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by samplatt 6y ago
I might have been too young to see/notice the motivational posters, but here in Australia both the motivational and DEmotivational posters became unironically popular at around about the same time.
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by samplatt 6y ago
To expand on jimbob45 - his tweets aren't your usual "140 characters" style of affair :D
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by samplatt 6y ago
>Are all of Neal Stephenson's books like that? He got better over his career, but the short answer is yes.
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by samplatt 6y ago
Lumberyard is targeted by MMO's due to Amazon's content delivery network abilities... and MMO's are the biggest genre to fail before during and after release, purely because of their scope and difficulty to pull it off "
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by samplatt 6y ago
Not only that, but apparently the point of having super strength and agility is to stand menacingly against the night sky, scare some farmers, and not actually do anything. God, I hate that movie.
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by samplatt 6y ago
Why bother subbing on a platform well-known for mistreating its content creators, when everyone shares the living fuck out of his videos on facebook anyway?
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by samplatt 6y ago
He's leaning into the archetype, sure, but it's not a parody. People that know him are reporting that he's mostly "just like that", only now he's making videos. >leaving the whole monologue sounding like one
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by samplatt 6y ago
VR has gone from 0.3% to 1.5% of all users on Steam in one year, and still rising. I'm old enough to remember people saying that both mice and gfx cards weren't worth the money and never would be. Dismissing VR as a "dud&quot
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by samplatt 7y ago
This is literally what SSRI and PowerBI was invented for. Still requires codemonkies to prepare the data, but at least it cuts down on the rate of requests by allowing them to massage filters by themselves.
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by samplatt 7y ago
Huh. I've seen that before but always thought it was a virus (back when some viruses were harmless fun).
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by samplatt 7y ago
I read Sirens for the first time just recently, and I'm now frustrated with myself for not spotting the similarities... but then it's been nearly two decades since I last read H2G2...
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by samplatt 7y ago
Fair enough. I've noticed a lot of south-coast WA people are cold-acclimatised (even more so than south-coast eastern-states, ie, Melbourne) and also see the occasional 48.C day.
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by samplatt 7y ago
Correct - and they're now gradually having less and less reliability assigned to them, which is good.
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by samplatt 7y ago
It's a skill that you can practice through meditation. But false-memories and fabricated memories will shoot this idea down long before that stuff comes into play. Memory is no where near reliable enough to be used as evidence like tha
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by samplatt 7y ago
You're not from south-coast WA are you?
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by samplatt 7y ago
God, I love being one of those people. It's like a superpower with the added benefit of getting to irritate other people. Yes, I am also a morning person, why do you mention?
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by samplatt 7y ago
Evolution is a very simple self-optimising algorithm that's been allowed to run for a very long time. The way I see it, algorithms often have room for improvement. Turns out, self-optimisation with no oversight for 400M years produces
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by samplatt 7y ago
That last photo looks proto-cyberpunk af, straight-up Demolition Man/GitS. They've certainly got the looks down pat.
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by samplatt 7y ago
I've been proposing this for ages, under the name "Nighttime Savings", which doesn't make sense, but doesn't make any less sense than "Daylight Savings".
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by samplatt 7y ago
>like zero dollars going into this problem There's a lot more than zero dollars going into this... it's just that the end result is universally something that's "good enough for this one use-case for this one compan
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by samplatt 7y ago
There's a subreddit for that: https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/
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by samplatt 7y ago
While you're correct, there's lots of plain-RF wireless mice and keyboards that work just fine before the OS loads, and many people confuse "bluetooth" with "all wireless". Plus, some wireless mice are actually
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by samplatt 7y ago
>Surely, it is relatively safer than going up against the NSA? I mean, call me paranoid but I've always assumed that it's the same thing...
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by samplatt 7y ago
Certainly required in the description of the accuracy of many of them.
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by samplatt 7y ago
The Map Is Not the Territory. Your memory of the mental model of our local neighbors that you'd worked out is overriding the actual memories. Something similar happens when we remember childhood houses. Spaces where there was a lot of
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by samplatt 7y ago
My favourite road-trip and kareoke song :-)
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by samplatt 7y ago
Offtopic but serious question: how do you downvote someone on HN? I thought they flat-out turned that off as a design decision, like you see on some subreddits.
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by samplatt 7y ago
Correct, not in Australia.
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by samplatt 7y ago
>The mechanic may have even made even more money by scrapping your catalytic converter. Oh, certainly. Not to mention that removing it would have been a larger & more difficult job, which I'd have to pay for... OR they can get l
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by samplatt 7y ago
A lot of non-regular-maintenance jobs are easy & quick to do but break the law - for example, deleting the catalytic converter or EGR from the exhaust system will give your engine better performance and economy, but is illegal since it

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