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by klibertp 4y ago
Yup, I didn't play Daggerfall, you're right. I actually started with Might and Magic VI, I only read about the earlier titles. I read about how much of an improvement to the series MM6 was, but I never experienced how much worse t
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by klibertp 4y ago
Interesting, but I don't think (even without taking into account the "Criticism" section) it can be applied to CRPGs. I was very careful to put the "C" every single time because, while related, CRPGs are quite diffe
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by klibertp 4y ago
You're evidently don't belong to the CRPGs' target player base :) The basic idea of CRPGs is to give you an avatar that is as different or as similar to you personally as you want and let you experience the avatar's inte
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by klibertp 4y ago
> The balance of power inside families The question is: is gender even related to this? Or is a position of power simply that much less often taken by a woman in a family? Similarly with race, ethnicity, job, and so on. I'm willing
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by klibertp 4y ago
The question is more how often rather than how long. For example, this page: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/elisp.ht... takes nearly 15 seconds to fully load for me, but then I can l
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by klibertp 4y ago
gparted is also nice, although Disks seem to display more information by default.
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by klibertp 4y ago
On the topic of hidden gems. The info directory is frequently populated by default with manuals when you install a piece of software. These tend to be more in-depth and complete manuals then the man pages for the same tool. Just type `info`
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by klibertp 4y ago
Seriously? Even if my arguments are sound? Just because I didn't notice the change in the nick, because I was replying from the threads page, where the parent post of my first comment was not displayed? Well... Ok, I guess. And what ye
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by klibertp 4y ago
> as what’s the point? Are you old enough to be sure you will be dead in 20 years? If not, then making sure we won't be all dying in a "fire and fury" would be the point. Otherwise, I guess, you have the luxury of not thin
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by klibertp 4y ago
Note: edited to show more care. Well, separating them is just as arbitrary. From the perspective of type theory, both kinds are just unityped. I was responding to claims about dynamic typing - and to that, assembler is relevant, as it uses
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by klibertp 4y ago
> Python is the language that gave dynamic typing its bad name. You never saw a line of assembler, didn't you? You also just discounted 40 years of computer science (EDIT: I mean programming, CS has longer history of course) that ha
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by klibertp 4y ago
What about "fire and fury"? Wasn't that a threat? Also, please note that in my original comment I'm talking about the future - after the collapse of Russia, in a few decades. Can you guarantee that the world will not nee
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by klibertp 4y ago
I don't know anything about the Teslas driving themselves, but on the safety front you need to take into account how absolutely horrible most human drivers' skills are. 90% of them (sure, me included... no, wait, I don't driv
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by klibertp 4y ago
> My experience is that the rate of change is so high and fast in so many areas Yes. The rate of change is very high. Real, actual improvements, however, are very rare. Most of the code written today in Python - my field of expertise -
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by klibertp 4y ago
> It's mind boggling that they are just now waking up It's nothing unusual. Software engineering as a field moves at a glacial pace. I see two reasons for this: one is that people don't want to learn anything radically dif
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by klibertp 4y ago
Stop with all the watching (and to a lesser extent listening) and start reading and hoarding books instead. 99% of downloaded content you will never read, but at 0.5~4.0Mb per book just two cheap, but RAIDed with ZFS for safety, 1Tb 3.5&quo
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by klibertp 4y ago
"Readability" concept, as commonly understood, is a misnomer - when you say something is readable, you most often mean "it's close to my expectations of how it should be written," regardless of how easy or hard it w
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by klibertp 4y ago
> so how do you argue with that? Quite simply: "cleanliness" might be nice, but readability and maintainability are more important. The former is purely subjective, the latter are actually quite well defined.
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by klibertp 4y ago
Well, at least there's a reason for this: Elixir REPL is actually a remote shell, and the first Ctrl+C is an escape sequence that drops you into local connection manager. You of course know this, but I thought I'll leave it here f
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by klibertp 4y ago
I think "housing" here means "real estate" + "people living inside".
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by klibertp 4y ago
Yes. Before vouching, I skimmed their "comments" page. In my opinion, 90% of the posts there were flagged unfairly. Being incorrect or even inflammatory is not a crime. Being unable to voice your opinion just because it makes othe
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by klibertp 4y ago
There's really no reason why we couldn't be direct while staying civil.
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by klibertp 4y ago
I don't know, I'm not American, and don't care that much. I was referring to this part: > I'm just tired of the USA paying for everything when we don't have the money. Which seems to be one of the things that mad
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by klibertp 4y ago
That's the problem: the kind of issues the GIL prevents is notoriously hard to reproduce and debug. It would probably pass 90% of the test suites out there, unless you wrote yours with multi-threading in mind. Same for empirical tests
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by klibertp 4y ago
This post was dead when I stumbled upon it. I don't agree with it, for the obvious reasons, including the fact that I'm not American. Yet, my understanding is that this kind of opinion is shared by a large number of US citizens. I
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by klibertp 4y ago
What about all the scripts and programs that depend on the GIL to give correct results - often without even their authors knowing about it? I guess making this opt-in with a compiler flag is ok, but I would be very, very careful about m
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by klibertp 4y ago
Ah. Ok. Carry on, then... ;-)
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by klibertp 4y ago
In around 2005 I had a pleasure of visiting a central office of a shipment company, and could see their setup for the whole country involved: 1. a hacked ISDN connection "borrowed" from the neighbor one floor below; 2. an entire s
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by klibertp 4y ago
How could anyone call another "brain damaged" and then demand to them not to be offended? Like, seriously. If you're going to insult someone, live up to it and prepare for a backlash instead of trying to get away with "n
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by klibertp 4y ago
> You ALWAYS and CONTINUOUSLY have to invest time. Not at all. First, you learn Emacs Lisp. Then, you don't need to learn anything else related to Emacs, EVER. > Every time you want to use a new language, try a new plugin, etc. y

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