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by eterm 2y ago
You'll be pleased to hear Factorio 2.0 is adding a second rail layer: https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-378
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by eterm 2y ago
It's hard to answer that without you saying what you think the obvious benefits are. Consensus algorithms are important for all kinds of distributed computing problems. A simple example would be failover. If you have a leader database
483.
by eterm 2y ago
Even that might not be enough. There was a case recently where an author wrote in their will, "Do not release this unfinished material". The estate released it anyway.
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by eterm 2y ago
None of those things require crypto. They are essentially solved problems. The UK banking system has had chip&pin for 20+ years, has had (Europe-wide?) instant payments for at least a decade. Banking numbers in the UK are push not pull,
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by eterm 2y ago
I don't know if it's my own career development, but it felt like the quality of Pluralsight has also taken a nosedive. I had a bit of career break during the pandemic, so went from being a fairly regular consumer of pluralsight in
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by eterm 2y ago
That entry for "Monopoly Go!" is unintentionally hilarious because of the incomplete information: "Marketing: $500m; Total: $500m" Yeah, that sounds about right.
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by eterm 2y ago
12k was shockingly bad for London in the early 2000s. You can't really convert currency and/or then apply inflation or try to compare to 2002 US living costs. London back then still cost a fortune to live in, 12k definitely wouldn
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by eterm 2y ago
I'm glad that Microsoft takes a really long time to deprecate these things. It's "This gets extra awkward in 3 years, and dissappears some time after that", not "This disappears in 3 months".
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by eterm 2y ago
See also "Never use a warning" (2007): https://alistapart.com/article/neveruseawarning/
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by eterm 2y ago
Not just "no 3 dots", but it's "settings" not preferences, and even after getting to the search settings, the instructions don't make sense.
491.
by eterm 2y ago
I mean no disrespect to anyone who maintains a game on this list. But I find this list incredibly sad. A list containing mostly clones of other (old) games, or previously closed source games that have since had their source released. ( And
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by eterm 2y ago
I'm not the OP but have similar tastes. Exapunks just never clicked for me in the way that the other Zach games did. Perhaps it was too visual, or perhaps the problems didn't sit well with how I problem solve. I don't like to
493.
by eterm 2y ago
That's a fantastic blog post, worthy of it's own HN submission.
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by eterm 2y ago
Dub side of the moon (2003) is an absolute masterpiece of alternative covers. Sometimes I forget their version of Breathe isn't the original.
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by eterm 2y ago
The major UK sites have recently done a similarly dark move by adjusting their definition of "Depost Limit". Used to be if you set, e.g. a £50/month deposit limit, then you couldn't deposit more than £50 a month. They re
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by eterm 3y ago
Not all of it was, some of it was very laggy and slow. Indeed the whole OS would frequently freeze up.
497.
by eterm 3y ago
I'm not sure I understand the premise, because CPU speeds were 20x slower. Just go back a decade or two. They weren't some halcyon days of bug-free software back then, quite the opposite.
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by eterm 3y ago
You likely didn't mean to imply all king+pawn vs king endgames are drawn, but to clarify for the layman reading, many are winnable. It depends on the locations of the kings relative to the pawn ( you generally want it in-front of your
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by eterm 3y ago
For the first, pedants like to point out that a statement like: "I was feeling nauseous" is incorrect and should be "I was feeling nauseated", as nauseous is "causing nausea" but that's just pedantry and d
500.
by eterm 3y ago
Windows XP I think, maybe windows 2000
501.
by eterm 3y ago
I remember when Ctrl+S in notepad didn't save, that one took a surprisingly long time to arrive.
502.
by eterm 3y ago
> If you must attend an unfun event, make it memorable! Play pranks and plan ruses! Is this satire?
503.
by eterm 3y ago
Immediately this sounds wrong to me, because even talking of "re-arranging my code" is something that should be avoided. Let auto-formatters format. This is especially important in team situations where formatting enforced via edi
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Making a Falling Sand Simulator(jason.today)
2 points by eterm 3y ago|0 comments
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by eterm 3y ago
Over 10 years ago, back when Kickstarter was having it's moment.
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by eterm 3y ago
If it doesn't leave the browser, how would the server know to serve the private content?
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by eterm 3y ago
If you're ever given any paperwork to sign ever, thank them for the paperwork and take it away to digest. Don't let false urgency ever pressure you to do otherwise. If they need your signature, they can wait to get it. If they don
508.
by eterm 3y ago
Do you have a longer term graph please?
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by eterm 3y ago
For the past couple of months I've had these errors multiple times a day, it's definitely often down now.
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by eterm 3y ago
The new generation has Two Point Hospital, which is very in keeping with the original, and was developed by some people who worked on the original.

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