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by ahelwer 7y ago
It did, I played it on PS3.
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by ahelwer 7y ago
So I'd heard, which is why I picked up the MGS HD collection... and was pretty disappointed. The game has aged really poorly; camera and controls were a mess, stealth gameplay was rough, story & writing were... distasteful (the gen
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by ahelwer 7y ago
Ahaha. I've just heard II has a lot of ganks and not many lore connections.
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by ahelwer 7y ago
Video games have won! It's time to emerge from the defensive bunker that they must be "productive" by improving your creativity or problem solving or reflexes or whatever. They're a form of entertainment on par or even b
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by ahelwer 7y ago
Yup. I just finished putting 100 hours into Dark Souls 3. Anyone who says there aren't any quality single-player games anymore just isn't paying attention; video games are better than they've ever been. Just to list a few gre
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by ahelwer 7y ago
That's... naive. Facebook and Google are platforms for behavior modification. Their products are designed to be addictive so you spend more time on them than you really want, subjected to a barrage of tactics to get you to buy things o
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by ahelwer 7y ago
IMO if you develop a good understanding of Paxos then learn TLA+ you'll know everything you need to work on production distributed systems. Learn about CRDTs too, just to see what eventually-consistent systems look like. The real core
908.
by ahelwer 7y ago
The Tax Amazon movement also would tax Microsoft, because it's a tax on all big businesses which operate in Seattle. You struck out yet?
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by ahelwer 7y ago
You're really stuck on this desire to expose my fraudulent underlying motivations for not wanting homeless people to die in the streets. You'll be happy to learn far smarter people than you have taken a crack at this problem! Go r
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by ahelwer 7y ago
I donated $12.5k to Plymouth Housing (housing-first org in Seattle) last year, which was matched by Microsoft to $25k. It barely matters, voluntary individual charity won't solve structural problems. Given that half your post is now an
911.
by ahelwer 7y ago
The only viable long-term solution to homelessness is building socialized housing with integrated mental health services. The patchwork of shelters and social programs will never work. Building socialized housing requires a lot of money, an
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by ahelwer 7y ago
Only 35% of people experiencing homelessness struggle with addiction[0], so no I don't think you have. But sure, grant your premise - it's the combination! If house prices go up then people who were struggling to make rent at the
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by ahelwer 7y ago
Yes, but real estate prices have risen even faster - and helping people experiencing homelessness fundamentally requires real estate to house them.
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by ahelwer 7y ago
Yes, all effective socialized housing programs which serve the homeless have integrated mental health services. It's impossible for such treatment to be effective if people don't have a home. To restate: without housing & ment
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by ahelwer 7y ago
Let go of your desire to have something built within the past five years and your horizons broaden considerably. There are plenty of beautiful buildings just a few blocks off the Pike/Pine corridor that are perfectly comfortable &
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by ahelwer 7y ago
Yes, the rise in rent has been quite dramatic recently - and our social services have been utterly ill-prepared to handle the fallout, because of low taxes.
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by ahelwer 7y ago
You'll be happy to know we are indeed organizing! https://www.taxamazon.net/sign Perhaps one day you'll appreciate the psychopathy of telling people they should just move away from their lifelong home. Not everyo
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by ahelwer 7y ago
Yes, drug & alcohol addiction is widespread in the general non-homeless population and makes it difficult to ensure steady income. When the cost of rent rises dramatically, this means people with those issues are likely to find themselv
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by ahelwer 7y ago
Even if you want to analyze it from a psychopathic economics perspective, it still makes sense to provide socialized housing and free mental health support to people who are homeless, because there is no other way they'll become "
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by ahelwer 7y ago
Yeah, but then you lack all the benefits of the city. Downtown isn't a nice place to live, also.
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by ahelwer 7y ago
* World-class rock climbing, mountaineering, and hiking less than an hour's drive from downtown * I moved here from Canada, the weather really isn't that bad; it's been a beautiful spring here while all my Canadian friends a
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by ahelwer 7y ago
Because Seattle's a pretty great city to live in? You can still easily find rent below $1500/month for a 1 bedroom on Capitol Hill, it isn't too insane. Editing to add Seattle has world-class rock climbing, mountaineering, an
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by ahelwer 7y ago
Buridan's original problem is used here as an analogy for the problem, not really the basis.
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by ahelwer 7y ago
Yeah that makes sense. I recall 0-based actually making most index calculations easier though, as in fewer +1/-1 offsets.
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by ahelwer 7y ago
Yeah I wrote that Wikipedia article, as much as a single person can. Used the textbook Strings, Trees, and Sequences by Gusfield; it never made mention of Rytter. I wouldn't say Wikipedia is a "terrible" source, though; com
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by ahelwer 7y ago
I've implement a few string search algorithms and translating between 1- and 0- based offset functions was the source of a huge number of bugs, as you might expect. For some reason a lot of sources present the algorithms as 1-based.
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by ahelwer 7y ago
The point is the underlying domain (physical space, in the donkey parable) is continuous, and it needs to be partitioned into discrete values. The paper is about the impossibility of constructing a device which does this within a bounded am
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by ahelwer 7y ago
Used to do this when I worked at an agricultural supply company, spent many an hour in the warehouse filling consumer-sized bags of ag-grade fertilizer from a jury-rigged hopper. Probably paid my summer's salary with only a couple days
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by ahelwer 7y ago
Inability to consider higher-order or longer-term effects is more or less the hallmark of McKinsey-style thinking, which Google has now embodied with their choice of CEO.
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by ahelwer 7y ago
Did you use a similar tool to make this mixed formal/informal presentation of the squeeze theorem? https://wwwf.imperial.ac.uk/~buzzard/docs/lean/sandwich.html

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