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by jameslk 1y ago
TS was severely underrated. I think it was inspired by Action HL, which of course I can only imagine was inspired by Action Quake. There were so many good ones though, like Natural Selection, Sven Coop, Firearms. It was incredible the quali
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by jameslk 1y ago
> After several other versions, Valve released Counter-Strike 2 in 2023 without Le’s direct handiwork. This is closest the article gets to mentioning css and csgo. Both of those games were like 90% of my teens Lots of history glossed ove
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by jameslk 1y ago
There’s Flock, there’s police drones, there’s Ring cameras everywhere, etc. yes I’m aware My point wasn’t to say there’s no monitoring in the US. It’s that there’s extreme variance in population densities which therefore means less opportun
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by jameslk 1y ago
This may make sense to you if you live in a big city, but luckily a lot of the US is uninhabited, especially in the western US. There’s many places you can drive hundreds of miles and not see anyone or be monitored like you would be in a la
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by jameslk 1y ago
Tragedy of the commons is caused by out of sync motives. Like a mismatch in protocols that people speak, which is partially explained by culture and upbringing (only partially of course). That is, tragedy of the commons is a symptom not a c
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A Suicide Cult's Surviving Members Still Maintain Its 90s Website (2016)(vice.com)
37 points by jameslk 1y ago|19 comments
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by jameslk 1y ago
I was curious who's keeping that website alive, and allegedly it's two former members of the cult: Mark and Sarah King https://www.vice.com/en/article/a-suicide-cults-surviving-me...
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by jameslk 1y ago
Over rationalizing is paperclip maximizing
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by jameslk 1y ago
Surely you can do all of those things and still be a machiavellian psychopath? Or be too lazy to do those things and still have altruistic intentions? Couldn’t someone have both selfish and altruistic intentions simultaneously? My point bei
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by jameslk 1y ago
Thank you for this comic. It addresses a feeling I experience a lot on the internet
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by jameslk 1y ago
What differentiates a person who’s doing a stunt to raise money for a charitable cause and a person who is “using sick kids as cover” for their behavior?
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by jameslk 1y ago
> I don't know what this logical fallacy is called, but it's a logical fallacy nonetheless. It’s a straw man. The US is usually represented by liberals vs conservatives, not progressives. Also progressivism doesn’t simply mean
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by jameslk 1y ago
The progressive movement is not representative of the whole Democratic Party (it’s widely liberals vs conservatives, not progressives) Republicans also don’t simply roll everything back that democrats do, as you can see with tariffs Moderat
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by jameslk 1y ago
> let's say you publish a Steam game how to be a school shooter and shoot kids, wouldn't that lead to real school shootings ? > who can definitely say that computer generated content about criminal behavior, won't lead
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by jameslk 1y ago
I found this analysis insightful: https://x.com/dampedspring/status/1953070287093731685 > However, this pace is likely unsustainable going forward. The sharp acceleration in capex is likely behind us, and the r
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by jameslk 1y ago
Seems best to flag until verified or an announcement is made
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by jameslk 1y ago
Any reason to believe this is true, other than a guy who claims to have friends at OpenAI said so?
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by jameslk 1y ago
Doesn’t rent need to keep going up so the top-heavy segment of retirees can have a steady stream of inflation adjusted income and capital gains for their remaining years? This doesn’t seem sustainable, politically
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by jameslk 1y ago
For a while, there was a library built to do this: https://github.com/guess-js/guess You can do this with speculation rules too. Your speculation rules are just prescriptive of what you think the user will navigate to
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by jameslk 1y ago
> The easiest web performance engineering anyone can do is fire any and all marketers, managers, or executives Your solution to web performance issues is to fire people?
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by jameslk 1y ago
“Just” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. There’s a lot that has to go on between the backend and frontend to make modern websites with all their dynamic moving pieces, tons of video/imagery, and heavy marketing/analytics scri
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by jameslk 1y ago
If server resources and scalability are a concern, speculative fetching will add more load to those resources, which may or may not be used. Same deal on the end user’s device. That’s the trade off. Also, this is basically a Blink-only feat
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by jameslk 1y ago
It seems you’ve discovered my point
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by jameslk 1y ago
I keep seeing the defense for Tea as an app for women’s safety, which is of course a valid concern. Wouldn’t it make more sense for a service to exist, like some kind of enforcement service provided by the government, where others can repor
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Spaghetti All'assassina(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by jameslk 1y ago|0 comments
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by jameslk 1y ago
> "Searing the meat seals in the juices" -- every chef on every cooking show. This is debunked. See myth #2 and #4 here: https://www.seriouseats.com/old-wives-tales-about-cooking-st...
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by jameslk 1y ago
Maybe I’ve been missing some important stuff, but it seems the most relevant and important updates eventually just bubble up to the front page of HN or get mentioned in the comments
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by jameslk 1y ago
Are you selling top down or bottom up? That makes a world of difference. Top down means you’re trying to sell managers and above who don’t directly use the tool. Usually they care about seeing case studies, logos of other companies, testimo
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by jameslk 1y ago
Southern Nevada uses a tiny amount of water compared to most states, about 2% of the total that’s apportioned from the CO river, and recycles about 40% of it. For indoor usage, 99% of water is recycled. I agree growing things in the desert
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by jameslk 1y ago
Yes, dubious proof. A quick Google search can reveal this claim has been bs for decades, consistently evaluated by the US’ own intelligence, up until a day ago [0] But that doesn’t matter anymore 0. https://www.bbc.com/news&

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