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by hertzrat 6y ago
Wall calendars don’t have room for enough information. A weekly view would be nice. I would like a thinner frame and larger screen for readability. I might worry about the inconvenience of powering it or of entering/editing information
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Define easy access. I never knew anybody who had the slightest trouble getting alcohol when they were teenagers
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by hertzrat 6y ago
The online world is controlled almost entirely by buggy algorithms that have been given a lot of impactful decision making power. This sort of thing happens so often. Usually, it’s a permaban of an individual user for undisclosed reasons an
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by hertzrat 6y ago
A lot of logic in some games is triggered by animation events. Eg, activate a hurtbox on this frame of an attack. I wonder if you use a ton of timers to avoid depending on animations in that way
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by hertzrat 6y ago
A lot of old school blizzard creative staff have left over the years [1] [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Blizzard/comments/ewdija/a_list_of_...
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Any links to more details about this?
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by hertzrat 6y ago
The game could just read the files on your computer or report your internet browsing. Games have all sorts of access to peoples machines. Game privacy policies often contain some invasive permissions, check them out sometime
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by hertzrat 6y ago
I haven’t played hots in years now, but there were loot boxes last I saw. The system also encourages you to spend in game gold to get better loot box contents, but you need that gold to avoid paying real money for new heroes. Those new hero
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Electricity is a big deal even without crypto. Look at Texas right now - people have more to worry about than their mining rigs being offline
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by hertzrat 6y ago
> if you're founding a tech company now, you're pretty dumb to use C++ All us unreal engine using indie developers must be pretty dumb then. It’s true that programming in c# in unity is easier, but the end result of the c++ is
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Will Bitcoin even be that decentralized in 50 years? The miners control the network, and most mining is done by big companies now and their data centres. If it’s like other companies, won’t they gradually acquire one another until there is
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Out of curiosity, how many of the $800 of these chips and their software in new cars are maintainable or repairable at the corner garage? I remember having a Volkswagen years ago (the company is mentioned in the article as being affected by
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by hertzrat 6y ago
That’s not a terrible system from the sounds of it. Speaking of fibre, how is the rollout going? It seems like, if private companies own the last mile for fibre, the system described will eventually not really exist in 20ish years as people
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Looks like that issue was created Jan 10th and the fix was merged 6 hours ago. Apparently, it was a regression: > UPDATE: cause was cname adblocking, so this is a regression, not an earlier issue.
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Iirc, I think most people do not have a choice of isp where they live
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Living in the mountains, where I live, is about $2k per month just for rent
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Is it really a deep craving, or even a real choice? I am working on an indie game. I really don’t want to play the social media game, I don’t even have Twitter or Facebook. Yet, I’m spending today researching how to make a YouTube channel a
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by hertzrat 6y ago
“Everything it likes” is pretty broad, isn’t it?
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by hertzrat 6y ago
If you have a reference for that, it would make an interesting read
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Easier or not, there have been literal witch burnings for centuries, mob “justice”, racism, superstition, willful abuse against minorities... inspired by “popular” trends for millennia.
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by hertzrat 6y ago
It’s called an Oversight Board. Calling it a Supreme Court is silly
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by hertzrat 6y ago
These are... incredible
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by hertzrat 6y ago
But not necessarily when they apply for their next jobs, unfortunately
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Reminds me: Bradley and Karen from the Software Freedom Conservancy have a podcast largely about foss legal topics [1] [1] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/free-as-in-freedom/id4...
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Imagine that you accepted the Bitcoin transfer to sell somebody’s car for them to a known interested buyer, acting as a quick middleman, but then refused or failed to arrange the sale. There is still room to argue about what exactly the “tr
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Fortunately, in the open source world, scandals are still rare enough to be memorable. It’s a little amazing to have such a massive exception to “free (as in beer) means you are the product”
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Investing in Bitcoin seems like investing in GameStop: so many people are obsessed and want in on it but almost nobody really understands what’s going on or why the value is growing. They just want the easy money. Regardless of whether Bitc
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by hertzrat 6y ago
The average person in your neighbour hood is sitting reading the paper, contemplating: “I’m worried about inflation. should I buy some Bitcoin, or should I overthrow the government? I think I’ll try the overthrow option today”
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by hertzrat 6y ago
In practice, how would “print more” work for blockchain?
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Cross site tracking probably makes it pretty easy for companies to learn whatever they want about a person

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