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by chongli 5mo ago
The goal is to enjoy the process of discovery. These days people don’t seem to have the patience for that, or the tolerance for trial and error to achieve it. I’m not just talking about gamers, either. I have noticed a huge change with the
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by chongli 5mo ago
The people who worked on NetHack4 are now members of the mainline DevTeam and were heavily involved in the 5.0 release.
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by chongli 5mo ago
Good players can kill soldier ants with almost nothing, just some rocks or darts or daggers. There’s a bit of tactics to learn but the essential step is to stop bumping into enemies and learn to fight at range, use Elbereth to keep them at
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by chongli 5mo ago
NetHack was my very first Roguelike and I ascended for the first time in 2009. I have since gone on to play many other Roguelikes, including DCSS. I managed to win DCSS with all species, backgrounds, and gods over a period of a few years. S
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by chongli 5mo ago
Yes, you can turn it on by setting the color option in your nethackrc file with the line: OPTIONS=color There is also a sophisticated option for customizing the colours of in-game menus using regular expressions. You can read about
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by chongli 5mo ago
Not just random rumours, there are multiple specific mechanisms built into the game that explain core features, which a curious player can stumble on and then deliberately mine for information. NetHack in many ways has common heritage with
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by chongli 5mo ago
Drat. NetHack 5.0 changes thousands and upon thousands of things from the previous release, 3.6.7, which was 3 years ago. 17 years ago is an eternity in this game’s history. The versions may not have gone up hardly at all in that time, bu
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by chongli 5mo ago
Collaboration and competition are simultaneous. Just look at humans working in an office!
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by chongli 5mo ago
You’ve moved the goalposts. You’ve gone from “people within the species not being able to easily recognize a bias” to “people universally recognizing that bias, even with no education or contact with the rest of civilization.” That’s silly,
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by chongli 6mo ago
My Casio FX-260 Solar IIs [1][2] (I recently bought 3 more of them) cost me $5 CAD a piece on clearance at Walmart. No battery, a modern solar panel that works great even in dimly lit rooms, and a modern SOC with all the standard scientific
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by chongli 6mo ago
Menus, gestures, keyboard shortcuts, advanced versions of the interface locked behind preferences, and fully customizable menus (including user-defined macro buttons). There are a ton of ways to hide the complexity for common users without
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by chongli 6mo ago
That’s fantastic for people in the Chromebook ecosystem. They can log in and away they go! Not so great for us in the Apple ecosystem though.
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by chongli 6mo ago
In practice, most designers know what they are doing as well as you know your job I would qualify that as most graphic designers know what they’re doing, when they’re working in graphic design media: logos, magazines, billboards, and ot
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by chongli 6mo ago
Also, there should be some universally accepted way to have access to your data and a secure personal computer in the duration your device is getting repaired. Yes, exactly. When getting your car repaired there’s loaners or rentals to all
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by chongli 6mo ago
> people within the species would not easily recognize it [Citation Needed] Sorry, but I had to. There's easy counterexamples of true, species-wide biases that we're fully aware of. Optical illusions, cognitive biases, cultural
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by chongli 6mo ago
We’re really not that vulnerable to such things as a species, because we as individuals all have our own minds and our own sets of biases that cancel out and get lost in the noise. If we all had the exact same bias then it would be a huge p
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by chongli 6mo ago
If they profile all of the people in the store simultaneously, they can raise/lower prices based on time of day and item purchased. Then you won't see the prices changing constantly as people walk around the stores, they'll j
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by chongli 6mo ago
They don't have to be that specific. They can look at you and the other customers in the store in aggregate, and raise/lower prices accordingly. If you're poor and you're a in store full of millionaires, you'll end
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by chongli 6mo ago
Wow so he was absorbing 400 calories per hour with this gel, but he was likely burning 3-4x that amount (or even more) while running 13.1 miles per hour!
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by chongli 6mo ago
That could be fixed with the right scoring scheme in training. The SAT exam (for college-bound high school students in the US) used a scheme like this for multiple choice questions. Correct answers are awarded 3 points (with choices a,b,c,d
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by chongli 6mo ago
That’s not the only issue. They also have the problem that they’re built to always give an affirmative answer and to use authoritative wording, even when confidence is low. If they were trained to answer “I don’t know” instead of guessing,
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by chongli 6mo ago
Microsoft is a services company with engineering roots. That can be a dangerous combination in the long run if they forget where their bread is buttered. I would hope the Windows 11 backlash serves as a warning that they can’t just ignore t
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by chongli 6mo ago
How do you go about fixing the problem if you end up buying out all the people with the domain knowledge you were hoping to preserve? That's like burning all the treasure maps before you set sail.
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by chongli 6mo ago
This is the Eternal September problem in disguise. That is, the personal interactions we treasure so much in small communities simply do not scale when the communities grow. If a community (or a project) grows too large then the maintainers
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by chongli 6mo ago
Yeah my only complaint with Apple hardware these days is all the sharp edges. I miss the soft, rounded sides of touchID based iPhones.
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by chongli 6mo ago
We already learned how to defeat this from SEO spammers and citation farmers: by building networks that cross reference and corroborate one another’s fake stories. We’re already at a point where much of the academic research you find in onl
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by chongli 6mo ago
I assume the poisoner community is mirroring and likely remixing the content from there. The whole effort isn’t going to work with a single point of failure like that.
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by chongli 6mo ago
If multiple people independently report the same experience (across time and space), isn't this actually evidence of objective reality rather than a refutation of it? It points to some underlying universal structure of our experience a
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by chongli 6mo ago
It draws one white rectangle per frame over each duck when you pull the trigger and checks if the Zapper can see it Almost, but not quite. First it blanks the entire screen to solid black and uses that to calibrate the black level of the
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by chongli 6mo ago
LCDs have a further issue that CRTs do not have: transition time. When an LCD pixel is displaying black and it is driven to white, the voltage change across the driving transistor happens a lot faster than the change in brightness of the pi

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