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by b0rsuk 7y ago
A surprising twist: social media invades meatspace. I go to a board gaming club once a week. It used to be reasonably easy to find someone to play with, but nowadays: 1. all groups are already formed the moment the club opens (one per board
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
Doesn't active suspension need to be powered itself? I skimmed the article, and the main advantage they cite is more efficient energy use. That may be gone if you have to spend extra energy elsewhere.
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
I actually don't mean this as a joke. This would increase the initial learning curve a bit, but then you would be able to press 3 keys to: [P]lanes [A]ttack [T]anks [T]anks [C]rush [I]nfantry [I]nfantry [M]ove Co[v]er A[r]tillery [A]tt
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
I just came up with a 5th: - RTS games work poorly on consoles. They need a precise input device.
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
Am I the only person missing the old C&C style games, before Generals? I'm not saying C&C:Generals was a bad game - it was quite popular - but from design point of view it was a Starcraft clone. They abandoned the old, quirky D
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
I think it boils down to four things: - RTS games, since the first C&C, used an interface for selecting rectangles and pointing them at a single target. It scales extremely poorly. Innovations in this area have failed to catch on. Keybo
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
I'm not impressed. Philip K. Dick next to Stanisław Lem. The two lived in the same period, and there's a funny anecdote about them (Philip believed Stanisław was invented by communists to trick him, because no single person could
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
Obligatory reading: The Revenge of the Circulating Fan https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2014/09/circulating-fans-air...
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
Because it's one of the very few cases where class inheritance is an elegant solution.
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
I agree. State-enforced Monday-Friday is just bad. In Poland they pretend it's about the employees, while in reality it's the government throwing a bone to the Church. Polish Church is heavily engaged in politics. But to limit emp
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
Working as a programmer, I already started de facto shortening my shifts without cheating on my employer: on 7th, and especially 8th hour, I don't write new code anymore unless it's in places I have very solid understanding of. My
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
Right in the first sentence the article equates cellphones with smartphones. Manipulation.
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
Yup, tried that until boss yelled at me. You can say any estimate that's low enough, or you'll get a stern "that's too long", or even "bullshit". After boss left my 3 team members piled on me to make the e
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
Over the course of the year I worked here, boss went from "yeah we'll eventually get unit tests, they will finally realize..." to downplaying my effort and difficulties, playing the authority card (programmer for 20 years), v
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
Thanks, but we do have sprints and bi-weekly progress meetings and are ostensibly working using agile. I have my opinion on my boss and the whole situation, but I'm under a heavy reality distortion field and wanted an outsider perspect
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
That's true as long as the people are not being bullied. In my case, I estimated something I barely worked on in an area of code I barely knew to take 2 weeks. When the boss left, the remaining 3 people kept telling me to estimate it t
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
FYI I politely asked him, and he snapped ~ "foolhardy" (not directly translatable).
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
I do own the book. Only the issue here is, strictly Jira-oriented programming. You only ever modify lines that fall into your ticket. You don't lint, don't remove trailing spaces, insert missing semicolons. You DO.NOT.CLEAN.UP. It
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
We talked to him, and no. We won't be allowed.
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How fair do you think time estimate within 30% is? Plus/minus 20% if over 3 days
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
It wouldn't even have to be every hive, just every second or even third. Enough to point to the thief and arrest him. Unless we're talking about thieves which only steal one hive at a time. I also doubt they're selling thos
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by b0rsuk 8y ago
Sounds like a title of a parody horror movie!
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by b0rsuk 8y ago
And I think it's hard to blame me for this because where I live there are very few Muslims. Muslims, homosexuals etc are always something you read about, not people you can distinguish on a street. They're afraid to identify openl
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by b0rsuk 8y ago
Around here there are tons of image memes about vegans and anti-vaxers. On websites that are mostly associated with the more liberal side. Apparently not. I guess it's just a desire to unite by having a common enemy or at least a targe
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by b0rsuk 8y ago
This is what I have problem with too. I dislike most forms of dogma, and dogmatic liberalism, freedom of faith, speech and so on can be toxic too. I mean too often it seems like it just makes taboos shift. The smile-or-die mentality, the ra
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by b0rsuk 8y ago
Tribal instincts are super strong, that's been proven over and over again [citation needed]. I'm afraid long-term empathy for the sake of Other can't work. It only seems to work when people still remember major disasters and
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by b0rsuk 8y ago
Parent comment is not about answer.
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by b0rsuk 8y ago
What would performance be like compared to imperative style i/o ?
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by b0rsuk 8y ago
Poland is a pretty young democracy. There are no strong democratic institutions, there isn't much faith in them and people are quite doubtful. After partitions Poland spent a few hundreds years off the map, at the time when many social
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by b0rsuk 8y ago
The two parties are not very different. Remember they were in a ruling coalition once, and a few people moved from PO to PiS after PiS came to power. Poland has no true left wing party anymore, and there are more extreme right voters to

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