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by t-3 2mo ago
I like games for the mechanics and gameplay. Cutscenes and dialogue just get in the way. Old-school ascii roguelikes are RPGs but most have little-to-no story, almost purely a setting and mechanics. They're my favorite type of game.
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Researchers find way to listen in on headphones from afar(theregister.com)
4 points by t-3 2mo ago|0 comments
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by t-3 2mo ago
It's also something people tend to do when thinking, daydreaming, trying to solve problems, etc. We just usually don't fall for our own bullshit. LLMs don't either. They just give output in response to input. If the output is
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by t-3 2mo ago
Unexpected Result is perhaps a more accurate description.
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by t-3 2mo ago
The entire Pacific region was full of volcanoes already. It's not a place you want to go if afraid of tectonic activity.
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by t-3 2mo ago
Firefox is acceptable, but it's definitely not what it used to be. I've long stopped expecting any positive user- visible change in Firefox updates.
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by t-3 2mo ago
There are way more places where a simple typo will ruin you in a for loop than a reduce or fold or map. Using briefer abstractions in place of nested loops is almost always preferable.
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by t-3 2mo ago
Can you elaborate? Genre in practice is a short description of the type of the story. A genre such as "Western" or "Historical Fiction" or "Fantasy" define many things about the setting. Some, like "Romanc
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by t-3 2mo ago
In my experience, it feels real but the feelings doesn't really hold up to scrutiny. It's more like the set of a play than a real world, where a thin facade evokes all the right cues in the audience but couldn't actually be u
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by t-3 2mo ago
I'm also aphantasic, but I do dream, though rarely remember them unless I wake up and go back to sleep (probably due to being a deep sleeper rather than anything to do with aphantasia). At most I get some attraction to and diffusion of
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by t-3 2mo ago
> I get the impression that most of the people are essentially dumb little lap dogs, who have little idea of how anything works, occupying themselves with social-media-tier stuff. There are still "people" who have to get the wo
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by t-3 2mo ago
> I think most scifi (that isn't just action adventure) tries to reframe the problems of today in a different context for the purposes of social commentary. Despite the future setting, it is fundamentally a genre about the present.
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by t-3 2mo ago
Why is humans having to work forever even when it's totally unnecessary more optimistic than utopia where work is just a vacation for when you get bored of doing human things?
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by t-3 2mo ago
I've never eaten citrus like an apple except when at a restaurant and they give slices of lemon or lime - I eat those whole. I usually eat the fruit first, then the peel. The bitterness of the pith is not noticeable at all when eaten l
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by t-3 2mo ago
Almost all mashed potatoes I've ever had that wasn't in a microwave dinner has come with skins inside. Do you always use russet or something?
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by t-3 2mo ago
Citrus peels taste good. They're used for cooking in every culture that grows citrus. Eating them raw is only bad due to farmers poisoning the food they sell.
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by t-3 2mo ago
Why would you peel potatos? The skin is the best part!
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by t-3 2mo ago
All memory. SSDs are expensive, microSD is expensive, even spinning rust has inflated.
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by t-3 2mo ago
The Meridian of America... coming soon on a limited edition Golden Map of America . Featuring all 244 American States!
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by t-3 2mo ago
These people are also all wealthy with stable fortunes - they don't need a lot of cash because they have everything. Trump is also a rich guy, but he has a lot of debts and legal troubles and worries about leaving office, so he urgentl
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by t-3 2mo ago
When people say that US corruption is nothing new, they aren't condoning it, they're (in every case I've seen) drawing exactly the contrast you are making - it was like this before, but now it's so much worse! Corruption
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by t-3 2mo ago
An entertaining read. As implied but not openly stated, a publically-available implementation doesn't seem to exist. It actually maps pretty well to many existing languages so a "compiler" could be as simple as a custom macro
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by t-3 2mo ago
The difference is that the marketing stuff used to be only on corporate websites. Now it's everywhere, because pretty much everybody hates writing, and the "pretty much" can be left off when the writing is a job or some other
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by t-3 3mo ago
Usually it would be the wife because women usually work less and get paid less so they have more time. However, 2001 was about the high point for female labor force participation ( https://www.bls.gov/cps/demographics&#x
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by t-3 3mo ago
A 30% approval rating means ~75-80% of Trump's base is still fully behind him. A two-party system will only very rarely produce figures with over 50% approval, because roughly half of voters disapprove on GP. The apathy of the 40-50% w
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by t-3 3mo ago
No it wouldn't. Parents accompanying children to their first day of school is pretty normal and sometimes required, especially for the fancy private schools someone like Lutnick probably sent his kids to.
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by t-3 3mo ago
I've never experienced visualization under the effect of hallucinogens, but I have once when I took very strong opiates.
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by t-3 3mo ago
No visualization, no monologue or other auditory thinking ability. My thinking process is more like reading and writing than speaking and hearing. The concepts flow at the speed at of thought when active, much faster than I could comprehend
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by t-3 3mo ago
I don't know how visually complex phantasic dreams are, but my dreams as an aphantasic person are sensually just like real life.
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by t-3 3mo ago
XCOM probabilities are lies, just like Fire Emblem. Pretty much 0% of games that show you a "percent-to-hit" chance ever give an accurate number.

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