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Cpoll··on US hires over 2k video gamers as air traffic controllers
Video games can be any combination of those three. They don't even have to be fun in a traditional sense to be engaging. In any case, they're probably looking for transferrable skills, not gamifying ATC.
Cpoll··on Ocean heat records broken as hottest July temperature recorded
> unprocessed corn and soy

You mean edamame and sweet corn? You can grab an ear of the latter right off the field, husk it and eat it raw if you'd like. Or is there something about megafarms that prevent that?

> Most people don't know how to use them as ingredients.

If they get hungry they'll do what people have done since time immemorial and boil them. No-one will starve sitting on a cache of beans. For that matter, humans can eat pig feed directly (it's not as safe as human food, but you can boil it too).

Cpoll··on Ocean heat records broken as hottest July temperature recorded
> Mass starvation probably. We aren't prepared for it. Give it 10 years and maybe it could be done.

How do you figure? The same logistics lines that carry animal feed and then the animal can just carry the ~animal~ human feed directly to the consumer. Sure, the animals starve to death, but it's just a silly hypothetical.

Cpoll··on The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing
> For the exposition crawl, they use standard capitalization except for two variants

Three variants; "Robot" is capitalized though it is not a proper noun.

Cpoll··on Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
> 550,000 moderators

You can bring this number down by only reviewing new/low-reputation advertisers, increasing minimum spend, rate limiting, etc.

You can also pre-filter for "definitely not CSAM" and only review the more ambiguous stuff.

I think your numbers are low too, surely a moderator can review over one ad per minute on average. And it may be more effective to split-screen multiple ads (with redundancy).

But at the end of the day it's a numbers game, something is going to slip through.

Cpoll··on Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking
As far as I know, that assumption generally holds.

If we're talking "trivially easy for a state actor," then it's not macho to say that pilots need to be able to safely conduct flights with a missing engine and a cracked windshield.

Cpoll··on A Rant About “Technology” (2005)
I don't think an ansible is "hard sci-fi". Hard sci-fi deals with known physics, and FTL communication violates that.
Cpoll··on Big Food vs. the People
> motivation to oppose junk food.

On social media, making dubious claims about food science or food ingredients, then following up by selling some "clean, unprocessed, organic" product is big business. (I make no claims about this specific NGO).

Cpoll··on GitHub is the wrong shape for this new world
> issue tracker

I contend that issues/tickets are as much a part of the code as comments and commit messages, and tightening the link is valuable, especially when you need to decide whether to take down an old fence. Which is a conundrum, because I agree about choosing your tools.

Cpoll··on DEF CON bans Meta-style 'pervert glasses'
Well, not any sort. We'll just have to stick to wireframe glasses.
Cpoll··on Would you choose £50k over the chance of £1M?
And yet lotteries are billion dollar businesses.
Cpoll··on Texas wins court order to suspend domain name for violating age-verification law
> The Office of the Attorney General will continue to use every available legal mechanism, including writs of attachment against domain names, to enforce Texas law and ensure that no company, regardless of where it is incorporated, can profit from exposing Texas children to harmful content.

And Kick Online Entertainment S.A. appears to be incorporated in Luxembourg. The "S.A." is a mostly European thing, kind of like a "limited" company.

Cpoll··on Book prizes don't work how you think
Le Guin refused a Nebula, and I think those are selected by member voting.
Cpoll··on Modern Decor May Be Straining People's Brains
I think there were studies on this, leading to, among other things, painting control rooms seafoam green to reduce visual fatigue. This implies that people don't simply adjust (or that the studies were too limited).
Cpoll··on Software Engineer's Firing Ruled Illegal in a Rare Win for a Tech Worker
Atlassian almost certainly has their own legal department, which calls its own shots (or rather isn't beholden to anyone below C-level).
Cpoll··on Has America Crossed the Asshole Threshold?
Yeah, I've changed my evaluation. The lists didn't do it for me, because they don't follow the usual rule-of-three, but the "genetic marker ... travels" line seems egregious. And the "not X, but Y".
Cpoll··on Has America Crossed the Asshole Threshold?
I didn't notice any obvious markers, weird prose, or meandering in this one.
Cpoll··on Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software
> Every game engine has a sort of "grain" to it where it tends to produce games with a certain look and feel.

I think this is a bit of a myth. Unreal gets this criticism a lot, but it's usually because many studios choose to stick close to the rendering defaults, which does lead to a certain look.

To that point, it's probably a lot cheaper to configure Unreal or Unity into a unique "grain" than it is to develop your own engine. It's also possible to use custom physics instead of those built into the engine.

Cpoll··on Solar rail could become common in Europe after successful trial in Switzerland
> idea worth persuing

Remains to be seen, considering how much snake oil there is in the solar market (but to be fair, this makes more sense than solar roads). A news article summary of a press release isn't proof of much.

Cpoll··on I Wasn't Allowed Prompting ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk: This Is Discrimination (2025)
> this has to be satirical, right?

Right.

> Surely nobody in the field of academia is this limited in their ability....

Wrong.

Cpoll··on What to learn to be a graphics programmer
If anyone needs a longer tutorial, I strongly recommend 3b1b's series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2xVFit...

The visualizations made things click in a way my Linear 101 course didn't.

Cpoll··on Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass
That sounds pithy, but a person doesn't need to remind themselves of their own values; a company of 200,000 people does.

Which isn't to say cynicism for these sorts of company charters isn't warranted, just not for that reason.

Cpoll··on Solid and Clean Code never felt solid or clean to me
Uncle Bob does a bad job talking about trade-offs, but there's still value in stuff like SOLID. The problems start when people blindly obey or ignore design principles.

Saying SOLID makes bad code is as over-simplistic as saying SOLID makes good code.

Cpoll··on Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation
> middle finger to second hand and physical stores

They've seen the writing on the wall for at least a decade; that's why GameStop has more shelf space for Funko Pops than for games.

Cpoll··on Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions
The Godot Foundation pays for it if it furthers their mission.
Cpoll··on .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting
I had a similar class where they threatened to fail us if we didn't use Dreamweaver and instead wrote our own html.
Cpoll··on Michigan spent $1.8B and only created 602 jobs
Implementing your loan-contingency wouldn't prevent generating headlines, so that would only leave contributions and kickbacks.
Cpoll··on Factorio 2.1 Experimental Release
Totally agree. I tried the JIT approach; I could never get it to work, and I've never seen anyone else do it either. The wisdom has always been to keep everything flowing and accept spoilage (or kludge it with lots of bots and then move on). This patch makes it a more feasible, I think.

I'd love to see splitter filtering by freshness (e.g. nutrients at >=80% freshness) but I don't think that's in the cards.

Cpoll··on Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour
> If [the job applicant materials] didn't get you in the first time, they won't the next time

> we had one opening, but five or even ten excellent final candidates

Under my interpretation , these statements contradict each other. The former implies that a candidate's failure is always the result of their shortcomings. The latter implies that a qualified candidate can be edged out through little fault of their own. The parent poster complained of exactly this; they weren't sure whether they were ineligible or simply edged out.

Cpoll··on Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour
This contradicts your earlier statement, "we had one opening, but five or even ten excellent final candidates," and ignores the criticism: "is it me or is is it you?"

Although I suppose you're saying that promising candidates are kept on file for later?

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