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by TuringTest 9mo ago
If you want to play the same exact title, yes. But previous versions would kick you out from playing a shared game if the owner was playing any other title in their library, and they've recently removed that behaviout.
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by TuringTest 11mo ago
Honest question, how do you discover interesting content over this protocol? Is there people building the equivalent to web directories and web rings? Or search engines? What are the cultural expectations on navigating other people's p
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by TuringTest 11mo ago
Buying the wire and the pliers is not doing the thing either, but you can't do the thing if you don't have them.
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by TuringTest 11mo ago
Given that Valve are the ones who released the Orange Box , methinks the original comparison is valid
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by TuringTest 1y ago
Meanwhile, I've heard that very argument every time some official organisation makes a proposal to regulate the market to limit the dominance of some dominant players. Those distorting the market in their favour will oppose any regulat
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by TuringTest 1y ago
The article says 'abundance'. The point you make that having choices is a requisite for freedom, but truth is that freedom comes from meaningful choices, not an abundance of them. You have a myriad of artificially created choices
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by TuringTest 1y ago
I think one important point in the article is being unnoticed: these special highlights would not be the default for reading code, but specific tools that the developer can turn on and off for when their use case is needed. So, not much dif
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by TuringTest 1y ago
If they need to be signed by Google, that's not side loading by definition; it's using an alternate Google channel.
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by TuringTest 1y ago
Open-source has many technical advantages over closed-source, in addition to the moral ones (which are quite powerful themselves). Being able to inspect the software you use makes you able to trust house it works, and fix it at points where
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by TuringTest 1y ago
It took several environment-changing events to get our unique kind of intelligence; mammals had to thrive in place of saurs; and then, Africa needed to be split by the Rift and to create the dry savannah. This forced some apes to climb down
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by TuringTest 1y ago
Surely the 'solving' part of CSPs may be obscure, but the basic concept can be readily explained with the metaphor of crosswords and sudoku (both are very direct instances of CSPs); there's not much obscurity to that. In fac
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by TuringTest 1y ago
I prefer the name given in mathematical optimization, which is Constraints Satisfaction Problems; instead of using an imprecise physics metaphor, it gets a descriptive logical term of what's going on. In CSPs, each cell is a 'deci
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by TuringTest 1y ago
You can skip to the "The Four-Day Process" at the end to get the gist. But for people living in an organisation suffering from those problems, reading how other solutions were tried and how they failed is valuable, and it puts thi
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by TuringTest 1y ago
> That is, numbers were specifically used to abstract over how other things behave using simple and strict rules. No? Agree that math is built on language. But math is not any specific set of abstractions; time and again mathematicians h
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by TuringTest 1y ago
> My understanding was that mathematics was abstract from the very beginning. It wasn't; but that's a common misunderstanding from hundreds of centuries of common practice. So, how has maths gotten so abstract? Easy, it has be
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by TuringTest 1y ago
There is a simple criteria for ordering file names: treat sequences of characters as alphabetical, and sequences of digits as numbers. It's easy to understand and predictable; it just happens to not be based on ASCII character codes, w
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by TuringTest 1y ago
Lexicographic order is great when you need an unambiguous criterion that will work the same in every implementation; but you only need that for automated processing, i.e. for coding. For user-facing presentation, having 5.9.xxx before 5.10.
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by TuringTest 1y ago
> should non-draggable elements in native apps be selectable? Definitely yes. I hate it when I see an error message or a button label and I can't select the text to copy it for searching comments for it on the web.
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by TuringTest 1y ago
The essential case where it makes sense for text to be non-selectable is on objects that can be dragged around. You definitely don't want to get the text selected when the user wanted to move its container. Typically application tabs c
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by TuringTest 1y ago
Sure, and you could program all your code in punch cards to not depend on those fancy new video screens. Double plus if you codify it in assembler so that you don't depend on compilers.
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by TuringTest 1y ago
If you have to handle specific behavior for the new method in an existing type, of course you will need to add a new implementation of the method for that type. As I understand the Expression problem, the limitation of programming languages
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by TuringTest 1y ago
I'm thinking, didn't inheritance and abstract methods work to solve the problem? I know inheritance has its own severe problems, but adding a generic abstract method at the base class could create reusable code that can be accesse
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by TuringTest 1y ago
> Until you lose access to the LLM and find your ability has atrophied to the point you have to look up the simplest of keywords. You can locally run pretty decent coding models such as Qwen3 Coder in a RTX 4090 GPU through LM Studio or
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by TuringTest 1y ago
Rationalism is overrated anyway. All rational thought depends on its axioms/premises, and there's no rational way to define a new axiom - by definition they are asserted from scratch, so you need to depend on gut feeling to choose
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by TuringTest 1y ago
Wouldn't an app like this stop working after a few uses? As I understand, the protocol penalizes users that don't contribute to the upstream, although I never checked the details. Or do this kind of app keep changing the identity
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by TuringTest 1y ago
> She asked for a “spicy” image and she got exactly that. But, but, what it just she wanted to see her in a Spice Girls costume??
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by TuringTest 1y ago
> Basically if the higher percent is due to less desktops overall instead of a major uptick in Linux desktops, it is not really much to celebrate. So, the true meaning of the "Year of the Linux Desktop" was that in the end ther
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by TuringTest 1y ago
I've always wondered why this capability (detecting repetitive patterns and offering an auto-complete option to apply it to the whole collection) is not more pervasive. It's a very good interaction pattern, it would be more and mo
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by TuringTest 1y ago
Back in the ancient era of the mainframes, this "multitenancy" concept would have been called "time sharing". It looks like everything old is new again.
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by TuringTest 1y ago
True, but the religion of the Singularity that fueled this round of financing was premised on this improvement growing exponentially fast, thanks to the support provided by the current version of AI tools. There's no sign this will hap

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