amonon

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by amonon 2y ago
I believe you are correct; OD&D is the holmes/moldvay/etc. books that existed before AD&D, but I'm not certain.
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by amonon 2y ago
What's the value of something like Athlytic/Whoops against just sticking to a routine?
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by amonon 2y ago
Here is my perspective: Ultimately, we are creatures with complicated social lives. Friendship is not transitive and there are a variety of reasons why two people won't get along, and the fact that you are friends with both of those pe
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by amonon 2y ago
depending on your personality this is a recipe for enlightenment or neuroses
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by amonon 2y ago
I would not but I think the general public is not against the idea. Most people interact with social media on a daily basis, for example, and it certainly has a strong effect on users thought process.
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by amonon 2y ago
I should read it again in light of that. I did find that Stross's early work (Accelerando, Singularity Sky, Iron Sunrise, Colder War) heavily influenced my worldview and path in life. I haven't touched Accelerando in over a decade
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by amonon 2y ago
How do you handle the discovery/relevance issue in a documentation base that is already several years old?
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by amonon 2y ago
The gradients shown are "pretty". I've done some minor experiments generating gradients before and usually arrive at generated colors approaching a muddy brown or a beige grey. Did you take any steps to avoid this?
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by amonon 2y ago
Love this! Most of the visual code I have come across is geometric so this is a nice change of pace.
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by amonon 2y ago
The United Stated Digital Service is pushing for more government software to be open source[1]. I have no idea how effective it is, but it made me happy to see [1] https://playbook.usds.gov/ ctrl+f "Default to open&quo
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by amonon 2y ago
Tangentially, it's interesting how exposure to different social media streams can substantially alter your gut feeling on topics. I am, and have always been, pro GMO. To my mind, drought tolerant wheat seems like an unequivocally good
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by amonon 2y ago
I am uniformed on this, but those industries likely take time to scale up. A large scale desalination plant requires a significant amount of infrastructure.
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by amonon 2y ago
I broadly agree with you. Constraints give rise to creativity.
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by amonon 2y ago
If you are interested in disaster psychology and planning like this, you might also enjoy "The Unthinkable" by Amanda Ripley. It covers several notable disasters and the environment that shaped them. It gives advice on the psychol
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by amonon 2y ago
Yes, this is the case. I cannot remember the details, but the OS makes applications aware that location mocking is turned on.
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by amonon 2y ago
>Given all the other variables that introduce a bunch of noise to the player movement data, I doubt you could ever determine any useful predictive pattern. Predicting a winner will be difficult but I would not be surprised if you could l