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by strbean 6y ago
Works for seasoned players. For myself and most people I play with, we're reading the cards most of the time. Try fitting Shahrazad's text on a card with sharpie :) Also, so much effort ><
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by strbean 6y ago
I play very infrequently, so it is fun to say "let's play legacy, pick something random from a legacy top decks list". Gets boring pretty quickly, but I'm burnt out on MtG for awhile by that point anyway :)
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by strbean 6y ago
On the one hand, with TTKs the same as CS, it's unlikely it will ever be as ability heavy as Overwatch. On the other hand, unless Riot deviates massively from my expectations, they will release new agents so often, and with such power
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by strbean 6y ago
Bleh! I was really hoping they would have smoothed that out by now. I just want a damn UDP socket to my server! I guess it's easier to piggyback on the security model of the P2P handshake than work out a separate model for client-serve
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by strbean 6y ago
This is the format of patch files for Propellerhead's Scream 4. It is just a serialization format for the settings of the knobs. Not exactly the same as "decoding a VST".
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by strbean 6y ago
For all their anti-fraud measures, they still couldn't figure out that those 3 simultaneous $500 transactions with a West African gold mining company weren't actually initiated by me, and need 3 weeks to resolve it. Anyone using
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by strbean 6y ago
What are the odds anyone in their applicant pool hears about this?
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by strbean 6y ago
It's been awhile since I took a crack at WebRTC. Do you still need to go through all the peer negotiation even when you are just trying to get to a known server?
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by strbean 6y ago
This appears to strictly use WebSocket, and not touch WebRTC at all. It is no surprise that a TCP text-based protocol sucks for realtime gaming purposes.
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by strbean 6y ago
Unfortunately, it seems like Riot plans to take the same approach they do with League of Legends, and introduce new agents consistently and frequently. With the need for unique and interesting abilities to drive interest, Valorant will end
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by strbean 6y ago
This raises an interesting point - async is less well suited to languages that are, well, slow as molasses. If your language is so slow that basic operations dominate even network IO, you're not going to gain much.
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by strbean 6y ago
I'd be interested to see how effective the simple "black pantyhose over the head" is against facial recognition.
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by strbean 6y ago
And completely for free, without buying packs/cards! You can play with decks that would cost $10,000 to put together with physical cards.
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by strbean 6y ago
I mean, I'm very much in support of the protestors, but... They can't exactly institute a curfew after things get out of control. And they have gotten out of control across the country in the previous nights.
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by strbean 6y ago
Let's not gloss over the hilarious assumption that wealth is fairly apportioned based on who "creates" it.
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by strbean 6y ago
> It can only represent the collective, and you cannot ensure that all individuals in such a collective would agree to such an exchange, or feel benevolent about it. As such, there is no such thing as a benevolent state. A state is only
617.
by strbean 6y ago
Imagine the efficiency of having your whole userland written in one line of code!
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by strbean 6y ago
I'm really sad I missed the boat so hard on Powershell. I grabbed it at the first public release (beta? alpha?), and the thing was absurdly slow. Trying to `ls` took around 10 seconds. I nope'd out and didn't touch it again.
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by strbean 6y ago
> Saying you can use Kubernetes to turn whatever stupid crap people tend to deploy with it highly available, is like saying you can make an airliner reliable by installing some sort of super fancy electronic box inside. You don't ge
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by strbean 6y ago
> destructuring assignment Sign me up plz.
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by strbean 6y ago
Sounds like their offering will basically consist of some fairly simple CI and some static hosting, right? Those things (particularly the CI) are incredibly trivial to setup for someone who is technically proficient. It might be a hurdle fo
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by strbean 6y ago
As Californian, I hate exit numbers. I typically know vaguely where I'm trying to go, but navigation apps nowadays often favor the exit numbers. Exit numbers are still poorly marked in a lot of places, and are typically harder to spot.
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by strbean 6y ago
It would be nice to have KYC using a certificate system, where organizations could publish that they have performed the check. At its core, that would be optional, and it would be up to the parties to a given transaction whether they care.
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by strbean 6y ago
I have a little bit of BTC, so you and every other HN reader should dump your net worth into it ASAP.
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by strbean 6y ago
Throw on some headphones, and mix your clean signal with the rest of the ensemble on a 50ms delay. (jk)
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by strbean 6y ago
I was under the impression that string theory was inherently un-provable.
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by strbean 6y ago
For a high-profile example, see Andy Milonakis[1]. He is ~40 in this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb9UgsVDwI0
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by strbean 6y ago
> you end up in a dictatorship I guess in the case of publicly traded companies, it's a kind of plutocracy? Control ultimately lies with the shareholders. This is a fair point though, but I think the rationale for this criticism alr
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by strbean 6y ago
Totally agreed on point one, I think it is an incredibly sad state of affairs though. For point two, I'm pretty desensitized to the sad state of affairs that is big-player web service support. The phishing vector of "Hi, I'm
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by strbean 6y ago
I misremembered my C89 gripe! The issue was that the following is not allowed: for (int i = 0; // ... Forcing you to write int i; for (i = 0; // ... The real annoyance here is that you can't

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