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by rurounijones 6y ago
in the US No one wants to live near the hidsiously environmentally unsafe fly ash tips from the 120'ish million tons produced yearly by coal power plants either https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_ash and they wer
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by rurounijones 6y ago
"Loading... If you have an Ad Blocker or Strict Tracking Prevention enabled on Firefox or Edge, this may not work. Chrome of course, by default, leaks like a sieve." That made me laugh, also like the idea although I do not relly u
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by rurounijones 6y ago
Apart from in the legal system, which is supposedly where we go to sort things like this out and discourage others from doing the same thing, intent has a massive impact ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea ) on th
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by rurounijones 6y ago
Doesn't need to be debris hours / days away from impact, just general "Yeah, over the course of 10 years, these ones look the most suspect" levels.
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by rurounijones 6y ago
Agreed. "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" basically means "Always make sure your malicious act can be adequately explained by stupidity if you get caught"
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by rurounijones 6y ago
Given how much cheaper and frequent it is becoming to get into space with SpaceX launches. how long until we start seeing high-risk-debris deorbit missions? I think these would be good candidates for well used falcon stages that might fail
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by rurounijones 6y ago
I have been noticing that a lot as well on other places. Ruby is no longer a "Default supported" language in many new projects. OpenTelemtry for example doesn't include Ruby in its initial beta program announcement. ".NE
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by rurounijones 6y ago
The name "Dreamhaven" is very clever. * To players it sounds like a typical company stuido name. Quite nice * To current and ex-blizzard staff it is a beacon call. "Come and dream again here" * To Activision management i
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by rurounijones 6y ago
The US Navy has been successfully operating Nuclear Reactors without incident for decades in the harshest environments on earth [1] It can be done safely. https://www.mofa.go.jp/region/n-america/us/security&#x
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by rurounijones 6y ago
I think the keyword you might want to add to your README is "Canary". This can refer to a deployment tactic or a system that actively tests systems in the manner that this system does. So that you can be notified of client-side fa
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by rurounijones 6y ago
One power hungry / hot one for gaming, one low-power / cool one for when not gaming.
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by rurounijones 6y ago
Better tell the British to rename their Rapier Missile System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapier_(missile) beause their love for the French language means using a word that sounds vaguely similar to a bad English w
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by rurounijones 6y ago
Thank you for the info.
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by rurounijones 6y ago
> And they need start launching soon. FCC rules give Amazon until 2026 to launch and start operating at least 50% of the licensed number of satellites - 1618 satellites - or risk their satellite constellation license annulled. I am curio
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by rurounijones 6y ago
> I don't get the anger people direct towards Epic when in fact they are doing a good thing for the market that very few companies would have the power to do. I guess it comes down to if you think having another game store & lau
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by rurounijones 6y ago
I am not sure in which regard you think there is no difference based on what I said. So to confirm where I think there is a difference: Epic is the only PC store that will pay developers to restrict consumer choice by limiting distributio
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by rurounijones 6y ago
Fair enough, looks like my understanding of the term was not the common one.
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by rurounijones 6y ago
> To be fair, they disabled the Steam store page when the game moved to closed Beta because they are porting it. Thanks, didn't know that. However this was 4 years ago based on those blog posts. If we are considering games over-ru
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by rurounijones 6y ago
> So you're saying because it's still in dev and still raising money, so it's not a scam? At no point have I weighed in on if it is a scam or not. All I am saying is that citing Derek Smart as an authority on the matter is
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by rurounijones 6y ago
Replied to sibling comment in a bit more detail but I think we are looking at it form different viewpoints. "customers" vs "developers"
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by rurounijones 6y ago
aha, I think we are coming at the term "walled garden" from opposite ends. For a developer I agree with you, it is not a walled garden, they can sell games however they want, epic is one option who happen to be the only one that p
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by rurounijones 6y ago
> That said, Derek calling it a scam doesn't mean it's not a scam. Agreed, but neither does it make it a scam. Any input he has on the subject is compromised and basically meaningless as evidence one way or the other. So we rea
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by rurounijones 6y ago
You seem to be moving the goalposts here. > Epic has no "walled garden". Epic is explicitly a walled garden regarding the games it has paid to be exclusive within that walled gardren (Permanently or temporarily). > The PC
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by rurounijones 6y ago
> I can install software from other sources just fine Not when Epic paid the devs to make them exclusive (either permanently or time-limited): https://www.gamewatcher.com/news/Epic-games-store-exclusives Unless you
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by rurounijones 6y ago
Sounds like the problem was images being uploaded with a timestamp without a timzeone, in which case neither solution would work.
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by rurounijones 6y ago
Using Derek Smart of all people as a source doesn't help. Guy is bitter, jealous and has a rather long history of crazy and putting out unfinished, mediocre games ever since BC3K. Just look at the latest offering (removed from steam by
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by rurounijones 6y ago
> I am also okay with following semver but being allowed to release major versions that dont necessarily warrant "breaking changes." Then, to be blunt, you are not following SemVer > Software has milestones. Lets make them o
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by rurounijones 6y ago
I disagree, someone else deciding to use my 0.x.y version library does not obligate me to suddenly make it 1.0.0. I think geofft sums it up best elsewhere in this thread where it is about interface stability guarantees being the deciding
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by rurounijones 6y ago
Not that cut and tried as it depends what "goes into production" means. As an example: Lets say I have an open-source library that I am developing. It is currently version 0.x.y and someone depends on it (without my knowledge beca
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by rurounijones 6y ago
Semver 0.x.y is by spec definition unstable & wild-wild west. https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html#spec-item-4 "Major version zero (0.y.z) is for initial development. Anything MAY change at any time. The public

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