kdheiwns

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by kdheiwns 6mo ago
We can't even get countries to agree on a unified drinking age, but somehow the whole world is simultaneously coming to the conclusion that you need to be 16 to use social media, and websites and operating systems all need North Korean
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by kdheiwns 6mo ago
Seems more and more like CEOs and MBAs as a whole are letting AI make all their decisions
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by kdheiwns 6mo ago
If you lick plain MSG, it tastes bitter. Add it to something very sweet and it just tastes bizarre. Sprinkle it on fried chicken and it tastes like you just dumped chicken gravy on it and pumped up the taste. It really does mainly amplify
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by kdheiwns 6mo ago
In some places, like the Philippines, gas/fuel prices are up 70-100% since the start of the Special Four Day Operation in Iran. It's easy to say "who cares doesn't affect me", which sounds nice. But the Philippines
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by kdheiwns 6mo ago
Labor is cheaper elsewhere, yes. But people getting paid lower salaries in other countries are still getting health care, affording rent, affording restaurant meals, etc. America has a strong problem where local salaries are high and prices
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by kdheiwns 6mo ago
America is in a weird situation where people have a lot of money in terms of the number and it converts well to other currencies. But it feels worthless within American borders. An American can get a very sad and bad sandwich for about $20
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by kdheiwns 6mo ago
Not sure if it even matters since Alex Jones is just going to keep doing what he's doing. Judgements demanding he pay billions keep coming out and he just says he's not paying, and nobody has forced him to either. Even if infowars
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by kdheiwns 6mo ago
You're the one who said kids would be accessing age gated sites with their parents' credentials. You're the one who made the case that it's useless. Don't go back and forth on it lol
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by kdheiwns 6mo ago
It's not a waste of time. Every time some new thing comes out and becomes popular, everyone everywhere says everything must be that thing because it's the future. In America, everyone wanted pure white sliced bread. People wanted
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by kdheiwns 6mo ago
If you trust mega corps and the government when they say they're not accessing and monitoring your personal info, then I think that's very interesting.
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by kdheiwns 6mo ago
Then just get rid of the age gating and verification entirely because it's useless.
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by kdheiwns 6mo ago
Not everyone views their child as an enemy that just happens to be in close quarters with them. Most people trust their kids to generally not do bad things. People keep knives in their kitchen and kids, explain the danger, and kids are gene
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by kdheiwns 6mo ago
A phone isn't going to run off the road and kill 7 people. This is nonsense and you know it. And yes, phones are something parents do "just" share with their kids because nobody is bizarre enough to look at a phone the same w
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by kdheiwns 6mo ago
Because people share phones with their kids. It's not rare or even mildly unusual. The problem isn't that the app needs to solve this. The problem is the app is useless, along with this whole bizarre "need for age verificatio
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by kdheiwns 6mo ago
Blows my mind that it's non-binding. If I booked half a hotel's rooms then suddenly said "yeah never mind. Half my friends cancelled and we're not staying", basically any hotel would be coming at me for my money bec
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by kdheiwns 6mo ago
Unity does this. You get scaledDeltaTime (when you set game speed to 0, it'll return 0) and unscaledDeltaTime (returns time between frames ignoring game speed). Pauseable logic uses the former. Pause menus use the latter.
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by kdheiwns 6mo ago
Games are multithreaded and have loads of objects running everywhere. If you're using anything that's not a custom game engine, there really isn't a single main() function that you can plop an if statement like that into. Slo
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by kdheiwns 6mo ago
Japan has some of the most horrific pollution disasters of the 20th century and had tremendously polluted water. The clean Japan thing is only true because Japan got very serious about safety after companies were ignoring issues and polluti
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by kdheiwns 6mo ago
Looking only at connections to Tokyo is a bit reductionist (difficult to believe, but yes, there are cities outside of Tokyo that people go to!). As a mere matter of geography, there are unavoidably fewer trains to Tokyo (it's on the o
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by kdheiwns 6mo ago
The federal government has no influence. Prefectures approve their own construction. Japan's railways are built and operated by corporations, not the government, so the federal government has zero say in the matter.
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by kdheiwns 6mo ago
They still have influence in Japan. The maglev train has been delayed for years because a small portion passes through Shizuoka, and the local government wouldn't approve construction due to it making no stops in the prefecture and pot
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by kdheiwns 6mo ago
Read simple novels and look things up in a dictionary when you see a bunch of words that don't make sense. Watch shows with subtitles and do the same. Chat with people in the language. This is how non-natives learn English outside of
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by kdheiwns 6mo ago
This is a hilariously common thing with studiers of Asian languages. There are countless posts with people spending years, even more than a decade, just trying to memorize every single kanji and how to write it before even beginning vocabul
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by kdheiwns 6mo ago
China hates India. China hates Japan even more. China sometimes hates South Korea. The US hates Mexico (and flip flops when presidents do) America imposed a dictatorship on Chile. The US has threatened Brazil recently. The US has also
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by kdheiwns 6mo ago
Google makes loads of money through scam ads and fake/AI slop videos. Anyone trying to get in the way of that is putting Google's profits at risk, hence why they shut down legitimate accounts but scammers just run free.
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by kdheiwns 6mo ago
Please which countries, though? China? The EU? The US? All of them have conflicting interests and you can't please all three.
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by kdheiwns 6mo ago
A ban explicitly requires government interference. That's what a ban is.
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by kdheiwns 6mo ago
Most indie game dev projects start as some small weekend project just to feel things out. Then it starts to become fun so we work on it another week. Then after a couple months we start to think that maybe the game has potential. Then we&#x
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by kdheiwns 6mo ago
This is one of the cases where I do think AI development is handy. There are loads of simple apps (like in your example, an alarm with custom sounds) that someone could crank out if they take a couple weeks to learn some frameworks and a la
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It's physically impossible for land that small to grow enough food to provide for their population. Those people were driven from their land and forced into an incredibly tiny and unsustainable space. And the whole "They never bui

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