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velobro··on More on Dota 2
The Dota 2 bot is no different than Aimbots in FPS games. The bot was able to access the api to perfectly target the exact location and instantly cast a spell, much like an Aimbot can instantly get headshots.
velobro··on 83 percent of Bay Area renters plan to leave, says survey
I'm moving the bay in less than two weeks from the Central Valley. I plan to stay there around 5 years or so then move.

I'd like to own a home one day and there is no one in hell that is happening in the Bay.

velobro··on Why we fell for clean eating
And why is it you think that?
velobro··on Hype or Not? Some Perspective on OpenAI’s DotA 2 Bot
The bot did not have their creep blocks hard coded. In the event the player purposefully messed up his block to see if the bot would respond and it did
velobro··on Vi is not vim
I'd rather spend my time learning how to write better code than spend that same amount of time learning a completely different keyboard shortcut system just to edit faster.

Seriously. How many of us are actually at the point where our limiting factor is how fast we can edit instead of how fast we think about the code we want to get on the screen?

velobro··on Eighth Circuit: Citizens do not have a right to film public officials in public
These states have always actively tried to impede the advancement of American society so it doesn't surprise me to see them taking such a backwards stance
velobro··on Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud
Oh give me a break. The guy comes off as charasmatic in a YouTube video so you want to ignore his act of fraud? (Yes, I realize raising drug prices isn't illegal. That isn't what he was convicted for)

You know who else was charasmatic and could get people to like him in light of all his actions? Adolf Hitler.

velobro··on Reddit raises $200M at a $1.8B valuation
There is tons of corporate sponsored content on Reddit but Reddit has learned from Digg's mistakes and made the ads appear like normal posts made by normal users.

Basically Reddit is what happens when product placement ads go to the extreme

velobro··on Dell XPS 15 9560 Review
I really don't know why anyone would order a laptop from Dell, or any other OEM for that matter.

Dell and their like, obviously, aren't at the for-front of laptop design. They are still using plastic and calling Carbon fiber a "premium" laptop material (it isn't). They are using second rate network adapters. They are using second rate SSDs which have terrible write speeds. Windows trackpads arent any better than they were 10 years ago.

To top it all off? You'll need to do a whole damn Windows reinstall to get rid of the tons of bloatware they pack in.

velobro··on AMD Threadripper Delidded, with a Multi-Core Surprise Under the Hood
I feel like I'm starting to notice this as well because my i5-4670k is idling around 40 °C on an H100i even after clearing out trapped dust
velobro··on Google to add 'news feed' to website and app
The whole home page news feed thing is exactly why my father chooses to use Bing and I'm sure he's not the only one in that boat. Looks like Google has realized this.
velobro··on A JavaScript browser library fails due to an adblocker blacklisting 'beacon.js'
CloudApp had this type of problem where the CPU would crank up to 100% usage after my Pi-Hole blocked their segment.io code from functioning.
velobro··on I'm a startup founder and I had sex with an investor – and I am sorry
I'm a junior developer trying to get a job in the valley and this part makes me so angry.

"I knew being hot got me in the door and that after that I had to make that work for me. Culturally, we are taught as women that our main power is our looks and sexuality. Then it's a matter of what you do with it. Personally, I used the s--- out of it, and I was more successful than my male colleagues because of it."

velobro··on Colorls – A Ruby script that beautifies the terminal's ls command
This is perfect for someone like my who's entire terminal existence is comprise of avoiding user the Finder as much as humanly possible.
velobro··on Google is funding the creation of software that writes local news stories
Good! I'm sure a bot is a lot better writer than the high school graduates my local paper employs.
velobro··on Ask HN: Linux laptop with MacBook-like build quality
"Biometric is a joke"

Speak for yourself because fingerprint sensor on my smartphone has changed the way I use it. Don't call the whole field of tech useless because Lenovo chooses to cheap out on their components.

velobro··on Intel discontinues Joule, Galileo, and Edison product lines
This is why Intel is gearing up their legal team to stop Microsoft and other's attempts to virtualize x86 on ARM.

They are toast without their CPU business.

velobro··on Kill Google AMP before it kills the web
Then Apple should make their own search engine...
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