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by hnick 4y ago
The most common symptom I encounter on indie titles in particular is loading stutter. You can tell when something big is about to happen or you'll see a new enemy type because the game just locks up for a short but perceivable amount o
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by hnick 4y ago
> a computer he aimed a table fan at to keep it cool. The whole casing was open That brings me back, I had to do the same to play Starcraft in the early 00s in summer since our house had no air conditioning and CPUs were passively cooled
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It is though their recent direction is concerning. I quit this league within a week or two. Don't really want to unpack all the drama here and the game is still very good, I just need to wait and see what they do next time around.
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by hnick 4y ago
Maybe the old ones, I think the new Torchlight has gacha elements :(
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I've gone mostly single player as I got older. Even stuff like Monster Hunter World I will struggle against Behemoth instead of just teaming up. Other people are just added complexity I don't want to deal with. That said game desi
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Some people are just unable to stop. My wife was like that in her small business. Her mindset was something like: I can't watch TV, I'm wasting money I could be earning. Even if there's no work right now, you can always do bu
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by hnick 4y ago
Yeah it's worth keeping in mind value != money, either.
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Monday is also a lot of public holidays which you miss out on, as I realised when I stopped working Monday here in Aus too ;)
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> I wonder if we'll see a new generation of "editors" showing up to help curate and provide some guidance in terms of what to play if you're limited on time. Iron Pineapple has an entertaining series he calls "St
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I got solar recently because the payback time was around 5 years taking rebates into account. We often talk about how negative externalities of things like coal are not priced appropriately, however it goes the other way and renewable rebat
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by hnick 4y ago
Our vacuum sealer said to never use it on bags with liquids. I'm guessing that's just a stupid compliance rule in case something goes wrong and it sucks the water into the machine.
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You could try something simple like kefir, we did it for our dog mostly. It is very simple. You just strain the yoghurt when it's at your desired thickness, then put fresh milk and the strained grains back in the jar. Over time you&#x2
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by hnick 4y ago
They have a fairly extensive API, I used it in a small business, my main problem with them was they kind of just sat on their laurels and didn't keep up with other companies in the space. Once you get a few thousand contacts (who in ou
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And more than consumer protection. At least here in Australia we have the ACCC, even though it feels somewhat weaker than usual in recent years, it can still help. It probably contributes to the so-called 'Australia Tax' we have o
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by hnick 4y ago
> Some even say that the electric car needs to run 150,000-235,000km to offset for the production Isn't that about when typical EV battery lifespan is meant to expire (10-20 years, but only warrantied for ~8), so it's due a rep
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It might be, my 15 year old Getz has one (I know because it plays up sometimes due to poor conductivity), but that was never released in the US.
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It's really obvious with our dog. As a puppy we could walk for an hour, or even more than 5km, and at home he'd still be a rambunctious little pest because he might be physically tired but not mentally. But a 5-10 minute training
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by hnick 4y ago
It's exhausting being mentally present while knowing you're not doing anything useful. Using that time to actually work on side projects feels very unethical, so it's kind of just going with the tide for 8 hours a day then be
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I agree with that. But there has to be minimal delay between any expense and refund if you are making the up front cost higher for the lower income brackets. Waiting until the end of the year for a rebate won't be good enough.
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3 euros seems low, or maybe the road use tax here is just too high. One EV road use tax in Australia (Victoria) is 2.5c per km, I'll assume that's fair for now (I doubt it is, but anyway). A prior post said a truck does 5,000 time
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by hnick 4y ago
Regressive because the new "tax" on the bread is a flat value, independent of the buyer's income and means. That's what the word means when it comes to taxes and fees. And yes, eating to survive is kind of regressive in
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by hnick 4y ago
For the last miles, delivering parcels to people and pallets to commerce, they are for sure. Rail just won't work well at that level of granularity. Between cities is probably another story where rail makes more sense but I'd gues
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Wouldn't this in effect add a regressive tax to staple products like bread and flour, which are transported by trucks and would require raised prices to be passed on? I'd be interested in seeing the numbers and what price rise if
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I loved it but I recall the first CD adventure game being very buggy. I did finish it, but often certain things did not work properly, characters would disappear or jump around depending on what order I tried things, I think I may have done
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We found one on a track near Willoughby Falls in Sydney and it didn't seem to care about our dog either. We kept our distance obviously, but it was in no hurry as it slowly ambled off the track.
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I had to test some calendar links and decided to make a test account on Yahoo for work to share. I quit at this step. We'll send you a code to verify this mobile number. Message and data rates may apply. By clicking ‘Send code’, you a
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I think people will just continue to roll the dice. When your competitors stay on the cloud, and you have higher expenses because you don't, they'll out-compete you unless they get knocked down by this. But not all of them will an
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Even if it's non-slavery, the maids do not get paid a lot and have to work quite a bit depending where they end up. No real private space and your "room" is a sleeping mat on the floor in the laundry next to the kitchen so yo
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That's a bit much. I know more than a few Singaporeans who left for Australia for university and never went back. Some started families here and didn't consider taking their kids back for schooling. I wouldn't say freedom was
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Yeah you just moved the RIP upstream, rasterize before the rasterizer :) We did that for a few jobs that caused trouble. I haven't worked on the innards of those machines but my suspicion is that it's a combination of 1) Not much

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