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by kowbell 4y ago
> It's not (in an almost literal sense!) a game anymore at that point I’m curious what your definition of a game is?
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by kowbell 4y ago
It can’t connect to a TV, only streams if you’re on WiFi (is too weak to do much locally), and costs $50 more than a brand new Switch+Dock/costs just $50 less than a Steam Deck? Who is going to buy this? What makes Logitech think this
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by kowbell 5y ago
Are you implying that if someone believes the universe has a plan for them, then they won't need therapy?
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by kowbell 5y ago
Can you elaborate on what about this is torturous? It sounds like the experimenter treats the rats well, got them acclimated to his presence/the harness/the treadmill over time, and only ran the tests with them for less than two w
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by kowbell 5y ago
I've always been curious about the distinction between JPEG and JPEG2000. From what I can find online, everyone says that the visual quality is better than JPEG, it just flopped due to slow adoption. Could you elaborate on your claim t
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by kowbell 5y ago
I'm curious why you and OP are equating "not monogamy" with "single-parent?" What about polygamy? Or even non-married but still-committed group partnerships? I'm certainly not suggesting to eradicate monogamy a
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by kowbell 5y ago
I just downloaded it today. First thing you do when you open it is choose which of those three you want to pay (or start the free trial with a cancellable auto-subscribe for the yearly), do the 2-second Apple Pay prompt, then it sends you r
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by kowbell 5y ago
If the user already has to manually opt-in to it, could you throw in an extra “we need your real email” step for Apple ID users? Then users still get privacy-by-default and you still get the email needed for this feature.
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by kowbell 5y ago
> Yes, this is the essential nature of real-time chat. Discord can be real-time, it can also be slightly-slower-than-realtime; maybe as slow as a forum at times, but with different expectations (namely being closer to real-time.) Persona
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by kowbell 5y ago
> If I've participated in conversations on 5 different topics that have moved on, it can sometimes be tiring to have those old threads reopened with more discussions. I reckon that’s more due to reopening old conversations regardles
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by kowbell 5y ago
Forgot to mention: at my job, Slack threads have been super useful. Three or four people can discuss one topic in an open channel (so others can join in and we can search history) without spamming notifications against everyone else. E.g. s
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by kowbell 5y ago
> Threads make it harder and weirder for people to chime in halfway through or to catch up on what people have been saying I’m of the completely opposite opinion. If I want to contribute to a prior discussion that happened a few minutes
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by kowbell 6y ago
Not WebAssembly related, but there are already VSCode plugins for "a nice shadertoy-style live-coding environment!" GLSL preview: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=circlede... Full on Shadertoy e
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by kowbell 7y ago
I know this is comment in jest, but could you actually identify who touched a screen? Do people have different physical characteristics that would give them a detectable capacitive "fingerprint?"
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by kowbell 7y ago
I was taking a Game Engines class at my uni last semester and we had to add scripting to our C++ engines using Duktape (or it's C++ counterpart, Dukglue.) It was surprisingly easy to use Duktape once you figured out the initial boilerp
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by kowbell 7y ago
I had an S5 too, and actually still have it in case I ever need a backup (e.g. last week when _my_ Pixel started getting caught in an infinite boot loop!) Though I hadn't noticed the S5 being destroyed by software updates - the only re
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by kowbell 7y ago
Definitely agree that configuration should be optional, not practically required. That's not just an annoyance to most people, it's a reason to avoid using something altogether. > Needing to open up a package manager to get som
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by kowbell 8y ago
I've had great success getting touchscreen scrolling to work with https://superuser.com/a/1155441 (Surface Pro 3 running KDE Plasma)