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by mercer 6y ago
I played quite a bit but gave up because of the inscrutable UI and ASCII graphics, so I'm quite excited about the recent developments. Can't wait to play Dwarf Fortress again once it has actual 'graphics' and (ideally) a
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by mercer 6y ago
You might be missing out on a lot of great games if you feel 'modern' games are ruined by graphics! There are tons of pixel-art/2D/retro style games that rival the best of the oldies, but with 'modern' gameplay
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by mercer 6y ago
Then there's also Shovel Knight, Celeste, The Messenger, Stardew Valley, Undertale, and so on. We've never had it better as gamers!
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by mercer 6y ago
> Civ 4 was the greatest Civ. Alpha Centauri enters the room ;)
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by mercer 6y ago
I suggest that in repentance for dashing my hopes you ensure that this will come true ;).
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by mercer 6y ago
> I got voted into the floor for saying "you're a better elixir programmer if you also learn erlang," which is a simple fact. I don't think that's the case. As an active participant in the various Elixir communit
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by mercer 6y ago
woah. how did I miss that? from everything I've been reading there's a bunch of projects but they're all still in very early stages.
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by mercer 6y ago
I suppose it depends on how specialized or 'heavy' your needs are. I suspect that for a decent portion of web applications, Phoenix might last you longer than others before you would need to dive into the nitty gritty in either la
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by mercer 6y ago
> I haven't thrown any hand grenades over the wall. Overly sensitive Elixir programmers always throw a fit whenever someone says "you know, other tools are available to you too." I don't think anyone would take issue
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by mercer 6y ago
if you could implement some kind of 'are you asleep' feature like this ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24397750 ) I might just buy such an app :).
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by mercer 6y ago
Some OS-wide integration with sleep trackers would be great. While I've read that apparently these trackers are not so accurate, my experience with the Sleep Cycle app has been that it's probably accurate enough to detect me falli
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by mercer 6y ago
The tmux integration is amazing too! When I ssh into a server, whatever window/pane setup I last had (tab colors, names, and all), are restored. On one server I run a few 'production' apps, but I also have a tab for 'ran
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by mercer 6y ago
I listened to that one last night, and then a few more. He's been in rotation for a while now. I don't know how I ended up subscribing to Lex Fridman's podcast, but it's both wonderful and somewhat bizarre to me. On the
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by mercer 6y ago
While I understand it's much to ask, I can recommend this episode of the Trashfuture podcast that goes into the anti-semitism kerfuffle: https://trashfuturepodcast.podbean.com/e/anger-ramadan-feat-... or perhaps t
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by mercer 6y ago
I can empathize with your comment insofar that simply interacting with others for me has been difficult at times because of the whole 'how does that thing you say relate to that thing I saw online'. There are times where it feels
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by mercer 6y ago
Agreed. I'm about on the far end of laissez-faire when it comes to sexuality and dating, and fully in favor of apps like Tinder as a 'thing', but I think it's definitely valuable to hear other points of view. I mean, it
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by mercer 6y ago
Interesting. It was a running joke among colleagues in Berlin that every Italian place was actually Albanian, and anecdotally this was indeed the case. Not every place, of course, but a crazy amount.
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by mercer 6y ago
It's not just about the direct impact of Covid, though. In my millennial-and-younger circles there are plenty who have been directly affected, but also many who still have work, but are deeply worried about their future prospects, not
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by mercer 6y ago
agreed. The 'good kind' that I grew up with has always been a minority even within the communities we were part of.
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by mercer 6y ago
Which is not entirely fair, speaking as an ex-evangelical. Plenty of fully dedicated evangelicals disapprove of Trump. And while a disappointing number of them do approve, it's by no means a unified base.
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by mercer 6y ago
I was in my early twenties before I stopped believing in things that, in hindsight, seem utterly unbelievable to me. What I've struggled with for a long time is the realization that the person I was, believing all of that, wasn't
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by mercer 6y ago
I'm incredibly careful with all my projects when it comes to security or avoiding bugs in general. It's only been after a decade or so working in my field that I took on projects where I had to write authorization/authenticat
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by mercer 6y ago
I had problems accessing my Hetzner VPS', but I haven't tried connecting directly with the IP. So I suppose it could be a DNS thing?
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by mercer 6y ago
While I can't tell how you feel about these things, most of it sounds pretty good, from an employee perspective. Sure, there's stuff that is infuriatingly misguided, but all in all I rather like living in a place that puts the onu
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by mercer 6y ago
Over here (Netherlands), the right to electricity and gas was (and still is?) so strong that even squatters, once they properly established themselves, would get access to these services. More specifically, they had to find their way into a
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by mercer 6y ago
I didn't want to noise up the comments, but the first thing I noticed is that the site worked fine even with uBlock Origin turned on. That's a rare sight! Compliments from me too.
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by mercer 6y ago
One really valuable thing for me about running SSH on a non-standard port is that it dramatically decreases the noise in my logs. That's not irrelevant!
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by mercer 6y ago
Ah, right. Thanks.
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by mercer 6y ago
I'm confused. Wouldn't the likelihood of lying mean that the real numbers in Iraq are much worse, supporting the criticism of AlotOfReading more rather than less?
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by mercer 6y ago
I also imagine Epic made these kinds of calculations before trying to take on Apple.

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