Retra

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by Retra 8y ago
They've already stopped talking to you once they say they will do nothing to help you.
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by Retra 8y ago
It is a command-based line-input UI. Just because it is different in other ways doesn't mean it a comparison is unwarranted.
873.
by Retra 8y ago
The command line is great because it makes it easy to automate tasks involving multiple arbitrary applications. It's why we still use it even after GUIs basically became mandatory on all user-facing computers.
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by Retra 8y ago
Plenty of sand in the Sahara, last I checked.
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by Retra 8y ago
Surely that's a practical position to take, but as an idealist, thinking over the long term... wouldn't you rather have that extra performance in addition to a lack of security vulnerabilities? There's no fundamental trade-
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by Retra 8y ago
What's next? Politicians informing people of their stances will now be seen as "influencing the outcome of elections"; an obviously unreasonable partisan tactic. If you tell someone what they should do -- or now even ask them
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by Retra 8y ago
"Natural philosophy" was not called that because it was an emerging science. It was called that because it was different from theology in the way Russel described.
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by Retra 8y ago
Perhaps drugs are just easier? You spend 30 years learning how to be depressed, do you really want to spend another 30 learning how to unlive the last 30?
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by Retra 8y ago
I didn't say "everything is a virtualization layer". I said every problem could be solved with one, because it is a fundamental capability of computing. It's the same difference between implementing something in hardwa
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by Retra 8y ago
I'm talking about actual virtualization. Reifying objects in memory. That's completely different from abstraction, and nothing like caching. It's a process that requires interpretation or translation, and not nearly as broad
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by Retra 8y ago
>When you need undo and redo, knowing about command pattern made it easy Undo and redo are easy even if you don't know about "command pattern"s. Every computing problem can be solved using a virtualization layer, and that&
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by Retra 8y ago
What is "free?" I eat food regularly and have never had to raise animals or crops, nor harvest or butcher them. I live in a home I didn't build. I don't see how that is a tragedy. It seems like things are going pretty ea
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by Retra 8y ago
If GCC required inline assembly everywhere, it would definitely be a failure.
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by Retra 8y ago
They designed on CRTs, not for them. There's a subtle difference. Imagine I'm trying to optimize a computer program. If I do it on machine A, then I'm optimizing on A, but only for A if I pay particular attention to t
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by Retra 8y ago
I would say it is a perfect example of a story-building game. The specific details that drive the main gameplay mechanics are based on the circumstantial arrangement of procedurally generated components. Where any two players are in the wor
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by Retra 8y ago
It doesn't make a game better, it just superficially defers the realization that the game is played out. Yatzee's only claim to being a game is that you roll dice... if you didn't, people would immediately see it as the point
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by Retra 8y ago
It works like gambling. You play the game 100 times and you just lose most of them, but on the rare occasion you get very lucky... and you walk away with an unforgettable story about how you defied all the odds and did something wonderful a
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by Retra 8y ago
I would recommend Rogue Survivor. Pixel Dungeon is an ok game, but it doesn't really encourage you to get attached to your character or environment. There's very little backtracking or foreshadowing in it, so learning the lay of t
889.
by Retra 8y ago
>The best pixel art is carefully crafted to convey the impression of an image of much higher resolution than the actual pixels. This is the kind of thing I'm arguing against. The "best" pixel art doesn't not convey wh
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by Retra 8y ago
Super Metroid is literally my favorite game, and I don't really have a strong urge to play this. Metroid is an exploration-based game. The game rewards you for finding secrets and for knowing how to get places. It teases you to find a
891.
by Retra 8y ago
A camera can't maneuver quickly or vertically, and a satellite can't be directed in real time.
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by Retra 8y ago
Was it actually designed that way, or was it a happy accident? It probably wasn't designed that way for most games in any event. That article gets cited a lot, but IMO, it doesn't actually represent the main distinguishing stylist
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by Retra 8y ago
Just make the faces buttons and have the button press signal a rotation.
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by Retra 8y ago
How soon? I don't know of any software I've written for which that could be done. The first program I ever wrote was an implementation of Tic-Tac-Toe, and I can't imagine a set of parameters to produce that which aren't
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by Retra 8y ago
It was clearly an analogy, not a literal interpretation of the facts.
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by Retra 8y ago
This is very easy to see when you consider morality to be (perhaps by definition) any process which compares competing possibilities and labels some superior to others. There is an implied morality acting under any goal, because one always
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by Retra 8y ago
I gave you the meaning of irrational that I'm using. You can cite any definition you want and demand I explain how what I said fits in the framework of definitions I never used, but that definitely doesn't seem like a reasonable o
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by Retra 8y ago
You think it is rational to feel insulted when you are told you are being irrational? What goal are you optimizing for, and how do your actions facilitate the fastest means to converge on it?
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by Retra 8y ago
Our goal is not to control evolution, it is to let people exist within the biological constraints they have.
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by Retra 8y ago
You have email, phone, and regular mail? What's not neutral about them?

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