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   by failrate 5y ago

   The settlers had every opportunity to learn local farming practices from the Native Americans. Instead, they did everything in their power to force their farming practices onto the land where they occupied. Native Americans farmed. They fa
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   by failrate 5y ago

   Can you explain all of the people who were living and farming here prior to the European invasion? The land in the US is fertile. The prairies were incredibly fertile.
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   by failrate 5y ago

   This is a romanticized view of the small family farm. Our farmibg practices in the US were imported from Europe and were not adapted to our climates. Settlers spread like locusts across land that was so fertile that even if they didn&#x27
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   by failrate 5y ago

   If someone writes on a whiteboard with a permanent marker, immediately black it out with a dry erase marker. Then wipe it off. The dry erase marker's solvent will release the permanent marker ink.
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   by failrate 5y ago

   I feel this. I make games, frequently for my son. He is usually not so politely disinterested.
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   by failrate 6y ago

   Interesting, I thought it was just me who had to overcome negative connotations to subtraction and division. It is only in the last 15 years that I learned to treat all arithmetic neutrally.
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   by failrate 6y ago

   I remember before common folk had internet, and there was still disinformation, misinformation, and plain bullshit.
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   by failrate 6y ago

   Self fund your prototype. Do not spend a lot of money on programmers, designers, and artists. Time box your prototype. No more than a year.
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   by failrate 6y ago

   I've seen this in action: someone bullshitting in a group until they believe their own bullshit.
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    by failrate 6y ago

    Good tools and resources for indie game devs: Sfxr, Blender, The Gimp, git or P4, Visual Studio, itch.io, TurboSquid, freesound.org
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    by failrate 6y ago

    We used something like this technique back in the Flash days. Sites would straight up steal your games, so one defense was to have the game grab its sprites from a server local endpoint. Thieving sites would get either no graphics or deli
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    by failrate 6y ago

    Disinformation is a weapon used to crush dissent. Can antidisinformation policies also be used to crush dissent? Sure, any tool can be misused and weaponized.
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    by failrate 6y ago

    Keeping a password on a Post it is still dangerous.
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    by failrate 6y ago

    I disagree with your conclusion. Voting does not need to be made more convenient beyond preventing obvious voter suppression and making election day a federal and/or state holiday. Additionally, a digital compromise of a fully digital
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    by failrate 6y ago

    Anecdotr: one of our cats, upon presented with unlimited amounts of catnip, consumed it until it became basically K-holed and then refused to touch the stuff for a few years afterwards, suggesting the equivalent of a hangover.
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    by failrate 6y ago

    The one thing I remember surprising me was that the build scripts were also jai.
17. 227.▲
    by failrate 6y ago

    I've had a Corolla and an Elantra that had configuration to disable the noise during locking. It is usually pretty easy.
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    by failrate 6y ago

    These actors haven't finished. The pattern so far is that the current admin has tried every single dirty trick they could muster to avoid leaving power. Even if something happens to Trump today, these folks will recrystallize around a
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    by failrate 6y ago

    If this is interesting, I recommend joining the Patreon for Loren Schmidt. They create really beautiful CA projects, including environments with humidity/precipitation.
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    by failrate 6y ago

    One interesting thing about certain CA is that they bear a very close equivalence to certain pseudo RNG systems like shift register. E.g. GoL on a constrained grid with the starting state equal to the seed.
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    by failrate 6y ago

    Lol, people still use WhatsApp?
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    by failrate 6y ago

    Yes, it was exactly that irresponsible.
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    by failrate 6y ago

    I've also found that reading news with images and color removed lessens the emotional reaction I have to the news (e.g. text.npr.org).
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    by failrate 6y ago

    I once made the mistake of putting an unguarded comment section on my now defunct blog. Within days, it was stuffed to the gills with tentacle porn links. There were no readers, just spam. I dropped the comments table and never went back.
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    by failrate 6y ago

    "One of the biggest disadvantages of static site generators is that they are static and can’t include comments." At first, I misread this as "One of the biggest advantages...", and I still think that is the correct concl
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    by failrate 6y ago

    I recommend you get Noita on Steam. It's a falling sand style game where you are a little wizard whose wands are built from a little Programmingesque component system.
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    by failrate 6y ago

    If you want to improve at competitive games, I recommend David Silrin's "Playing to Win": http://www.sirlin.net/ptw
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    by failrate 6y ago

    It is also easy to port to different languages.
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    by failrate 6y ago

    He also got doxxed after specifically asking to be left alone.
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    by failrate 6y ago

    Yes, and some indication that the hand squeezing got you more juice than the machine.