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by mpyne 8mo ago
People who talk about Outer Wilds describe it that way. For instance just two comments up in the thread is "Outer Wilds, and imperatively its DLC, are transcendent gaming experiences." And this is the normal type of comment you
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by mpyne 8mo ago
Yeah I generally enjoy puzzle games and didn't find Outer Wilds very good from that perspective. And it had some surprisingly intensive dexterity requirements in sections of the game that make it impossible to progress without looking
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by mpyne 9mo ago
> When the price declines those people can (and do) buy the oil westerners aren't using. You're missing that the supply drops as well since it is not economical to produce the same amount of oil as before at a lower price. As l
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by mpyne 9mo ago
> Oil not used in ICE cars is just used someplace else. That's simply not true. Oil used someplace else would have been used someplace else either way. There is a supply/demand effect where reduced oil demand would lower its p
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by mpyne 9mo ago
ICE engines aren't a problem right up until they are. I had one car where the timing belt broke unexpectedly and because it was an 'interference' engine, that led to damage to the engine head and a piston rod (and could easil
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by mpyne 9mo ago
> I never understood the big push for full EVs over hybrid. Being able to shed the ICE bits from the car's powertrain eliminates multiple entire classes of maintenance burden. With hybrid and EREV you get the problems of both types
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by mpyne 9mo ago
Another trick I've used is to use named FIFOs for commands that expect there to be files rather than stdin/stdout. The command that spits the sensitive credential outputs to the FIFO and blocks. The command that needs the sensiti
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by mpyne 9mo ago
> That's a poor analogy which gets repeated in every discussion: compilers are deterministic, LLMs are not. Compilers are not used directly, they are used by human software developers who are also not deterministic. From the perspec
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by mpyne 9mo ago
As a specific example of this, the U.S. 18F team had helped the Forest Service a decade ago with implementing a requirement to help people get a permit to cut down a Christmas tree. Although there was a software component for the backend, t
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by mpyne 9mo ago
There are other major factors also influencing grocery prices, such as tariffs. It may because that was are seeing a significant influence on price, but one that is counteracted by other influencers.
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by mpyne 9mo ago
> I dunno why nobody used things like external includes in XML In practice they led to fairly severe security vulnerabilities. "XXE" used to be an OWASP Web Top 10 issue, and the reason it dropped off the list was because XML
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by mpyne 9mo ago
Even there, they made a lot of money before they went bust. Like if you want an example you'd be better of picking Therac-25, as ancient an example as it is.
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by mpyne 9mo ago
Code you never ship doesn't have bugs by definition, but never shipping is usually a worse state to be in.
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by mpyne 9mo ago
If wealth could simply buy elections then Clinton would have won over Trump in 2016 and Sanders would have won the primary over Biden in 2020.
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by mpyne 9mo ago
100,000 votes (and really probably closer to 150,000 influenceable votes across those households) is a significant number compared to 10 companies who own an average of 10,000 properties each, yes.
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by mpyne 9mo ago
Yeah, I'll probably switch to Actual at some point in the next couple of years as a result of the price change. The YNAB team at least continues to strive to make improvements to the core app so they seem to be actually putting the mo
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by mpyne 9mo ago
Yeah, before we picked up YNAB more than a decade ago we never had issues with $3k of candles disappearing in the budget, but we still struggled to save money. When we started using YNAB and entering our spending into it, it was like a hock
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by mpyne 9mo ago
A lot more manual controls, in particular. I've never liked needing to use a touchscreen to manage functions of the car I might need to use while driving. Ioniq could actually go further still, some of the physical interface still uses
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by mpyne 9mo ago
That's exactly the point. They weren't, so a Linux user didn't have an option to run a native Linux client in preference to a Win32 version. That goes back to address the original question of "But would you want to run t
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by mpyne 9mo ago
I absolutely prefer my Ioniq 5 over a Tesla, not merely 'tolerate it'. Tesla has everyone else beat on charging infrastructure, that is true, but I don't need that except for about 0.5% of the miles I drive (and even there, T
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by mpyne 9mo ago
> rust, you were meant to replace c++, not join it... Turns out that not all of the C++ noise people make fun of is due to C++, sometimes the problems you want to solve with Rust or C++ is just hard to express simply to the compiler.
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by mpyne 9mo ago
If the net inflow of talented coworkers to the company with churn (including hi-po churn) still exceeds the level of talent you'd get at the company with stagnant workforce levels, then maybe you'd still find it preferable. High c
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by mpyne 9mo ago
That can help, but policy doesn't execute itself, it's executed through the police officers. Most cities aren't prepared to be able to follow-through to the logical conclusion the steps they'd need to take if their polic
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by mpyne 9mo ago
You're welcome to try to Trail of Tears everybody into your preferred walled cities, but the attempt would go badly for you. Absent that we'll need to wait for population growth (not happening, if anything we're going the oth
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by mpyne 9mo ago
Fractional time shouldn't be an issue as long as the ratio is a rational number. It's how durations are already handled behind the scenes. Likewise it's annoying to cook up your own type, but as long as you can come up with &
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by mpyne 9mo ago
std::chrono counts the number of ticks of a given periodicity. The periodicity does have to be a known compile-time ratio expressible as a fraction of seconds, but you can use a floating-type type to count the number of ticks. std::chrono i
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by mpyne 9mo ago
> But it’s not reflective of our practical best. Read the original comment they made again. They weren't talking about the proposed battleship at all, but about broader issues the U.S. Navy is already experiencing trying to build th
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by mpyne 9mo ago
I think they pretty clearly meant 'practical best' rather than 'theoretical best'. Theoretically we could be so much better, which is why everyone is so grumpy about U.S. shipbuilding. For 'practical best' you&
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by mpyne 9mo ago
Yes, the opportunity cost is the real problem with all of this. A navy takes approximately forever to build. If we are extremely lucky the outcome of this will be increased shipyard capacity and refined shipbuilding practices just in time
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by mpyne 9mo ago
OK, you live in the one and only city in the entire USA that is dense enough to make the subway a better option. I live in the DC area which has an excellent Metrorail system, and it is still nowhere near close enough to being able to repla

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