sdenton4

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1. 1711.▲
   by sdenton4 5y ago

   Monetizing issues would be a great move.
2. 1712.▲
   by sdenton4 5y ago

   Yeah, completely agree on all your points. It's a crowded, crowded space. I'm playing with a design using some decks of cards; Twine seems like it has the right amount of functionality to manage a few different decks without havin
3. 1713.▲
   by sdenton4 5y ago

   Science is a conversation, my friend! I encourage you to gather some new data and write a rebuttal article.
4. 1714.▲
   The modern trap of turning hobbies into hustles (2019)(repeller.com)

   286 points by sdenton4 5y ago|136 comments
5. 1715.▲
   by sdenton4 5y ago

   Just to underline your excellent advice: I developed back pain cycling at some point, which turned out to me coming from right hamstrings. Regular stretching solved it immediately. And a bike fitting is a thousand percent worth the effort.
6. 1716.▲
   by sdenton4 5y ago

   I was actually writing Twine code to simulate a bunch of decks of cards for playtesting a game when I wrote my previous comment. Which reminds me of one other important point: "you don't have to monetize your joy." https:&#x
7. 1717.▲
   by sdenton4 5y ago

   Big agreement here! Though, as it turns out, software is eating the world, and every analog hobby I've picked up eventually wants to become a computer hobby. You can choose to resist this entirely, or give in a bit. The analog part is
8. 1718.▲
   Kansas is Flatter Than a Pancake (2003)(usu.edu)

   134 points by sdenton4 5y ago|54 comments
9. 1719.▲
   by sdenton4 5y ago

   FWIW, 'right to speech' != 'right to be heard' and 'freedom of speech' != 'freedom from consequences.' Saying/posting something which quickly gets flagged into oblivion is freedom of speech worki
10. 1720.▲
    by sdenton4 5y ago

    s/interest/short-term cryptocurrency speculation/
11. 1721.▲
    by sdenton4 5y ago

    /The likelihood that attackers have some database of victims + passwords seems low./ My impression is that most of these start with phishing, and probably even tailored phishing for larger organizations. A particular phishing camp
12. 1722.▲
    by sdenton4 5y ago

    It's surprisingly easy to write an incorrect shuffling algorithm, and end up with a subset of permutations or a very skewed distribution. (in fact, there's both obvious and interesting information preserved by a single riffle shuf
13. 1723.▲
    by sdenton4 5y ago

    The framing is a bit dubious, at the very least... The statement about 'preferring beer to water' ignores cholera, and the general difficult of keeping water potable over months at sea. Fermentation was, believe it or not, a publi
14. 1724.▲
    by sdenton4 5y ago

    I wouldn't be shocked if the wide bottom of the demand pyramid was doing a lot of work to support the tiny, pointy top... Economies of scale on lens and body production. For example, with lenses, you can produce a thousand lenses with
15. 1725.▲
    by sdenton4 5y ago

    Yeah, co-op games really need some hidden information (or something) to make it interesting. Another common fix is to have a traitor, but I feel that undermines the co-opness. Hanabi is really brilliant, though!
16. 1726.▲
    by sdenton4 5y ago

    Board games have a number of interesting problems to solve. As a designer, you are often trying to simulate a particular kind of 'interesting' system in a way that's fun, engaging, and simple enough to run by moving a few pie
17. 1727.▲
    by sdenton4 5y ago

    Agricola/Caverna has a pretty large number of resources. For Caverna, off the top of my head: Food, gold, wood, stone, ore, rubies, wheat, vegetables, sheep, donkeys, cows, dogs, and pigs... (And, of course, workers, time and space are
18. 1728.▲
    by sdenton4 5y ago

    Well, it's not a real choice... We also had Leibniz.
19. 1729.▲
    by sdenton4 5y ago

    As a bicyclist, loud motorcycles are the fscking worst. They're deafening and extremely distracting, which is extra terrible if anything complicated is going on. Which there often is, because people on loud bikes are often driving like
20. 1730.▲
    by sdenton4 5y ago

    Just get a nice brain transplant every eighty years or so and you, too, can live forever...
21. 1731.▲
    by sdenton4 5y ago

    I actually just read your linked article a couple days ago... It's thesis is that the main side effects are easily detectable and reversible, and therefore greatly preferable to the aging-related problems that rapamycin keeps at bay. (
22. 1732.▲
    by sdenton4 5y ago

    Mistake #0: Working at the wrong level of abstraction. There are perfectly good library functions (in python, and I assume in C) for loading a wav file into a simple array of values, and writing an array back into a new wav file... Load the
23. 1733.▲
    by sdenton4 5y ago

    '...perceived as being unreliable...' AFAICT, the primary effect is that HN commentary on any google release has approximately zero SNR. Some back-room team could cure cancer and the HN thread would be 90% complaints about Reader.
24. 1734.▲
    by sdenton4 5y ago

    You're just an empty cage, girl, if you kill the bird.
25. 1735.▲
    by sdenton4 5y ago

    I spent a good hour just getting the Box cli running yesterday... Which requires a developer account, creating a 'custom app' to facilitate the CLI interactions, going into an obscure admin interface to approve the request to make
26. 1736.▲
    by sdenton4 5y ago

    Well, no, I absolutely don't see it. The cultural revolution was launched and enforced by Mao, who had absolute control over a very violent regime, about twenty years into the era of Chinese communism. You know, basically a Twitter mob
27. 1737.▲
    by sdenton4 5y ago

    Fwiw, 'autocracy' means "a country, state, or society governed by one person with absolute power," and has nothing to do with any of this. There's no 'auto' here, no governing, and any power involved is fa
28. 1738.▲
    by sdenton4 5y ago

    Wandering around the back roads near Cave Junction, I rode past a barn with a giant mural advocating world peace and love for all. The fence around the barn was plastered with 'trespassers will be shot' signs. It is, indeed, it&#x
29. 1739.▲
    by sdenton4 5y ago

    And the red states will pay 'out of state' prices for higher quality universities in the blue areas, leading to even greater segregation along educational lines. (Actually, this is probably already happening...)
30. 1740.▲
    by sdenton4 5y ago

    Yah, the paper says that alcohol consumption explains 0.8% of the observed variance in grey matter, while age explains 54% of variance. Following a few references, this paper seems to show a average 20%(!) reduction in brain volume from age