bjo590

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by bjo590 6y ago
Not every game will, and many will need some modifications, but lots of games work great on iOS, console, and PC. Stardew Valley, Darkest Dungeon, Hearthstone are some examples that have controls that do well in multiple platforms. I perso
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by bjo590 6y ago
> For game developers, between this and the ARM switch on macOS, this could be a serious death to gaming on macOS. ARM could be a boon for macOS gaming if it allows for better access to iOS titles.
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by bjo590 6y ago
Assuming ~600 man hours (your numbers) to digitize an entire used book store, at $15/hr cost for labor it would cost ~$900 to digitize a bookstore. I think you're shy a factor of 3 or 4 on the amount of labor it would take to dig
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by bjo590 6y ago
It's uncommon throughout human history for private organizations to have such concentrations of wealth and power. Typical such concentrations have been reserved for the state.
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by bjo590 6y ago
Has there ever been a documented medical case of someone surviving on less than 3 hours of sleep a night indefinitely? I've read a lot of sleep studies, and besides some non-scientifically published variations on Buckminster Fuller&#x2
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by bjo590 6y ago
If someone breaks into your home what do you think police response time will be? 20 minutes? 40 minutes? An attacker can do a lot of damage and run away in that allotted time. The police will just be there to fill out the paper work afte
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by bjo590 6y ago
An arrest sound like one of the worst set and settings to get dosed with ketamine. The person being arrested might not know what they were injected with. The person might not trust the police. The person is being detained against their wi
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by bjo590 6y ago
I'd like to point you to this Vice article titled "One Bitcoin Transaction Consumes As Much Energy As Your House Uses in a Week". Meanwhile swiping a credit card uses slightly more electricity than a google query. https:&#x
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by bjo590 6y ago
https://store.steampowered.com/linux If a game is going to support Windows + macOS than it isn't much more work to also support Linux these days. There are many games released on Linux every year.
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by bjo590 6y ago
> Analysts point out that almost half of the accounted three billion are those who play only on smartphones or mobile devices. This segment is also ahead of all others in terms of growth. This segment is incredibly lucrative for the winn
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by bjo590 6y ago
We don't know with certainty how the universe will change in the future, however we do have a decent understanding of how the universe works at a large scale. We can use that understanding to make hypothesis that are backed by both da
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by bjo590 6y ago
I've always paid cash on new phones. Is there a credit check associated with financing a new iPhone?
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by bjo590 6y ago
Are there any other tech companies that have IPOed with the same amount of pornography content as reddit has?
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by bjo590 6y ago
Wow, I found this cool PDF of a document from 1917 which has calories yields per acre. It's incredible how much yields have increased in 100 years. It records Pork at 672k calories per acre https://naldc.nal.usda.gov/do
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by bjo590 6y ago
> The foods that humans enjoy eating on a regular basis, including sweet corn, are far less efficient to grow and are not necessarily always more efficient than eating animals. To me this is a bold claim. My understanding is eating plan
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by bjo590 6y ago
I'd pull my emergency fund and short term savings accounts and put it in a safe in my home. The rest of my fiances would be either virtually unaffected or would benefit from negative interest rates.
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by bjo590 6y ago
> I saw that fairly regularly (or at least I did precovid) at the gym. Yeah, I saw (pre-covid) it all the time at the gym, at amateur sports leagues, and at health food stores. It's also worth noting that my zipcode also has a sign
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by bjo590 6y ago
What percentage of males in the US with a BMI over 30 (obese) have a body fat percentage less than 25? My guess is less than 3%, but I don't have data to back it up. When studying populations you can ignore these outliers. It's
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by bjo590 6y ago
> That gives much stronger guarantees than paper, and while the average Joe can't verify it himself, there would be three million programmers in the US alone who easily could. I think the current US population that really understand
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by bjo590 6y ago
This is hyperbolic. The article was about ice in Greenland, not about the habitability of the planet. Yes, the planet is becoming less hospitable, but we aren't talking about an extension level event for humanity yet.
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by bjo590 6y ago
> The ceo of MSF, who imo does a great job, is paid 120k a year. I know a few organizations that might fall under that abbreviation. Can you be more specific?
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by bjo590 6y ago
> Note that in The Expanse universe, water isn't usually used as propellant, but simply as reaction mass. All we know about the actual propellant is that it's used in fusion reactors and is surprisingly efficient. It's act
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by bjo590 6y ago
Am I the only full stack dev that likes SQL? SQL is an incredibly expressive and flexible way to read, store, and update data. It's ubiquitous, so the SQL skills I learned six jobs and three industries ago are still relevant and useful
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by bjo590 6y ago
> I want to be better at SQL but so many problems I hit up against and think “well that’s a 2 minute job in js/swift/php” The thing about SQL is that it's the fastest way to read&write data in a relational database. M
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by bjo590 6y ago
I often think that a great way to displace SQL would be to create a language that compiles to SQL similar to how TypeScript compiles to Javascript.
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by bjo590 6y ago
> Face it, Luna and Mars are boring, low-value real estate. It's worth noting that Ceres, and by proxy the vast material wealth of the Asteroid Belt, is only 25% further from Earth than Mars is. The biggest barrier is Ceres has 10%
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by bjo590 6y ago
No, it doesn't create a plot loop. The book explains that all of the H2O on Ceres was used to apply spin to Ceres to create artificial gravity. This is a symbol of Inner Planet's dominance over the Beleter's, because a _real
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by bjo590 6y ago
Wow, I learned something new and can now think about the world more closely to how it really is. Thank you.
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by bjo590 6y ago
In addition, we have a large sample of water & carbon based life. We would be able to pick up on more subtle clues if we saw another water & carbon based life-form than if we found a life-form based on other raw materials. Being ab
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by bjo590 6y ago
Ceres is by and large H2O (by volume). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceres_(dwarf_planet)#Internal_...

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