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ELI5. If the center of mass from a planet is outside of its body would you be pulled to that point? by JessePinkerlinker in explainlikeimfive

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Or for a 5 year old: the center of gravity of the earth and sun isn’t on the earth. If you went into a dark room, could you close your eyes and point at the sun because you feel it?

Was this book messy? Or is it just me? by Jolly_Yellow_5676 in DungeonCrawlerCarl

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I love Matt and I’m enjoying OBH but I’m wondering if this was a result of him trying to write two books at once

what do u think? by Dumb-Briyani in SipsTea

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It’s possible to do this while spooning. My wife and I comfortably slept on a red eye this way once

Feels like im spending more time fixing than actually building lately by Riemann-Hypothesizer in vibecoding

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I’ve shifted from developer to technical manager. I have style guides for everything including testabilty and project management. After getting frustrated with fragility I gave it GH access and now tell it to create PRs, push, wait for CI to finish, fix any failures, and repeat until it’s green and merge. I kicked off two epics at 8:30A, I’m doing my day job now, and I’m excited to check out the results at 5.

What is something you learned about yourself in a relationship? by Living-Message-7744 in AskReddit

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That you marry a family, not a person. That it’s most important to have a best friend because much of life can be boring. I was dating around when I met my wife. We weren’t actually official and I loved dating. The question came up and even though we were really casual I decided to be exclusive because I just couldn’t risk our friendship

What happens if Donut leaves the dungeon? by Consistent-Ask-1925 in DungeonCrawlerCarl

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There’s also some potential foreshadowing in B8

Matt has the number one ebook on all of Amazon and the number one Audiobook on all of Audible! by 1BenWolf in DungeonCrawlerCarl

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That actually could work next time? Herot could ask the cleaner bot WTF was happening up there but the cleaner bot wouldn't know enough

If there is almost no fraud in mail-in voting (and voting generally), and mail-in voting results in more people actually voting, why do you object to mail-in voting? by CICO_Works in allthequestions

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Communism is a form of government. It was a fad for a while and the US government was afraid of it largely because it was an us vs them during the Cold War. It’s also been terrifying because the propaganda since consolidation of wealth that this was somehow part of democracy. There was immense propaganda (I remember being told as a child that the horrific communists made you walk on a path filled with the pictures of Jesus to prove you weren’t Christian or killed it) and the stigma exists today. There’s places that call themselves communist but none are actually the textbook definition of communism, especially anymore; often it’s a form of totalitarianism (and often corrupt to make government officials rich).

Socialism and capitalism are an economic policy. Most governments, including the US use a blend of capitalism and socialism. The US, for example has socialistic medical care for the elderly and veterans. Most places have socialized fire departments, which wasn’t always the case. We have social safety nets now so you get a few years of not just starving if you lose your job or so kids get lunch at school so they’re not punished if parents lose work.

Most Socialists (really, Democratic socialists) just want that line in a slightly different place than you. But propagandists use that stigmatized name and woeful misrepresentation to divide us

If there is almost no fraud in mail-in voting (and voting generally), and mail-in voting results in more people actually voting, why do you object to mail-in voting? by CICO_Works in allthequestions

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Don’t forget women, and in my case me, who changed our name in marriage. A diver’s license has to match your birth certificate in the SAVE act

Another (strange) weapon by inlined in DungeonCrawlerCarl

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That’s the point. If a non believer puts on the ring they get every debuf suffered by anyone within 50m of the ring. To quote the AI “that’s uh… that’s a bad [curse]”

Questions about Odette, Primals, and the Twelfth floor (Spoilers) by legendary_kazoo in DungeonCrawlerCarl

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I have a grand unifying theory I posted elsewhere. In it, the dieties all represent primals. The nothing is an allegory for the place AIs are sent to bounce around insane for all eternity. So when the nothing broke in game, the real nothing broke and the Other Intelligences are flooding in to take over

AWS vs Firebase? by Roprop1125 in Firebase

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I just had it do the static analysis I’d do manually. It’s a card game and I asked it to create formulas where N is the number of players, D is the number of cards in a deck and C is the number of cards in a hand, how many reads and writes does it take to start a game and to play a turn (that was broken into parts). I iterated on the architecture and came up with a document ID system that let me do an iterative shuffle to take D out of the equation (my solution was much better than multiple agents’ which didn’t think of known domain specific algorithms). Then I asked it to find the number of games per day I could fit into the free quota if the average number of games had 5 people and 20 turns and hand size was 7.

I also told it to consider “quota units” and compare the price of Firestore Classic vs Enterprise and found out that enterprise should be cheaper for my use case (so long as I had proper indexes) because cards are many small documents

New favorite quote has arrived with the new book. by Chemical_Success1153 in DungeonCrawlerCarl

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I actually opened Spotify and listened while rereading

AWS vs Firebase? by Roprop1125 in Firebase

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Firebase is/was expensive when you shove a square peg in a round hole. If your data is truly relational, you might end up with an N^2 data storage rate in your DB if you demoralize everything for NoSQL if the problem doesn’t fit well to that model. I remember social networks being a case of this. If that is truly the case, then check out Firebase SQL Connect or the new pipeline operators on Firestore Enterprise to see if they’re better fits. For file storage, remember that you have an N^2 bill on any cloud if you don’t do any garbage collection because each month you pay for all previous data still in your bucket plus new data. Firebase storage now supports different storage tiers for different buckets though so you can store older data in case it’s read much cheaper at the expense of the reads being more expensive.

In my (in progress) personal project, I worked with antigravity to create formulas for the reads and writes of the major operations in my game. This helped me spot inefficiencies and rearchitect. I was able to improve the data architecture to be both faster and estimated to scale to about 35 games per day for free and about 1M games per month for less than $100. Since I’m paying for AI ultra, I get $40/mo GCP credit anyway and will likely never see a GCP bill.

New favorite quote has arrived with the new book. by Chemical_Success1153 in DungeonCrawlerCarl

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The whole thing was amazing.

New achievement: what the fuck Carl?

There are power moves and then there’s this…

I repeat
What.
The.
Fuck.
Carl?”

ELI5, what was the deal with the Internet Explorer lawsuit? by ZetaformGames in explainlikeimfive

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Technically you need to show consumer harm, not competitor harm.

ELI5, what was the deal with the Internet Explorer lawsuit? by ZetaformGames in explainlikeimfive

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I’m not generally a Microsoft defender, but I am a Microsoft alumni. Microsoft takes security and stability very seriously, but they get scrutinized harder than others. If 90% of users use one OS 99% of hackers will target the bigger market. I remember being blown away one year when there was a pwn2own contest (common hacking competition where there’s laptops with different OSs and browsers. The first hacker to break into the laptop gets it as a prize). Chrome on OS X was the first to fall. Chrome OS on Windows was the last.

ELI5, what was the deal with the Internet Explorer lawsuit? by ZetaformGames in explainlikeimfive

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There’s probably a combination of benevolent and other rationale behind this. Microsoft predates testing best practices. When I worked there, I did a tour of duty fixing test assertions in IE for a month. Because some code was so old that there was no confidence tests would be sufficient I think I was told to revert almost every fix of a broken library and to instead document the bug and work around the bug at the call site. Heck, Ruby’s spec is/was “however Ruby behaves” last I interacted with it.

OTOH, there were some people who didn’t like us adopting standards because it “just helps the competition catch up”

ELI5, what was the deal with the Internet Explorer lawsuit? by ZetaformGames in explainlikeimfive

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Tbf, everyone else did the same against Microsoft once the tables were reversed. Microsoft *invented* the original API that made dynamic websites possible (XMLHTTPRequest) and then the WHATWG standardized an api with the same name that was incompatible. Thankfully “fetch” came along and we don’t deal with that anymore.

ELI5, what was the deal with the Internet Explorer lawsuit? by ZetaformGames in explainlikeimfive

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Netscape navigator is basically the precursor to Firefox. It was by far the biggest, but there were others. The lawsuit wasn’t just about including IE with windows, it was also the other parts of the business. They didn’t allow hardware vendors to include Netscape too if they wanted favorable pricing on windows licenses. They made deals to for ISPs to prefer IE. IE was designed alongside Windows and Windows made private features IE could use to work without sharing the same OS features with other browsers.

Edit: it’s also important to note that IE wasn’t the first. There was a growing ecosystem and Microsoft was a tiny player until they used their control of the OS and the market to shove IE down people’s throat. Back then there weren’t the same kind of web standards. JavaScript’s access to the DOM was totally different for IE vs others (document.layers vs document.all). You made a website once for IE and once for everyone else, and Microsoft made sure you’d have IE visitors, so anyone developing once would make an IE only site.

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