Ntrails

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by Ntrails 6d ago
Most people I've spoken to, even players who long since ditched the game, describe food and hunger as tedium. All sorts of tedious gameplay has been targeted for a variety of reasons - but i freely concede it cost something in terms o
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by Ntrails 6d ago
I started playing (from a thread on HN) ~7 years ago. The changes are both broad and deep - devs are not afraid to rework something three times until happy with the outcome. I missed food/hunger entirely but very few players speak hi
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by Ntrails 9d ago
Yeah. I'm not sure how a strict reading doesn't end up with obvious policies ending up making all of the policies below "vote buying": - Cancel student loans - Reduce federal tax rates - Increase unemployme
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by Ntrails 12d ago
They basically only did it because the private servers had enough of a userbase that they felt obliged to get that money for themselves afaict
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by Ntrails 14d ago
In my headcanon it was all born from an experimental show (Big Brother) in around 2000 - which was obviously and intentionally stage managed but otherwise largely genuine behaviours. It took them a couple of seasons to really optimise for
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by Ntrails 22d ago
I don't think exploit is the right term? Anyway. Yes if you throw examples into training it will be able to handle the situation - but handling unseen things for me is a key goal.
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by Ntrails 22d ago
I saw the same things when the OpenAI Dota bots could eviscerate humans 1v1 - even pros lost! Until a more average player confuses the AI with an unseen behaviour (pulling creeps between the towers etc) to get an advantage.
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by Ntrails 1mo ago
> The very best paintings in the world, in person, can stop people cold. I will always remember literally stopping mid stride to just stare at a Francis Bacon I'd seen in the corner of my eye in the Tate modern. Slightly later same
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by Ntrails 1mo ago
I just request the desktop site, it's fine
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by Ntrails 1mo ago
> one of the biggest benefits of exercise is the mental growth of learning to accept being uncomfortable. I claim the same about hunger (within bounds of moderation etc etc). It's simply uncomfortable, but it's a discomfort t
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by Ntrails 1mo ago
> I'm not bothered about the contents of this latest message from the UK Government. Given the overstretched fire service and the imminent threat across most of the country, my personal opinion is that it is proportionate. I'm
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by Ntrails 1mo ago
> It really changes you, to the point that now, when I talk to childless people my age, I feel like we're fundamentally differently. As a childless person, the inverse is equally true. I have wildly different levels of obligation a
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by Ntrails 1mo ago
Depends a bit how you're trading stocks - bbg is still an extremely attractive data provider so I'd not dismiss them out of hand.
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by Ntrails 2mo ago
Having valid opinions about politics and engaging with the existing political system are not the same thing. I am super happy to chat about political questions (of all sorts) irrespective of my interest in voting. Note that when I say &quo
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by Ntrails 2mo ago
I have an iPhone SE and will hold onto it until the day they make something vaguely commensurate but better. It isn't like I would be rushing to upgrade anyway but the refusal to cater is tiresome
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by Ntrails 2mo ago
> Super bleak reading - it's a very dark rabbit hole! That it is! It will require an actual change to the societal contract to resolve as best I can tell - and it remains unclear to me what direction the change will take.
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by Ntrails 2mo ago
> In the UK, funding for libraries [] has been increasingly cut in the name of austerity. Focusing on one thing here, for convenience. The problem remains that costs are up far in excess of budgets - austerity be damned! We are forced to
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by Ntrails 2mo ago
A couple of dictionary checks suggest some set of: - Ruler who is unrestrained by law or constitution - A usurper of sovereignty - Ruler who uses power oppressively or unjustly Obviously b) is not applicable as per GP. He has also been con
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by Ntrails 2mo ago
At the risk of being dumb, wouldn't an easier solution be physical? ie have a usb stick with two actual "disks" and a an appropriately obscured physical switch to define what plugging it in actually does? Again, this isn&#x2
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by Ntrails 2mo ago
> Whenver I think my job is bad I remember that time and I'm glad for what I have. I generally suspect folks would be a lot happier if they'd had a few more crap jobs as a baseline! I think my lowest point was vacuum packing sm
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by Ntrails 2mo ago
Me and a friend had a minecraft server we'd built up over the years (hosted on my free azure msdn license credits). I lost the license along with my job and we migrated to a traditional host. Within a day or two someone had port scan
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by Ntrails 2mo ago
> Previously it was capped at 500€. So your request could cost you thousands of euros. To be clear, it is currently costing the taxpayer said thousands of Euros. Time spent by government workers on FoI requests is meaningful and not f
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by Ntrails 3mo ago
You say "entering the city" but it literally applies to people who live there. My old car would have cost me every use even if all I did was move it to respect a temporary parking restriction. It isn't about dislike, it is
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by Ntrails 3mo ago
> How is ulez unpopular? As a rule most people with a ~10 year old car which runs fine at low cost are going to be frustrated at an extra tax on their vehicle. (It is not like the manufacture of a new electric car is green.) Ordinary Peo
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by Ntrails 3mo ago
> I think it would help with making companies handle that externality. This is backwards, companies do not choose where employees live. Employees do. That they choose to live with long and unpleasant commutes (typically in exchange for
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by Ntrails 3mo ago
> I think a closer estimate is probably total annual operational costs divided by total shouts, (£18 MM / 2,000) or about £9,000 per shout. That's a more useful estimate than merely the flight costs, agree - though the fixed op
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by Ntrails 3mo ago
> Let's hope our regulations hit these "social networks" hard enough so that never dare deploy this kind of technology. You'd do as well to hope that people wake up and stop opening the damned sites
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by Ntrails 3mo ago
> an average helicopter bill was smth around $200K if I remember correctly, with spikes up to $500K. Those numbers made me blanch somewhat! Having been in a helicopter (aka Air Ambulance) in the UK, all of which operate as charities iir
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by Ntrails 3mo ago
I'd probably rather it just tell me the answer and give the option to continue :)
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by Ntrails 3mo ago
They still make and support games :)

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