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by Vvector 3y ago
A funny story about Seven Cities of Gold. My friend and I both had a copy, no manual. The "food" counter showed how many days left before starvation. I was a calculated number based on how many soldiers and food units you had.
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by Vvector 3y ago
When you are at the office, who watches your kids? I had a few coworkers that skipped out on daycare when they worked from home. Then they complained about being interrupted all the time by their kids. IMO, there is nothing wrong with putt
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by Vvector 3y ago
Did you really expect ChatGPT to be a full blown dungeon master?
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by Vvector 3y ago
Here is more nonsense shadows by AI. Oops, not AI, but famous paintings by famous artists. https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-art-of-the-shadow-how...
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by Vvector 3y ago
Five is right out.
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by Vvector 3y ago
Joining a table on a column without an index will require a linear scan of the column. You almost always want an index on JOIN columns
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by Vvector 3y ago
I remember Archon being in the same type box.
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by Vvector 3y ago
C64 supported 4 players out of the box as well. Two joysticks, which were hotseated for each players turn. And two of the users used the keyboard for the auction phase. It worked well enough.
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by Vvector 3y ago
My favorite tactic was to monopolize SmithOre, and then buy/release all the MULEs so everyone after me couldn't build anything. Apparently a need for MULEs causes SmithOre to skyrocket.
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by Vvector 3y ago
> Fact remains, 90% of teachers can't afford buying a house with their current salary and market conditions. Is that any different than general population today? Most people cannot afford to buy a house in today's market.
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by Vvector 3y ago
Maybe the USPS? No way I'd trust them
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by Vvector 3y ago
There is confusion between "commute time" before and after my shift and "driving time" required between deliveries or job sites.
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by Vvector 3y ago
I park on the street in one of the spots in front of Antigua Coffee and Planned Parenthood. Google doesn't know if I am getting a coffee or an abortion, or maybe both. What specifically should Google software do? This isn't a co
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by Vvector 3y ago
Many stolen cars are transported out of the country
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by Vvector 3y ago
He means the standard residential circuit (like you would plug a PC or TV into) is typically 15 amps. Larger appliances, like an AC, are dedicated circuits, usually at a higher amperage. It's not uncommon for AC to be on 30A or 60A
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by Vvector 3y ago
> In my experience it was almost always a matter of the hardware being stretched way past its limits. I find this hard to believe. An Intel 486 from 30+ years ago could run Doom full screen with nearly instant key press response. A 650
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by Vvector 3y ago
That works 99% of the time. But that one unscrupulous company sells your email to their "partners" and now you have to block dozens of domains.
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by Vvector 3y ago
30k±1 = 6x±1 where x = 5k and so on. Why use four formulas when one will suffice?
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by Vvector 3y ago
My apologies, what does FF and FR stand for?
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by Vvector 4y ago
cost =/= price
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by Vvector 4y ago
"stranded" is a weird adjective to use for a tree.
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by Vvector 4y ago
It's not designed to work in those houses. It's specifically designed for homes with ducts. "The most common heating system in the US is a natural gas furnace connected to ductwork, with the hot air ultimately coming out of
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by Vvector 4y ago
Sometimes the title is changed to match the title of the linked post, per HN rules. This can make it look like the post gone. It's still there, just named differently.
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by Vvector 4y ago
> It’s completely unreliable because it sounds confident and plausible even when it’s wrong. That applies to my boss, college professors, Wikipedia, or my neighbor after a couple of beers. It's not designed to give the correct medi
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by Vvector 4y ago
Microsoft makes dozens of "really bad moves" every year. This is nothing.
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by Vvector 4y ago
Launching new processes and building fabs for them is expensive and very risky. Pre-selling the output helps mitigate some of those concerns.
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by Vvector 4y ago
"...humans are so confident that our models of reality are correct..." Dark Matter is just a hypotheses to explain our current observations. Future discoveries may back up dark matter, or point towards something different. This
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by Vvector 4y ago
- Minecraft was solo in the early days - Dwarf Fortress - Stardew Valley - going way back, Tetris
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by Vvector 4y ago
My domain is firstnamelastname.me.
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by Vvector 4y ago
"You need a minimum 3 phase 480v electrical source to charge even a small battery in under an hour. We are talking 150-200Kw?" The Tesla 3 Long Range AWD has a 76 kWh battery with a range of 358 miles (576 km). The average Europe

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