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by bspammer 5y ago
When I was a teenager I was really hoping that when I grew up I would stop being sleepy in the morning and then becoming wide awake around 11pm. Hasn’t changed at all. Everyone’s got some way that society doesn’t work for them though. Being
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by bspammer 5y ago
My granddad died surrounded by his loved ones, pretty peacefully really (he was jacked up on morphine). I know you mean alone in a kind of existential way, but at the end of the day I've learned that if you have that depressing outlook
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by bspammer 5y ago
There is no end-game for me. I just do it because I enjoy it.
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by bspammer 5y ago
I've never understood why these shortenings are so common. Is it just to avoid the mental load of having to remember how to spell long words? Isn't the mental load of having to remember which number goes with which word worse?
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by bspammer 5y ago
Another cool crowdsourced thing I discovered recently is SponsorBlock [1] which is an extension to automatically skip sponsored content in Youtube videos. Users contribute timings to the database that everyone else uses. It works remarkably
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by bspammer 5y ago
I literally read the title as moon, because that’s what my brain expected the 4 letter word beginning with ‘m’ after the words ‘Neil Armstrong’ to be. I was wondering what on earth was interesting about this post!
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by bspammer 5y ago
> I think one reason might be that being interactive lets the player contribute to the enjoyment themselves, which lowers the bar for what the developer has to achieve. I really disagree with this, I think it's underselling the qual
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by bspammer 5y ago
Pretty much all my favorite games of all time are indie games. Video games as a medium seem to be really, really well suited to passion projects, and I can’t explain why. None of my favorite movies are indie movies. Very little of my favori
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by bspammer 5y ago
For a closer analogy, chess engines have 1000+ elo points on the top grandmasters, and professional chess has never been more popular.
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by bspammer 5y ago
Competitive chess is still alive and well despite computers being better than humans for decades now. In fact, computers enhance chess by allowing the discovery of interesting lines that a human would never have thought of. Professionals us
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by bspammer 5y ago
> free education Many top universities release entire courses for free. YouTube is an incredible resource for learning. Khan academy, Wikipedia, sci-hub, library genesis, all free. I can confidently say I’ve learned more from the interne
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by bspammer 5y ago
> longevity into one's 90s as a bad thing Absolutely agree. The only way it's worth it to increase lifespan is to increase healthspan at the same time. Currently, most medicine seems to focus on the former.
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by bspammer 5y ago
When reading stuff like this I often think “so what”? All of the above is true, but life is still fun. I’m glad I was born into this absurdity.
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by bspammer 5y ago
An easy (and fun) way to get better at vim and learn some of its features is to play vimgolf [1]. After you submit you can see solutions which are slightly better than yours, and run them through to see what each command does. [1] http:&#x
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by bspammer 5y ago
You’re missing the “install python” step. Oh and probably you should be using a package manager to do it so figure out which one’s on your system first and learn its interface. Oh and it’s best practice to create projects in a virtualenv so
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by bspammer 5y ago
You could try using the official WireGuard app rather than Mullvad’s. Just generate a WireGuard config on Mullvad’s website, and you should be able to import that no problem.
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by bspammer 5y ago
I enjoy the pettiness of not using apple’s actual logo.
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by bspammer 5y ago
We're all remote so behind home NATs etc. Didn't expect the outage to last as long as it did.
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by bspammer 5y ago
The devs at my company have been emailing patches to each other for the last couple of hours. It's been fun actually.
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by bspammer 5y ago
I mean yeah, what else is there to do? The problem is far too big for any one person to make a difference. I could collapse in fear daily but it wouldn’t do any good. The only thing to do is enjoy the time you have.
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by bspammer 5y ago
It’s funny because for me a smart watch is the perfect compromise - you still get a bunch of the useful features of a smartphone like navigation, timers, a calculator, music, Apple Pay, etc but with none of the really damaging web-based att
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by bspammer 5y ago
Frostpunk kinda does this - you build roads later on but in the beginning people leave deep tracks in the snow as they go out to collect supplies. It looks really cool. The whole game has an awesome aesthetic.
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by bspammer 5y ago
plusIshRoundCeiling() forces the reader to look at the javadocs to understand the edge cases, and in fact it serves as a reminder that there even are any edge cases.
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by bspammer 5y ago
The irony with git is that the underlying data model is far simpler than the user interface implies. People assume git is complicated because the user interface is complicated, but it really is very simple under the hood. So much so that yo
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by bspammer 5y ago
This is one of my absolute favourite things to do. There’s something so beautiful about having software automatically finding the bug for you.
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by bspammer 5y ago
Somewhat related, a variant of chess where the objective is to lose: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Losing_chess
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by bspammer 5y ago
Usually the restaurant hasn’t made their own site but is paying some menus-as-a-service company to handle it for them. E.g. https://www.meandu.com.au/
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by bspammer 5y ago
I think there’s a simpler explanation - the majority of people around the world believe in a soul / an afterlife. This was a useful belief for humans to develop when there was nothing we could do about death, but now it actively inhibi
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by bspammer 5y ago
> Do grandmasters never lose games to non-GM players even when playing multiple people for fun? Pretty much, yeah. Especially when they don’t make any big mistakes, as was the case here.
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by bspammer 5y ago
I’ve realised recently how much of conspiracy theories are wishful thinking - theorists actually desperately want them to be true. It’s comforting to imagine there’s a reason things happen in the world.

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