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by tgb 6y ago
FYI, you were presumably downvoted since the post you replied to had not claimed that Defold, Unreal, or Unity were Open Source. It claimed that Godot was open source, which is true.
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by tgb 6y ago
What's the gist of the setup for how a complex RPG rule system gets coded up? Like in D&D or a Diablo-like, you have base stats, equipment or classes modify those stats, sometimes the modifiers depend upon the circumstances, and ma
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by tgb 6y ago
Same question but what about trademark or registered symbols? You see them on even store signs and I've always wondered if they're the least bit helpful. Is Kellogg's really worried you'll try to steal their logo if they
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by tgb 6y ago
That's what I do, but I still keep only a small number of tabs open in each of a small number of windows. But FYI you can just drag the tab(s) down and they'll form a new window.
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by tgb 6y ago
Greg Egan's an impressively good author even though he's writing about the kinds of sci-fi setups that usually come hand-in-hand with bad dialogue and poor characters. I actually think Quarantine is my favorite of his that I'
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by tgb 6y ago
This article motivates an extension of yesterday's xkcd comic [1]. A Type X error: a correct result, interpreted correctly but communicated so poorly that no one wants to listen. [1] https://xkcd.com/2303/
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by tgb 6y ago
Good catch, I meant dap.
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by tgb 6y ago
I tried this for a while but it never clicked for me. I prefer using semantically-meaningful groupings like paragraphs or parentheses, it just seems nicer. And relative line numbers wouldn't make, say, 5dw any easier to count.
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by tgb 6y ago
I've always thought that doing 5dd and such was a bad demonstration of Vi(m) since I never know how many lines to delete. I'll just dd multiple times. More powerful vim commands are like daw (delete all of a paragraph), di) (delet
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by tgb 7y ago
Thanks, this looks like what I want.
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by tgb 7y ago
I haven't, I'll look into it.
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by tgb 7y ago
I often ssh then open a vim on the server. But it would make more sense to me if vim had support for open remote files via its own ssh connection instead. Does this exist (for vim or some other editors)? Then I could always use my local con
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by tgb 7y ago
So what fraction of operational airplanes are in flight at any given (pre-Covid-19) time? Are they normally "stored" in the air?
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by tgb 7y ago
I also got thinking about this from APOD years ago. It's not just Andromeda that's visibly large (but too faint) to see, many famous nebulas are comparably big. The Orion nebula is over one degree across (The moon is about 1/
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by tgb 7y ago
That was ten years ago today, actually. I just watched this wonderful 11 minute video on the failure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCVCOWejlag
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by tgb 7y ago
I hadn't heard of Proton before and the article doesn't explain. Here's what the GitHub repo for it says [1]: > Proton is a tool for use with the Steam client which allows games which are exclusive to Windows to run on the
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by tgb 7y ago
This is a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22899272 from a few hours ago which has more comments.
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by tgb 7y ago
I made this comment the last time a serological testing study came out: they have 30 negative controls and claim 1.5% positives among their tests. So the number of controls is insufficient to rule out this being entirely false positives. Yo
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by tgb 7y ago
Why even test 100 controls if your conclusion relies on a prior that false-positives are much less than 1%? I think that shows the author's are worried about false-positives and have failed to rule them out sufficiently. Your second tw
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by tgb 7y ago
0 out of 100 controls and 6 out of 500 gives a very wide confidence interval. You could easily get those numbers with 1% false positives and no true positives in either group. Is your prior for false positives low enough to rule that out?
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by tgb 7y ago
> If the violation occurred over port 80 its a safe bet there is no man in the middle attack. If I were doing security triage and I saw "man in the middle" and anything about HTTP or port 80 I would not consider this a priority
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by tgb 7y ago
I'm shocked at how much negativity there is here for Inkscape - it's long been a go-to example for how great open source software can be, in my mind. These days, I often use the (non-free, $26) Vexlio [1] software since it works b
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by tgb 7y ago
Isn't this like saying that you don't need a Datetime library since you can just use unix epoch timestamp? You should specify what coordinate system you're using [1] (not unlike a timezone). There's more edge-cases than
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by tgb 7y ago
An example use case that "git for data" seems to break: storing data for medical research where the participants are allowed to withdraw from the study after the fact. Then their data must be deleted retroactively, not just in the
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by tgb 7y ago
As someone who basically only listens to podcasts while in a vehicle, I'm surprised you think that they're getting more use now that people are at home with a TV, laptop, etc. around them all day. Any numbers to back that up?
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by tgb 7y ago
Albeit probably only because they aren't yet being exploited by companies to the extent that search engines are. I don't expect it to last. Googling used to find you this level of grassroots enthusiast information but now is mostl
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by tgb 7y ago
That's simply not what I said. The confounding factor isn't hand washing (though that also makes it impossible "model the effectiveness of respiratory masks" as the title says), it's that it's comparing one dep
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by tgb 7y ago
So the mask group was also competely confounded with being infectious disease specialists? Perhaps there were other precautions besides masks and hand washing that they were taking due to their training, even if not explicitly. Still intere
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by tgb 7y ago
Yeah, but problems with that are what my last sentence referred to. I didn't try debugging it for long, though.
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by tgb 7y ago
But, strangely, Jupyter doesn't also give you a REPL (like, say, R Studio does). I'm always making new cells in the middle to output the column names of my spreadsheet, and then I have to delete them. I used to just always have an

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