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by chipsy 12y ago
To be a bit of a pedant, there was a C64 port of Ultima 6, the only version of the game that ran on 8-bit hardware. [0] But it's essentially unplayable due to the technical limitations, as you've outlined. To quote one Youtube com
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The discussion of "self-issued assets" brings to mind the Schmitt/Schacker/Braun antimoney paper[0], which defines a mechanism of self-issued debt that operates as a "bicurrency" with a market exchange rate. Ve
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by chipsy 12y ago
It's a form of automation, which is, for understandable reasons, the most popular form of "progressive" PL thought. With a very powerful type system, the compiler can make inferences about the program that would otherwise be
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Minibus systems appear everywhere, especially in poorer developing countries with fast-growing cities. They tend to be inefficient by dint of the market equilibrium creating a single, vastly overserved "downtown hub". There are so
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I think the key is in whether these languages get the backing of a Big Institution. Tech people are simultaneously sensitive and oblivious to the political nature of what technologies interest them: For example, all the coverage of Swift is
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It is my own recognition that I will not be correct or make right decisions that leads me towards faith in long-term knowledge building: on any given day I will most likely make a bad decision, but in the aggregate of many days, like any ot
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I am making a "paddle game synthesizer." It is a Pong-style game engine that is designed to have all game parameters be easy/fun to tune, from the game's physics and logic upwards to the audiovisuals. It also includes co
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by chipsy 12y ago
Just in the past week I've been more strict about fasting between dinnertime and breakfast. I did this thinking that it might move my sleep schedule earlier, but now that I've done it for a little while, I think it might be helpin
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What we're looking for in design is simpler. Simpler becomes conceptually harder very quickly, because it means challenging a lot of assumptions and opening up some unknowns. The tried-and-true implementation has a known initial cost a
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The Metro system outgrew what it was circa 1980 and hasn't really caught up with itself. Everything used to end at Embarcadero and there were no loops or crossovers, so station platforms were simply labelled "Downtown" or &qu
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by chipsy 12y ago
Now imagine how many techniques get lost on a daily basis because only a few people knew them and they left that workplace.
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Some annotations of my own, all coming from memory and experience. The theoretical basis for most collision algorithms is the separating axis theorem(SAT). It simply states that for any two convex shapes there exists an axis partitioning th
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I established a formal policy of not doing business with strangers in public areas - and panhandling is definitely a business. It just happens to be one that works by creating and subsequently monetizing guilt. An adept panhandler will comb
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The idea's been percolating for a while - one of the major facets of blockchain technology is that it can be used to effect many kinds of transactions, where traditional finance is just the simplest one to conceive of. Simultaneously t
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Think of friends as part of a process of self-discovery. You probably don't know everything about yourself and trying to "open doors" on parts of your life that you haven't thought about much yet would eventually lead yo
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by chipsy 12y ago
Sierra and Lucasarts both turned to the same strategy of writing a VM for graphical games(AGI, SCI, SCUMM) and those engines basically remained viable for as long as those companies made adventure games - when they exited it was because of
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This is why "divide and conquer" is such an effective, commonplace strategy for an aspiring powermonger. Take two groups that are different but not in a remarked upon fashion. Invent a reason for the side that is not you to be a &
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Real world anecdote: I recently discussed with a friend getting them some exercise equipment as a gift; at first we were targeting specifically "training that might help with keyboard RSI," but I soon realized that the biomechanic
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Here's what my on-the-street perspective is telling me: Over time the shelf space for ready-to-go protein shakes at the local convenience store chains(Walgreens, CVS, etc.) has gradually crept up. Some of these shakes still do the &quo
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by chipsy 12y ago
One of the goals the VPRI team had in the STEPS project was to put together a WYSIWYG document editor. They did so within their 20,000 total lines of code limit. Which isn't to say that doing it is easy just because the amount of code
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by chipsy 12y ago
You may enjoy: http://www.katjaas.nl/home/home.html
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Interesting link. I've not seen Armstrong's work before, I'll be checking it out.
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Well, you've gone and pointed to something that the theory explicitly doesn't model, which is "a large chunk of the world." It has to be evaluated on a per-nation basis, under the assumption that generational cohorts are
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It's harder to build a rich interpretation from K-Wave theory. The beauty of the Strauss-Howe formulation is in its ability to be an coarse interpretive framework for historical events - to say something about historical societies and
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I am an optimist at heart but am also thoroughly disillusioned with the state of things. I presently reconcile this by subscribing in some degree to Strauss-Howe generational theory. It posits that we(in the USA) go through a crisis of up t
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You can see this as a kind of progression of the supplement industry, one where the delivery stands a better chance of matching the promise: For example, Coca-Cola and Milo both marketed themselves as a form of "medicine" or &quot
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I've lately been interested in strongman training for its emphasis on functional strength and limited explosive movement - it's a safer option for someone like me that is both tall and has scolosis making the form needed for power
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I feel there is something missing in Postman's interpretation. I've seen it linked a number of times in the past few months and I think I have a grasp on what it might be: Cycles. There are no cycles mentioned in this manifesto. A
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The car has to account for human beings holding up signs, e.g. accident sites, temporary construction, or school crossing guards. This functionality is demonstrated in one of the more recent ridealongs of Google's car.
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Think of books, though. They're the best available counterpoint to what you're saying. People don't necessarily care about the author of a book, but they do care about the content of the book and its ability to piece together

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