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by ACS_Solver 2y ago
You can't keep it warm but you can conserve heat as much as possible. You're supposed to add extra insulation by covering the windows with blankets, pick a space in the house where everyone will be and additionally insulate that m
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by ACS_Solver 2y ago
It's cold here in Scandinavia. Nighttime temperatures are below freezing for half a year in a good chunk of the land. Winters are in general cold for a significant part of the population, three days without heating would be a serious d
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by ACS_Solver 2y ago
This is patently wrong and it's the sort of thinking that still causes inconvenience to people using non-ASCII languages, years after it's technically justifiable. The most typical problem scenario is getting some package or docum
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by ACS_Solver 2y ago
I think you're touching on another problem, which is that we as users rarely know why the form wants a name. Is it to be used in emails, or for sending packages, or for talking to me? My language also has a separate vocative case, but
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by ACS_Solver 2y ago
Yeah, it's amazing. My language has a Latin-based alphabet but can't be represented with ISO 8859-1 (aka the Latin-1 charset) so I used to take it for granted that most software will not support inputs in the language... 25 years
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by ACS_Solver 2y ago
It similarly blows my mind how far back many languages go with written accounts. My own native language wasn't written down until the 16th century, so its earlier forms are basically unattested. And the 16th writing is just a few sente
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by ACS_Solver 2y ago
This same person fought for years to get the Berlin Egyptian museum to release 3D scans of the famous Nefertiti bust. The museum also claimed it would undermine its revenue streams through the gift shop, but as the case progressed, that tur
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by ACS_Solver 2y ago
It's a very cool story that seems to be completely made up to me. While the nuclear accident was in large part caused by what one may call "Soviet factors", the Soviet authorities were not some comically stupid villains. They
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by ACS_Solver 2y ago
How relevant is the part about running Windows applications through Wine now? I'm under the impression it's less relevant than it used to be, due to web apps now having replaced a lot of native programs, and many native programs a
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by ACS_Solver 2y ago
Yeah, my understanding is that the key element that makes Proton games run so well is running the graphics through DXVK instead of Wine's WineD3D solution. Wine is excellent at the Win32 API but its D3D solution never advanced enough t
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by ACS_Solver 2y ago
As I often repeat in these threads, Proton was an amazing leap. Once it released, it took probably two years for me to boot Windows again, and it's only been getting better. Now I'm already used to assuming games will just work on
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by ACS_Solver 2y ago
I read both collections after, like others, getting introduced to Ted Chiang because of Arrival, and both rank highly among my favorites. Chiang can write some beautiful prose (best exemplified by "The Merchant and the Alchemist's
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by ACS_Solver 3y ago
The hardware/software infrastructure for cards and mobile payments is separate. We get card outages or Swish (mobile) outages occasionally, I don't remember any that affected both. Card payments are expected to work offline. We&#x
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by ACS_Solver 3y ago
> That’s another one of those US-isms that blow peoples minds: that dollar bills of any age are legal tender. That's not so impressive when the National Bank of Sweden for instance is legally obliged to exchange any banknotes it iss
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by ACS_Solver 3y ago
Quite possibly, yes. There's also the consideration that such an outage would likely be part of an even bigger problem. Over here, like most of Europe, we're pretty safe from natural disasters aside from storms causing local power
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by ACS_Solver 3y ago
Such robustness is currently a subject of government studies and planning. It's definitely an area of concern. A personal-level outage is a problem but less so than with cash. I have three separate items on me I can use to pay - my car
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by ACS_Solver 3y ago
I'm in Sweden, a strong contender for the most cashless country, and I don't know what the banknotes look like. They were changed some 5 or 6 years ago and I haven't paid with or even withdrawn cash since then. For illustrati
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by ACS_Solver 3y ago
Sid's a very interesting game designer, he's phenomenal at making fun games - in any genre - but his games are fundamentally simple ones. If you take Civ 2-4, or SMAC, the strategic depth largely comes from the likes of Brian Reyn
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by ACS_Solver 3y ago
Should be noted that Alpha Centauri was a game from Brian Reynolds, who is a totally brilliant strategy designer.
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by ACS_Solver 3y ago
Self-plug: Old World, a 4X game from the lead of Civ4, has from day one shipped with a copy of the entire gameplay source code. It's not the full source of the game as the rendering-related parts and a couple systems classes are exclud
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by ACS_Solver 3y ago
That looks pretty similar to what I ended up with! In the end, I had Weston running a rootful fullscreen Xwayland as the only Wayland window, and then X clients within that. There were still some complications, since I also wanted to make u
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by ACS_Solver 3y ago
Your prediction is probably right but it highlights what I still find to be a fundamental problem with Wayland. It's something that's very much user-facing, as it affects the behavior of desktop environments and several types of p
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by ACS_Solver 3y ago
To quote Gemini, what the quack! Even with the understanding that these are handpicked interactions that are likely to be among the system's best responses, that is an extremely impressive level of understanding and reasoning.
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by ACS_Solver 3y ago
I worked through parts of TAOCP when I was a graduate student (and by parts I mean a very small, tiny fraction of the book). It was highly useful to demonstrate rigorous techniques of how we can analyze algorithms, and I used it a couple ti
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by ACS_Solver 3y ago
If you prefer Civ4 over others, give Old World a try. Many of the same people involved, most notably Soren Johnson is also the lead designer of Old World, and the game brings many new ideas to 4X. Disclaimer: I'm one of the team member
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by ACS_Solver 3y ago
Same, I technically have a Google account and Gmail address because I'm an Android user. I've never actually used by Gmail address or given it to anyone, I don't log into my Google account on the desktop so all my Google acco
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by ACS_Solver 3y ago
I recommend "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling" by the brilliant Ted Chiang, a short story featuring a related social situation. People in the story use a recorder with highly advanced search and indexing capabilities so it
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by ACS_Solver 3y ago
No need to decompile Windows since there have been substantial code leaks, and more recently the entire (or near?) WinXP source leaked. It's even on GitHub. The problem is of course that anyone using the source code would be in legal t
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by ACS_Solver 3y ago
It's a very impressive project with very niche use. I think it's pretty clear that it would be good to have a FOSS system that's compatible with old Windows, especially since we live in a world where Windows XP has become one
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by ACS_Solver 3y ago
The discussion is making me scared from another perspective. I have experience with a pretty wide variety of development. I've worked with embedded microcontrollers (minimalistic RTOS), embedded applications (on top of a proper Linux),

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