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pcblues
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No way! I played the original (too much) while doing computer science at uni in the early 1990s. My friends were either playing the Dune RTS or mmorpgs, depending on their leaning. A lot of the limited available computing power went into playtime in those days :)
pcblues
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Sounds like they tweaked an AI to get a minimal subset of accurate outcomes and started waving their hands for anything more complicated, realistic and ultimately generally useful. The larger problem-space is still an NP-complete problem. I guess if the data-centres become infinitely large, this problem can be worked around.

/s /jk
pcblues
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Sensible thought. I very much hope there is a glut of one-three year old ram and GPUs on the market in about one year when the AI market "cools" and the ear-marked components return to the market.

The banks that lent the AI industry the money are already trying to sell their debt.
pcblues
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Marked me down? That was a joke about how quotes are misattributed on the internet. (I am the following person) But if you are good at your job because you see faults before humour and it happens as a personal trait, then good on you. Found another fault.
pcblues
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Used to be red/orange in mine.
pcblues
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I had a colour-blindness test when I worked at an abattoir.

My job was to find odd things on a one third section of a side of beef as it went past and cut it off. 1500 or so per day.

The test showed numbers created with blobs of close colours.

The last test didn't have a number in it.

Cheeky buggers.
pcblues
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For a while, I programmed while walking on a mini-laptop. Nice walking paths where I lived. I was on a hobby project and wanted to spend any minute on it. It wasn't pretty. I kept trying to design a contraption I could wear on my shoulders that worked like a laptop desk.

I also attached a laptop to a treadmill at home, but the static electricity from the rubber mat kept zapping the laptop.

The best result was a laptop on an exercise bike. But the bike couldn't have a high resistance or I would lose concentration.
pcblues
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I thought that was Einstein, Lincoln, or Keller :)
pcblues
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As a software developer, when I used to smoke, I would go outside for 5-10 minutes and talk shit with other regulars who had nothing to do with my work. It was a break that would fix my fading focus (probably for more than one reason :)

I could only keep peak thinking/designing/developing for about an hour or so. That's peak matrix level with edge cases identified and documented on the way.

I could do OK for a lot longer, but the same quality wasn't there.

The non-smokers would resent us for it, but most of them would go for a half to one hour coffee instead.

I going to try this. Thanks!
pcblues
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I used to do it walking to school when I was about 10. Nearly got hit by cars quite a bit.
pcblues
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The kid? :)
pcblues
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Software or hardware, the lock-down for dollars will blow back.
pcblues
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I did TDD properly the first time in my Masters Degree (ongoing). It was an eye-opener. Write your program in two different ways to make sure you know the requirements by making their outputs match. That's not me being snarky. It actually works well. Just make sure you can type quickly.
pcblues
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I still don't understand microservices for anything short of a NAG of four level architecture.
pcblues
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In the 25 odd years I developed software, I learnt all the rules the hard way.

Relax. You will make all the mistakes because the laws don't make sense until you trip over them :)

Comment your code? Yep. Helped me ten years later working on the same codebase.

You can't read a book about best practises and then apply them as if wisdom is something you can be told :)

It is like telling kids, "If you do this you will hurt yourself" YMMV but it won't :)
pcblues
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4 kings.

Wipe if you think you can do better :) It can and has been done.
pcblues
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That's amazing. I used to live under an architecture student (our building). His command of design history was great. His command of maths? Well, not so much.
pcblues
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Interesting they had to redistribute the numbers to take account of its natural bias.
pcblues
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I just throw 17d6 and subtract 2.

Problem solved.

(I am joking!)
pcblues
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Good luck to him. If he was behind the Neo, then he deserves the post. That's the perfect new product in the mac world.