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by mrec 3y ago
I think GP was referring to that exact thing happening in The Abyss .
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by mrec 3y ago
The objection isn't to the notion that "One can benefit from knowing fundamentals of an adjacent field". It's that this is "The bare minimum every developer must know". That's a much, much stronger claim
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by mrec 3y ago
Some stunning scenery too; I was there in April. Can be very very cold/windy though; pack accordingly.
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by mrec 3y ago
And nobody talking. Heaven.
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by mrec 3y ago
Excellent game. I haven't finished it yet (though I got what I'm pretty sure is the hardest picture word) but the key strategy seems to be to pick a (hard) target word, sketch out some chains from there to some easier ones and the
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by mrec 3y ago
Don't know if you're still reading feedback here, but one more thing - the toggle behaviour when typing guesses isn't as useful as you'd think. I find myself typing out the full (guessed) quote while looking at the hint
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by mrec 3y ago
A criminal human probably can't do a perfect voice impersonation of your teenage kid or frail grandmother who desperately needs to be sent money for some urgent reason.
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by mrec 3y ago
"I can tell you “scope small uwu”, but if you don’t believe small games can be good in the first place, all you’ll hear is a homework assignment you have to do before you can make the games you really care about." This is both a
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by mrec 3y ago
I don't understand "vicariously through others" - can you expand? I haven't played wordle. On the bug, I did play the practice round first, but I still get the same thing now on a new page load. Looks like it's caus
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by mrec 3y ago
Fun! I can see it being quite addictive; is it going to be possible to play puzzles other than the current day's, once you've built some up? Edit with some more thoughts: - Linking to Ebay for the source is an odd choice; is this
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by mrec 4y ago
http://www.astrodigital.org/space/stshorse.html I'd be very leery of trusting the specifics too much. E.g. the reference to "Roman war chariots", which are not a thing the Romans ever used. Snopes entry:
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by mrec 4y ago
This is `mdbook` - https://rust-lang.github.io/mdBook/
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by mrec 4y ago
For anyone who hasn't already seen it, Scott Alexander's Who By Very Slow Decay [1] (2013) is a classic on the subject. Please take the trigger warning seriously. [1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/07/
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by mrec 4y ago
Speaking as a long-time Gmail user who doesn't have a mobile, this is kind of terrifying. Sounds like I need to look into moving to Fastmail or somesuch pronto.
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by mrec 4y ago
https://myaccount.google.com/inactive
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by mrec 4y ago
As a Brit, I wholeheartedly approve.
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by mrec 4y ago
Yeah, I did some digging and UK per capita liquid milk consumption is down 50% since 1974. That's quite a drop.
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by mrec 4y ago
It's still an entire aisle at my supermarket (granted, a big one) in the UK. I honestly wasn't aware that it had gone out of fashion. What are the cool kids eating instead now, avocado toast?
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by mrec 4y ago
Yeah, Charlie was an early victim of Brexit Derangement Syndrome. I stopped following him after a long "state of the world" links post where every single link was to the Guardian . Granted, the Grauniad isn't much worse th
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by mrec 4y ago
Although for some reason its RSS feed seems to get consistently ignored by my reader (Feedreader). Never had that problem with SSC.
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by mrec 4y ago
Can you expand on the second sentence?
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by mrec 4y ago
That was Amazon Lumberyard, a licensed fork of CryEngine. I don't think it ever got much traction and has recently been rebranded as "Open 3D Engine" and handed over to the Linux Foundation.
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by mrec 4y ago
> fantastic [...] is probably a little over exuberant by British standards of praise Indeed. "Quite good" is usually considered the absolute pinnacle of fawning adulation.
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by mrec 4y ago
You might want to start your FAQ by saying what a webring is. Not everyone was around in the late 90s.
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by mrec 4y ago
> Even the best actors will read their lines the wrong way and need correction by the director. And sometimes even the director doesn't notice. Even when they also wrote the screenplay! My favourite example is from The Matrix , @
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by mrec 4y ago
To the Kindle thing, I wonder if the rise of audiobooks as a product killed the latter off to remove competition.
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by mrec 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_acquisition_is_initia...
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by mrec 5y ago
I wonder what the limits are on how far something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Habakkuk could be scaled up.
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by mrec 5y ago
OK, but you're moving the goalposts here. You're not just talking about a new search rank algorithm any more, you're talking about building a new social-web ecosystem to enforce the kind of voting rules needed to make that al
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by mrec 5y ago
Agreed. I think the whole market analogy breaks down right out of the gate: > Each of these communities has an upvote mechanism, which can be interpreted as an indication that the user believes the website is undervalued. They are willi

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