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by skeaker 3y ago
It's definitely never been a cheap hobby. A common folly that I heard from multiple people involved in the scene was that they would buy an old and broken game with the idea that they would repair it themselves, only to find that the c
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by skeaker 3y ago
Pinball has had a pretty interesting hacker-y sort of space for years, so I'm glad to hear this. I remember going to a few conventions pre-covid where enthusiasts would bring out their machines, often so old that they had to be complet
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by skeaker 3y ago
The upsides to WFH seem pretty clear to me - No commute saves workers you an hour or two every day and benefits the company by loosening traffic for those that do WFO - Hours saved by not having to prep in the morning/commute benefits
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by skeaker 3y ago
I've experienced the opposite, where I played OoT as an adult but thought it was only okay but got completely absorbed into BotW. OoT is too railroaded for my taste, especially the dungeons that often have one linear path. Towards the
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by skeaker 3y ago
Not to defend him, but having your parents pay for your education is hardly a rare circumstance. It's not the case for everyone, sure, but it is for plenty of ordinary people. I don't understand why Musk is supposed to be outstand
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by skeaker 3y ago
This is up to personal interpretation. Some would certainly argue that calling it "impressive" is still sensationalizing it. There is no clear line that should not be crossed when it comes to this sort of thing. To be honest I thi
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by skeaker 3y ago
I care more about the loss of information than the spin in the title. The new title objectively gives you less information about what the article will actually contain even if it is less biased. The natural extreme of this would be a progra
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by skeaker 3y ago
Disagree. If you understand that the switch hardware is very limiting, you understand that the game runs despite that, and you understand the usage of hyperbole to emphasize how bad the switch hardware is for 2023, the original title should
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by skeaker 3y ago
I think the idea behind the folding form factor is that you don't have to lug it around, since it's in the same shape as a regular phone whenever you're not using it (and I don't think people consider having a phone in t
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by skeaker 3y ago
Metaverse is DoA. Public perception is that it is either too complicated/expensive to use or that it is essentially a worse VRChat. More technically inclined circles see it as a data harvester and crypto-scam breeding ground. Facebook
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by skeaker 3y ago
Kind of missing the point, I think the above commenter was noting that they couldn't imagine Apple ever encouraging someone to get intimate with the internals at all. I certainly can't. You might say, "Why would you want to,&
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by skeaker 3y ago
I would like to believe there is a future where blocking access to the internet is unilaterally impossible. Major powers being able to pull the rug on what has become a foundation of modern society like this is too scary of a thing to allow
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by skeaker 3y ago
This line of thought shows a fundamental difference in perception. To a lot of people, working a 9 to 5 will never make you respectable no matter what it is you're actually doing. These people work to live, whereas your stance is that
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by skeaker 4y ago
Yep, they're forgetting that convenience is really all they offer to an individual customer. Pirating a show is still very easy, and if you want to support the creators of the show, buying their box set off of Amazon or whatever other
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by skeaker 4y ago
For most people it comes down to trying something they aren't sure they will enjoy. If you're not sure you'll like something that costs a significant amount and piracy is not an option, you most likely just won't buy it.
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by skeaker 4y ago
I disagree, I think Gabe does genuinely believe service alone can prevent piracy. Steamworks DRM is opt-in for developers and easily broken (which we have to assume is intentional because Valve definitely has the means to make something str
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by skeaker 4y ago
HN never fails to surprise me with comments like these that can dole out exact numbers for very niche and specific hypotheticals. How on earth do you know all of that?
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by skeaker 4y ago
Claiming intent hardly seems fair when it was advertised as being an AI impersonation, no? If they intended to deceive then surely they would have claimed it wasn't AI.
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by skeaker 4y ago
Well said. Normally I would be against collection of this sort of data but this all seems completely reasonable for a case like this. The way I see it, if you have an account with paid purchases on it you've already given up most of th
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by skeaker 4y ago
That's fine if you feel that way, but millions of people enjoyed it. The comments on reuploads of it are full of people gushing over it, asking why it was removed, and being surprised that AI was involved in it.
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by skeaker 4y ago
Not to mention what is possibly the most asinine change I've ever seen in any UI revision of any software: Making the right click menu show you half the available options and requiring another click to view them all. Why?! It completel
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by skeaker 4y ago
If your first paragraph was actually in the question then I would agree, but in the actual question, the reason there are exactly 100 people in line is that the question says there are 100 people in line. Phrasing certain parameters in your
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by skeaker 4y ago
If it was built into their consciousness, then yeah
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by skeaker 4y ago
Even easier, just hit the By Suit button at the top and all the kings will be sorted along the right side.
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by skeaker 4y ago
I believe hidden comments can be seen if you enable showdead, and if you do so you'll learn why they are hidden (they add virtually nothing to discussions).
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by skeaker 4y ago
Not sure if it's got a "law," but the reasoning seems intuitive: 1. More complex products are usually better, but being more complicated means they're harder to explain to the average customer and makes them harder to se
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by skeaker 4y ago
A younger relative of mine did a course through code.org a few years ago. I remember it being essentially Javascript but you could toggle to a code blocks view and could drag-and-drop some HTML elements so you wouldn't have to worry ab
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by skeaker 4y ago
Great read, thanks for sharing. This took me down an hour long rabbit hole of airplane safety procedures which is not what you would have expected going in.
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by skeaker 4y ago
I mean, it was an unfounded conspiracy theory before, wasn't it? When new evidence came about then it shifted into legitimacy. That's just how evidence works.
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by skeaker 4y ago
I'm 100% certain that people will offer up their own voices as open-source. I would be happy to, albeit maybe anonymously.

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