling can be startling, even more so if you’ve got a brief drop, are suddenly wet, and you broke something.
My friend pulled a guy out of a canal after he’d absentmindedly walked off the edge. The guy was severely bloodied up and broke multiple ribs, and had my friend not pulled him out, the guy very likely would have drowned.
- Comment on Chad 1 month ago:
American dad lookin mutherfucker
- Comment on Should I tell my dad that his mistake almost cost me a fortune? 1 month ago:
You can absolutely bring this up super casually. I don’t know how often y’all talk specifically about work but even as a response to a “how you doing” a “just hanging in there, visited the [customer name] house for a follow up recently.” is sufficient, informative, and blameless. Your dad can ask for more deets if he wants, and you can go all the way to “one of the joints failed.”
- Comment on Anon has a very specific goal 2 months ago:
Step one would be to meet some twins.
- Comment on Are there any good protest songs from the past few years? 2 months ago:
