Barrin92

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by Barrin92 9mo ago
yes but it's important to note they're indie games, on the periphery of the culture for a reason. Animal Well is an explicit 16bit scanlines retro game. The first game that comes to your mind is one harkening back to the aesthetic
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>the reason those consoles are so iconic is because we were children if you spend some time on youtube and look at people too young to even have been around play through those games it just becomes evident very quickly how wrong that ass
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by Barrin92 9mo ago
> it is better to use that than to go it alone. frankly I don't think in any even half modern country you can go at it alone. I struggle to imagine how someone would physically manage to evade public authorities here in Germany wher
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by Barrin92 9mo ago
in this case a more appropriate term for the mob is "the people" because one defining dynamic of the rollout of this technology is that a minority of people seem to be extremely invested to shove it into the faces of a majority of
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by Barrin92 9mo ago
>With all the predatory tech Palantir has produced Palantir is SAP with a hollywood marketing department. I talked to a Palantir guy five or six years ago and he said he was happy every time someone portrayed them as a bond villain in th
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by Barrin92 9mo ago
>if federation was clearly superior, it would've won. no because we don't live in the best of all worlds. it starts to win pretty rapidly when centralized abuses of power become apparent. Bitchat (p2p mesh network messaging app
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by Barrin92 9mo ago
the one that's worse is the first one though, because it's significantly more sophisticated in its manipulation. A society in which censorship is so pervasive that it has been baked into the commercial or moral infrastructure is s
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frankly I think much less than people assume. Obviously nuclear weapons need to be taken seriously but we should have taken a much more muscular posture ages ago. There's this mental cold war image of these people grinding it out to th
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>to make them think and act in specific ways. with the kind of images that are out in the open for everybody with their own eyes to see, if that does not move you in your heart of hearts, where no government or anyone else can touch you,
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>A fairly high percentage of famous free soloists (I'd say over 25%) have died prematurely Yes but I'd also say Alex is a bit of a different beast. He's clearly not a thrill seeker who attempts climbs he isn't sure ab
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by Barrin92 9mo ago
I really liked Brook Ziporyn's translation of the Dao and particular his deep dive into the A / B / True A move that the Dao does all the time. There's a nice small lecture on YT on this as well: https://youtu
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by Barrin92 9mo ago
>it is a mixture of technology and art, it is provocative There's no art (or engineering) in this and the only provocative thing about it is that Yegge apparently decided to turn it into a crypto scam. I like the intersection of eng
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by Barrin92 9mo ago
no offense but the US spent about a billion on the WHO. That's a lot of influence for chump change. US defense sits at only 3% of GDP compared to 8% during the height of the cold war. The argument always seems to be that the US is gett
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by Barrin92 9mo ago
>they'd just be sitting there with sweet Western investment cash and far less American antagonism no they wouldn't, we know this because we here in Europe are facing American antagonism and a trade war right now and we'r
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by Barrin92 9mo ago
Wang Yi, when he was in Brussels earlier last year was pretty blunt and said that if China wanted Russia to win the war would be over and given the scale of China's defense and industrial sector that's probably true. They don&#x27
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by Barrin92 9mo ago
>the Chinese will seek something in return. They're not doing this out of the goodness of their hearts. of course they aren't but it's also obvious what they want. Design a new global order where they have a seat at the ta
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by Barrin92 9mo ago
well I hope it's better than Spotify's age prediction which came to the conclusion that I'm 87 years old. Seriously though this is the most easily game-able thing imaginable, pretty sure teens are clever enough to figure out
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The US would no longer be able to export the cost of its spending on other countries which is the so called 'extraordinary privilege' of running the world's reserve currency and the US population would feel the consequences o
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by Barrin92 9mo ago
that's what happens with stuff that is so popular it becomes infrastructure. It's like the guy who goes "ew I haven't touched Java in ten years" while half the stuff he uses runs on it. WhatsApp in some countries is
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Threads is not a walled garden though. It's got Activity Pub integration and you can follow Fediverse accounts already. I think the other way around it's still a work in progress.
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light mode as the article points out for people with no vision impairment. And the trend towards dark mode in some applications as the default setting is bad. When people talk about light mode blinding them, please do yourself a favour and
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by Barrin92 9mo ago
>Good enough that choosing to focus on the fundamentals seems rather foolish.[...]but most of the time it sticks the landing. At this point, learning Awk seems about as sane as mastering the loom The joy aspect aside, if you're writ
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by Barrin92 9mo ago
>A lesson Europe could learn. We've learned that lesson. Not to toot our own horn too much but we to a large extent kickstarted the thing in Germany with very little reward for it. 50% of Europe's energy produced is now reneabl
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it also doesn't even fight loneliness. Loneliness isn't solved by merely not being physically alone. I grew up in a Catholic environment but because I bought exactly none of it the religious environments were exactly where I felt
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by Barrin92 10mo ago
>they cannot socialize with people they can socialize online perfectly fine. Excluded from the ban in Australia are among others, WhatsApp, Discord, Steam and Facebook Messenger. TikTok, Twitter or Instagram are not and never have been p
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by Barrin92 10mo ago
>and this seems like it might prevent that sorry but we're on the internet. You can type the literal words 'hardcore pornography' into any search engine of your choice and find about fifteen million bootleg porn sites host
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I'm an engineer and I don't exactly know a lot of engineers who think you can manifest alternative realities into existence with the power of quantum physics, on account of most of us having passed a physics class or two He always
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All the justified complains about housing prices aside, I want to focus on this part "Some people are fine with getting a roommate, but what if you’re not?[...]Usually, people get to a certain stage of life, and they like their indepen
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> I don't think we can credit it with a value system that has sympathy for the fundamental humanity of the enslaved. We can because there is a difference between introducing a new moral grammar into the world and what people do with
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this is a fashionable sentiment, but as Nietzsche (a man who cannot be accused of having much sympathy for Christianity) pointed out: The notion that a slave, humiliated and crucified, was as worthy of mercy and equal was nothing short of a

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