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by mewse 6y ago
Also seven years old, now (link should probably have a (2013) on it), and many of the complaints have been addressed in the intervening time. For example, in regards to the first one (someone wanting pulls to fail if they’d trigger a merge
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by mewse 6y ago
You’ve picked a really fun example and I’m glad you asked! You are exactly correct; the value of the speed of light is not science because it cannot be refuted. (Although this was not always true!) You see, in 1983 the definition of the len
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by mewse 6y ago
If it’s irrefutable, it is not science. By definition.
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Fundamentally, putting a thing in quotes distinguishes between what words you’re standing behind yourself, and what words you’re attributing to someone else. (there are some other orthogonal uses of quotes, of course, my favourite being whe
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by mewse 6y ago
I've built something very similar as well. For me, I found that the display I'm using works reasonably well for photos, but you need to slightly boost the contrast of the image before updating the display, to compensate for the da
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by mewse 6y ago
I spent about fifteen years working at Melbourne House in Australia (which went from being independent to being bought by Infogrammes/Atari, and was then bought by Krome, before finally being wound down, but it was mostly the same awes
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by mewse 6y ago
Andrew kind of took me under his wing during the early days of Ambrosia and taught me a lot about game coding, while I was still in high school. He eventually bought the rights to a game that I had put together and basically transformed i
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by mewse 6y ago
I’m not seeing a parallel, here. Your example is mixing in a whole bunch of “invasion of privacy” which doesn’t exist in the real situation being discussed, and is going to vastly impact people’s emotional reaction. Why not use the more
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by mewse 6y ago
I can't speak to the services side of your comment, but my professional experience is in games. I worked as part of a team that once backported a game from the Xbox 360 to the PlayStation 2 (512 to 24 megabytes of RAM, much slower CPU,
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by mewse 6y ago
I've recently downloaded quite a number of Mac programs directly from the web, as well as from Steam. They work just fine, as long as they've been signed. What makes you say that Apple has made a "decision to disallow instal
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by mewse 6y ago
GPT-3 can produce text that's probabilistically similar to text that it's been trained on, and observed as part of sample outputs. If there was no huge corpus of human language to train it on, GPT-3 couldn't even begin to gi
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by mewse 6y ago
I had already addressed your comment in the post you replied to: > and yes, you can point to a small handful of digital games which were highly financially successful without primarily selling through Steam, but those are the hyper-viral
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> You don't need to distribute on Steam. [...] alternatives exist. Sure, if you want your business to go bankrupt. Itch? I love the place but good luck supporting your business with the number of sales you’ll make if you’re only av
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by mewse 6y ago
The history hasn’t really been removed ; it’s just not being indexed from the main search box. And yeah, there’s an argument to be made that if there are no links to a thing that’s basically the same as that thing not existing and I do b
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by mewse 6y ago
Usually the e-ink screens which flash multiple times during an update are tri-color screens; most commonly either black/white/red or black/white/yellow (and other colors are apparently available, but much less commonly
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by mewse 6y ago
I posted a few days back that I was putting together one of these, very similar to the one described in that story. The e-ink screen I was waiting for (this one: https://www.waveshare.com/6inch-e-paper-hat.htm ) arrived lite
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by mewse 6y ago
Things get flagged and removed on HN with some degree of regularity, for what it’s worth.
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> Thank you for admitting that you are vilifying Trump supporters online in a thread about nuance for beliefs you have ascribed to them without talking to one of them You’re putting words in my mouth. > you might think someone who cou
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by mewse 6y ago
Or maybe you didn’t understand my argument. All the best.
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I am very interested in seeing a “good faith” framing of his statements on the topic from you. Can you provide one?
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by mewse 6y ago
You tell me. If there’s nuance there, then I’m super interested to hear about it. What’s so bad that it outweighs breaking up families, or any of the other things Trump and his government have done over the past four years?
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by mewse 6y ago
Interesting. Can you provide a scan of a health insurance invoice where there’s a line item for an abortion which you didn’t request or receive? It doesn’t have to be your receipt; any insurance invoice from literally anybody in Californi
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One candidate supports separating children from their families for certain groups of illegal immigrants, kept those children in cages for some time, and has since lost track of around 500 of them; not reuiniting them with their families. T
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Boy, that rear view mirror makes criticism a whole bunch easier, doesn’t it? :)
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No. No objective observer would ever say that either side “advocates for abortion”. That’s the sort of thing a demagogue right-winger would say to try to score cheap political points.
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by mewse 6y ago
This was a little bit of a cheat. It just so happens that the computer being used for the Zoom calls is a Mac, so I just wrote a program that runs in the background on the Mac and asks the OS about whether any microphone devices are in us
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Initially, I’m going to try to use a power cable in a color that matches the wall. The spot I have in mind is above some knee-high shelves, so I’d probably only need to run the cable for half a meter before it vanishes behind them. Hopefu
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Oh, cool! Now I know what I’m playing with tonight. :D
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ESP32 is one of the Arduino-compatible boards, right? I keep bouncing off Arduino stuff just because I find their IDE to be astonishingly awful (at least on Linux, running inside a dwm window manager) I’d be 100% on board if I could write t
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I ordered this one: https://www.waveshare.com/product/raspberry-pi/displays/e-pa... It’s the same size as the screen on most Kindle devices; 12cm by 9cm. So it’s not large except in comparison to most e-pa

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