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by feintruled 3y ago
ADOM was my go to on the Amiga. Loved that game so much!
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by feintruled 3y ago
You joke, but I can forsee issues. If he has the replies to a particular user, and he has a means of IDing that user, he could cause them a lot of hurt. They are getting intensely sexual replies back, they aren't getting that without s
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by feintruled 3y ago
Well this went places. The dev really 'ate his own dogfood' so to speak. I thought it was going to be a despairing look at how his companion AI was continuously turned to sleazy uses by a pervy userbase but that's pretty much
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by feintruled 3y ago
Yeah they really fluff the delivery of it though, basically give you the punchline first and then at the end reproduce a purposely bad retelling of it in full.
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by feintruled 3y ago
I didn't mention the morality of it. The statement was 'no one HAS to steal' so I was taking it as a statement that no-one will starve without stealing which must surely be a comment on the social safety net. My three assumpt
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by feintruled 3y ago
You sure the social safety net is that good?
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by feintruled 3y ago
That's quite a tale, a parable almost about how software engineering differs from other jobs (I want to say 'real' jobs but tongue in cheek). I like this one too, it's even snappier. A software engineer, a hardware engi
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by feintruled 3y ago
My mother does this every Christmas, a veritable highlight of the year when we were young. She would dose the Christmas pudding in Brandy and set it alight. No-one even really liked Christmas pudding, it was just the spectacle. It wasn&#x27
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by feintruled 3y ago
I thought Foursquare already provided this service /s
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by feintruled 3y ago
I do get that, but it seems like an inversion somehow. MY desire for expensive goods puts YOU at greater risk. It is however true in real terms you get a lot of extra cover for comparatively little.
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by feintruled 3y ago
So, visitor flushed baby wipes down the toilet, toilet overflowed, 300K damage. Talk about small actions having large consequences! Tangential to this case, I do wonder about the imbalance in insurance. I had a friend who had a small prang
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by feintruled 3y ago
Very cool! Interested in the dealing logic, is it 'fair' or does it mimic real machines and do payout percentages?
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by feintruled 3y ago
First phone I got with a USB-C connector it was still quite new, and my heart sank when I realised all my existing micro-USB leads wouldn't work. Another damn charging cable. Then I went to plug it in and wondered which way up it went,
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by feintruled 3y ago
I had a Dragon too, loved it despite its limitations. There was a great type in program in Dragon User that allowed you to switch into one of the graphics modes and type and run BASIC programs in there. Most impressive. (I remember 12 year
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by feintruled 3y ago
What a great resource. The way each font links to a page with screenshots of actual games only with the selected font replacing the real font is pretty amazing stuff!
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by feintruled 3y ago
Rosemary Kennedy is an especially horrendous example. She was not at all disabled but was having behavioural issues (maybe due to depression) and they arranged for her to have a lobotomy which was the snake-oil-du-jour and it went terribly
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by feintruled 3y ago
And I suspect our descendants would pay as much heed to these as we did to Egyptian curses! Perhaps if they are lurid enough they might inspire caution at least.
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by feintruled 3y ago
OK, headline is more worrying that it needs to be - makes it sounds like we accidentally killed ALL life on Mars. It's actually referring to possible life in the soil sample the Viking lander poured water on.
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by feintruled 3y ago
He might be on to something, but I couldn't grok the visualisation at all. I didn't spend long though. I remember a game called Wetrix, that combined Tetris like gameplay with a 3D environment : https://en.wikipedia.org
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by feintruled 3y ago
Braille is an amazing invention. As a sighted person, my fingers can't differentiate the patterns at all but of course that would come with practice. I worked with a guy once who used a Braille terminal and he was just as fast as anyon
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by feintruled 3y ago
How astonishing. What a wonderful idea and technical achievement!
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by feintruled 3y ago
She absolutely does seem to come out of nowhere as she is crossing in the shadow of a bridge. But I do recall a previous incident where someone had gone to the site of a similar night time accident and showed how visibility was MUCH better
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by feintruled 3y ago
Something that catches me out when driving is the scale adjusting for speed. It makes sense, but a junction that looks quite close suddenly starts moving further away from you as you slow down for it and the maps zooms in. It's an odd
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by feintruled 3y ago
I have this (or something like it). You basically can retreat into a fantasy world that plays out like a movie with yourself as the main character. You can run through any number of imagined Walter Mitty scenarios and feel at least some ech
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by feintruled 3y ago
For me, he's saying you don't need to TRY to make them succeed - they will succeed or not on their own merits, and for their own niches.
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by feintruled 3y ago
It doesn't necessarily invalidate your point, but I think the main difference is that historically novels were much more verbose, in a style that would be considered prolix today. You can basically read any page of Dickens to illustrat
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by feintruled 3y ago
Yes! I thought the Safari example above had just dimmed the rest of the screen as a trick, but then I closed the window and it was all still grey and dull. I have been spoiled now I have glimpsed 'true white'.
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by feintruled 3y ago
Seems a very specific scenario where you are well-known enough to be able to ask an LLM what it thinks of you and use that criteria to judge how good it is. I don't see Barnum statements being applicable in many other use cases. It did
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by feintruled 3y ago
Fascinating! Struck by the experiences they had over-socialising the dogs, ruining them for their intended job as they wanted to be with humans too much. It's help me make sense of something that I had noticed before - a farmer I know
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by feintruled 3y ago
Yes, it seemed more appropriate for a kids painting app, like the paint is being 'poured' into the shape. It's probably only cool for the first couple of fills, mind you, after that it might start to get in the way. Might be

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