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by astrobe_ 3y ago
> It's a pet peeve of mine that C people seem to think that 0 isn't a number. Or that 0 (or -1) mean infinity. It's not just C people :D - Zero may or may not be a natural number depending on who you ask, and negative nu
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
In my layman's opinion, conflict is always about territory and resources - often territories exist as the containers of certain resources. One would think (or just I imagine) that hunters/gatherers would be nomads (honestly I didn
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
I've always seen it as I/O and thought of it as In and Out - makes sense to me but English is not my native language.
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
If it's thousand, it should be a K with the metric system... But I guess 40KKK would raise some eyebrows. Yet another reason to keep imperial units.
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
Users can "vote with their feet (or wallet)"... Sometimes.
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
Yes, or for more familiar examples: coordinates and complex numbers. the "default" less-than and greater-than don't have any meaning for them; you have to define one, which may be "imperfect" (because one can't
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
No question this design is questionable and I'm glad I learned about it before falling victim of it. I read that they introduced git-switch and git-restore as a way to avoid such pitfalls. But. I once messed up badly with something els
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
That's as unfortunate as 'rm *' (and good to be aware of BTW), but doing this deliberately doesn't qualify as "normal use" for me.
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
There must be something you do terribly wrong if you believe it happened to you in normal use.
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
IIRC the robots have won against humanity, but then the robots started to fight among themselves for resources. The player is one of those robots who has some sort of amnesia. Well, this matters as much as the details of the trees in a raci
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
(GoogleFrog used to be a high-level ZK player and also part of the dev team of ZK, if I'm not mistaken.)
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
Snowballing also happens a lot in SC2, and also even in Chess. That's simply the normal way to win, even if on the other side it feels bad when you get steamrolled by overwhelming forces. Comebacks in high-level SC2 games don't us
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
If you can run SC2 you prolly can run ZK. It does uses nearly all of the 4 Gb specified in the minimal requirements, though. But if you are at minimal specs, don't think about engaging into the popular 16vs16 battles.
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
Nope. There are various levels of AI that can serve as opponents, including an AI and game mode that sends waves after waves of enemies until you kill enough of its stuff that it sends the final boss you must defeat to win the game. There&#
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
I am OK with war games as long as there's no humans or human-likes in the game. ZK's sentient robots are fine for me, contrary to something like 0 A.D. (which even has female workers - maybe I'm old school, but that's ev
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
To clarify, ZK doesn't population caps like e.g. Starcraft. The actual limit is actually the CPU/GPU (and maybe your bandwidth too). ZK's 16vs16 host, the "lobster pot" as they call it, can barely be playable if you
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
Also proprietary software often is has protections (DRM/NDA/License keys) which add their own hassle.
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
I'm more wondering about whether or not this Sqlite DB is actually a "source file", that is something that is not generated by something else, which is normally the base material for both make and Git . Obviously an SQLite
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
"Only 2" is very short-sighted, there's also Assembler, Pascal, Ada, Objective-C... One general comment: it's kind of funny to see a C library being bashed right away at V1.0. As far as I can tell, nghtpp2 isn't eve
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
But then, don't you have the problem of synchronizing the data channel and the control channel?
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
If you want a decentralized web, a "Userweb" (maybe to parallel a bit Usenet), in my view you need a BitTorrent-like protocol. You need efficient documents formats, which means formats that don't try to do everything, which m
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
Well, there's ContentSB for Minetest [1]. I admit it is a rather specific game engine, though. [1] https://content.minetest.net/packages/?type=game
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
> Your website is a guest in my house, which is to say, my machine, and I will do with it what I please. If only - but sorry, nope. Both for websites and software, the provider provides a service under conditions (or license) backed up b
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
> But I guess that’s just me rehashing what you said about reaching critical mass. Yes. But one should remember that some services that are popular today started with a very small user base. Programming languages have to start from one u
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
To me the logical conclusion of what you write is not to write yet-another-web-browser, because browsers are rotten to the core by terrible protocol designs, terrible specifications, politics, greed etc. Browsers did not spontaneously start
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
Don't tell me, my native language uses a bunch of those weird çharacters. I also know that it always eventually cause problems because there's always legacy software that doesn't handle them properly. But what really is the p
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
> value in € = 345 # valid with libconfini but invalid in TOML This is degenerate. You want a key-value format easy to pick up, and easy to edit by hand - otherwise you'd rather just use something like SQlite - in particular if y
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
Indeed. A timing problem was my first thought when I read the title which was obviously provocative, maybe that's because I deal with timing problems often so I got lucky there, but I rejected the idea, thinking the user would have not
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
I might have seen it somewhere, but probably written by a non-native as well ;-) Thanks for the correction.
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
In the early 90ies, we used to have pocket electronic chess games. I used to have myself one that was about the size of a pocket calculator (it actually was also a pocket calculator), which included a tiny board with tiny, tiny chess pieces

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