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by grawprog 6y ago
Because if you actually stop to look at 'their' side and compare the news stories to 'your' side, you'll find both sides are full of exactly the same kind of loaded subjective language, usually written in the same a
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by grawprog 6y ago
>that's like saying "I'm a self-taught programmer, but I never use functions." Once you've mastered if/else and goto, what else do ya need?
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by grawprog 6y ago
Power generation when it boils down to it, whatever method used, is the conversion of momentum into electricity. Nuclear power, while pretty ingenious, seems like an example of extreme overengineering to solve a problem. I know I'm sim
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by grawprog 6y ago
My point wasn't that I expect those things in a game, it was that the goal of realism through minutae falls apart as soon as you consider anything meaningful. >Also, what you described about Caesar's Legion sounds very plausibl
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by grawprog 6y ago
>If there is one thing that annoys me in games, it is when every NPC only has dialog that pertains to your story. Or when areas are walled off/boxed off/locked away because they are irrelevant to the player's goals. Maybe
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by grawprog 6y ago
>Seems more like an issue for parents to manage. No, it seems like zuckerberg should justify why this needs to exist. There doesn't need to be an Instagram for children. What benefit to children get by having an Instagram. Why shoul
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by grawprog 6y ago
>I guess it's a matter of personal taste, because for me, the disadvantages you list are what makes an open-world RPG desirable. Totally agree with it being a matter of personal taste. If people didn't enjoy those kinds of game
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by grawprog 6y ago
The first two fallout games were great and even fallout 3 and new Vegas were pretty good. I think the latter two were good because they were smaller and actually did have some interesting stuff to find and do even though they did the open w
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by grawprog 6y ago
Yeah. Breath of the wild seems the same way. I've never played it but i watched my old roommate play it. Its focus on exploration was cool, but it missed that thing that made zelda 1 fun.(apparently this was the inspiration for breath
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by grawprog 6y ago
I do get that and I find my ability to escape into fantasy has dwindled in recent years, but I played morrowind at the time when I still read plenty of long winded fantasy books and the other games actually helped lead to my decline in enjo
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by grawprog 6y ago
When I worked with CNC machines, one of the most interesting, pretty scary and surprising errors came from a dying CMOS battery. Having only ever dealt with such things in video game carts before, I was unpleasantly surprised when I learned
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by grawprog 6y ago
Android. Using habit browser.
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by grawprog 6y ago
My problem with every single.elder scroll game kind of ends up boiling down to, why am I doing any of this. Skyrim was the worst of this for me. Every dungeon followed the same pattern and featured a convenient shortcut back to the beginnin
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by grawprog 6y ago
I was not actually able to try the game. The images all loaded as blank white squares for me on mobile. It also seems to hijack the browser back button every time a picture is clicked.
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by grawprog 6y ago
Also...this >the uncertainties in the estimates are large. While the population of T. rexes was most likely 20,000 adults at any give time, the 95% confidence range — the population range within which there’s a 95% chance that the real n
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by grawprog 6y ago
Can't forget bats. There's a reason why their order is Chiroptera. >The name "Chiroptera" derives from Ancient Greek: χείρ – cheir, "hand"[4] and πτερόν – pteron, "wing".[1][5]
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by grawprog 6y ago
True, the greying out does tend to have this effect, then again, sometimes I see a greyed comment I agree with that I think was downvoted unfairly and upvote it where I likely would have just read their comment and not upvoted had it not b
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by grawprog 6y ago
I think the problem when it comes down to it is there's generally more than one kind of comment as well as more than one kind of reason someone downvotes. You've got your objective factual comment Your subjective factual comment A
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by grawprog 6y ago
Not only that, but I remember when this was on HN not long ago, the list is made up of random things. Some are full pieces of software, many of the 'alternatives' are actually just front ends with limited functionality or wrappers
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by grawprog 6y ago
That's good to know at least. Honestly, I get overly paranoid sometimes about such things. It's hard to know what apps do in the background these days.
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by grawprog 6y ago
Yeah I do that too. It's a hacky work around though and I'm still not entirely sure it won't show you online briefly once you turn data on again. I know it shows you as online if you answer a message using the notification ba
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by grawprog 6y ago
I really hate the online notification in WhatsApp because it's not possible to disable it. Even Facebook lets you appear offline if you want to. It's been a standard feature of messaging apps since pretty much as long as they&#x27
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by grawprog 6y ago
>At Linear, we don’t write user stories and think they’re an anti-pattern in product development. We write short and simple issues that describe the task in plain language instead. I found it kind of ironic they lead with this, then proc
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FDA advises states to pause use of J&J Covid vaccine after blood-clotting issues(cnbc.com)
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Intel and Spirit AI’s Bleep aims to filter live audio – and toxicity(massivelyop.com)
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by grawprog 6y ago
That's good to know. Hearing the squeaky voice of a prepubescent child repeating racial slurs incessantly for 10 minutes straight while giggling to themselves like it's the funniest fucking thing in the world gets a bit grating an
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by grawprog 6y ago
I've spent a lot of time reading the science over the last year and a half or so. These claims of gaslighting go both ways. I've seen numerous studies passed off as fact and that have been used to guide policy with unacceptably lo
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by grawprog 6y ago
Normally, I can handle some cheating in games, you just kinda deal with it, but holy fuck csgo was just nope. Between foul mouthed children and essentially watching God hackers play against eachother while you just die over and over. Yeah..
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by grawprog 6y ago
Why necessarily at the end? It could have been one of these: Did you know? You can put a whole game inside of a push notification. Or maybe even: Did you know? You can put a whole game inside of a push notification!
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by grawprog 6y ago
Yes, to further my example. So you get kicked out because you didn't read the fine print, turns out, the flea market owner now also has the right to go over to your store, rip your signs down, turn off your lights and lock your door un

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