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by mos_basik 10y ago
Here is a recent Reddit thread on the topic[0] but the discussion has been going on for a while - at least a couple of months before the wormhole town hall thread that the top comment links to. There are a couple of other good threads that
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You are On. The. Money. When I first started dabbling in web programming a few years ago, I quickly learned about jQuery from SO while looking up common patterns to create the behaviors I wanted in the browser. But even accounting for my un
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W O R M H O L E S Sleeper rats don't give bounties. If they did, wormholers would never come out of their caves :3 so sleepers drop blue loot - one of those NPC commodities you're referring to; isn't required to build anythi
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thesis: the fundamentals to getting rich (in eve) are 1) being smart and 2) (much less important) having money already The people who go ratting in null as he described are the people with no imagination, who go into a sandbox game and deci
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There was a HN discussion of that blog post, as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12940364 Also I'll chime in about the soundtrack; I loved it. Lucky me Google Play Music has it - it says I've listened t
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As I read your comment, I thought, "Wow, this HN user has an amazing command of their words and a disturbingly clear understanding of suicidal ideation." And then it turned out to be a DFW quote. God, he was a compelling writer -
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>Pimsleur courses I was wondering if that would show up in this thread. I have a fairly frequent, though not regular, ~45 min commute, and I've been working on one of their Korean courses. Each lesson is 30 min long, so it fits pr
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Pre-emptive apology for longpost - not all of it is aimed at you! This is the first time I've seen Tumblr mentioned in overarching discussion of "what are we going to do about Facebook and Twitter?" that HN (and others) have
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I am also interested. A while back I set up email using my personal domain using Google Apps after discarding the idea of managing the while thing on a vps and after checking out a few providers like Protonmail. It basically came down to pr
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>HN only allows upvotes for articles? Correct.
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Wow, thank you! I appreciate that you took the time to go into some detail. It sounds exactly up my alley. >modifying the culture of the enemy so it is more easily defeated >everything you do is known instantly by the enemy Good stu
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In an earlier thread about Stephen Wolfram's contributions to a recent movie, a user commented that the alien circle-grams looked similar to how diagrams of consistent hashing turn out [0]. I had never heard of the concept, so I went
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The Simple Magic of Consistent Hashing (2011)(paperplanes.de)
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>Cixin Liu's Three Body trilogy Man... I've been trying to get started on it for months! My eye was caught by it at random in the "New" section of my local library, and then the jacket held me when it said (paraphras
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Thank you, I've been reading through the docs and some blogs to try and get my feet wet, but most are very tight-focused. A full-stack read is very welcome.
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>reddit.com/r/<subreddit>/comments/ Thanks for posting that; I'd never seen it before. As my sister comment said, for smaller subs it could be quite useful for finding active discussions - like on /r&
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Fairly new to HN. GP? Best guess is grand-poster?
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I very much enjoy clean, simple platformers with interesting mechanics and a minimum of story. I spent hours playing N v1.4 in grade school, and the update, v2.0 is free online [0]. There is also a more reworked version, N++, on Steam that
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Eve Online is the game that no one has mentioned but that keeps coming to mind while I read this thread. It's the closest I've seen to a realistic social video game. When I saw your comment, I finally had to post something about
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by mos_basik 10y ago
The only time I've ever had an issue connecting to a network with Linux was with a specific university network, which (forgive me if I mangle this because I'm not very familiar with networking protocols) used WPA2, PEAP and MSCHAP
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> Even today the only way to make this work in Linux... What? I'm running Arch with i3 right now, and networkmanager (with nm-applet for my tray) is doing just fine at finding and associating with networks. `systemctl suspend` sus
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Gerard Holzmann is the main author of the formal software verification tool "spin" as well as the owner of spinroot.com. I took a class on formal verification under him at Caltech.
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That's... an insightful comparison. I like it a lot.
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>I want an option in Chromium that would allow disabling web fonts by default and enabling them on a per-site basis. It's not a native solution, but apparently the extension uBlock Origin has a setting to block web fonts (people hav
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>that link Nice. I was only familiar with the original one; I wasn't aware that there were more. It appears to be the most recent one? I was hoping to find a comprehensive list of this kind of site somewhere but didn't. I di
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Caveat: I've never smoked or vaped, but I have plenty of friends that do both. I think the idea is that when vaping, you are able adjust the level of nicotine you are consuming without having to adjust how often you engage in the physi