khalilravanna

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by khalilravanna 9mo ago
Such a cool piece of technology. I will say though I enjoyed our 200 lb monster CRT of yore I’m thankful we have Mike Chi and the RetroTINK 4K now. Being able to play any old console on any modern TV while still having it look accurate it i
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by khalilravanna 1y ago
Take a company already known for its cynical “value extraction” approach to games, barely fostering enough life within its doors to squeeze out acceptable versions of games that used to be truly Great from among their vast hoard of IP—take
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by khalilravanna 1y ago
I have to disagree. Evidence for this being wrong is right on many games websites a la Backloggd with plenty of people rating older games very highly, more than many new releases. More evidence: numerous games being re-released with mainly
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by khalilravanna 2y ago
Same. Mine had expanded so much it almost popped the battery panel off. Thankfully replacements are quite cheap! I went through and replaced old ones on my PSPs, DSs, etc and now keep em all charged (with a mess of cables) to hopefully keep
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by khalilravanna 2y ago
This reminds me of my first software job, an internship in college in 2012 building an application from scratch to facilitate evaluating teachers. It was basically an app to allow people to create a form for their school’s evaluation criter
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by khalilravanna 2y ago
This is incorrect information. Check out levels.fyi. The average stock grant for Meta E6 is well over $1M/4years. Just one example. Plenty of data on other companies offers there.
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by khalilravanna 2y ago
Never heard of this. So I went to the website to find out what it is. "Your pocket companion" the top of the website reads. Ok, don't know what that means. Scroll down "push to talk button", "conversational int
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by khalilravanna 2y ago
My biggest lament with the PS3 is the forward incompatibility making many great games locked to the platform (MGS4, Demon’s Souls, etc.). Meanwhile in Xbox land there are *633* 360 games you can play on any new Xbox by just slipping the dis
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by khalilravanna 2y ago
I wonder if the engineer working on this thought “I wonder if someone on YouTube will use this to try and become famous by breaking their finger? Surely not…” An algorithm that closes the door harder if it meets resistance seems a bit insan
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by khalilravanna 2y ago
Similar experience. - Rented Model Y. Show up and no Model Y. “We got a 3”. I’m driving to Vermont with snow but no choice now. “Ok sounds great.” - Have to stop every couple hours to charge. - Multiple times the GPS plotted us a route whic
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by khalilravanna 3y ago
This sounds like it mirrors my usage. Basically treat it like pairing with a really junior dev: assume everything it writes will be wrong and then go from there. If you do that then best case it speeds you up and worst case you waste a litt
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by khalilravanna 3y ago
There was an automated tool like this someone built at Twitter. At first it was cool just to see who the most tenured people were. Then the layoffs happened and it became essential due to the absolute 0 communication happening thanks to the
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by khalilravanna 3y ago
Same. Only time I ever dealt with shipping on FB marketplace was the time I was selling my Steam Deck and some guy didn’t want to drive. So I said “How about I list it on eBay so we’re both protected, send you the link, and you buy it there
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by khalilravanna 3y ago
Ah good to know. I also forgot the obvious case where a game’s disc only contains a subset of the content on it and a download is required for the rest. It’s not really a day one patch but just the game is too large to fit on a disc.
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by khalilravanna 3y ago
Is this actually true? I don’t think I’ve ever been fully blocked from anything because you can always just turn off the internet and then boot the game to bypass these things (Switch for example). The only way then is the game itself wou
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by khalilravanna 3y ago
I think if the definition of a “good history” is “clean and not messy”, then yes I agree that’s pointless. If the definition is “a clear ability to see what changes were made, by who, and most importantly why ” I think that’s incredibly ne
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by khalilravanna 3y ago
I’m sure that’s some part of it. I think another part, kind of similar, is acronyms being used as a form of in-group/out-group behavior. “I know the lingo so I’m in the club. You don’t so you aren’t”
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by khalilravanna 3y ago
Another reminder that acronyms are pretty terrible for communication. Every time I onboard with a new org there’s a whole new set of acronyms to learn that’s barely faster than typing out the unabbreviated version. Nice to save a couple sec
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by khalilravanna 3y ago
I think at least initially TikTok would push traffic to new accounts. My first few videos got a bunch of likes/views even though I had 0 followers. And then I noticed it started to trickle down video after video even though (subjective
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by khalilravanna 3y ago
I listen to a frightening amount of video game music and the Katamari and Etrian Odyssey series are the ones with the most consistently stellar music out there. Katamari is especially good because of how, like you mentioned, eclectic it is.
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by khalilravanna 3y ago
God the absurdly loud music sucks. I don’t care what I’m inebriated by or how inebriated I am, it’s obnoxious. Bonus obnoxious-points to the restaurants who blast music. There’s two I can think of in Boston and while the food was great I’
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by khalilravanna 3y ago
I’m @trash on GitHub and you’d be surprised how many PRs I get added to. IIRC someone gave me the keys to their repo inadvertently because they thought github.com/trash was a delete function or something.
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by khalilravanna 3y ago
Quote from him in the NBC interview: “…a business owner can be fired by its shareholders…” You know, I think he may be on to something there. Maybe someone should look into that for oh, say, the CEO of Reddit.
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by khalilravanna 3y ago
They recently legalized sports betting in MA. My SO lives in the North End and even I didn’t realize until I noticed Boston go from normal ads to sports betting ads being everywhere in the city. https://www.wcvb.com/amp&#x
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by khalilravanna 3y ago
This is somewhat antithetical to your desire of playing it on PC but Oblivion got updated to run backwards compatible on Xbox Series X at 4k 60fps. Unreal you can pay $10 for a used copy and play this classic and it runs like a dream. In ge
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by khalilravanna 3y ago
I’m cherry picking but A vs CNAME is incredibly simple, just not something most keep in their mind since you usually set it and forget it. As an aside, my guess is the recall rate would be a lot higher amongst people if the record types had
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by khalilravanna 3y ago
The driving one reminds me of how absolutely brain dead I feel after riding a motorcycle for 8-12 hours in a day. Nevermind that my body is rocked from the wind all day but just being able to do basic math or have a conversation with the pe
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by khalilravanna 3y ago
Children sleeping under their desks. Presumably hinting that learning is tiring and/or maybe adults need nap times too.
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by khalilravanna 3y ago
Yes I use How Long To Beat! I was amazed to see it’s so popular it’s even integrated into IGN’s page for games. And wow storing them all as JSON that’s cool. I wish there was something with as much data as IGDB but you could download and ac
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by khalilravanna 3y ago
Yeah I compartmentalize exceptions like these as well. Like I don't count "ongoing coop games with friends" or "long term games" (like your Factorio save, or something like League of Legends) towards my broader &quo

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