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by Arbalest 7y ago
I've been searching for a decent 4X game on mobile that can be played in portrait mode. Just can't find one. I feel like on mobile, going landscape is a failure of the interface. It's tricky though, as I'm comparing it t
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by Arbalest 7y ago
It isn't zero sum, technically. But in the world of investing, in order to get the gains that people are always gunning for, someone else has to lose. Otherwise no one could ever get more than however much the GDP grows at, assuming no
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by Arbalest 7y ago
As long as you only use Ext4
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by Arbalest 7y ago
One of the main takeaways I got from the original Fractal of Bad Design post was the myriad of inconsistencies in both representation and execution of code. This was barely touched upon, mostly this post focused on how PHP has added feature
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by Arbalest 7y ago
Critical, not analytical. The former is an emotional state of mind enabling the beginning of the analytical thought process.
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by Arbalest 7y ago
The funny thing is, incentives for startups here seem to have all sorts of requirements which are enforced. Seems like "Once you get big enough, we trust you" but then how did they get big in the first place?
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by Arbalest 7y ago
I quite like the way in which it shows the similarities between infections and knowledge. It has a model that explains how self interest hinders knowledge in more ways than simply reducing the resources available for research. It also expla
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by Arbalest 7y ago
On a wider scale, this is a step in the right direction for getting away from the lock-in of these kinds of platforms. Offering E2E but still in proprietary formats.
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by Arbalest 7y ago
I think what this demonstrates is the patch upon patch nature that Javascript has taken on. Something we already knew, but with ES2015+, was kind of hidden from us. That isn't so say the new ES revisions aren't significant improve
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by Arbalest 7y ago
Here in Australia (and perhaps elsewhere), the high altitude balloons used to measure upper atmosphere currents (aka radiosondes) use Hydrogen[0] for the balloons. They launch them often enough that they can justify the hydrogen generation
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by Arbalest 7y ago
Or more likely, never familiar with in the first place.
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by Arbalest 7y ago
There seems to be a lot of different explanations given below, but I can't help but think of: It's all of them, more or less. They've pretty much all come up as a consequence to the internet, whether it be better organisation
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by Arbalest 7y ago
The prison example is clearly the most difficult. Under oppressed governments, you may still be able to use digital help to create offline communication parcels. When you're in prison, you have your brain, a pen, paper and if you'
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by Arbalest 7y ago
They're not genetic but they still follow parental lineage. I'm making the point that advantages that people start out with are already not equal, that equality can't be simplified so much that you can just say, they have the
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by Arbalest 7y ago
That's like saying that, your child gets to go to a public school, just like a rich child. The rich child just happens to be able to afford a private school.
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by Arbalest 7y ago
The article does make point that the biology isn't that clear. Yes, much of her physiology is more male than it would typically be, but her external characteristics aren't male. so summarising that "she" is a "he&qu
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by Arbalest 7y ago
I thought the theme of my reply is that we're not talking about theoretical constructs, but instead reality... Space is not a vacuum, just much lower pressure than on earth.
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by Arbalest 7y ago
That sounds a lot like a slingshot maneuver around a planet to get more momentum. Strictly speaking you're taking energy from the planet/sun to do so. An unchanging magnetic field still exists in the real universe, and I find it d
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by Arbalest 7y ago
That is what superconductivity is defined as, perhaps, but I'm saying, no such material is, nor can any construct be built to insulate a subset of the universe from the rest of the universe. So even if you magically made a material tha
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by Arbalest 7y ago
The second law of thermodynamics basically stipulates this is impossible. All materials wear out no matter what, even black holes eventually turn to entropy. You could create one with much better resistance to wear, but never completely res
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by Arbalest 8y ago
It frustrates me that older generations lament the loss of cursive in the curriculum, but refuse to acknowledge that it overall reduces the readability. Not everyone is a born artist, and the evidence is quite clear that it isn't a mag
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by Arbalest 8y ago
Don't really like the way the US has conducted themselves, particularly with healthcare, and I have a family which makes things more complicated.
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by Arbalest 8y ago
Just like how I flag "important" emails as junk. Well, almost.
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by Arbalest 8y ago
As I approach my 30's, I'm seriously considering a roadmap to getting out. This, along with recent legislation makes me very concerned about my future prospects.
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by Arbalest 8y ago
All the poets, songwriters and comedians would have a collective heart attack if they were told they needed to use language like that.
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by Arbalest 8y ago
I would have thought that had more to do with Meltdown
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by Arbalest 8y ago
Despite my frustrations with the way the sector is treated by our government, the article raises a point I hadn't really considered. Big Tech is considered essentially the only tech in Australia, so local stuff doesn't even rate c
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by Arbalest 8y ago
It wouldn't be bitcoin anymore then... Being able to grandfather in the whole transaction log after rolling out a new system runs counter to the principle.
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by Arbalest 8y ago
Given what I said, Even for fairly simple examples, it would still be more bug prone, simply due to humans not having perfect cognition. At scale that can add up. Also keep in mind that this both enables, and follows a trajectory of increas
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by Arbalest 8y ago
>If types are really that big a deal that you have a hard time writing an application without a compiler checking your types, you should reevaluate what you're doing. Implying that everyone has exceptional short term memory, and rea

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