TulliusCicero

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by TulliusCicero 1mo ago
I wonder, is there something stopping Framework from having this change as the default?
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by TulliusCicero 1mo ago
I'm mostly a Windows/Android user, but one thing I appreciate about Macbooks is that the speakers are quite capable. I have a MacBook Pro from work and the speakers sound excellent, at least for a laptop.
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by TulliusCicero 2mo ago
I mean general QR code payments as opposed to QR codes on tickets. First noticed them at convenience stores, but vending machines have them too, and I think some restaurants.
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by TulliusCicero 2mo ago
The really nice advantage of Suica is its speed. Yeah credit card tap to pay is alright, but it's relatively slow, taking multiple seconds. Now QR code payment seems to be taking off in Japan, but unfortunately you can't access it
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by TulliusCicero 2mo ago
Eh, what's wrong with using Unity or Godot or GameMaker?
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by TulliusCicero 2mo ago
What's time traveling debugging?
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by TulliusCicero 2mo ago
If the game has a sufficiently large group of players then yes that's not as bad. But you'll still end up with weak players fairly consistently having a bad time.
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by TulliusCicero 2mo ago
Yeah, Hades did this with God mode and it worked very well.
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by TulliusCicero 2mo ago
People who complain about SBMM being "sweaty" are typically stronger players who want to dunk on casuals. For them, it's true that non-SBMM is sweaty, because if you're even a top 10% player, you're gonna dominate m
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by TulliusCicero 2mo ago
Exhaustive list of team-based PvP games where people don't complain about matchmaking:
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by TulliusCicero 2mo ago
I mean good PvP systems have skill based matchmaking so almost everyone is winning and losing 50/50. Though, that's harder to do if you have a small playerbase.
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by TulliusCicero 2mo ago
In the 90s, almost everyone was still bad at these games (because they were relatively new as a genre), so the skill discrepancies were smaller. I was there, I remember. When the skill gaps are smaller it's not as big of a deal to play
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by TulliusCicero 2mo ago
> Most new players did not want to get rekt for months on end while they learned the basics, however. If that's the new player experience, you done fucked up. Making sure new players actually have fun is a critical part of the game&
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by TulliusCicero 2mo ago
> which makes human-killing robots I mean, that's just defense companies in general now. Would you rather have your own soldiers dying in a war, rather than robots? Ukraine is using AI in their targeting, is that something you conde
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by TulliusCicero 2mo ago
> A new pick-up truck that once cost $40,000 now runs to $100,000. A wooden fence post has gone from about $6 to as much as $19. A quarter-mile roll of barbed wire has doubled, from $60 to $130. Everything he uses day to day, he says, ha
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by TulliusCicero 2mo ago
That's a pretty ridiculous analogy. Simply inventing something doesn't force the invention onto anyone.
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by TulliusCicero 2mo ago
> The vast majority of cases are individual; owned by myriad businesses, charities, foundations. Agreed, but the solution is more general. If you want handicapped people to have more access, that probably means widespread societal change
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by TulliusCicero 2mo ago
I'll grant you Musk being terrible, no argument there, but that's not tech companies as a whole. And California hardly needed any help to sabotage its HSR, the state's whole process for that kind of development is incredibly
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by TulliusCicero 2mo ago
So it's basically just Tesla/Musk here, when people say "tech companies"? Musk is an asshole, no argument there, but most tech company CEOs aren't nearly that crazy.
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by TulliusCicero 2mo ago
Really letting the perfect be the enemy of the good here. No, we can't let people attempt new inventions, some of which may actually help, because the mere fact that people will see them may result in less attention for more basic, imp
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by TulliusCicero 2mo ago
100% agree about the UX problems. Most engineers would be happy to fix those issues, but of course, companies always want the new features...because that's what customers want and what drives more $$$. Sadly, it's true that the %
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by TulliusCicero 2mo ago
The fact that this is or isn't happening is basically unrelated to inventing new stuff. It's almost entirely a political issue, not one of engineering.
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by TulliusCicero 2mo ago
They generally would, though for the most part I imagine they're just ambivalent here. As long as workers can get to work, that's most of what they care about.
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by TulliusCicero 2mo ago
> Many "engineer types" will gladly care about doorknobs and infrastructure details. Some will, and that's great, but as the blog post accurately points out, the invention of these things isn't the primary issue, it&#
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by TulliusCicero 2mo ago
> his argument is that these videos dissipate that support. That seems like a major stretch. Really feels like letting the perfect be the enemy of the good here, like saying that a video about improved airbags means that nobody will care
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by TulliusCicero 2mo ago
People do care, but there are so many problems in the world, and only so much caring to go around. It's extremely cynical to view it as "people pretend to care", rather than looking around and realizing there's a ton of
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by TulliusCicero 2mo ago
It's a really cynical way to attack people who are at least sort of trying to help. And obviously the inventions of "a ramp" and "slightly wider door" already exist; those aren't a matter of invention, they&#x2
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by TulliusCicero 2mo ago
Yeah, it kinda feels like a banal thing to hate on. "They're only doing this because it's easier to create a prototype invention than to redo all design standards and enforcement in the country!" I mean, yeah? What exact
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by TulliusCicero 2mo ago
While I can understand the frustration and the author makes some good points, a lot of the anger feels oddly misplaced. Yes, engineer types want to solve problems with inventions rather than overhauling the entire nation's infrastructu
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by TulliusCicero 2mo ago
...you think they've only been planning this for a couple weeks?

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