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by shit_game 1y ago
Another reminder that you should always instantly download everything you ever find interesting or valuable. The internet is temporal because it's backed by people and infrastructure which are fallible and fragile in the face of law
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by shit_game 1y ago
For those unfamiliar, the act of absuing the tick system to "stack" actions like this is called "tick manipulation". It's a relatively common practice among high-efficiency players and PKers (player killers, players
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by shit_game 1y ago
Whoops, bit of a slip there. It is 100 ticks per minute, or 1 tick every 0.6 seconds. I was wrong in the first description there.
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by shit_game 1y ago
Shops can shut down for more reasons than not having enough work, such as tariffs and regulations affecting CoGS, low hiring capability, CoGS changing (like energy), and especially tool and material shortages (also affected by the same issu
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by shit_game 1y ago
Also for comparison, the Runescapes (both RS3 and Oldschool Runescape) have a 0.6 tick/second system (100 ticks/minute). It works rather well for these games, which I guess highlights that some games either a) can get away with hi
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by shit_game 1y ago
Falling for PR and advertising is a moral failing by which you are not even bothering to consider the reality of the situation.
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by shit_game 1y ago
Every year I eagerly await tom7's video for SIGBOVIK. He is such a brilliant and funny person, and everything he shares is such a treat. I love his work and his play, and I think most folks on HN will too.
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by shit_game 1y ago
The best way I've come to describe glitch art in my papers or talks with peers is that a "glitch" in the context of glitch art is the deliberate abuse of a format of media , taking advantage of either noise, compression sc
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by shit_game 1y ago
Plenty of incredible works of art and story telling use glitch art to evoke feelings and notions of "brokenness" or surreality. Some pieces that come to mind are Adventure Time S5E15: A Glitch is a Glitch , created by artist Davi
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by shit_game 1y ago
I can't imagine that the absurd number of greenhorns entering the industry due to their "vibecoding prowess", or the inevitable number of people in management that perpetuate this fantasy of nocoder devs has anything to do wi
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by shit_game 1y ago
Would you say that someones code formatting is a shibboleth? How do you feel about formatters and linters in regards to this?
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by shit_game 1y ago
People under age can obtain fake IDs, all over the world. This is illegal, but it still happens. At some point, it is ultimatey a parents responsibility to prevent their children from doing so by acting as a parent to their child and preven
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by shit_game 1y ago
It makes me feel so uneasy to think that the most probably answer is the one that will result in the most human misery.
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by shit_game 1y ago
This reminds me of a piece on folklore.org by Andy Hertzfeld[0], regarding Bill Atkinson. A "KPI" was introduced at Apple in which engineers were required to report how many lines of code they had written over the week. Bill (alle
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by shit_game 1y ago
More tradespeople don't make more housing, capital and legislation do. Both capital and legislators (a disturbing number of whom are either landlords or realestate tycoons) are perversely incentivised to keep housing supplies low becau
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by shit_game 1y ago
Blue collar jobs are only going to be the go-to for as long as the labor supply is lower than the commercial demand, which I doubt will be long (if this is even the case now). It takes a non-neglible amount of time to train (or certify) for
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by shit_game 1y ago
I remember my mother watching a news segment on TV about the subject of online identity verification several months ago, and she commented that she supported it because "kids shouldn't be looking at these things." I asked her
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by shit_game 1y ago
It moves the real cost of the additional labor from the prices displayed for items (like you would see in a B&M grocery store) to some tertiary part of the purchase process that is displayed 1) after the used has gone through the effort
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by shit_game 1y ago
To further the analogy, sex may be an industry, but not everyone who participates does so comercially. Some who do so comercially may not want to be filmed.
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by shit_game 1y ago
It's industry standard for porn stars to get fucked on camera. But I'm not a porn star, and I don't want to be fucked on camera. Handwaving away this abuse of privacy by saying "everyone does it because it makes money&qu
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by shit_game 1y ago
To translate for those not familiar with the writings of Douglas Adams: nord is suggesting it's possible that the physical computer running this model could be used as a "hub" for potential spyware, or be overloaded with work
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by shit_game 1y ago
I just wanna say that this an exemplary comment. This is the kind if thing i read hn coments for.
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by shit_game 1y ago
Not to mention, ownership.
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by shit_game 1y ago
firefox development has been moved from mercurial to git since early november of 2023 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-Going-Git
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by shit_game 1y ago
What impact? The impact of the Australian Border Force overreacting after they (seemingly deliberately) bungled the situation when they were first made aware of the situation? None of the elements this man was in possession of were either
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by shit_game 1y ago
good. from what ive read/watched about this case, it was absurd and an absolute abuse of the systems in place in australia. the quantities and material properties of the elements in question should have never, ever resulted in the re
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by shit_game 1y ago
This should have been something that everyone saw coming, but it can be hard to imagine what's happening before it does, particularly when you yourself aren't incentivised to - companies with access to your phone through an app (a
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by shit_game 2y ago
> Same for maths and coding - once you reach a certain level of expertise, the complexity and redundancy of natural language is a greater cost than benefit. This seems to apply to all fields of expertise. And as well as these points, am
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by shit_game 2y ago
> The physical controller is precisely why I love vinyl. It's interesting how djings origins in vinyl led to the controler interfaces we have today. I don't have any aptitude for djing myself, but also having played with mixxx
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by shit_game 2y ago
The current administration has shared favorable views on "public-private partnership", which suggests that outright nationalization isn't the goal; I'd imagine the more likely scenario is that national assets will be dis

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