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by b0rsuk 6y ago
I finished most of Terror From The Deep (until the tasoth medic/commander bug) without realizing you can shoot at targets spotted by other aquanauts.
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
Older books, especially novels, often had illustrations. An illustration naturally causes the reader to pause and consider a situation.
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> If you want to learn from a book, you have to play a more active role. I have a mind-blowing insight for you. African tribes have figured this out. The way they teach history is by re-enacting events from myth and history. Those "
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
A book is an inherently introverted medium. I think that's the crux of the issue. Please leave books alone. Extroverts have other options: social media, movies, telephones. I'd rate TV and radio as neutral.
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
One of the authors of "The Pragmatic Programmer" was also a woodworker.
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Seems like Steve Jobs is the modern equivalent of a saint in US.
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
Why not make the compiler issue deprecation warnings and provide a few complimentary, specialized range types? It sounds like it needs to be broken down.
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
Phoenix Point was a game I cared about a lot. Then one day, they announced they would not be making a Linux version. Not long after they announced it will be Epic exclusive for a year.
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
Does anyone know a (ML-based) recommendation system for video games? I've never heard of one, except perhaps Steam?
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
The "smile or die" mentality propagated by sites like FB, where you only have likes but no dislikes, is throwing half the information away. I think it stems from a misguided desire to avoid adversity.
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
This reminds me of the book "Eat That Frog" by Brian Tracy, which recommends doing the least pleasant but important task in the morning. His rationale is that it 1) makes you stop thinking about the dreaded task because it's
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
Seems like people instinctively associate status with having control over other people. Maybe engineers could fight back by calling their programs cute names or putting hats on servers? Cloud computing is not helping though.
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
I've heard a better analogy - security by obscurity is like camouflage on a tank. A tank has massive armor and a terrifying gun to defend itself with. But even a half-assed camouflage can delay enemy reaction by a few seconds. Sometime
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
I'm not surprised at all - it turns out Polish is one of the hardest languages to master. Norman Davies, a British historian fascinated by Central/Eastern Europe with a particular interest in Poland makes a couple of errors per se
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I live in Europe. China is often hard to understand and seen as a monolithic block. In Poland if something doesn't make any sense it's common to say "it's Chinese to me". The language, especially the characters, is
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
I'm getting the impression that Elixir is Erlang in Ruby's clothing, a bit like Rust is (functional language) in C's clothing. Does that sound fair?
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Yess!! I'm probably going to be disappointed by this one, but I'm cautiously optimistic. Definitely the best 2020 news so far. HeXeN was one of most thrilling games of my childhood. It left a big impression on me. I even made a pr
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
Also: Polish spoken in Poland vs the one by Poles in Siberia. About a million was exiled by Soviets to Siberia alone, not counting other remote parts of Soviet Union.
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He's completely right about hero worship. The article is titled "Bullfrog after Populous", but it leaves an impression Bullfrog was one person. Literally not a single other employee is mentioned by name! There are around 36 p
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
Yeah, the combat was pretty much an afterthought. They didn't even bother to rework it in the sequel, they just added a token nuisance in the form of monster dropping stun.
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
Blind and walk into objects to avoid suspicion - this has pretty much been done in Spy Party. One person plays as a sniper, another as a randomly chosen character in a party who is, in fact, a spy. The spy must accomplish a couple of object
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
Minigun was the default weapon from somewhere around mid game. Some levels had enemy snipers. The last level had gauss gun enemies. That's it as far as level variety goes in that game.
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
Why everyone keeps glossing over the sequel, Magic Carpet 2? It's not the most innovative game ever, but it's very solid, and adds a lot of content in the form of monsters, spells, and spell upgrades via experience. The single pla
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
You may also want to check out Magic: the Gathering. On a high level, Master of Magic is a quite derivative game, being a clone of Civilization and ripping off MtG's spell system, especially the color wheel. But it stumbled into accide
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They made swiss army knives look disposable! Congrats!
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Or sinuses! An Annoying Quirk Of Our Evolution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSSmJLb468k But what I meant is that according to the theory of evolution, individuals with disadvantageous traits reproduce less often. If they
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
I remember reading an article like that. Also, it's a bit of a meme that if depression was 100% harmful then it would already be eliminated by evolution. I mean why shouldn't people prone to depression die off? Don't make a m
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
People associated with alt-right say this is because women have built-in hypergamy and only ever trade up partners. According to this line of thinking, a woman would rather share a top male and be a part of a harem than have an average man
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I also think this shouldn't be flagged. What I personally dislike on sites like this is that anonymous downvoting often works like anonymous ostracism. Many times when some of my comments are downvoted I would at least like to know wh
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
You're employing the tactic of "poisoning the well", which is a pre-emptive personal attack. Many programmers are introverts, and you calling them antisocial basement dwelling nerds is just a hostile stereotype. There is no w

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