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by astrobe_ 6y ago
I think both are instances of Goodhart-Campbell-Strathern's law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
Yes, the diversity can be overwhelming. The cloak factory is said to be a solid choice for beginners. From there, you can venture in other flavors of "bot" factories, like shield bots and jump bots. Then you can experiment with th
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
You are describing a different Zero-K than I know. In the ZK I know switching to another factory is a late game thing, not something after you get a few builders for you first factory. Also each factory has mid-tier and high-tier units with
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
Total annihilation took a completely different approach of having factories instead of races. I only know TA-like games through Zero-K, but factories introduce a lot of diversity and perhaps less imbalance risks because players always have
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
Without the "getter syntactic sugar": let lea = { name:"Lea verou", getId:function() { return this.name.toLowerCase().replace(/\W+/g, "-");} }; lea.getId() // lea-v
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
Most of this, plus USB-serial adapters (I've heard that PCs with native serial ports are now considered "professional" equipment), plus some more exotic ones. A decade ago I used to use port switching boxes and to assemble ad
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
Yes, it can be really counter-productive if done wrong. You have to do everything possible to reach a stage where a firmware update is possible. Only after that you can kick the reset line when you're unhappy.
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
I have this book written by a sociologist in 2019 that has been living over thirty years in Japan. The title is (translated) "Chronicle of an ordinary Japan". With this book you understand better how NYT could fall for the "w
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
Oh, really. Like, for instance, the Japanese polytheism is a "superficial difference" with the European monotheism? I don't think so. If it was all superficial, it wouldn't be called "culture" and we would not
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
> And for other stuff, people would need to pay for it with their taxes. Automation benefits cities as well, you know. For instance computers probably drastically reduces the number of manual processing of paperwork. That's tax mone
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
This is true but some of the technology needs to be done only once - the same way you only need to make a firmware once and sell thousands of devices. So a farmer today by him- or herself alone, does feed a lot more people than two centurie
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
AFAICT PeerTube offers video sharing. This one allows live streaming.
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
I think it's good advice because by doing that, you may discover that your hammer can do more than you think.
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
That's sometimes called language idiosyncrasies.
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
I've just realized I was trying to imagine, image-in your experience, oh the irony...
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
From introspection alone, I think that people that rarely feel lonely are that way because they have a richer imagination or "inner world". Does your aphantasia prevent you from day-dreaming, for instance? I would be curious to kn
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
Yellow vest started with this, but is not just this. The subject was the tip of an iceberg, this iceberg being that a whole working class barely makes a living. France is a welfare state, but we still have 10%-15% of people hit by poverty.
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
Yes, and the inventor of the language eventually removed ELSE from his dialects, amusingly. These days he says that his code has very few conditional statements. I think the tactic strategy to achieve this is to confine conditional branches
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
Depending on your needs, the Windows port of Busybox might do the trick. Personally, I don't like the shell that much. As others pointed out, it is a consistency-lacking set of programs that often do only trivial tasks (by design). A p
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
Mantraps or similar significantly slowdown the flow, which is an inconvenience. Only big buildings or plants with strict security/safety constrains invest in multiple mantraps at entrances. Anything else - or even proper poorly done ma
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
All of your indicators mean absolutely nothing if you do not measure the difficulty of the tasks submitted. Do that, then we can talk. It's like saying, "your productivity as a carpenter is how many houses you build in a year&quot
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
Buildings equipped with an access control system makes it easy to track where users are. That's even a feature ; for instance when an emergency evacuation happens (e.g. fire alarm), the system can tell you if there's still someone
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
AFAICT WebAssembly is in the continuum of HTML/CSS/JS, and is intended to "make things faster", so there is no reason to separate things that are essentially text and medias from things that are essentially programs. In
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
Also Dwarf Fortress ;-) In Minetest, Terrain is generated using Perlin noise (or Simplex noise?). Voronoy noise is used to put a landscape on top of it. The result is quite convincing. even if you use a bit crazy values for noise parameters
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
Snobbism aside, I would gladly give up on some "usability" for a passive web (basically raw HTML or even Gopher or Gemini) and a separate active web (basically a proper virtual machine perhaps like Squeak/Pharo). But as s
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
... And an aphorism: "Any social platform that becomes as popular as TV also becomes as trash as TV".
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
> I'm unable to fathom the notion that if a computer doesn't work the way people want, the answer is for people to adapt to the computer. The whole point of computers is to do things for people. If you try to do that too hard y
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
Outside of consumer electronics, the relationship between hardware and software is more tight. Customers don't just buy an electronic device, they also do want the software that's inside. Furthermore, in this context, systems ar
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
> This is exactly it - it's just genre bickering Not always. Genres and categories are useful to describe what it is like without sharing precise knowledge (i.e. finding an example that the person you talk with also knows). I don&
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
For those curious about IRDC, here are the recordings of the 2015 edition: https://www.twitch.tv/irdc_usa/videos

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