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by Crespyl 9y ago
In Steam it is actually the case that a user can select their own display name (distinct from the account name used to log in) and change it at any time (and there's very few restrictions on what you can set it to, the system doesn&#x2
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by Crespyl 9y ago
Open source and open standards are the other big draws. Otherwise it does seem to be closely based on twitter style interaction.
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Steam also allows you to change your publicly visible username more or less at will. There's one "account name" which you pick at sign up, use to log in, and can never change (as far as I know), but you can then pick a "
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by Crespyl 9y ago
Or as a Flash blob, which used to be distressingly common.
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by Crespyl 9y ago
My S5 has expandable storage, NFC, replaceable battery, headphone jack, RGB notification light, hall effect sensor (for flip covers), fingerprint reader, wireless charging, and even an IR emitter (which I use heavily). It's even decen
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by Crespyl 9y ago
I'm in a position where, if my Samsung S5 breaks, I'll probably just see if I can find another refurbished S5 off of ebay or similar. Nothing newer seems to have the same combination of hardware features I care about. Hopefully t
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by Crespyl 9y ago
Does Facebook always detail their tracking and analytics platform updates? In any case, my point is that it doesn't need to be malicious for FB to invalidate the privacy expectations that users of encrypted messaging might have. If
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by Crespyl 9y ago
Stop lights might want to have some 1-n beacon protocol available for automated cars, and vending machines likewise might want a way to expose what's currently in stock and allow sufficient verbs to pay by a phone app. These don't
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Facebook decides that "their users are better served" by scanning messages locally on the client device and requesting ads based on that content, thereby introducing a privacy and information leak and potentially opening the door
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It's essentially just how Java works, and isn't that uncommon in statically typed procedural languages. The `view` variable is still a reference of the parent type (Say `MessageCell` for now, can't be bothered to find that pa
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by Crespyl 9y ago
This is true, thank you. I seem to conflate SimCity and the Civ games, for some reason, they seem to occupy a lot of the same spaces in my head. That said, the fact that you can always pause at any time and there's never much time pre
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by Crespyl 9y ago
In a low-fi "turn based" game like SC, it'd be pretty tolerable as long as the cursor still moves at a normal speed. Anything with more animation or especially real-time input like in a first person game, if run at < 60FPS
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If you really want a realistic but still playable sim, there's also Orbiter which not only uses real numbers as much as possible, but actually goes so far as to model non-spherical gravity sources like lumpy asteroids.
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by Crespyl 9y ago
That's assuming you can't find anyone to trade goods and services for crypto directly.
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See I was envisioning one of these: http://www.bates.co.za/BMS_Product_Images/ROUND%20TUBE%20LAD...
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by Crespyl 9y ago
I've seen some software video decoders do that at times, though if it's happening even while paused it's a little unusual (maybe decoding buffered frames?).
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by Crespyl 9y ago
I think it would be possible to slice the ladder exactly in half, down its length, right? Each rung would go from a cylinder to a half-cylinder, but should still be rigidly connected to either side of the ladder all the same.
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by Crespyl 9y ago
The other day on HN I saw a comment that described Bitcoin/proof-of-work cryptocurrencies as being "created by an act of ritual sacrifice" (of electricity/compute power). I recon there's grounds for some amusing sho
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by Crespyl 9y ago
By some marvel, Linus manages to avoid the language of "people who are X should be fired". There's a distinction between saying unflattering things about people who do unflattering things (like submit broken or low quality
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by Crespyl 9y ago
Indeed, "why not just"; I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. I'll assume the latter: Even if you were able to perfectly maintain an accurate 3D model of the surrounding geometry (and associated trajectory
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by Crespyl 9y ago
Scuttlebut is, so far, the most interesting decentralized social media tool I've seen. Even Mastodon and Matrix still require a server of some form, while SSB will continue to work offline and via truly local peer to peer connections.
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Right, it looks very similar to the early adversarial visual examples. At first they only worked on direct simulated inputs with perfect clarity, then images, and now live camera feed of arbitrary 3D printed objects from any angle.
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I always understood it to be a caveat that the speaker does not have much or any formal legal education (much less in the specific state/country relevant to the conversation) and that nothing should be taken as actual legal advice by t
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It's good to hear that you don't plan on being heavy handed, but as someone interested in online communities and governance, I'd still be interested in the answer to seany's question about moderator transparency. Do you
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Something like a schema for a restricted subset of XHTML?
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Usually, but some won't let you finish set up without some internet access. Even if you do keep it disconnected, there's no guarantee that a badly behaved update process or app won't interfere with the normal operation in som
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You may or may not be able to get rid of some or all of the image processing, but you still have all the other issues of a "smart" TV, like auto updates/ads/tracking/infection and other problems that come with havin
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by Crespyl 9y ago
I generally try to be aware of copyright enforcement related issues, but haven't heard of SWAT operations in direct response to copyright incidents. Is there a source you can link, or were you just exaggerating for rhetorical effect?
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> don't discuss it at work Even after attending a work event on that very topic, which specifically asked for feedback and further discussion? Or should discussion be restricted to only one viewpoint?
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> Windows 10, maybe not Yet.

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