an-honest-moose

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by an-honest-moose 6mo ago
A lot of graphics APIs do actually reverse the y-coordinate for historical reasons.
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by an-honest-moose 7mo ago
>You can't copyright the alphabet. You're not paying to use the alphabet, there are plenty of perfectly legible typefaces that are completely free for you to use.
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by an-honest-moose 9mo ago
In the US at least, your county should have an assessor that's responsible for tracking property values for tax purposes. How accessible the data is probably going to vary from county to county, and there's no common API for that
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by an-honest-moose 11mo ago
I suspect "Kafkaesque" is being used to refer to the healthcare system, which is what the GoFundMe was originally for.
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by an-honest-moose 1y ago
There are 2 to 5 orders of magnitude difference in intensity. That alone is a pretty big difference.
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by an-honest-moose 1y ago
It's about how they're applying that creativity, not the creativity itself.
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by an-honest-moose 2y ago
>They are primarily cultural, education is their main focus That's...a new one. Are you sure you're talking about the same Hamas, aka the Islamic Resistance Movement? The one that, as of their 2017 charter, declares that &quo
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by an-honest-moose 2y ago
People heard the AI spiel and lost interest.
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by an-honest-moose 2y ago
That doesn't necessarily follow - the universe can be infinite in size, but contain a finite amount of matter.
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by an-honest-moose 3y ago
It's not about not wanting to die. It's about death being inevitable. Everything dies, or breaks down, or decays. That's just how the universe works. The best you'll get is extended life, and that's never going t
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by an-honest-moose 4y ago
And Minecraft blows all of them out of the water. That's not the point here. The point is that Dwarf Fortress has been a labor of love for two decades and it's nice to see these guys get some solid financial security for all tha
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by an-honest-moose 4y ago
The only reason the footgun is there is because vim put it there. Seems reasonable to me to be frustrated by that.
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by an-honest-moose 4y ago
Mechadon( https://battlebots.fandom.com/wiki/Mechadon ) is probably the best you're going to get. The problem with legs is that they're relatively slow, complicated, and difficult to protect when compared to w
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by an-honest-moose 4y ago
That is an incredibly dismissive and reductive argument to make. "Feeling sad about your job" isn't limited to burnt out software engineers with a safety net. It can also apply to, for example, someone stuck in a shitty, lo
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by an-honest-moose 4y ago
There's nothing about consciousness that even suggests that it might break causality - it's as bound by causality as everything else.
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by an-honest-moose 8y ago
Is silently making people disappear really that much better?
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by an-honest-moose 8y ago
I don't think it goes very far to reassure me that a response is copy/pasted or machine-written. My name could be as easily pulled from a database as from someone's memory.
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by an-honest-moose 10y ago
By that logic you could argue that software is inherently open source.