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by aasasd 5y ago
Doesn't UE have a history of showing capabilities in tech demos that turn out to not be or not be used in games?
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by aasasd 5y ago
> Duncan then flew to Ecuador to meet President Lenín Moreno in order to “say thank you” for handing over Assange. Duncan reported he gave Moreno “a beautiful porcelain plate from the Buckingham Palace gift shop.” Guess I should stock
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by aasasd 5y ago
Hmm, weird about the branding in Greece, since afaik you haven't had a sudden-ish disappearance of an Iron Curtain with a resulting influx of Western culture. But I guess that globalism-aka-Americanism is more widespread than just our
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by aasasd 5y ago
> coincides with declining economic opportunities and massive political instability If you mean the US (as per $DEFAULT_COUNTRY), it's kinda hilarious to see that you call this ‘massive political instability’.
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by aasasd 5y ago
Well, I think I can tell you exactly what FB's response to the letter will be. It's this:
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by aasasd 5y ago
In Russian, the amount to which words were assimilated has also changed depending on which foreign language was in vogue at the time, and to what extent. In the past, pronunciations of English borrowed words became closer to Russian standar
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by aasasd 5y ago
> If there is such a stigma with "mental health", why do people not use a different term for it, e.g., "emotional health"? That's called ‘euphemism treadmill’: newly invented euphemisms will soon be hijacked fo
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by aasasd 5y ago
Last.fm are perhaps the most successful discovery-mainly service. They had a ‘radio’ thing with a licensed catalog, but apparently finally dropped it in 2014. Otherwise, they are somehow chugging along for almost twenty years. However, I do
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by aasasd 5y ago
Feels kinda weird to mentally put myself in the position of Zuck the billionaire robot, but the letter does read like a counter-example from Dale Carnegie's books. The words ‘profit’ or ‘revenue’ aren't mentioned once—instead it&#
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by aasasd 5y ago
It is, the gggp comment is mistaken in saying that—I think the author is just not too familiar with English terminology for this.
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by aasasd 5y ago
Pretty sure you're asking whether the name shouldn't be in the nominative case instead. The answer is, basically any word is inflected in Russian, with some exceptions where the dative case can be identical to the nominative—and e
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by aasasd 5y ago
Aside from the general crankery of this musing, you realize that us being able to discover FTL travel would depend on the underlying physics being simulated deeply and accurately enough in the first place, and probably with some headroom?
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by aasasd 5y ago
Finally a post in which I understand absolutely nothing, with the feeble exception of the word ‘warp’. I can lay off all pretense, skip the attempt to incorporate this into my model of the world, and blissfully skate right past.
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by aasasd 5y ago
Note that the issue is about blocking of the Tor project site , which is not directly correlated to blocking of connections to the Tor network. However, local news sites have already reported that connections indeed fail: e.g. https:&#x2F
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by aasasd 5y ago
Any proxy services that don't implement RKN's filtering rules are already forbidden for a couple years at least (iirc). There's no need for express banning of Tor.
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by aasasd 5y ago
There's also the podcast ‘No Such Thing as a Fish’, by four of the writers of QI. It's a mix of trivia and buffoonery—pretty much like the TV show, just with a more small-room feel.
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by aasasd 5y ago
I mean, there are some games from back in the day that are said to be pretty good, e.g. ‘Myst’ (still haven't gotten around to it). Text adventures seem to attract authors with some ability: for example, ‘The Hitchhiker's Guide to
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by aasasd 5y ago
Meta: kinda weird and funny that HN discussions on entertainment fall apart so quickly. It seems, though, that people are so excited by having a thread on it at all, that they brain-dump the first thing that comes to mind, even if it's
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by aasasd 5y ago
So, on 40% of appeals, reviews confirm the bogus claims, and it sounds like Youtube is proud of this. Here we pretty much have the figure at which Youtube says “good enough”.
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by aasasd 5y ago
TIL the original book was published in '64—kinda surprised to learn that, because by that time experiments with mediums were already quite widespread, particularly in literature (afaik): e.g. Principia Discordia, ‘published’ in '6
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by aasasd 5y ago
Stepping just a little beyond regular ‘loop and filter’ is already difficult without consulting the manual each time — being exacerbated by the impossibility of finding those things in the manual without skimming through most of it. Making
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by aasasd 5y ago
From the title, I kinda expected a simulation of ‘full’-color vision for people with color vision loss.
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by aasasd 5y ago
Turns out I can cross out a todo item off my list, because I wanted to make exactly the same thing. Now, to find a query tool with a saner language than Jq...
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by aasasd 5y ago
To elaborate a bit on the difference: many of the ‘weird’ books mentioned here play with the form and the sequence, i.e. they tie the medium into their weirdness—and thus depend on it. The reader is presented with a complex piece, through w
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by aasasd 5y ago
Those tricks are kinda obvious and have been around since the sixties at the least, in various combinations. See e.g. Principia Discordia, or Infinite Jest for footnotes. By the 2000s, this stuff was in popular magazines on videogames, spec
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by aasasd 5y ago
This looks new-ish, but I remember seeing something about OSX on KVM years ago. The author's name seems familiar for some reason, however. Found it, the same repo linked in August 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item
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by aasasd 5y ago
A better way to enjoy that is with a soundtrack by Gas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvG-jqGsWSk
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by aasasd 5y ago
FF might have a setting on ‘about:config’ for whether to open links in tabs or windows. But off-hand I only know for certain about the one for links from other apps.
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by aasasd 5y ago
Why would an IDE have a separate process for another window? At least, Idea does it right (iirc). As for FF, I have 47 windows opened, but 11 processes running—one of which is a ‘master’ process. Meanwhile tabs that are in one window can st
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by aasasd 5y ago
I'm upvoting this solely for the reason that I want more comments on HN similarly deliver aesthetic pleasure. (Also let me guess, one of your favorite authors is called DFW.)

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