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by ksymph 1y ago
In theory yes, data is just stored in json and there's a CLI utility [1] for building. It's pretty awkward though. [1] https://defold.com/manuals/bob/
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by ksymph 1y ago
So much lua stuff on HN the past few days, I love it. Defold is a great engine. It has a somewhat steep learning curve (steeper than you'd expect, anyway) and its fair share of quirks, but more often than not the quirks are deliberate
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by ksymph 1y ago
Not mentioned in the article is Nintendo's strongarming of retailers. The lawsuit wasn't settled until the mid 90s, and Nintendo failed to legally stop cartridge manufacturing until then - but what they did do was threaten to pull
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by ksymph 2y ago
The example used doesn't seem like a good indication of reflexively reaching for a phone, as doing things while waiting at a bus stop is pretty reasonable and has been around long before smartphones. You're right though, that&#x27
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by ksymph 2y ago
I doubt you spend every second of your non-work time staring into space though. I like to read, for example; just because I do it on my phone in public sometimes doesn't mean I'm not finding other times for quiet contemplation.
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Google's Policy Change Towards Fingerprinting(blog.lukaszolejnik.com)
3 points by ksymph 2y ago|0 comments
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by ksymph 2y ago
Fun fact: there was a brief period after music recording, but before copies could be made with much quality, where if you wanted them to sound halfway decent each recording had to be a unique performance. Studio musicians were paid to perfo
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by ksymph 2y ago
The issue is that the artists who make it are getting paid very little, with no attribution, on songs that get massive amounts of plays and exposure. The entire purpose of the program is for Spotify to pay artists less and cut out real inde
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by ksymph 2y ago
> How is the score calculated? Oh man, this was harder than I thought. Color is such a deceptively dangerous rabbit hole. A few months ago I entered a game jam intending to make a small pokemon-like where you collect colors rather than c
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by ksymph 2y ago
I grew up mostly in the north and talk very northernly, but somehow the only exception is that 'howdy' became my standard greeting. 'yall' feels like too much, but 'howdy' just rolls off the tongue so smoothly.
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How to Stop Junk Mail(consumer.ftc.gov)
2 points by ksymph 2y ago|2 comments
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by ksymph 2y ago
The future this (and similar legislature from other countries) points toward is extremely concerning. I run a small site with some user interaction; though it doesn't seem the intended target of this particular legislature, it seems in
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by ksymph 2y ago
I should have made my point/question clearer too; I agree that literacy is valuable for all the reasons you outline. Tests are only as useful as what they measure. The qualitative changes to communication could have impacted the quan
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by ksymph 2y ago
To play devil's advocate: why does it matter? The purpose of language is communication, so it could be argued that if people feel they're able to understand and be understood sufficiently, classic ideas of literacy aren't rea
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by ksymph 2y ago
You don't even need a preprocessor for that with var() and calc(). It's perfectly possible to write clear and easily maintainable raw CSS nowadays.
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by ksymph 2y ago
Feels very creepy knowing this much about a stranger (not to mention gamifying it) but also weirdly fascinating. My closest friend has diabetes, it can be hard. Hope you're well. I suppose I can just check though lol. Strange but well
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by ksymph 2y ago
Very nice! It's a fun concept, and you did well with the execution. It runs smooth on my ancient phone and the swipe controls feel tight. Only suggestion as far as UX is to store game state in browser storage to persist across page loa
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by ksymph 2y ago
Is this tongue-in-cheek? It seems like it is, but I can't tell for sure. Disliking LLMs for coding because they're too helpful is an amusing concept either way.
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by ksymph 2y ago
They expressly state the result is likely because the AI poetry was more simple and direct than the poetry selected, which is more accessible for the average person not interested in poetry. They compare and contrast this with other studies
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by ksymph 2y ago
I don't see how the authors are dishonest about it, or that the rebuttal refutes any of the actual claims made. They make it clear in the paper that they're specifically evaluating people who aren't especially interested in p
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by ksymph 2y ago
I believe the confusion here comes from the ambiguity of the "It's a shame" comment, as it could be "It's a shame [that the gem cannot be safely stored in its home country due to the political situation]" or &q
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by ksymph 2y ago
For anyone else who hasn't heard it before, a bush lawyer is "One who is not qualified in law yet attempts to expound on legal matters." https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/bush_lawyer
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by ksymph 2y ago
This is the first time I've seen Firefox's alternate stylesheets mentioned in the wild. Interesting.
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by ksymph 2y ago
The article has some weird stuff in it which makes the whole thing seem ridiculous (did we really need two paragraphs detailing the effects of loneliness?). The paper frames it much better: https://www.nature.com/articles&#x
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by ksymph 2y ago
The question of 'Why bring back extinct species?' is fundamentally the same as 'Why save species from extinction?'. It's unspoken but seems to be widely understood that biodiversity and preventing its permanent loss
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by ksymph 2y ago
Small error: Oskar van Deventer's 17x17 is at 2009 in the timeline, but the description says 2011.
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by ksymph 2y ago
Off topic: it's always been strange to me that "lich" isn't pronounced like "like" like in "lichen". Even after hearing the 'correct' pronunciation plenty of times I still usually hear it &#
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by ksymph 2y ago
The focus seems to be on games, but I wonder how well e.g. Microsoft Office or Adobe apps run.
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by ksymph 2y ago
They make a reduced sodium variety. It's also best to think of it more like bacon than ham and use it as an accent.
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by ksymph 2y ago
I can't speak for how well it works but PixelLab [0] claims to support animations, rotation and other things that seem impossible. [0] https://www.pixellab.ai

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