OkayPhysicist

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by OkayPhysicist 25d ago
Their donation revenue was alright for a pretty significant chunk of that time. For the first decade it was ~$5k/month, which jumped up to ~$10k/month for the second decade before the Steam release. Toady wasn't exactly rak
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by OkayPhysicist 25d ago
I pretty strongly disagree. I can see some preferring some fan art style over the official one, even if I don't. But the official gui having support for rendering all the various critters, and factoring in clothing, multi-level, etc,
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by OkayPhysicist 25d ago
Edge still doesn't have a market share as big as Chrome, even among desktop browsers. Chrome is still a behemoth at 70% of all desktop browser usage.
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by OkayPhysicist 25d ago
I can't fix society. I can, however, take a pill that lets me hold down a job long enough to not fall into crippling debt.
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by OkayPhysicist 26d ago
Historically, they did a big update every year or two. Since the Steam release, they've sped up significantly, with medium sized updates every 2-3 months.
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by OkayPhysicist 26d ago
FYI, the newer versions with their mouse-driven interface solve a lot of those issues. Dwarf Therapist (the RAM reading tool you were thinking of) isn't needed any more, because there are much better in-game tools for managing what kin
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by OkayPhysicist 26d ago
Religiously subscribing to every "cornerstone of great game design" is how you end up with the plain oatmeal of videogames. Inoffensive, bland, and easily forgotten. I, for one, hate games spoonfeeding me. Most games are unlikel
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by OkayPhysicist 26d ago
No great game is enjoyed by everyone. Your options when making a work, of any kind, are to either A) make something utterly inoffensive to the point that no one will have strong opinions about it at all or B) make a game that some people wi
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by OkayPhysicist 26d ago
I'm in a similar, but less extreme boat. The new interface has its perks, especially in terms of discoverability, but for tasks that need to be done repeatedly (request 10 beds be made before you have a manager, for example), you real
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by OkayPhysicist 26d ago
You're completely missing the point. The Fed did a fantastic job, because they could have given a pretty good estimate of that number in 1914. If you had asked someone in 1814 what a dollar would be worth in 1914, hell, 1824, they wo
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by OkayPhysicist 26d ago
By design. Having a slightly positive inflation rate gives you a cushion against deflation, which tends to cause market crashes. A currency I can be confident will lose a couple percent yearly is more useful than one that might be worth wil
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by OkayPhysicist 1mo ago
That stopped working for me on my mobile firefox (but not on my desktop) literally yesterday. It's pretty clear they're doing some kind of A/B testing.
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by OkayPhysicist 1mo ago
I volunteered with homeless youth in LA, and it can be even more practical than that. When you're homeless, you definitionally don't have somewhere secure to sleep. When you're sleeping, you're vulnerable, to theft or vi
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by OkayPhysicist 1mo ago
Libertarian views have always been relatively commonplace in the tech scene. Being a fan of Ayn Rand probably put you in the majority, but left-libertarian views were commonplace, too. Calling for ethnic cleansing is not a libertarian belie
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by OkayPhysicist 1mo ago
For restaurants, you typically tip on your card. After you're done with your meal, the server will leave a folio with the reciept. You look over the reciept, make sure it's right, and then put your card in the folio, and leave it
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by OkayPhysicist 1mo ago
Yes, I have both been a server, and regularly spend time with people who still work as servers. My whole point is that we did benefit from it, by making much fatter paychecks than we would otherwise. My price discrimination comment was admi
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by OkayPhysicist 1mo ago
A neutral tip for table service is somewhere between 15% and 25%. If you're in that range, you're not explicitly sending a signal to staff that you are exceptionally pleased or displeased. 15% might come off as a bit cheap, 25% as
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by OkayPhysicist 1mo ago
The entire point of tips is that they are the workers', 100%. It's also a variable cost based on the willingness to pay, so it creates a form of price discrimination, where those willing to spend more, spend more, those wanting to
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by OkayPhysicist 1mo ago
The after-meal ask is to see if 1) you want dessert or 2) you want your soft drink refilled or to purchase an additional alcoholic beverage. Honestly, I think the "waiters keep pestering me" perception from Europeans is heavily in
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by OkayPhysicist 1mo ago
Only with intent to defraud is it a crime in America to deface US currency. Shaving a bit of the copper off every penny you touch, to melt down and profit from? Crime. Scribbling off the 1 on a $10 bill and scribbling on a 2? Crime. Cutti
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by OkayPhysicist 1mo ago
Micronesia is, too, a country. Referring to the Federated States of Micronesia as "Micronesia" is just as legitimate as referring to the USA as "America".
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by OkayPhysicist 1mo ago
Just because someone is willing to build it doesn't mean it has to be you. We may all play some part in societies that have some degree of monstrous outcomes, but I feel like staying on the "tragic civilian casualty" side ver
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by OkayPhysicist 1mo ago
That is not how the legal system works in the US. Criminal charges are brought by the State, not the victim. The only exception is in 6 states (Kansas, New Mexico, North Dakota, Nebraska, Nevada, and Oklahoma) where a sufficiently large gro
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by OkayPhysicist 1mo ago
When I was working on my thesis, I had an appendix of annotated source code that was generated by a series of Julia macros that effectively turned my code inside out to make a LaTeX document. The custom macro-comments became the bulk of the
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by OkayPhysicist 1mo ago
I occasionally have several browsers open when doing web-dev work, to make sure everything looks right on all browsers. There was also a period of time where I got into the habit of opening netflix in Chrome, despite being a Firefox ride-or
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by OkayPhysicist 1mo ago
California base overtime schedule is 1x for 8 hours in a day, 1.5x for the next 4 hours in a day, then 2x for any time after that. Additionally, any time above 40 hrs in a workweek or on a 7th day of consecutive work in a workweek gets 1.5x
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by OkayPhysicist 1mo ago
You're conflating "written language" with "language". While it's still far from impossible to find people who can't read or write, it's exceptionally difficult to find adults with no grasp of any sp
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by OkayPhysicist 1mo ago
As someone who has a secular fascination with religion and its interplay with history, I don't think reading the Bible has the same value that the author thinks it does. Most people who get really into bible scholarship don't go r
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by OkayPhysicist 1mo ago
I was under the impression that there was a gap between Panama and Ecuador that made that trip impossible by road. How did you make that leg?
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by OkayPhysicist 1mo ago
To answer that you'd need to know what even constitutes vocal language. There's a number of languages that make extensive use of clicks and whistles that would seem to me are pretty orthogonal to the ability to pronounce, say, Eng

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