CBarkleyU

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by CBarkleyU 3y ago
> in general The 14 day return period doesn't apply to in-store purchases (not trying to argue btw)
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by CBarkleyU 3y ago
Hmm, in Germany there is a union-company agreed wage for a large chunk of jobs and we still have companies that want to ape the Americans by enforcing RTO. I have no problems with my colleagues living in Saxony, paying 70% of my rent for a
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by CBarkleyU 3y ago
I might be the luckiest person in the world, but my first real job (full time), was during the pandemic and straight WFH (I have worked on premise for years before that. Part time, as a student). I feel such a good connection to my colleagu
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by CBarkleyU 3y ago
> it requires you to surrender your identity and financial info to a company that is monetizing your privacy for profit. As someone who has never owned an Apple device (apart from my work iPhone SE, which I rarely use): I always thought
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by CBarkleyU 3y ago
>The expectation I think is different communities in different instances will win and be the primary places for games, or technology, etc. So there will be several r/games, r/videos, r/gifs, [...] on the Fediverse? This se
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by CBarkleyU 3y ago
"Why did Microsoft strive for [market penetration] turns out: They want to [utilize market penetration]" What a novel idea.
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by CBarkleyU 3y ago
> Podcasting started with a mix of radio drama and some really incredible radio journalism—a lost art. Wasn't the first popular show the Ricky Gervais show? Which -- and I say this as someone who has listened to both the podcast and
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by CBarkleyU 3y ago
Yes, the 94 years old Noam Chomsky is scared shitless that AI will leave him jobless. This is definitely a sane take on this issue.
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by CBarkleyU 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Campbell_(YouTuber)
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by CBarkleyU 3y ago
> The mechanical complexity? the graphical complexity? The volume of content? Yes, yes and yes. > The size on disk? Indirectly, sometimes. Also, how polished a game is. At the end of the day, people severely underestimate the last 10%
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by CBarkleyU 4y ago
Does he have any that arent disappointing/cringy because of him, instead of despite of him? It's insane to me how Lex got so popular. He must be the #1 guy out there in the art of derailing any smart persons thought train with a
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by CBarkleyU 4y ago
Many thanks for the input, but as I've said above, I roughly calculated the entropy of an average state and without some kind of magic there just is not enough wiggle room. I've tried your example and it gave me a URL with ~24,000
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by CBarkleyU 4y ago
Yep, it's the same reason why I can only smirk when people tell me that crypto is the next thing for buying/selling "used" video games. News flash: The reason why you can't sell your games on Steam isnt because of t
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by CBarkleyU 4y ago
Quoting: [1] Notes on our illicit transaction volume chart: These are lower bound estimates that will likely rise over time as additional illicit activity is discovered. This does not include off-chain criminal activity where proceeds may h
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by CBarkleyU 4y ago
How extremely nice of you! Thank you very much for the time you've spent on a random internet stranger, it is very much appreciated!
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by CBarkleyU 4y ago
That is a very interesting idea. Oddly enough, isnt that pretty much what I want to build myself? A link to a JSON file that's much shorter than the JSON file. It might make sense to use a site that offers that anyways as a middleman.
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by CBarkleyU 4y ago
For sure, but how much impact does it actually have? Let's say I have around 2000 datapoints, all of them integers, little rhyme or reason to their sequence. I'm very open for ideas on how to squeeze that down to a link that wou
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by CBarkleyU 4y ago
> how long is "way too long"? How long would a link that you receive on iMessage/WhatsApp have to be before you would reply with a "?" I'm quite open to testing out different ways to keep all of this fronten
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by CBarkleyU 4y ago
Also impossible, unfortunately. But a fun idea, nontheless
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by CBarkleyU 4y ago
Even when compressing thje JSON before encoding it, it's still way too long for a shareable link. As I've said below, I've roughly calculated the entropy and even had a quick look around if there was any cool research out the
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by CBarkleyU 4y ago
Ah! That sounds very interesting. I am actually using Cloudflare Pages to host the current frontend-only version of the game. I'll have a look and see where it takes me. Thanks!
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by CBarkleyU 4y ago
Unfortunately not possible, as the JSON is quite long. I've even gone the extra mile to calculate the average entropy of my game-state (its just numbers) to see how much I could save by compressing it, but to no avail. It would way too
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Ask HN: What is the most barebone back end solution?
19 points by CBarkleyU 4y ago|48 comments
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by CBarkleyU 4y ago
A bit off topic, but worth a shot: I'm working on a rather simple web-based game and I'm struggling with how to test it for iOS/Safari/Webkit without having to go out and buy an Apple device?
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by CBarkleyU 4y ago
What about me? I want a high-end Android, non Chinese OEM, non Exynos-based, non shutter-speed-problem-riddled phone that guarantess >3 years of Android OS updates and has shown in the past to deliver on those promises and has a respecta
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by CBarkleyU 4y ago
Im sorry, but in what world is Godot not an 11 compared to Unity for "2D games && !consoles"?
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by CBarkleyU 4y ago
> Is this safe, Maybe? > and if so would a doctor ever recommend to do this every day? Most definitely not, but then again, Doctors err on the side of caution for obvious reasons
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by CBarkleyU 4y ago
ChatGPT is pretty damn good at anything creative, but for hard-truth questions it's eh at best. Which is quite ironic when you think about what we imagined Robots would end up like. Btw, I just asked ChatGPT to give me a list of five-l
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by CBarkleyU 4y ago
Pretty cool product, best of luck moving forward!
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by CBarkleyU 4y ago
I've never linked to my GitHub, yet it sometimes still comes up in interviews.

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