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by raldi 4y ago
What do you mean by "the game link"? The only page that seems to make sense is https://mortalkombat.plus/mk1 , but there's no PDF link anywhere on that page; I even checked the source.
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by raldi 4y ago
No screenshots, though. That would be a great addition to the page. Or a playthrough video on YouTube.
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by raldi 4y ago
Yeah, what text on the page links to that URL? I’ve scoured it on my phone and can’t find it anywhere.
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by raldi 4y ago
I don't understand the New Jersey connection; the plane went down quite far from the NY/NJ border: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Flight_800#/media/File:TWA...
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by raldi 4y ago
len("foo") certainly does, and the global constant is a great place to put a comment, if the name isn't descriptive enough.
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by raldi 4y ago
Right?! That should instead be -len("foo") or -NUM_PREFIX_PARAMS
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by raldi 4y ago
In all seriousness, the most surveilled room in the city should be the surveillance center. Perhaps on a delay, everything that happens there should be reviewable by any citizen. If something happens there that needs to be struck from the p
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by raldi 4y ago
I don't know about these study conclusions; the secret directions seem more like advertisements to me: Someone whispers "Please walk" and my brain (consciously or otherwise) thinks about it and realizes I'd like a drink,
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by raldi 4y ago
Yeah, it’s the same reasoning as, “How much disk space would we need to make a Gmail clone with 100 million users?”
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by raldi 4y ago
My daughter is indignant about your inconsistent use of rabbit vs bunny.
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by raldi 4y ago
> We will become reliant on a small group of trained translators and experts Within three years our iPhones will do it for us.
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by raldi 4y ago
> Power is the ability to do work quickly This only makes sense if you’re talking about the physics equation P=W/t
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by raldi 4y ago
…said people in 1870
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by raldi 4y ago
12kg is 26 pounds. Most people can hold a bowling ball, which weights about half that, in one hand without too much difficulty.
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by raldi 4y ago
Let’s think three moves ahead here. Apple starts off with this good-publicity, peace-of-mind emergency service, gets a bunch of practice testing the technology in real-world situations, iterates and tweaks for a couple years, and then maybe
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by raldi 4y ago
How much of a piece do you need to read before you add it to the list? Does it count if you give up halfway through? Or ten seconds in?
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by raldi 4y ago
Nintendo was a century-old family business making some of the best playing cards in Japan; when the old CEO was about to pass the baton to his descendent, the latter took a trip to the world headquarters of Bicycle, the biggest playing-card
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by raldi 4y ago
See also the (oft-submitted to HN) Tale of Two Programmers: https://c00kiemon5ter.github.io/code/philosophy/2011/10/30/T...
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by raldi 4y ago
At least in San Francisco, I took my phone number and email off my voter registration years ago and now almost never get any political texts, calls, or email, despite being quite politically active.
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by raldi 4y ago
OTOH, I find that writing some prototype code is one of the best ways to understand the problem and solution before starting to write the real program. If you’re worried about lacking the discipline to throw away the prototype, do it in ano
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by raldi 4y ago
> Ah - now I'm fairly convinced you haven't actually bought real estate. Also false. Maybe stop with the ad hominems? > There is no such thing as a "standing offer" to buy a house. There is in my proposal. Go back
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by raldi 4y ago
I've lived in transitional neighborhoods at several points in my life. > Until next year when it's 0 again because that buyer has gone away. Why would the buyer go away? The state itself could maintain offers on any properties
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by raldi 4y ago
Huh? In the scenario you describe, someone is paying below the neighborhood average in property tax, so someone makes an offer on their property, and they decline by raising their declared valuation to match the neighborhood average. Then t
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by raldi 4y ago
C'mon, even setting aside the fact that the victim here walks away with a giant pile of money, there are countless ways to address this extremely unusual special-case scenario. For instance, you could be free to decline to sell as long
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by raldi 4y ago
Perhaps I'm not stating the proposal clearly. Nobody would suddenly lose their home. If you understated its value, and someone made an offer, you'd have the opportunity to restate the property's value, keep the home, and pay
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by raldi 4y ago
Just let property owners declare a value for their land, and give anyone the right to buy it for 120% of that value at any time, with the existing owner given a grace period where they can restate their estimate.
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by raldi 4y ago
Good for him, I agree. It’s just sad that he predated the era when cartoonists no longer had to put up with publishers.
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by raldi 4y ago
When he retired, he said it was because newspapers didn’t allow comics enough space anymore to create great art, and that the daily release schedule wreaked havoc on him. But that was about five minutes before the web emerged and made it po
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by raldi 4y ago
Since it’s kind of buried, if you’re wondering what the title refers to, it’s the feeling you get when replaying an old video game and finding it doesn’t seem as amazing as it did when you first played it. Weirdly, I’ve replayed most of the
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by raldi 4y ago
Even with the explanations, I still don’t understand “no argument means one argument”

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