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by mkotowski 5y ago
From my personal experience in Poland: You can have LTE+ or even 5G in cities, but traveling by train means that in some areas only a select few extra-lightweight pages like Hacker News are able to load before a timeout or connection loss o
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by mkotowski 5y ago
> If you can operate a torrent client or even know what one is, you are much savvier than the average Netflix/Roku/etc user. Probably depends from where you are. In Poland some 15 years ealier, it was quite a common skill, even
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by mkotowski 5y ago
> humans and human society are supposed to support humans And it is the same thing I am talking about. Abstraction is humans’ way to streamline the process of maintaining the society. Money was created as an abstraction of a reward for
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by mkotowski 5y ago
> "Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—" > YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES. > "So we can believe the big ones?" > YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING. (Deat
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Where Metals Are Found on Fantasy Worlds(youtube.com)
1 points by mkotowski 5y ago|0 comments
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by mkotowski 5y ago
What are upsides of using this format instead of a more generic array of pixels (something like output of imagemagick to .h files or PPM files)? BTW I know one can use resource files (.rc) on Windows to embed various resources, but is there
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by mkotowski 5y ago
From the description of the project, I would dare a guess that the intent of this project was to go as self-contained as reasonably possible: > […] written in standard C11 using only system libraries (with system libraries defined as any
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by mkotowski 5y ago
In my opinion it is probably something used as a cost-saving trick. Maybe some connectors/sockets/boards just happened to be cheaper that way at the moment. If the manufacturer do not care about being standard-compliant, you get s
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by mkotowski 5y ago
Not exactly. If I remember correctly (at least 10 years ago) the official way in Germany to uppercase ß was to replace it with two capital “s”.
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Chezmoi: Manage your dotfiles across multiple diverse machines, securely(github.com)
3 points by mkotowski 5y ago|1 comments
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Quagga(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by mkotowski 5y ago|1 comments
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by mkotowski 5y ago
> One is a public health crisis and the other isn't. Conflating the two is an absurdity Well, it is called an analogy, isn’t it? No one said it is exactly the same. > One person can only have one car crash, ever, […] Except not.
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by mkotowski 5y ago
> A game engine consists of three smaller engines […] Compare with a far more detailed Figure 1.15 [0] from “Game Engine Architecture”. [0]: https://www.gameenginebook.com/figures.html
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by mkotowski 5y ago
> Refusing to wear a seat belt doesn't generally endanger anyone else. What if people are in passengers’s seats? Their bodies can be launched with a lot of kinetic force killing people in the front seats. Eventually with enough forc
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by mkotowski 5y ago
To be honest, deciding if you are not breaking ml5.js Code of Conduct feels like a material for full-time research on its own. How to define who is marginalized by whom? And by what actor? Creators of the code, users, customers? What if bot
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by mkotowski 5y ago
Or, as Nintendo often does, you create a good gameplay first, and only then you start creating a plot around it. Of course, it can fail too, but in my humble opinion it is one of the best approach to game design.
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by mkotowski 5y ago
> This author has it spot on: our standards for story telling in video games are really low. Are they? I would say that they are, but not for video games, but for all things in general. Sturgeon's law [0] states that "ninety pe
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by mkotowski 5y ago
Well, the idea was to create the most efficient and compact language for humans to use. Having a species with 3000 vocal chords and 30 arms for a bonus sign language elements would be easier to work with, but wouldn’t be usable by humans. A
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by mkotowski 5y ago
> […] why limit yourself to representations that can be made in air by normal human beings? For a constructed language using non-human forms of expression, you can check out Rikchik language, created by Denis M Moskowitz [0]. > No one
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by mkotowski 5y ago
> O’yë aitkánz lo’lsöspa kšänhëi’lujmu ih Jonkihada. > ‘The chief clown, John Quijada, is engaged in constructing a new language for the good of everyone.’ (Quijada likes to use clowns in his examples, don’t ask me why) I would like t
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by mkotowski 5y ago
It seems to be a failed attempt at paywalling or AdBlock detection. Disabling JavaScript helps.
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by mkotowski 5y ago
The «wh» in words like when, why, what can be pronounced as a voiceless labial–velar fricative (IPA sign: ʍ). For more detailed explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronunciation_of_English_%E2%9...
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Mid-Atlantic Accent(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by mkotowski 5y ago|0 comments
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by mkotowski 5y ago
> The fact most of the speakers of the language have switched to a different accent (by the way, I feel curious why) It was a long process of L-vocalization [0] that started around XVI century. The first segment of the population to be a
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by mkotowski 5y ago
Quite a lot of languages use ! or ? as a letter. For example in Canada: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question_mark#Indigenous_langu...
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by mkotowski 5y ago
So, essentially a site generated with Jekyll, hosted on GitHub Pages with Utterances [0] for comments and updated with GitHub Actions. I don’t know if https://github.dev version of Visual Studio Code supports extensions/plu
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by mkotowski 5y ago
In case of a home-grown code, it could be simply the question of a programmer awareness. There are still many outdated and/or unfinished tutorials that use WinAPI without any concern about enabling Unicode and wide chars support. If we
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by mkotowski 5y ago
I, too, have the Ł letter in my name, and yes, it is a sick joke that so many things even in a supposedly modern systems make an assumption that the world runs on ASCII. In the case of the Windows operating system, the worst fact is that ev
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by mkotowski 5y ago
> When asked why they universally point the finger at phones. A smartphone is an easy scapegoat, but I think its role is greatly exaggerated. People simply like to complain about things they are not used to. It does not mean it is not th
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RFC 3092 – Etymology of “Foo”(faqs.org)
2 points by mkotowski 5y ago|0 comments

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