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by hnick 6y ago
Privateer, though... I loved the hell out of that game. I don't think we had a Star Wars variant but that would've been something.
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by hnick 6y ago
It seems to me that Instagram is trying to limit automation and linking to stop it feeling businessy. While some automation platforms exists, scheduled posts break all the time, it's hard to share responsibilities for posting, and all
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by hnick 6y ago
If it's a real concern then managing coming off the pills should really be part of the treatment. Don't just leave people to wing it. Did they offer that to you?
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by hnick 6y ago
I don't really see how that relates, when I say "getting sick" I don't think most people from here would include starvation or dehydration in that bucket, but maybe that's a regional difference. I meant things you c
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by hnick 6y ago
I did read about a guy who cold brewed coffee, left the jug in the fridge, then just microwaved it every morning. That sounds tasty and convenient so I need to check it out.
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by hnick 6y ago
How so? Wouldn't most pathogens be food or water borne if you're not in a crowded city in close proximity to other humans or livestock? Either way I don't see how what you say is true. If I stop eating or drinking how does th
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by hnick 6y ago
I'm with you there, milk alone is almost too sweet for me because I rarely add sugar to anything. But I think I need it for the creaminess (fat?) to cut the bitterness (and adding oil/butter is probably worse).
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by hnick 6y ago
> depress a lot of immunity That seems odd, in a non-city context wouldn't eating and drinking be one of the riskiest things in terms of getting sick? Edit: After thinking about it maybe it's related to not overreacting to ever
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by hnick 6y ago
I think the fact they're not allowed to take money out of China makes it laundering by definition. They're hiding illegal money from the Chinese government (once it leaves China it's illegal to hold as I understand it) and le
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by hnick 6y ago
Point taken about the amount of code - my point was more about how far you can get with the core structure before having to dive into code. Whereas any React tutorial starts with code. You don't really start by laying things out and co
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by hnick 6y ago
> A case of maintainability? A good point. I hadn't considered it. Though games are more frequently masquerading as services now too.
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by hnick 6y ago
> you're building on top of a stack of software that includes a rendering engine Yes that's pretty much a web browser, isn't it? There are many types of engines, such as a business logic engine. The distinction between eng
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by hnick 6y ago
It's interesting to me that in video games we talk less about frameworks than we do engines. Doing a few tutorials, I was shocked at how little code I had to write these days with something like Unity or Godot. Breakout indie success s
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by hnick 6y ago
We learned personal finance in my public high school here in Australia, there was a dedicated humanities course (which includes wills etc too) but it also got touched on in maths with compound interest, probability, etc, where we used real
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by hnick 6y ago
Older accounts may have fake names but newer ones require identification documents, even selfie videos to prove you are a human. It wouldn't surprise me if they start combing through older accounts eventually.
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by hnick 6y ago
I can't even go fullscreen in a Teams meeting anymore after a "recent" (read: months and months ago) update. My small laptop has 1/4 of the screen taken by UI and taskbar, even in "focus" mode.
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by hnick 6y ago
I find playfulness great but it can backfire when a serious problem crops up. Then it starts looking like unprofessionalism. This might be why Discord themselves have said not to use it for serious business in companies (I can't find t
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by hnick 6y ago
> It doesn't help that a lot of Netflix productions have 20 episodes or so, of which only about 3 are really good. Yeah this was really obvious to me in some of their Marvel stuff. Overall enjoyable enough, but only if I binged it w
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by hnick 6y ago
The corollary is that sometimes you can read a word, without having heard it, and to get through the piece you have to make up a pronunciation and that just sticks in your head. Twenty years later, I still read lingerie as it is spelled i
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by hnick 6y ago
You may find this interesting: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/its-all-ch... "Researchers looking at the brains of dyslexic Chinese children have discovered that the disorder in that language oft
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by hnick 6y ago
The promise of recommendation engines is that you will get that niche experience that will scratch your itch just right. I don't know how well that works in practice, but even so, it seems like it removes the chance of stumbling on som
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by hnick 6y ago
I like to consider English in the same class is loosely typed dynamic programming languages... Perl, PHP, Javascript, etc. They get popular because the lack of strictness makes them easy to work with and they spread like... well, some would
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by hnick 6y ago
I always interpreted it as an elision. Something like "But that begs [me to ask] the question why XYZ".
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by hnick 6y ago
I lost full access to my account when a friend gifted me a CD key he bought from someone on Ebay. I think it was originally bought with a stolen credit card, so a chargeback was issued, which then meant my whole account was locked out. Supp
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by hnick 6y ago
I was going to mention this. I've heard stories about players scouring the streets on council cleanup day in the hopes to snag an old CRT.
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by hnick 6y ago
I knew a girl from Hong Kong who carried the same belief so it's not just SK. It's interesting the article didn't mentioned suicide, which I've seen mentioned before as a cause of the myth. The story goes that papers pop
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by hnick 6y ago
Cultural habits don't necessarily need a well defined cause and effect. The effect in such cases is that people think you are strange for not playing along. The root of the habit in this case is Chinese medicinal beliefs. Here is a bit
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by hnick 6y ago
Replacing names with numbers? How dystopian! This is of course a joke, I am a fan of the number system. The honour system also works fine here in Australia, they just call out the order and you go and take it after a tiny delay to see if th
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by hnick 6y ago
Gaming the system could be a problem but I think an equilibrium can be reached where the payoff is attractive but won't cause huge problems. If the boars are as destructive and dangerous as stated, it seems like a poor payoff to take a
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by hnick 6y ago
> And there are only so many people willing to spend their own time and money to leave the city and go kill them. Have permits and bounties been discussed? It has backfired with cases like cobras in India, but I don't see such a ris

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