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by MattRix 5y ago
Your scenario with mutated hands ignores that evolution is about selection, not just single mutations. If hands evolved over a period of millions of years to be able to push water better, you could indeed say they evolved for the purpose of
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by MattRix 5y ago
they are both cool but right now they both have the problem that they don’t recreate the wordle keyboard, which is a big part of what makes the game enjoyable to play.
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by MattRix 5y ago
This post is frankly delusional. You say a bunch of things but have zero explanation for WHY those things might be true. It’s clear at this point that Bitcoin has become an utter failure for almost all the things it was supposed to do, asid
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by MattRix 5y ago
One can “believe in nothing” and still have “spiritual” experiences, for example the experience of observing a beautiful sunset… or perhaps the feeling we get when acknowledging that we are made from stars and will one day return to them. Y
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by MattRix 5y ago
what does light pollution have to do with any of this?
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by MattRix 5y ago
Yep, and it’s also worth noting that the tasks get harder over the month. If someone only looked at the first few days, that would seem easy. On the other hand, the past few days from day 19 onward have been quite tricky.
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by MattRix 5y ago
Why not make it public? That’s often what leads to action being taken. I don’t see any reason to believe there’s a low likelyhood of the event occuring. And she’s not making a legal case, it’s just a tweet. The lack of evidence in her tweet
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by MattRix 5y ago
The word isn’t toxic, the behaviour is toxic. It’s easy to say “let’s not fixate on identities” when your particular identity doesn’t lead to other people treating you worse.
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by MattRix 5y ago
Mansplaining is still a useful term, and no longer just refers to the original man-explaining-to-woman scenario. A woman can also mansplain, but that’s often called “womensplaining”. The truth is that most of the time it’s still a man doing
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by MattRix 5y ago
Really? Your first reaction is that she must be making it up? This is hardly a far fetched scenario. I’m guessing she didn’t bother posting screenshots because most people wouldn’t automatically assume she is lying.
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by MattRix 5y ago
Sets like this are clearly designed for adult collectors, but they they still have lots of fun kits for kids. I’d argue that some branded sets like the Mario series are more interesting and fun than almost any sets from the past (other than
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by MattRix 5y ago
That’s the first year pricing, it goes down significantly by the third year. A larger company could potentially negotiate a discount on top of that. Each of their applications can also be subscribed to individualy as well, some for around 2
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by MattRix 5y ago
We stopped minting pennies here in Canada in 2012. Pennies are still legal tender, but cash purchases are rounded to the nearest 5 cents. I don’t think anyone here misses the pennies.
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by MattRix 5y ago
As long as you’re doing regular backups/exports I don’t see the proprietary nature as a problem. It wouldn’t be too hard to convert the data to some other format if the need arose.
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by MattRix 5y ago
Many game devs, myself included, would argue that loosely coupled code makes for messier and less performant code in most situations. It certainly becomes harder to reason about code once the execution flows through dozens of different func
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by MattRix 5y ago
It’s a completely different approach from the normal way CSS is used. With Tailwind the classes describe what it should look like directly rather than what it is. Yes, it is still accomplished using CSS, but it’s definitely not the way most
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by MattRix 5y ago
You’re missing a key fact, which is that the best way to increase profits is to have more players playing. How do you do that? By making a game that people actually enjoy playing and tell their friends about. On top of that, many games have
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by MattRix 5y ago
If you see Dune in a theatre with good enough sound and screen (ex. IMAX), it’s an incredible experience in a way a book could not be. Not saying it’s “better”, it’s just different in a fundamentally incomparable way.
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by MattRix 5y ago
Really? You can’t wrap your fingers around your thumb like that? I am not a flexible person and I can do it easily. It’s the same thing as making a fist with your thumb inside it (not usually a good idea!).
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by MattRix 5y ago
There is nothing necessarily wrong with bias toward a specific side, unless you make the flawed assumption that the truth must be in the center.
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by MattRix 5y ago
Then why did Moderna require a billion dollars of government money?
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It’s all relative. These issues are clearly important to these people.
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by MattRix 5y ago
What’s wrong with people getting vaccinations every 6 months until Covid isn’t an issue? It only takes a few minutes, it’s hardly a big deal. I’m not sure what your Ontario stats have to do with anything.
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Of course everyone around you being vaccinated is safer and less risky for you (and for them as well). And sure there are other approaches that might be even more effective at reducing risk (like measuring antibodies), but that would also b
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by MattRix 5y ago
The way items “should” behave is up to the designer/developer. It is not a bug if it’s an intentional design decision.
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Yes of course, I wasn’t complaining that it had ads.
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I’m on mobile so I don’t have ads blocked and Jalopnik is just awful to read. There’s a giant ad every sentence or two. The modern web is a disaster.
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by MattRix 5y ago
I felt like autocorrect on regular mobile keyboards on both Android and iOS was actually slowing me down. I kept having to correct the corrections, so I turned autocorrect off a couple years ago. It ended up being way better, now I can type
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They keynotes are giant ads for their products, so of course they’re loaded with marketing hyperbole. Every company says those kinds of things about their products!
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by MattRix 5y ago
Well it’s more than just a renderer, since it also handles interaction… so I wouldn’t say it’s wrong to call it an engine, but you can just call it a framework if you want.

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