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by digging 3y ago
I would strongly suggest (beg, really) throwing up a few sample use cases. So, so many new languages/libraries/frameworks/etc (possibly all of them, to be honest) don't even have a simple line saying why I would use it.
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by digging 3y ago
> Everyone's a skeptic these days. You'd be surprised at how untrue that is, unfortunately. > I'm pretty confident that people will find ways to make fun and interesting games using them I agree - but also, that's
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by digging 3y ago
Fairly well known on this site, but for those interested, some really good sci-fi authors inspired by Portia's brilliance include Peter Watts and Adrian Tchaikovsky.
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by digging 3y ago
> Well, weird movements in games should be a thing of the past in the near future, as we can begin to extract motion capture data from videos of normal people acting normally. I think you misread my posts. We don't have awkward anim
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by digging 3y ago
> I'm not sure I agree they're any more unhealthy than the non-MMORPG games full of microtransactions I didn't say they were
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by digging 3y ago
I'm not fully convinced it would be an actual problem. So what if my Friday workday spans two dates? Wouldn't "Friday" just be my local day, which spans March 14-15? I feel people like the author would be intentionally m
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by digging 3y ago
Do you have case citations to prove that claim? Even if you do, that's not what is happening here. At all.
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by digging 3y ago
I believe they are specifically calling MMORPGs time-wasters, which I second (as a video game enthusiast). They're not unique in being so but they are heavily designed to, basically, waste your time grinding. I also agree that even MMO
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by digging 3y ago
I'm suspicious of whether that will actually make games more fun or interesting. For example, the more realistic human character animations get, the deeper we seem to fall into the uncanny valley. The fact is that humans themselves nat
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by digging 3y ago
Would you wait until they're mature? Good to have a multi-millennium business plan.
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by digging 3y ago
Would calling Steve on the phone be your first move if you knew nothing about his day-to-day life or schedule?
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by digging 3y ago
> If people want to download a Chinese app and watch straight up Chinese news and propaganda ... That's the entire idea of the First Amendment... > Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibitin
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by digging 3y ago
Can you do that now? I have friends in other countries and I don't know what time zone they're in off the top of my head.
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by digging 3y ago
I'm not sure what is the argument here. That car crashes meaningfully rise when people drive in the dark? That's possible, but car crashes and other fatalities increase after the time shift in both directions. The problem is the
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by digging 3y ago
I don't hate time zones because I have to deal with them in software - there's libraries for that. I hate time zones because I have to deal with people, who never talk in GMT and rarely specify whose time zone they're referri
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by digging 3y ago
> A lookup table for what? Probably just about anything you want, as is already commonly available. Mostly, I expect nations would have official business hours for public employees which would be easily searchable if you needed to call s
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by digging 3y ago
That's an interesting take, since reducing care crashes is one of the main arguments for abolishing DST time changes.
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by digging 3y ago
I first read this article several years ago and hated it. Giving it another shot, I still do. There are probably real issues that would come by abolishing time zone but they aren't raised here. This article was written in 2015, when it
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by digging 3y ago
What social skills are infants born with?
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by digging 3y ago
I could definitely be wrong, but I don't see how dark energy would enter this scenario. DE doesn't seem to play a role in gravitationally bound systems like two black holes orbiting each other.
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by digging 3y ago
> Are you suggesting that technology can solve political problems by psychological manipulation? Not at all. > That's a remarkable claim I don't think so. I think it's self-evident. You're not born knowing how to i
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by digging 3y ago
> I can't see a Generation Ship working at all. Hm, that's fine, but it's taking the conversation in a different direction. > Politics would destroy a Generation Ship. Social constructions are also a form of technology
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by digging 3y ago
I just think the article is a bit confused. If it only urged the reader to "regularly create something" it would be spot-on. I don't think any comparison to consumption is necessary at all. It seems like the target audience i
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by digging 3y ago
Not at all, it's largely grift-based wealth which by definition means there are more losers than winners
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by digging 3y ago
> I'm very much a sceptic of long-distance manned space travel. It's definitely a job for robots Do you mean in the near term or forever? I agree that we shouldn't be expecting to send humans to Mars in the next few decade
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by digging 3y ago
Without being able to harvest dark energy, it's actually the exact opposite.
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by digging 3y ago
The universe is not expanding into anything. It is infinite. However, new space is being created in the voids between objects. It isn't super intuitive or particularly easy to grasp, things are just getting farther apart.
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by digging 3y ago
Yes, but my understanding is that dark energy doesn't play by the same rules, it's an exception. I certainly can't explain why but also it may not be known exactly why, given dark energy is an unexplained phenomenon.
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by digging 3y ago
It's because the movement is ascribed to the expansion of space itself, not the individual galaxies. We don't have any reason to believe galaxies are moving in random directions at random speeds (not at scales that explain the red
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by digging 3y ago
There are numerous techniques needed to search but, crucially, nothing can guarantee you've found them all. I'm struggling to find it, but I read an article a few months ago where a team placed about 30 cameras hidden in a home an

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