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by chongli 8mo ago
It’s the same story as the Casio F-91W as well as the AK-47. Terrorists (or just any armed paramilitary group) who live in the back country far from common supply lines have a great need for standardized, rugged, reliable, and repairable te
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by chongli 8mo ago
The simple fact you wanted to write this: i=0+1*i Makes i a number. Since * is a binary operator in your space, i needs to be a number for 1*i to make any sense. Similarly, if = is to be a binary relation in your space, i needs to be a numb
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by chongli 8mo ago
Yes I’m aware. It’s a work around but doesn’t give you a sensible ordering the way most people expect, i.e: -2 > 1 (in C) Which is why I prefer to leave <,> undefined in C and just take the magnitude if I want to compare complex nu
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by chongli 8mo ago
What do > and < mean in the context of an infinite 2D plane?
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by chongli 8mo ago
If you take this tack, then 0 and 1 are not numbers either.
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by chongli 8mo ago
Isn't it just so much easier to make sure that wealth isn't concentrated in so few hands? Tax wealth, not work. Those tax dollars just go back to the wealthy in the form of interest payments on government bonds, which they own.
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by chongli 8mo ago
Yeah, I don't want my preferred playstyle to be favoured, just treated fairly: * Add all of the non-car transport options: walking paths (including underground and raised paths for walking between large buildings in the winter, a la PA
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by chongli 8mo ago
It was pointed out elsewhere in this thread that SimCity already distorts reality in an ideological way: it lets you have tons of traffic without worrying about parking. It just gives you magical free underground parking everywhere that you
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by chongli 8mo ago
Maybe for you, but that’s why we should have choices. I think Riverdale is beautiful and I’d love to live there but I can’t afford it because the place is in such high demand. It’s illegal to build more Riverdales even though they’d satisfy
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by chongli 8mo ago
They were aware of the problem and they covered it up, rather than try to show better ways of living. It’s unintentional propaganda for the crappy ways we build our cities. It’s worse than if they’d just show things how they really are.
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by chongli 8mo ago
Riverdale [1] is a neighbourhood in Toronto with the kind of higher-density mixed single-family and multi-family homes as well as a few small apartment buildings (but no large apartment buildings) that I had in mind with what I described ab
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by chongli 8mo ago
That's not what I want at all. I want a more realistic sim that deals with issues such as sprawl, food deserts, transportation elasticity of demand, mental health issues (and their impact on crime and productivity), and a network-flow
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by chongli 8mo ago
Daggerfall by default has some pretty weird controls but even the original game lets you customize them enough to play with WASD movement and strafing and full mouse-look. It's very smooth. DFU makes the frame rate even smoother so tha
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by chongli 8mo ago
I love SimCity 2000 and these roads look really cool but I'd really like to see a city-builder go in a different direction. One of the biggest problems with North American cities is their endless, car-centric suburban sprawl. SimCity g
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by chongli 8mo ago
Yeah, Daggerfall really holds up well today. The game can be downloaded completely for free (truly gratis; no DLC, no ads) on Steam. Then using the official data files you'll get the best experience playing with Daggerfall Unity [2] wh
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by chongli 8mo ago
Markets allocate resources based on supply and demand. Individuals don’t demand solutions to diffuse problems. It’s tragedy of the commons every time.
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by chongli 8mo ago
I've put a lot of time into the Total War series. My favourite is probably Shogun 2. I will say that the combat is quite fun at first but once you learn ranged combat, artillery, and the "sweet spot" it falls apart. Gets to t
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by chongli 8mo ago
I never said the Mac was perfect. Far from it. But it has sensible defaults which the vast majority of users find acceptable and easy enough to use. Linux users, on the other hand, seem to spend more time customizing their operating syste
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by chongli 8mo ago
I think a better comparison is painting and photography. Prior to the invention of photography, painting portraits of individuals and families was a real profession. Today it’s practically unheard of outside of heads of state and the like.
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by chongli 8mo ago
I would take that wager. I highly doubt Apple’s revocation team has a 0% false positive rate.
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by chongli 8mo ago
I don’t know the answer to that but a quick search shows lots of examples of people complaining that their developer certificate has been revoked, demonstrating a willingness by Apple to revoke certificates if they believe the developer vio
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by chongli 8mo ago
How else are you going to have the ability to revoke malware’s signing keys to get it to stop running on every machine immediately?
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by chongli 8mo ago
I don’t know anything about “hard/brittle” analogies for operating systems. What I do know is that Linux distributions don’t seem to have a coherent strategy for building an operating system with sensible defaults and a consistent desi
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by chongli 8mo ago
If Apple finds out they’ll ban your developer certificates and then all installed copies of your app will stop working.
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by chongli 8mo ago
It's not that hard to do this, the chess engine crowd figured it out back in 2001. They really didn't. No one likes playing against weaker chess engines. They play perfectly like a higher-rated engine and then randomly make an o
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by chongli 8mo ago
Who's to say the criminals won't use a genAI agent to call grandma and social-engineer her so they can drain her bank account?
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by chongli 8mo ago
I would say diplomacy is the most misunderstood feature of the series. Players constantly say they want a stronger AI that's smarter at diplomacy. But whenever they have built an AI like that, their play testers complained that it do
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by chongli 8mo ago
It's not an issue of permission, it's an issue of trying to make a computer that's safe for grandma to use. Criminals can and will convince grandma to navigate a byzantine labyrinth of prompts and technical measures in order
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by chongli 9mo ago
make a statement about how they identify a part of a group That’s what it is. A shibboleth. They’re broadcasting group affiliation. The fact that it grates on the outgroup is intentional. If it wasn’t costly to adopt it wouldn’t be as hon
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by chongli 9mo ago
China doesn't have flip-flopping like this with its attendant massive waste. Instead it has endemic corruption which siphons off funds all over the place, perhaps with the exception of the big projects that command the full attention o

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