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   by sago 9y ago

   > Chiron is traction limited for most of its run This sounds very dubious, unless it has negative aerodynamic downforce. Even then, the times for each successive mph drop off too fast for it to be traction limited. Even F1 cars are not t
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   by sago 9y ago

   The interesting thing to note about that is, it suggests they have always used static site generation.
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   by sago 9y ago

   Unfortunately, for even highly simplified idealised problem spaces of only moderate complexity, the best algorithm would take longer than the life of the universe to find the global maximum. Worse, for most of them, even if I gave you the g
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   by sago 9y ago

   I think he might be saying that, if you find you've rolled a (natural) 1 on 2d6, it might be time to worry about more than just your character! ;)
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   by sago 9y ago

   Dungeon World [0] is a hack/slash dungeon delving fantasy game using the AW engine. Fantasy isn't my bag, so I haven't played it. But it gets good reports. It won Indie RPG of the year, too. [0] https://en.wikiped
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   by sago 9y ago

   It's fascinating that the thing you note about PbtA is its dice resolution mechanic. It wouldn't occur to me to focus on that. The thing about it I think is so strong is its 'move' mechanic: the way it neatly and obvious
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   by sago 9y ago

   Which, specifically? I chose them because, in my experience, they have deeper roleplaying than vanilla D&D (which, in the old threefold model is much more simulationist).
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   by sago 9y ago

   Thanks. I've not read or played Chuubo, but my 1ed Nobilis is a prize possession! A wonderful achievement, and seminal, at least for my journey in the hobby. Though I'm tempted to say mechanically now it does feel a little tired (
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   by sago 9y ago

   I mostly agree, as a long-time FUDGE fan. And recently it's been interesting to see how much AW has captured the imagination of the indie community. It just really seems to work, and we're seeing it pop-up in so many other places.
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    by sago 9y ago

    Great summaries. To round out my examples: In "My life with Master" the party play the henchmen of an evil master. It explores ideas of culpability, fear, self-loathing, humanity and, possibly, redemption. It is the only role-play
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    by sago 9y ago

    I'm not sure if it's resurrecting, or just improving it's image, either way it's welcome. Still, it is sad that it is so focused on one game: D&D. It's a decent game, particularly fifth edition, but I can't
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    by sago 9y ago

    Agreed. But in general avoid 2.x if you can. It will be EOL at some point, quite possible before the code you're writing now is EOL. Up to date docs are at: https://docs.python.org/3/library/sqlite3.html
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    by sago 9y ago

    This too shall pass (said with fingers crossed). Single Page Apps For the vast majority of content are such a horrible user experience, I have to believe the backlash will be swift and severe. They will be condemned to the bad ideas pile wi
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    by sago 9y ago

    > Can you define 'near' for me? Not sensibly in terms of years, no. It's more a handwaving gut feeling combined with an intuition. I didn't feel like there was a royal road from symbolic AI to AGI. It doesn't fee
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    by sago 9y ago

    I've been around AI since the end of the last big hype in the late 80s. The recent leap in machine learning has felt rather hyped to me. I don't think AGI is near. But I find myself agreeing with this article. Strongly. And I have
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    by sago 9y ago

    But equally, because we aren't working on all of them, doesn't mean it isn't worth working on any. Also, be careful not to confuse uncertain duration with more general uncertainty. They are related, but not the same.
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    by sago 9y ago

    > Do you think mainstream acceptance is inevitable No. But that's not to say I don't think it will happen. And if / when it does happen, it will appear to have been inevitable (things tend to feel that way in hindsight)! &
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    by sago 9y ago

    A killer 'app'. Some experience that can only be delivered on VR that is totally compelling to mainstream consumers. That could drive the entire segment, I think. I don't think its games. At least, it's not obvious how t
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    by sago 9y ago

    Either I'm being very dense, or something doesn't quite make sense about these numbers. The slides say that on the busiest day of the year, they were serving around 175,000 transactions per second (126k of which, or maybe addition
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    Ask HN: How big a server hit is frontpaging HN?

    5 points by sago 9y ago|1 comments
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    by sago 9y ago

    > "I just wish ... what’s here felt even half as adventurous as what’s happening on the iPad." I don't. I don't want my desktop to feel adventurous, not even half-adventurous. I want it to be an efficient tool for get
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    by sago 9y ago

    s/injected/imported It makes little substantive difference whether the import is in code or in a separate declaration. Little substantive difference to whether the state is global and mutable, that is. Don't misunderstand me
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    by sago 9y ago

    One of us is using terms wrong, because we're talking about different things. You seem to be talking about accessing things through interfaces, so that one can change whatever is on the other side of the interface. For testing, for exa
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    by sago 9y ago

    I agree. But here's the problem I have. If we don't want people to use global variables, the advice should be 'don't use global variables '. There is no need to wrap it up in 'avoid global mutable state',
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    by sago 9y ago

    I'm a bit sceptical about the ragging on global mutable state, given how useful it is (in my use cases, for resource management, e.g. connection pooling, caching, JIT compiling, file loading). Global mutable state is akin to an externa
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    by sago 9y ago

    That's very cool, I had no idea.
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    by sago 9y ago

    Only if they happen to a) be in the range 0-9 (for the sparkline) or 0-99 (for the dot or bar chart) and b) cover (pretty much) the whole of that range. See the page examples, the data in the sparkline bears no obvious relation to the start
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    by sago 9y ago

    You have to remap the data though, from the examples: Alibaba: 93.89{40,27,69,58,44,42,52,39,27,8,40,45,33,37,24,20,30,36,36,29,40,60,50,40,50,63,87,100}152.11 Brexit: 5562{4,27,48,37,60,40,56,54,59,62,37,63,30,59,75,68,50,40,47,30,5,9,50,7
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    by sago 9y ago

    Isn't the problem worse with this approach? You get {2,3,4,6,5,4,8,8} It doesn't look like the thing you copied, and the numbers make no sense (our stock price is 8? since when?). You're back to trying to get people
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    by sago 9y ago

    Good points, thank you. And take this as respectful musing not arguing... > it would be a lot more complex I don't use redash, but isn't the 'complexity' just the boiler plate literal text? The query is rather simple.