JonathanFly

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by JonathanFly 5y ago
>A lot of people here seem to be surprised that people would spend $200 on a niche gaming console when you could instead get an emulation machine or "real" handheld. A good explanation from John Siracusa: >To a certain class
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by JonathanFly 5y ago
>because of the political views of their CEO or some geopolitical event If America were at this moment dropping paratroopers into Canadian cities and trying to hunt down the Canadian government, and 70% of the Namecheap workforce lived i
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by JonathanFly 5y ago
>I have to say I am appalled. Breaching hundreds, potentially even thousands of contracts for some cancel culture virtue signalling? This is beyond unprofessional. The majority of Namecheap's employees live in Ukraine, and Russia is
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by JonathanFly 5y ago
>This is a terrible move. Virtue signaling at it's worst. The majority of Namecheap's employees live in Ukraine.
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by JonathanFly 5y ago
I sit all day with a back strap (NadaChair brand, but there are many cheaper knockoffs that also work fine) which enforces pretty decent posture. Monitors are on VESA mounts with carefully selected height. Split ergo keyboard so shoulders a
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by JonathanFly 5y ago
I turn on an overhead and a box fan, and use upgraded facial interface, and disposable covers if I'm going especially hard.
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by JonathanFly 5y ago
Same motivation as social exercise generally. It can make a mundane task more fun.
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by JonathanFly 5y ago
I'm sure it did receive a sales boost, but it was almost as highly ranked before the real pandemic. It really is mostly a coincidence.
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by JonathanFly 5y ago
These games never stopped and are arguably better than ever. Just of the game designers you mentioned: The Lead Designer of Civ 4 just released Old World. It's designed around reducing end game slowdown by limiting the number of orders
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by JonathanFly 5y ago
Logged in just to reply and say I enjoyed this comment so much I've been randomly laughing over the course of the day just thinking about it again. A+++
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by JonathanFly 5y ago
A quick google search suggests they should be available now. The article specifically talks about the situation your father is in: https://www.pharmatimes.com/news/nhs_patients_gain_access_to... . >Initially, Ronapre
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by JonathanFly 5y ago
>Honestly surprising why so few people know about the antibody therapy we already have, reduces death by 80 to 90 %. Also unclear why we still need vaccine mandates when we have a cure. Do promptly delivered monoclonals blunt your body&#
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by JonathanFly 5y ago
That may have been exactly the article I saw, there's certainly more useful information in there than I can answer. I pretty much just took away MORE BULBS.
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by JonathanFly 5y ago
>The biggest game changer: Sunlight in your eyes within 30 minutes of waking up. Try morning walks for 1 week (without sunglasses) and your life will be changed. For me I had to also really avoid light at night. F.lux or Windows Night Mo
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by JonathanFly 5y ago
>Top earner is a role playing group. How interesting. A group of professional voice actors who put on a real show every week, with extremely high production quality. A real standout on the list and well deserving of the #1 spot. A person
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by JonathanFly 5y ago
>There are 31" and 42" e-ink displays available, but they cost a few thousand dollars. The 42" is pretty close to 2ft by 3ft, 25" x 33". I must have 4 or 5 old Kindles in a drawer by now, somehow. I wonder if you
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by JonathanFly 5y ago
>I love the idea of Dwarf Fortress and I think the internet purest mission is to disseminate works of passion such as this, not to sell me ads instead. That said, I can't get past the ASCII interface -- I'm a huge fan of IF gam
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by JonathanFly 5y ago
Overall they improved characters. Ashford is a cartoon in the books but is absolutely delightful and interesting on the show. Drummer barely exists in the books and might be my favorite show character.
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by JonathanFly 5y ago
Type 'How to speak English' into YouTube and you'll get absolute deluged with insanely complicated diagrams and flowcharts about stress-timing and vowel reduction -- so many rules that non-native speakers practice and explici
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by JonathanFly 5y ago
>A non-native speaker once asked me why we say "Going overseas" instead of "Going to overseas". I couldn't give them an answer at the time(even though I'm a native speaker). >Later I asked a very smart fr
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by JonathanFly 5y ago
>I think this is cool tech, and valuable. I'm just not sure that it offers a communication benefit over well-lit, well-miced, wired, low latency, 8K videoconferencing. >Maybe there's some 3D emotional perception face process
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by JonathanFly 5y ago
>currently I don't have stereoscopic vision >my brain CAN do it, if I had the correct images sent to my eyes somehow. >when I watched Avatar, an actually well made 3D movie, it literally felt more real than reality Buy an Ocul
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by JonathanFly 5y ago
>The Echo Show is now pretty much constantly on video call for 14-16 hours a day in the living room of both houses and it has become an extension of the one another; a window into the other house. The audio and mics are good enough that
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by JonathanFly 5y ago
>Maybe the commenter has a very interesting use for it, but why would you buy a 256 GB RAM machine (which isn't a lot of memory for this arena either) to develop the model, instead of using something smaller to work on it and leasin
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by JonathanFly 6y ago
>He was also on amphetamines constantly. If I was on amphetamine all the time I’d get a lot accomplished as well. He started taking them in 1971, because he was depressed. He was 58 years old at the time and had been extremely productive
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by JonathanFly 6y ago
It's good that the vast majority of people make full recoveries but 2% of the US is still over 6 million people. I personally know two people who have long 'recovered' from Covid but still have no smell, or a reduced sense of
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by JonathanFly 6y ago
>Sooo looking forward to being able to live fully in a virtual world. Virtual cash, virtual socially distanced "relationships" and friends, a virtual body so I don't have to work out A surprising aspect of VR is that this
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by JonathanFly 6y ago
>My experience with VR has been limited to an HTC Vive. While a game like Elite Dangerous feels great, I had a lot of trouble reading text on it. Probably the same reason why I can't get along with binoculars, I just can't seem
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by JonathanFly 6y ago
>To do AR, it'll need a camera. People hated google glass because of the camera. I remember the fuss, but it's so weird -- everyone carries a smartphone with camera with them all the time, even into public bathrooms. If someone
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by JonathanFly 6y ago
>The resolution on today's consumer headsets still isn't there to provide good experience (maybe https://varjo.com/ can work but it's not for consumers). I think the display hardware is good enough, but I&

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