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Making stuff. Mostly with computers. Run a lot. Play some video games.
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Currently Director of Growth at Explorate working on supply chain software.
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Bets on how long until a key player in this turns out to be deeply financially invested?
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This is the kind of nonsense that has led to all new cars being one giant unusable touch screen. I can’t wait for this bubble to burst.
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An empty folder labelled training program is still technically a training program.
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I’m at least mildly hopeful now that given yesterday’s results a platform of “let’s mimic the dumbest parts of American politics” doesn’t win elections.
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I feel like putting games on phones was a mistake. There was like a 3 year period where mobile games actually felt like games and now they're all just thinly veiled casinos and it seems like such a waste.
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Seems like the crew at @friendspersecond.bsky.social are also loving it. I'm glad it's getting the attention it deserves, I am pretty sure I only heard about it as a passing comment on an earlier episode originally.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PADR...
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While most of the systems have been good. I don't really understand the point of adding a 'relationship level' system roughly half way through the game. From what I can tell so far its not tied to anything other than a few cut scenes and some achievements.
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How are you finding leptos so far?
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I am not really one to chase all the skins or costumes in games but you will be happy to know if you give your characters silly hair it carries into even the most serious cut scenes.
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Progressing a little more one thing I will say is don’t neglect any of the characters once you have more than the three you can take into a battle.
They still get skills and level up but if you ever need them it’s handy to know their gimmicks.
They’re also all kinda fun in their own way.
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At least we get tomorrow off to play it.
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My gut says LLMs are a commodity product and this is good for us as consumers (price will be driven down as much as possible, assuming competition) but bad news for OpenAI and its investors who want to keep prices high to justify their investments.
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This one has made it to the front page of Hacker News, some interesting (and cliche) discussion there news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4361...
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One of the thing I do feel torn by is the pull between the pricing of the switch + switch games and the near constant news of studios laying people off left right and center.
I don't love having to pay more for things but Nintendo and its first party studios tend to do okay keeping people in jobs.
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But if you trade in every game and piece of technology you've ever owned at EB Games you can probably get one for like $415 (whatever that is in AUD)
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I do hope it stays included in the Pro plan and isn't an extra cost on top. The statement at the end about "Free during Beta" makes me a little apprehensive.
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I get the feeling that the problem that search and chat bots solve will be different. Asking ChatGPT about a painting and its history seems sensible because it’s a conversational query. Asking what time the cafe down the road closes feels more one-and-done and better suited to Google style search.
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fish is both the only shell anyone’s ever actively recommended to me and the only one I’ve ever told someone to use. Not because I think any other shell is bad or doesn’t have its perks but all the others fall into “you do you” where telling anyone about them just feels strange.
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The superhuman score seems to be a better CSAT indicator than NPS in any case.
Does anyone have a good metric that has a demonstrated track record to referral rate? (Other than, obviously, referral rate)