ever1337

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by ever1337 3y ago
Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
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by ever1337 3y ago
This reminds me a lot of my experience programming for the open source game Space Station 13. We simulate basically everything we can in that game, and it fills me with so much satisfaction to think about how my code is responsible for the
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by ever1337 3y ago
The reality is that many people use drugs, likely yourself included, and they are dying from this unregulated market. Prohibition is taking lives and making addiction worse. Whether some x percentage of people may be dissuaded from using dr
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by ever1337 4y ago
I think the real point is that most of the time when someone writes a bashism, it's unnecessary. You don't really lose anything 99% of the time by writing posix shell. If you need bash, write bash, and just change the shebang.
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by ever1337 4y ago
Great job, feels like a modern refreshment of 2000s skeuomorphic interfaces
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by ever1337 4y ago
The author of this piece is responsible for lobbying Congress to pass legislation that I think the HN community would be opposed to: https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Haidt%20Testi... One of the
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by ever1337 4y ago
2600 is alive and well. I've been reading it for around 10 years and the quality has remained exceptional. It's very community oriented, welcoming new authors while also maintaining very high-quality regular columns. I find myself
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by ever1337 4y ago
4chan and reddit are both mainstream sites
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by ever1337 4y ago
at least the lighting can be controlled, this post processing cannot.
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by ever1337 4y ago
Bit of a niche comparison, but I think this is what has kept the long-running /tg/station13 project (major branch of the open source video game Space Station 13) going. The administrator who owns the servers rarely interacts with
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by ever1337 4y ago
the other big problem is not enough licenses being given out to sell marijuana, and extensive corruption in the awarding of those licenses. much of the "legal" grows are diverted to the black market, because there is demand but no
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by ever1337 4y ago
very strong statements are always wrong -> "very strong statements are always wrong"
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by ever1337 4y ago
the difference between KF and a tabloid is that KF members go out of their way to interfere in their targets' lives
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by ever1337 4y ago
the whole world is being turned into one giant psych ward, and somehow we wonder why people increasingly seem to play the part
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by ever1337 4y ago
the argument is that mandatory helmet laws make cyclists less safe, not that simply wearing a helmet makes one unsafe. i don't see what is misleading. yes it is an attention-grabbing headline but it is supported by the article.
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by ever1337 4y ago
yeah, i have a script almost identical to this that i've been using with i3 for a long time
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by ever1337 4y ago
No idea about this project in particular, but Lua is designed with C operability in mind. It's very easy to integrate the two languages together and this is often done so that you can have performance-constrained code written in C with
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by ever1337 4y ago
> We humans are mortal; we are fallible; and we are prone to exhaustion and irrational outbursts. Technology offers a path beyond our weaknesses and the potential of an alternate reality, one in which we merge with machines and artificia
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by ever1337 4y ago
Professor Hans Georg-Moeller of the University of Macau I think has some really good observations and a systematization of what he calls the "profilicity mode of identity production", as contrasted to "authenticity" and
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by ever1337 4y ago
I have had nearly the opposite experience, for what it's worth. Long conversations with non-technical family members about the pervasiveness of tracking and surveillance. A lot of them share my hatred for social media platforms and ide