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by andrepd 25d ago
WoW needed a purchase, an expensive subscription, and a good PC. Runescape ran on a potato, was F2P, the P2P was 5$ a month, and you could get started in 2 minutes from Miniclip.
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by andrepd 25d ago
Ultima Online is one of very few games (probably Star Wars Galaxies and that's it) that actually merit the label MMORPG. It's kind of insane when you think about it, that the MMO that most closely came to fulfilling the promise of
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by andrepd 28d ago
> I enjoyed it way too much Well if you enjoyed it it's was not a waste of time! Much human endeavour (and _all_ hobbies!) are ultimately pointless. If it negatively affects other aspects of your life it's a different story tho
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by andrepd 28d ago
Countries have wildly different needs regarding monetary policy. Those interests are sometimes in conflict. When push comes to shove, unsurprisingly the powerful dictate the rules: see the 2010s Eurozone crises.
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by andrepd 28d ago
A maneauvor whereupon a foreign power allows as many people into a small enclave as already live there (literally 60k into a territory of 80k) cannot be called anything other than "invasion". When did Mexico conspire to help 60k p
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by andrepd 28d ago
> profligate Greece being "thrown out" of the euro zone. In this dark scenario Greek civil servants would get their pay rises in worthless drachma, but Greek homeowners would be left with unpayable euro mortgages That was indee
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by andrepd 1mo ago
The problem is not governments or people posting there. The problem is platforms/utilities not being treated as such.
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by andrepd 1mo ago
People _2000 years_ ago were writing books about why this is not true, but in the year 2026 there's still people saying "just give them the death penalty bro"....
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by andrepd 1mo ago
Weird thing to say when early Rust had sigils everywhere.
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by andrepd 1mo ago
> Guys who work in bike shops like to joke about bicycle-shaped objects—sure, that mass-produced hunk of metal and plastic has a seat, pedals, wheels, and handlebars, but that doesn’t mean it’s a bike. When the materials are so cheap and
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by andrepd 1mo ago
How in god's name is openrouter worth $7,000,000,000? Can somebody explain to me, or is everything to do with AI just astronomically overvalued these days.
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by andrepd 1mo ago
Posit arithmetic requires not only sin(x), but also sin(2πx), correctly rounded that is. I wish IEEE floats had that as well. https://posithub.org/docs/posit_standard-2.pdf
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by andrepd 1mo ago
In what possible conceivable way is single-payer healthcare in any way related to any of that tripe? Seriously, what an atrocious post. You may begin by observing that countries in e.g. Europe with such systems are not totalitarian hellhole
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by andrepd 1mo ago
> I now have btop permanently running in a Terminal and I habitually Alt-Tab to it to watch my swap. As soon as my free memory gets less than 1 Gb I kill any Firefox tabs (the memory black hole). This is what nohang [0] does. There is no
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by andrepd 1mo ago
The only reason to buy a pixel (new or refurbished) is to run Graphene or Lineage anyway :)
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by andrepd 1mo ago
I mean, is it that much of a hassle to carry a debit card with you?
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by andrepd 2mo ago
Hard not to argue in what metric? The US has Flock cameras spreading like the plague, if we're going purely based on vibes. And the Snowden disclosures about how they spy on their own citizens on a massive scale is over a decade old at
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by andrepd 2mo ago
breadth, depth and nuance If ever there were three adjectives which do NOT apply to generative AI...
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by andrepd 2mo ago
The conclusion you should draw from this is therefore "GDP is a shit metric for measuring anything and even worse as a target".
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by andrepd 2mo ago
In what sense are movies a "luxury market" and in what sense have they not been "commoditised" (as per your definition) for 100 years...? Seriously, your answer to a conversation about an economy that squeezes the middle
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by andrepd 2mo ago
It's silly to say that "Europe" has substantially different working hours for the majority of the population, compared to the US. Grindset hustle sigma influencers are an outlier of course.
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by andrepd 2mo ago
One would think that self-proclaimed "conservatives" would like to conserve the natural world... Long gone are the days of Teddy Roosevelt that's for sure.
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by andrepd 2mo ago
Nuclear reactors are a notoriously clean and safe method of electricity generation.
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by andrepd 2mo ago
In other words: everything to do with economics is worse and everything to do with the inexorable march of progress is better. Yeah sorry but no shit. Technology has progressed since grandpa's day. "TVs are better and cheaper&quot
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by andrepd 2mo ago
Never get high on your own supply, says the dope peddler.
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AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late(annas-archive.gl)
6 points by andrepd 2mo ago|0 comments
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by andrepd 2mo ago
What do you mean snap feature? Can you explain?
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by andrepd 2mo ago
On a casino? Play good poker and go for a low rake. Playing the house is always negative EV, by definition.
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by andrepd 2mo ago
Thanks for your thoughts, but how is this is anyway relevant to the issue at hand? I'm sad that this is the top comment...
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by andrepd 2mo ago
Rare or not, destroying books is in itself a morally repugnant act. I don't know man, it's not so long ago we used to view nazi book burnings as an archetype of evil. Today companies are offering book-burning-as-a-service and it h

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