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by Vexs 10y ago
The biggest issue is it doesn't really have any mechanics beyond "catch pokemon". There's not really gameplay, short of the laughable gym battles. You can realize this after about a half hour of playing. Nintendo is sitt
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by Vexs 10y ago
Interesting possibilities- there's already examples of people having gyms on their houses and having people milling around their yards all day. There was also an "incident" where a koffing showed up at a holocaust museum- and
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by Vexs 10y ago
TBH 5$ is pretty fair pricing- average user is only going to buy one, maybe two NES ports, and serious retro buy-all-700 games people already have it all. It's only overpriced by maybe a dollar or two. But yeah, 60$ for the kit? Crike
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by Vexs 10y ago
It probably has to do with seed dropping patterns, and where light is. Fascinating stuff though.
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by Vexs 10y ago
You can see a pretty concrete example of this in forests, the trees are all densely packed, and random- and thus fall under hyperuniform. (as far as I can tell, anyway. Haven't exactly tested it, but it sure looks hyperuniform.) I&#x27
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by Vexs 10y ago
Google apps are weird. I get the sneaking feeling they just make so much money they don't give a damn about usage, and just build the way they want to- which, apparently, leads to killing apps.
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by Vexs 10y ago
Fair points- I largely don't have an issue with single-window interfaces, (see discord) but it kinda sucks to have your nice, multiwindow taken away and replaced with something much, much worse.
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by Vexs 10y ago
That's because it is. Different acid concentrations, cell walls strengths, etc lead to some apples being better suited for some things than others. Kind of like fillet vs strip, it's all the same meat, but very different, and cook
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by Vexs 10y ago
It's still primarily a "gaming" voicechat/messaging system, but the software is all there, it just needs expansion. I'd be surprised if some sort of enterprise-grade discord didn't come about.
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by Vexs 10y ago
A big thing (for me anyway) is that the overall interface becomes smaller, and allows for greater customization. I can set it up exactly how I want, and at what size, without messing about. Sure, you can do that in a single-panel applicatio
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by Vexs 10y ago
You know what I want? I want the old linux client to work. It didn't have the stupid bubbly UI bloated with ads and "big, friendly buttons" it had functional utility, separate windows, and a much more pleasant user experience
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by Vexs 10y ago
If they're serving ads based on personal information, some people might have a little embarrassment heading their way. Jokes aside, we all knew this was coming, right? It's not like your telecom isn't serving you up to the NS
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by Vexs 10y ago
This is my little deal with the devil, I know that google has loads of my data, but I know they'll do something to keep it in house, instead of selling it off to whoever. It's more profitable for google not to sell your data becau
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by Vexs 10y ago
Not really though. You already could have a USB dac plugged into your phone- heck, I have one plugged in right now. It doesn't offer audiophiles anything, and gives the average "what's the difference between a 20$ dac and 100
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by Vexs 10y ago
Given how "successful" HDCP has been, I'd give it a month or two of survivablity. And yeah, as you mentioned, anyone with basic electronics skills (or for that matter, could follow a youtube video) could simply mod their hard
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by Vexs 10y ago
Yeah, I suppose that's possible, but it doesn't make sense for the artists, the publishers, or the streaming service, who make money by having people listen to their songs.
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by Vexs 10y ago
That doesn't make sense. If you're recording off the 3.5mm jack, then you can record the output of the external dac just as well. Moving the dac out of the phone doesn't make piracy harder.
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by Vexs 10y ago
Seems like every time something becomes popular a chrome extension comes about to make it go away. Or something like cloud to butt. (which, imo, is never not funny.)
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by Vexs 10y ago
I find it useful for quick conversions, finding my phone in a dark room, and it's often easier than scrolling through my contact book.
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by Vexs 10y ago
You can do it trivially with a bit of hardware, no processing needed.
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by Vexs 10y ago
I'm curious if a heater coil gives better battery life or worse battery life in cold environments. Also, better batteries has been an issue forever. Electric cars were invented alongside the combustion car, but they didn't have go
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by Vexs 10y ago
I kinda wish there was still an option to proxy through them, with a big giant notification that all your traffic was being monitored.
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by Vexs 10y ago
I really like that they were not only upfront about this, but appear to have gotten ahead of it. Good on them. Also, RSA-4069? That's pretty damn hefty, is there even a point to using that?
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by Vexs 10y ago
You could probably set up uMatrix rules to block the video provider.
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by Vexs 10y ago
Of all the DRMS out there, steam has done the best job at preventing piracy. Why? Not because it's secure, steam drm is pretty easy to get around. But because it's just so gosh darned convenient to use, and has so many extra featu
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by Vexs 10y ago
They were probably peer-reviewed by biologists, not statisticians. Peer review is mostly just a good think and read for about a month, not a perfect analysis.
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by Vexs 10y ago
The difference is, for some reason DF bugs are amusing as hell. It's pretty freaking funny to imagine a were-elephant in a tree yelling at everything. I think part of it is that DF doesn't really have graphics. You have to imagine
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by Vexs 10y ago
A pretty good example of this is the recent opening of Fallout 4 mods to Xbox users- almost overnight mod makers were spammed pretty much everywhere with demands to stick it on xbox, do this, do that, etc. Lots of bad blood.
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by Vexs 10y ago
A lot of spam filters filter everything that's not a common, or is a very new, tld.
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by Vexs 10y ago
Plus with standard scripting languages you have to do a lot of backbone work too- load the file, parse the file, etc before you can ever get into doing any sort of computations. Plus excel is vastly easier to debug, thanks to it all being l

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