swilliamsio

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by swilliamsio 11mo ago
Yes, my bad. Fixed.
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by swilliamsio 11mo ago
Made the switch to Mint recently. Steam says that of 750 games on my account, 748 can run on Linux, and I've had no problems with the dozen or so I've played lately.
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by swilliamsio 3y ago
This is great. I wish there was an RSS feed or newsletter I could sign up to - I'm not going to remember to check this in 12 months time. Also they have a lot of other cool sites linked in their about page: https://thehtml.r
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by swilliamsio 3y ago
It piqued my curiousity too so I had a little look. It's called an Impressum. I think OP is incorrect that personal websites need to list a phone number and address - it seems to just apply to commercial entities. https://la
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by swilliamsio 3y ago
A shockingly large amount of music used in old flash games and in old YouTube videos is by Kevin MacLeod, whose released thousands of high quality tracks of all styles under CC-BY. https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-
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by swilliamsio 3y ago
Reference books are the best candidates for being digitised. Why would you want to physically search a real physical library for hours to find a dusty forgotten book about a forgotten piece of equipment when you could just Ctrl+F and insta
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by swilliamsio 3y ago
https://www.swilliams.io/ I should write more.
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by swilliamsio 3y ago
Bicycles are something like 99% efficient though so anything will look ludicrously inefficient compared to them.
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by swilliamsio 3y ago
On the free ChatGPT, I got it to play hangman with the prompt: > Let's play hangman. I'm thinking of a word: _______ It made a variety of guesses generally in the form of > Based on the pattern you provided, I will guess the
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by swilliamsio 4y ago
If you want a source, Steam Hardware Survey[0] somewhat agrees with what you're saying, especially when taking in to account that gamers would have better specs than average. [0] https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey&
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by swilliamsio 4y ago
itch.io is massive for games if you want a new Newgrounds. The tech stack has moved on from Flash to use Unity or GameMaker or Godot or Construct. It's feasible for someone not knowing how to code to use most game engines to create som
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by swilliamsio 4y ago
Bless your heart.
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by swilliamsio 4y ago
Physically placing police officers outside literally every store in a city seems very impractical and expensive.
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by swilliamsio 4y ago
The timing of birth does at least slightly influence a child's development through the relative age effect - the oldest kids in each academic year get a few benefits over their peers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by swilliamsio 4y ago
It was called Punch Buggy when it was for beetles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_buggy I definitely also played the yellow car variant. I assume it's the preferred variant nowadays given how rare bugs are.
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by swilliamsio 4y ago
See also: Pokemon test[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pok%C3%A9mon_test
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by swilliamsio 4y ago
Recently found out about ClickUp. It's not quite as feature-rich as JIRA, but nowhere near as simplistic as Trello, and its fairly jank-free so I'm a fan.
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by swilliamsio 4y ago
That has kind of already been done in the 2010 PS3 game MAG: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAG_(video_game)
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by swilliamsio 4y ago
The Mount & Blade Warband Persistent World mod servers are like this. All equipment and resources have to be mined, crafted, and used by players, and the only gameplay was player interactions - trade, banditry, war. Amazingly good fun w
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by swilliamsio 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message
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by swilliamsio 5y ago
> also, period goes inside quote According to Wikipedia, it very much depends: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Punc...
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by swilliamsio 5y ago
It is a common joke among fans for these games that Paradox Interactive does not have a QA department, given how incredibly buggy their DLCs are at launch.
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by swilliamsio 5y ago
As the old saying goes: "Most of What You Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People."
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by swilliamsio 5y ago
I hope you'll permit me to gush about the UK job board https://cord.co/ , I got my last job from there and there is something about cord that has forced companies to offer very quick turnaround in the interview process,
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by swilliamsio 5y ago
Prosperity license seems to be exactly what OP is looking for. Looks like it's had a few big projects use it too, which is promising. I wish someone would write a software compatible equivalent of Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA however:
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by swilliamsio 5y ago
Sporcle has a trove of geography quizzes. I'm quite proud of myself for acing the all countries quiz. https://www.sporcle.com/games/category/geography?sortBy=allt... Here is a quiz that replicates Worldle: h
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by swilliamsio 5y ago
Twitter's link shortener gets tonnes of use. Seems like every external link in every tweet is converted to a t.co link instead to save characters.
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by swilliamsio 5y ago
The fact that this website is solar powered is very, very cool to me. I will have to come back in a few hours and see if the Spanish night has taken it offline.
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by swilliamsio 5y ago
There's nothing more universally deflating as a British child than being told you're going to see some ancient hill fort, letting your castle-filled imagination run wild, before arriving there after a long car journey, and just se
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by swilliamsio 5y ago
In a way, its more difficult today because there are so many options for web development that it's paralysing to even find out where to start. Still, can't go wrong starting with the most basic option.

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