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by rewgs 4y ago
"You would need consent from the rest of the states in order to leave, and that isn't happening any time soon." That's like saying you need permission to break the law. Deep down, we all know that if you want to do a thi
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by rewgs 4y ago
To directly answer the title of the post: because human beings are horrible at grappling with The Prisoner's Dilemma. It is a psychological blindspot that (I have no data but anecdotes to back this up, but I'm still quite sure of
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by rewgs 4y ago
Couldn’t agree more. They’re standard close, minimize, and maximize buttons, what is so hard about this?
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by rewgs 4y ago
Totally agree, and I wouldn't have it any other way. I suppose I'm a bit of a strange case on HN, in that I'm coming to programming from being a film composer, i.e. I've pretty much always been freelance, and so working
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by rewgs 4y ago
Google Tasks for basic day-to-day stuff, typically up to a week out from the current day. For overflow beyond that, I have a Google Sheet that just keeps growing. I categorize activities into their basic category, and then tag them with one
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by rewgs 4y ago
The executables, yes. But poke around Common Files, AppData, etc and you’ll see precisely what everyone is talking about.
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by rewgs 4y ago
A bit off topic, but has anyone noticed the “watch later” button design constantly changing? It flip flops between being a small circular button in the top right corner, to being a long rectangle button below the video that only shows up if
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by rewgs 4y ago
Well…why can’t we? What is the mechanism driving this? It seems to me that social media, increased ease of communication, etc, should enable spontaneity, because now you can at least confirm that someone is home as you drive over. I think
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by rewgs 4y ago
> But what if someone is not pirating instead of purchasing, they're just pirating instead of doing something else? By "something else" do you mean "another activity instead of watching TV/movies/etc,&quot
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by rewgs 4y ago
You are wrong. You’re focusing on the wrong thing here. It’s not whether the good can still be sold, it’s about whether the business can continue to get money. Say you have a business idea. Perhaps something that you want to patent. I use i
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by rewgs 4y ago
Would you mind giving me an example of something that’s declarative vs imperative? I see this distinction made all the time and for the life of me I still don’t understand it. Or rather, I’ve never seen “declarative” code that I’ve liked. I
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by rewgs 5y ago
All the classic complaints that show this person hasn’t really given it a chance. Window snapping and maximize are the only two things I agree with here, but they are easily fixed by many third party apps. To those that say that’s “cheating
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by rewgs 5y ago
I mean...yes, from 2000 to 20005 (the "early 2000s") I indeed had a landline and ethernet cords. Just because a technology preceded the time the author mentioned doesn't mean it didn't also exist in that time.
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by rewgs 5y ago
It's just entropy, honestly. Growth = complexity/debt/escalating coordination cost. Success = complacency/greed. Like a cancer, the fruits of growth and success eventually burn the house down. It's just the way of t
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by rewgs 5y ago
Had the exact same reaction. There is nothing worse than objectively being right, and seeing very clearly the reasons why everyone isn't agreeing with you, but because they didn't "logic" themselves into those reasons, y
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by rewgs 5y ago
The trekking back to bosses in games that aren’t Sekiro or Elden Ring is totally valid. But in terms of the overall difficulty, I think it’s more a case of something closer to user error than the game actually being ridiculously difficult.
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by rewgs 5y ago
You just very clearly articulated something I’ve not been able to put words to.
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by rewgs 5y ago
Their other ones are very minimal. "R1 for fast attack." Etc. That's it. And they're delivered as messages, which simultaneously introduces you to the messaging system. ER delivers them as very big popups that actually p
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by rewgs 5y ago
Agreed. It's funny, since getting into these games I've more or less stopped consuming other media. Out with movies, TV shows, even books (at least for now while I'm riding high on the games). I just play for an hour or two b
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by rewgs 5y ago
Absolutely spot on. I had this with Leonine Misbegotten last night and had to go on a walk to calm myself down again, it was incredible.
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by rewgs 5y ago
I love From's games and yes this is a criticism that I absolutely agree with. In previous games, the story and lore was cryptic, but rich. It was delivered in a way that made you intrigued and you had to look for it, but it was a
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by rewgs 5y ago
> Having a difficulty selection doesn't remove anything from the game. I actually seriously disagree here. Especially with Souls games. Difficulty, whether it scales with your abilities or not, etc, is a pivotal, foundational compon
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by rewgs 5y ago
Referring to hbomberguy right? I love his videos. And yes, I agree -- even if BB isn't your first (could be a good first for some people, but it wasn't for me), it more than any other From game affects your play style for the bett
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by rewgs 5y ago
> The multiplayer didn't feel like an integral part of the game. That's because it's not. These are not "multiplayer games" like CoD or Smash. These are single player games with some online/multiplayer eleme
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by rewgs 5y ago
You are definitely missing something. You just had your first whiskey and you don't have a palette for it yet. I had a very similar reaction when I first played Bloodborne, especially to the controls. I'm very into tight, kinetic
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by rewgs 5y ago
Chiming in to say that I think DS3 is the best intro the series. I tried a couple, including Bloodborne, and swore them off claiming I hated them. But then I tried DS3 and for some reason the whole thing clicked. It benefits from the faster
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by rewgs 5y ago
Couldn't have said it better myself. I got into Dark Souls 3 last year and have only fallen in love more and more with the genre. Like many, I absolutely hated it at first, but as time went on I started to "get" it. Now I don
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by rewgs 5y ago
That's a pretty obviously bad take. You're comparing a company whose single product is about keeping one kind of thing secure, and another company that makes dozens of products, most of which don't explicitly have to do with
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by rewgs 5y ago
Unpopular opinion here, I'm sure, but this line of thinking is precisely what kneecapped Star Wars: the need to know everything. World-building is the antithesis of character-building. We fall in love with this stories because of the
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by rewgs 5y ago
...for five seconds, no less. Just now beating a record set back in 1997. That sentence really hit me. Is that really only how far we've come? If so, the pace is so glacial that...I don't know, maybe this isn't worth it?

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