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by simonbw 3y ago
I discovered this game at a board game convention earlier this year and quickly fell in love. After coming home and realizing it was fairly hard to get a copy these days, I decided to make my own web version of it so I could play with my fr
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by simonbw 3y ago
This doesn't seem to load anything beyond the "Introduction" section for me on each page. Using an up-to-date iPhone.
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by simonbw 3y ago
Web apps can still have the problem of the server and client getting out of sync. 1. Plenty of people deploy their frontend and their backend separately. 2. Even if frontend and backend are deployed at the same time, there's still the
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by simonbw 3y ago
I'd just like to point out that the parent is a variant on the GNU/Linux copypasta: https://stallman-copypasta.github.io/
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by simonbw 3y ago
I see that you like Isaac Asimov, XML, and shoes with toes. https://xkcd.com/977/
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by simonbw 3y ago
I've been wanting to do that with a wood laser cutting. My lazier version was to set the desktop background of the tv in my living room to that QR code.
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by simonbw 3y ago
I hadn’t seen musical intervals used to express ratios between things that weren’t pitches, but I think it’s an interesting idea. I guess all they really are is a nice name for specific ratios, so it makes sense that they could be useful in
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by simonbw 3y ago
For a lot of people (like me and everyone in my friend group), close to 100% of calls from unknown numbers are scam calls. I think many people also don’t think someone they don’t know has the right to speak to them just because they have th
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by simonbw 3y ago
Not really. The API is stateless, you pass it in a whole conversation and it responds with the next message. The entire conversation including its response is limited to 32k tokens.
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by simonbw 4y ago
Somewhat related: my favorite Disney short is called The Little Matchgirl. It’s set to a Borodin string quartet, which I think is an excellent choice. If you haven’t seen it, I think it’s worth 6 minutes of your time. https://www
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by simonbw 4y ago
I think it implies that they intend to take VC money at some point in the future, like a series A, and they’re trying to avoid VC money now while they can get better terms. I don’t know if that necessarily means they plan an exit, or if the
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by simonbw 4y ago
I live in Seattle and I don’t think I personally know anyone here who hasn’t had something of theirs stolen. Mostly cars broken into, bikes stolen, things stolen out of their yard.
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by simonbw 5y ago
In general, assuming you have an easy-to-use QR scanner, it's easier to scan a QR code than type in a URL on a phone, especially a complicated one. A couple examples I've run into recently: - Lately it's been pretty common fo
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by simonbw 5y ago
>> Not only that, they're trying to weaken the other adblockers that are there to get rid of ads for you. > I'm going to need a citation for that. I was mostly referring to the fact that they bought uBlock and made it use
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by simonbw 5y ago
I don’t think I misunderstood anything. ABP still makes their money by getting people to see ads, and they still send businesses emails saying “give us money or we’ll block your ads”.
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by simonbw 5y ago
But ABP isn't there to get rid of them for you, they're there to get paid for allowing you to see them. Not only that, they're trying to weaken the other adblockers that are there to get rid of ads for you.
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by simonbw 5y ago
I live in Seattle. What I remember is that they advertised that they were following the same eligibility requirements as everywhere else in the state, but they were having such trouble getting enough people to show up that they put out requ
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by simonbw 6y ago
I think it's pretty common that when people get married it becomes our money instead of my and your money.
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by simonbw 6y ago
On iOS you can double tap a paragraph to zoom in on it. That’s been around as long as I can remember.
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by simonbw 6y ago
I think the QA process isn't usually as pipelineable as you're suggesting. On a website it's often easy to QA changes that happen on page A at the same time you QA changes on page B. But in a game, especially one like factori
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by simonbw 6y ago
While having people find bugs might be one reason for an alpha release, it's not the only reason, or even necessarily the main reason. You might also want to see if people like a new feature, if the feature is well balanced, if it in
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by simonbw 6y ago
I think it’s really hard to evaluate “merit” in an unbiased way. Just because you’re not explicitly using those categories you list doesn’t mean they’re not creeping in to your other metrics.
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by simonbw 6y ago
> but certainly not to meat Here is a study showing that cooked meat provides significantly more energy than raw meat. https://www.pnas.org/content/108/48/19199
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by simonbw 6y ago
There's a reason I put "researching" and "discovered" in quotes ;) That toast fact is exactly as correct as it's supposed to be.
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by simonbw 6y ago
Somehow on dating apps my most successful profile line has been “Message me if you want to learn an interesting fact about toast.” This led to me “researching” a lot of facts about toast and getting deeper and deeper into the bit. Long stor
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by simonbw 6y ago
By input states do you mean stuff like knowing whether a key is currently pressed or a mouse button is currently held down? Could you explain what you mean by it gets messy?
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by simonbw 7y ago
The term “real-time” generally has a different meaning in the context of web development than in the context of systems programming. A lot of people in these comments seem to be making fun of the author for using the term in a different con
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by simonbw 7y ago
Heck, you can do that in English sometimes if you pause correctly and don’t mind sounding Shakespearean. > I love you. > You, I love. > You, love I. > Love you, I do. > Love I, you.
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by simonbw 7y ago
It's covered in grass so maybe they meant literally "greenest" as a joke.
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by simonbw 7y ago
I believe end-to-end means that the message is encrypted on the sender’s device, remains encrypted in transit and on Facebook servers, and is then only decrypted on the receiver’s device. Facebook themselves would not be able to read user’s

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