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by chongli 2y ago
Do note that enemies can also pick up that old equipment and use it against you. I lost a promising character during the last November NetHack Tournament [1] because a gnome picked up a wand of fire from someone’s grave and blasted me with
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by chongli 2y ago
That’s deliberate. BlueSky did not want the term “skeet” being adopted but it happened anyway.
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You can do that easily and cheaply today without a fancy transistor printer. You can find Apple II schematics easily enough online. All the chips are common, off-the-shelf parts still available today. You can send the KiCAD drawings (also a
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by chongli 2y ago
I'd love to hear how that goes. I've never written any code for OS 9 or earlier. I have heard many things about the brilliance of QuickDraw for writing very fast 2D drawing code on the very limited hardware of the time. I have not
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by chongli 2y ago
Nuclear battery? Why not have the robots recharge themselves? They could coordinate their shift changes in a staggered fashion (unlike human shift changes) so that the line never stops moving.
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And instead of gasoline carry liquid hydrogen. Dragsters are practically horizontal rockets anyway. Might as well stop pretending!
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My claim is entirely from the end user perspective. We should not really care which tool Apple includes for their licensing purposes. If we have a dependency on a particular tool then we have the ability to install and use it ourselves. The
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by chongli 2y ago
Sure, though there's little point in replacing executables such as rsync when you can install your own version (perhaps through a package manager and package repository / database such as Homebrew [1] or MacPorts [2]) and use the
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by chongli 2y ago
There is consent (otherwise you wouldn't visit the website in the first place) Clicking a link is not consent. I have no idea what I am going to see until I reach the website. My browser has rendered the website and executed their Ja
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by chongli 2y ago
Is it taken without consent? There's no clearer lack of consent than attempts by advertisers to circumvent, block, or ban ad-blockers. These advertisers could choose to put up paywalls but that would harm their search rankings, so th
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And the cancer devastating the Tasmanian Devil [1]. It’s awful! [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_facial_tumour_disease?wp... (content warning)
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That’s awesome! I have been playing off and on since 2009! If you haven’t heard of it, check out The November NetHack Tournament [1]. I played it for the first time in November of last year and almost got a Wizard win (ran out of time) afte
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People don't strictly want to play games as much as they want to experience alternate realities That’s a very sweeping statement to make about a very large number of unrelated people. I happen to be a gamer and your statement doesn’t
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La Nona Ora at least exhibits highly realistic technique. There's no advanced technique with the banana. To me, that one is just an example of an artist trolling people.
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She's right up there Cattelan's banana duct-taped to a wall. In other words, she's in that grey area where you're not sure whether her art is sincere or some kind of fraud. But that's par for the course with much of
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by chongli 2y ago
Exactly. The idea of Indiana Jones, the adventurer archaeologist more at home throwing a punch than reading a book, is neither owned by nor unique to Lucasfilm (Disney). There is a ton of media out there featuring this trope character [1].
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I think this is the principle-agent problem at work. Managers/executives who don't understand what programmers do believing that programmers can be easily replaced. Why wouldn't LLM vendors offer to sell it to them? I pity th
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by chongli 2y ago
This makes sense! The coffee has expanded a lot from the decaf process so it's not going to expand as much during roasting, hence no "crack" (which is really the same kind of process as popcorn popping)! The reduced smoke may
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by chongli 2y ago
As a daily coffee drinker I wouldn't mind less caffeine in coffee. I drink coffee for its flavour (and have tried dozens of different coffees from many different roasters). I have tried some decafs but they just taste different and gen
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by chongli 2y ago
I don't know, but I feel like we already have the "telepathic grandfather interface." Or at least we try to have it. My iPhone is constantly guessing at things to suggest to me (I use the share button a lot in different apps)
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This time they have the 22nd amendment on their side. The law is crystal clear. He would need SCOTUS to ignore the constitution in his favour. Many people think that the conservative majority on the court would automatically side with him a
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by chongli 2y ago
Thankfully elections in the US are not run by the federal government, they're run separately in every state. Trump may be able to illegally get on the ballot in some states with the support of friendly state governments but he definite
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by chongli 2y ago
I have some fandom wikis that I visit. My adblockers block all the ads and I use Safari's "hide distracting items" feature to block the other annoyances. Makes the site pretty usable but you have to care a lot about the conte
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My grandparents were born in the early 1900s in a rural area. They grew up on those farms with double-digit siblings and everyone pitched in to help make preserves in order to get through the winter. Their lifestyle was born of necessity, n
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by chongli 2y ago
I’m not sure exactly what you mean here, but people born in rural areas in the early 1900s were extremely sheltered from an intellectual perspective. Right but that was not deliberate. People lived in rural areas and that’s where their ki
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Question for parents: Is this era, where parents create an entire world for their children, unprecedented in history? I know that parents have sheltered their children to varying degrees throughout history but now it seems way more extreme
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That would be amazing. I'm not sure how that would be possible though. Soda lime glass, our most commonly used glass, has a melting point that begins at 700C (~1300F) and doesn't become very workable until much higher temperatures
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I mean we as a society. We want really good containers for our food and other goods we purchase but we don't want a mountain of indestructible waste piling up everywhere and causing pollution and health problems. Before the invention o
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Asbestos is a rock. It makes a fantastic insulation (pretty much fireproof) but it's such a huge problem [1] that we have specialized workers who remove it from old buildings and perform the necessary cleanup to make the area safe. [1]
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Your remark hints at the fundamental problem with plastics: lifespan and chemical resistance. We worked so hard to develop plastics which have a long lifespan and high chemical resistance which makes them extremely versatile for containers

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