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by colkassad 1y ago
Same generation, very insightful. Seeing the old covers makes me remember for a second what it was like to be 10 years old again. Scoring some of those at a school bookmobile was like Christmas. I remember learning about them on a PBS child
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by colkassad 1y ago
In the FPS space, there used to be only three games worth modding for: Quake, Unreal Tournament, Half Life. You could make a mod back then and get tons of press and players if you could follow through. I was interviewed in popular gaming we
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by colkassad 1y ago
I loved Urban Terror and Rocket Arena! Rocket Arena was definitely old school, I think I started playing that in '96 or '97 (the Quake 2 version).
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by colkassad 1y ago
I loved the mods for the holy trifecta: Quake 3, Unreal Tournament, and Half Life. I consider it the golden age of online gaming. I also spent a lot of time on IRC servers chatting with developers (eventually joining a team myself which lea
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by colkassad 1y ago
Nice to see someone similar. I was into the Weapons Factory mod, first for Quake 2 and then Quake 3. I made a map for the Quake 3 version that it still played this day by a small group of die-hards. I think it took me three days to make tha
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by colkassad 1y ago
I would just play as medic and camp the enemy spawn room, infecting them as they spawned and watch as they passively infected their teammates. It was great fun (I have since grown as a person). It wasn't long before the enemy spawn roo
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by colkassad 1y ago
This is excellent. Thank you.
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by colkassad 1y ago
But they've done the work and are serving them now, just wondering why they don't just dump a copy on AWS. Thanks for answering!
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by colkassad 1y ago
What's the impediment to not providing daily or weekly planet-wide mbtiles similar to the availability of OSM pbfs on AWS open data buckets[1]? [1] https://registry.opendata.aws/osm/
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by colkassad 1y ago
I much prefer TADS 3. With that said, I'm glad Inform 7 exists. It's such a strange one that seems to work for a subset of creatives, made by people that really love the art form.
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by colkassad 1y ago
Interesting, thanks for the link.
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by colkassad 1y ago
GDAL [1] Don't get me wrong, it's a fantastic and ancient coral reef of a library and tool set but has a lot of inconsistencies in naming conventions and usage (gdal_translate, gdalfinfo). Many geospatial professionals are not sav
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by colkassad 1y ago
Nice, thank you!
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by colkassad 1y ago
There should be a law about what "delete" means for online services. I used to delete old comments on reddit until their AI caught up to my behavior and shadow-banned my 17 year-old account. As soon as that happened, I could see e
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by colkassad 1y ago
One of those youtubers that goes to old stores (Retail Archaeology or something like that) came across a boxed version of Alpha Centauri at a thrift store or something and bought it because he thought it looked cool. I couldn't believe
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by colkassad 1y ago
From experience, I agree with your points. One thing OSM data is ok for is land classification labels ("landuse", etc tags) as the accuracy is not as important at their scales and requires less effort to cleanup. Most of the work
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by colkassad 1y ago
Feels like a high-level back propagation step. Not surprising, really!
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by colkassad 1y ago
I love the strange "event" sound, the little bleeps and bloops of the interface, the "pew-pews" of the weapons, and the fantastic voice acting. I've had this game installed on one computer or another since I bought
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by colkassad 1y ago
Geospatial data would be great. This stuff is notoriously annoying to search for. For example: "Give me a list of free imagery service endpoints I can use in a maplibre style sheet. Include information such as name, description, servic
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by colkassad 1y ago
Look into Vincenty [1] or Karney (for a more robust solution) [2]. Vincenty should be good enough for most use cases. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincenty's_formulae [2] https://github.com/pb
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by colkassad 1y ago
It's be something like this that creates the Singularity, just you see
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by colkassad 1y ago
Has Reddit ever spoken publicly about this issue? I would think this to be an existential threat in the long term. Posting patterns can be faked and the models are just getting better and better. At some point, subreddits like changemyview
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by colkassad 1y ago
It would be neat to run their pdf through their implementation[1] and compare results. https://github.com/going-doer/Paper2Code
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by colkassad 1y ago
I love crows so much. I had some in my backyard that I would give stuff too a lot. When I would leave in the morning for work, they would perch on my gutters and make clucking sounds while looking down at me. I'd wave and be on my way.
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by colkassad 1y ago
I was watching some crows eat some food in a parking lot yesterday. The first one landed next to a tiny morsel, investigated it a bit, then did a head bob thing while looking up and making what sounded like a cross between a hoot and a caw.
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by colkassad 1y ago
I had a 17 year old account that got shadow banned so I went ahead and deleted it. All comments I've ever made there were in good faith and respectful and I avoided hot topic discussions (i.e. the entirety of the front page). It's
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by colkassad 1y ago
Vespers is great. I also recommend the classic Lovecraftian adventure, Anchorhead.
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by colkassad 1y ago
I suppose that's debatable but the point is the site is heavily moderated, something the owners can manage without volunteers for now because it doesn't appeal to the mainstream. I think your post is interesting and should have st
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by colkassad 1y ago
This post went from #2 to #91 in an instant, maybe that has something to do with it?
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by colkassad 1y ago
I've started using old-school forums where I can find them for communities I care about (e.g. music production forums like vi-control...sometimes Hans Zimmer shows up!). It's a joy when you find one, kinda feels like the old days.

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