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by shantly 7y ago
The BSD license is a pretty big difference. [EDIT] MIT, that is, of course.
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by shantly 7y ago
They tend to use ~10x the memory that seems reasonable—generous, even—for what they're doing, and periodically misbehave and decide to eat tons of cycles continuously for no obvious reason, in a way native apps don't, or at least
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by shantly 7y ago
I'm not aware of a single advanced-economy state (I usually shorthand this "OECD" but Singapore's not a member, AFAIK) that doesn't use price controls, explicitly or de facto (monopsony), in their health care syst
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by shantly 7y ago
Yeah, for sure. For all I know there's some major play-benefit to the newer sets that I don't know about and haven't happened to see with my kids, off-setting the use/play cases for which they're definitely less wel
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by shantly 7y ago
I'm not trying to say there's no fun in the newer sets—that'd be dumb—but they're harder to build & maintain in play due to higher part-counts for the same (or smaller!) size, and tend to devote a lot of that part co
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by shantly 7y ago
It'll definitely be good for some Let's Play views for a few youtubers.
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by shantly 7y ago
Yeah, my kids still love LEGO, but the sets don't seem to be well-designed for play (for younger kids in what used to be their primary target age-range) anymore compared to what they used to be. I bet the nicer-looking art tests bett
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by shantly 7y ago
> • HL1 was an exploration of the possibility-space of having objects interact through emitted “energy” (i.e. by broadcasting messages that get attenuated by distance.) I played FPS games before HL, and I played all the original HL games
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by shantly 7y ago
It's a sliver of a sliver of the market. Gamers -> PC gamers -> PC gamers with powerful gaming rigs -> PC gamers with powerful gaming rigs who care even a little about VR and so might buy a headset, if they don't already
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by shantly 7y ago
It's not the politics, it's that I don't like voyeuristic stalkers. I don't care how much money they're making voyeuristically stalking people.
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by shantly 7y ago
1) That can change at any time, 2) Those data are never going away, and may not (=will not) belong to Google forever, 3) Data that exists can be demanded by the government, justly or otherwise, and they will get it—private companies runni
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by shantly 7y ago
I dunno. I've gotten my kids a lot of LEGO and the new sets are really high-part-count but it's tons and tons of fiddly little short bricks, mostly, to build relatively small sets. All I can figure is they went overboard with CAD
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by shantly 7y ago
Yeah I actually think 2 may have been the one I tried, not 1. IIRC I played it on Mac (Intel graphics) and my Windows-using friends reported no such problems. So it was probably just my machine, but regardless, it seemed good but I can&#x27
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by shantly 7y ago
The need to capture users (and all the info you can about them) and claim territory is a lot of why we don’t have as much focus on standards anymore in web protocols. So, as with many of the rest of the web’s problems, it’s spyvertising’s f
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by shantly 7y ago
> web > annoying that you have to bring in XML parsing libraries Uhhhhhh... https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/Parsing_a...
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by shantly 7y ago
> any notion of a bullet star flinging across the sky like tracers at the Knob Creek night shoot. It's fast yet, but at that scale, doesn't look it. That would appear to be what the poster is trying to compare, there.
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by shantly 7y ago
Tyranny's got a pretty good balance of old-school CRPG feel without old-school difficulty or unfairness. Good gimmick & setting, and good-enough story, to boot. Shadowrun: Dragonfall and Hong Kong are also really good. I hear &quot
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by shantly 7y ago
They're also supposed to be in them until they're 10 or so, these days. You're likely to go through 3-4 seats per kid—infant (often also a carrier), toddler, then either a larger car seat and later a booster or a convertible
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by shantly 7y ago
It's more about how much you care that things like that are logically supported by and can be derived from the answers to questions like "what is physical reality?" For ancient Stoics—the ones who developed the philosophy—thi
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by shantly 7y ago
Being able to replace "staring at the wall and thinking" with "putting the dishes away and thinking" or "chopping veggies and thinking" or similar is one of the biggest benefits of working from home, IMO.
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by shantly 7y ago
Yeah, the difference between Stoicism-as-philosophy and Stoicism-as-self-help-book is that the former finds it necessary to justify the accuracy or reasonableness of its advice, starting from fundamentals like what physical reality consists
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by shantly 7y ago
TV was a lot more boring than the Internet. Even most 80s and 90s cable didn’t have so many channels that you could keep thinking that if you watched the schedule scroll by one more time you’d find something amazing, let alone OTA TV. If yo
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by shantly 7y ago
"I don't even have a TV!" Watches TV on Phone/Tablet/Laptop
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by shantly 7y ago
I'm not even that smart—tested into gifted programs by the skin of my teeth—and I'm just about certain I could have completed a 2-year degree in some mid-difficulty subject area by no later than 18— maybe as young as 16—if I&#x
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by shantly 7y ago
It may have been the rational thing to do. That something worse didn't in fact result from avoiding pre-empting MAD build-up with an early first strike doesn't mean this was the likely outcome. They may have been right, and we
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by shantly 7y ago
I can't speak to the quality of STEM education at top-tier universities, but having experienced humanities at a mid-level state school and watched a fair number of lectures for similar courses from Ivies, the main differences seemed to
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by shantly 7y ago
> The lesson is that you need to figure out what you're good at and where you have opportunity, and then work hard in those areas. Just working hard is a recipe for failure for most people. It took me way too long to realize that I
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by shantly 7y ago
Everyone's in the confessional booth here admitting dogmatic test-first-test-everything's not so hot in practice, which is nice, but how long until it becomes safe to answer with anything other than some variation of "love te
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by shantly 7y ago
Wake up, check HN, see a lively argument about whether something that can't happen has a 0% probability of happening or not. Maybe I'll go for a walk.
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by shantly 7y ago
I know some companies running major esports tournaments also have interests in the gambling side. So. There's that.

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