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by setr 4y ago
People will yell about minmaxing in all competitive team-based games at skill levels far below where any of it matters (eg proper map awareness alone will probably shoot you into the top-90% of most competitive games, even with poor skill&#
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by setr 4y ago
Given that most stores weren’t printing final price pre-internet, I highly doubt this is the reason. Though I do recall some really small convenience stores not getting the memo, but amongst them it isn’t/wasnt common
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> The second time, you mostly know what you’re in for. There may be different paths to take, there may be new stuff unlocked by your first play through. This is what I mean by the systems are what matter, not content variation. You can p
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by setr 4y ago
Right; when I said game systems being trivial, I meant trivial in that the player can completely predict the outcome with very little effort — not that the rules defining the system are trivial. Conway’s game of life (and Turing machines ev
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by setr 4y ago
This article almost entirely focuses on content variation, but I think far more important is game system complexity and inter-complexity. The ultimate problem stopping replay (assuming you like the game systems in the first place) is the re
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by setr 4y ago
If I’m reading this right, I’m seeing a vote taking place in the “Survey” section, with 5 votes invoked — 2 no, 3 yes. And an end result of No Consensus. Framing this as if 2 Wikipedians exercising outsized power to produce this ruling seem
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by setr 4y ago
Given how many genres of games popped out of the Warcraft 3 ecosystem (dota, tower defenses, island troll tribes, survival games, rpgs, Pokémon-likes, board game likes, etc), it seems to me that Warcraft 3 is a perfect example of how much c
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If everyone expects to be killed anyways, then why is anyone paying the ransom?
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by setr 4y ago
That’s fundamentally the problem; it’s only beneficial if the whole community moves in unison. If I switch from one standard with 10% ecosystem usage to another with 25%, I’ve accomplished nothing. You need something more like at least 60-7
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by setr 4y ago
You need to incentivize codebases to be moved to the new thing, or you have to rely on incremental adoption by new projects. It’s a tragedy of the commons — for any individual codebase it’s hardly worth the trouble (My codebase(s) already h
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by setr 4y ago
Larger enums to represent and discriminate. Null is just syntax sugar for the one-kind of absence case, and multiple-null-likes eliminates all benefits of that syntax sugar, so you might as well revert to a real discriminator. Ideally you c
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by setr 4y ago
What was Germany up to dictating office colors? Seems to be more than just a standard if IBM actually had to put a label against it to be sold
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by setr 4y ago
I don’t think we need tragedy, or really most personal drama arcs. They’re usually so basic as to just be filler. I want more Jackie Chan — always on the back foot, always struggling against unfair odds (and usually a bit confused), usually
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by setr 4y ago
Just do like a parking garage — if you’ve lost your ticket, fine for the worst case.
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by setr 4y ago
> Roe vs. Wade showed that laws made and ‘democratic’ decisions settled upon in the USA can be reversed with no warning, no voting, nothing but funding from evil people. Roe vs. Wade wasn't a law, or really a democratic decision --
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by setr 4y ago
Isn’t the vast majority of google’s income still from search/ads? The failure of these side projects doesn’t impact them significantly (or alternatively, like VC with startups, they’re just looking for one project to succeed)
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by setr 4y ago
Movies aren’t the right comparison; they’re efficient. Video games operate more like TV — with lots of filler that you don’t want but can put up with, and can’t really skip because there’s probably something notable interspersed (intentiona
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by setr 4y ago
I don’t think I’m even in favor of automatic string escaping; string escaping generally is a ridiculous concept, for any place where we’re not intentionally mixing code & data e.g. a user-supplied regex — if it’s a user-supplied string
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by setr 4y ago
When I first learned about escaping to avoid SQL injection, I was suspicious the whole concept was demented — why can’t I just tell the database that this thing isn’t SQL code? Then I learned about parameterization, and had my suspicions ju
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by setr 4y ago
SQL injections will always be a thing, regardless of SQL vs Not-SQL, if you’re building strings to represent programs. Parameterization is precisely how you properly differentiate between code and data, and it’d be the same strategy no matt
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by setr 4y ago
You can’t add an additional foreign key to an existing table without potentially breaking all existing queries. Probably the biggest constraint SQL language design has is that its on a live system — things are not compiled at the same time.
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by setr 4y ago
That statistic seems pointless? Republicans won 3/8 of the last elections (bush x2 , trump x1) with 2 losing the national vote. So 6/8 rounds came through properly. More importantly, there’s apparently only been 5 presidents elect
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by setr 4y ago
The other alternative is you start dropping requirements/features to meet their timeline, ideally leaning towards those they probably consider less important, creating the altered project for them. I’ve found doing so to be crucial esp
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by setr 4y ago
Sure but it’s the same story; the US gov can choose crypto as their currency for taxes as well (as certain countries already have). The question ultimately is whether crypto’s properties as a currency is better enough to displace the curren
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At the end of the day, the use of gold as a store of value and medium of exchange is simply a social agreement that this is the case. There’s nothing inherent to gold, except perhaps some useful properties like rarity, that make it so — and
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by setr 4y ago
If the only non determinism is in the message passing, then recording and replaying the receive buffer should look exactly the same between your system and city bound, without forcing an ordering — replaying is itself eliminating the source
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For free? Of course not. At cost? … depends on what you’re charging me, and how much I’m getting
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The best explanation I’m aware of for the disproportionate death rates by Europeans vs Native Americans by disease is mainly population density of European cities was dramatically higher, leading to a lot of diseases that would permanently
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by setr 4y ago
FYI The site has much more information https://jhigginbotham64.github.io/Starlight.jl/dev/ The bounties are also curious; the contributing.md doc has a $100 bounty with no real definition to what it is; I’m guessi
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by setr 4y ago
They’ve essentially required that they approve people before they can take on bounties, so they also have the chance to deny bounties arbitrarily (before any work is done). Unlike the usual scheme of bounties posted and randomly fulfilled (

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