tomc1985

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by tomc1985 4y ago
X4 Foundations is its name https://store.steampowered.com/app/392160/X4_Foundations/ The expansion packs have expanded the size of the game world considerably, making the whole thing even more amazing
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by tomc1985 4y ago
There's a series of space strategy/4x/combat sims called X where the latest entry seems to simulate entire economies and individual ships in real time. Dozens of sectors with hundreds of ships and dozens of space stations all
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by tomc1985 4y ago
There's less data tying you to your identity with the web apps, and you can use an adblocker to reduce your profile even further. The location data is troubling but I've seen at least one of those randomize the pin slightly each t
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by tomc1985 4y ago
There's a few other sites that are good for hookups, but I wouldn't trust any apps. Sniffies and A4A are the ones I know of
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by tomc1985 4y ago
A lack of journalistic coverage
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by tomc1985 4y ago
You mean the hands-off owner that lets WashPo do wahtever as long as they don't make Amazon look bad There's still a lot of room to maneuver in there
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by tomc1985 4y ago
A little extra, maybe, but these are extra times. Hardly "insufferably self-righteous"
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Seems like a great way to have an engineering monoculture, what with all the good old boys at the Ivy Leagues
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Agreed, but I think many of the ways that manifests can be acquired with experience if you're looking at one thing. I think the idea we are both getting at is capacity for learning, or quick thinking, and for that you need to see that
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by tomc1985 4y ago
I have never found a circumstance where those comparisons are actually useful in the sense that they can make me a better person. All they have ever done is make someone (usually me) feel better about themselves. Every time it has come up,
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by tomc1985 4y ago
> You claim to be more hard working and intelligent than him Dude, intelligence is not nearly as useful in this world as we are made to believe. And, you say you are smarter than him? That automatically makes it so that I would never wan
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by tomc1985 4y ago
I like Zero-K but the maps the game takes place on seem to be very small. (And the music is awful) That said the enemy AI seems to have a bunch of neat tricks up its sleeve. And it feels like TA-in-3D. Also, I wish the developers would spen
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Good, because the last time I used s3 (years ago) IIRC it seemed like public was the default
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Not TA but there is an old Unreal Engine mod that brings is essentially C&C Renegade. Called Renegade X ( https://www.moddb.com/games/renegade-x )
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by tomc1985 4y ago
I have some ideas for RTS games that are somewhat different from the usual norm. I've been thinking about doing something with Spring RTS and old Total Annihilation assets. Wondering if this engine might be more amenable to conceptual
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by tomc1985 4y ago
So how is Chilean eBay then? And who's to say I'm going to have a consistent postal address during my time there? Or that the postal/parcel system is reliable? Or that the package will even arrive in time? And, ironically, ge
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by tomc1985 4y ago
> tech business is fast Not nearly as fast as it used to be, except when it comes to breaking things. They get away with it because of folks' relentless optimism towards anything tech-related, and the fact that we are all used to mu
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by tomc1985 4y ago
This sort of naive, haughty attitude is why I can't stand hanging out with tech people in person any more.
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by tomc1985 4y ago
It seems like providing sane, secure defaults would be more effective. But that would probably destroy the onboarding experience, how many tech firms release big products that should have authentication but really don't because of &quo
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by tomc1985 4y ago
How badly is the entire industry mismanaged if hospitals have to charge thousands-to-millions of dolllars for treatments? There is no possible way that is just barely supporting facilities+medical staff+reasonable administration+liabilities
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Six or seven years ago I was in Chile for a few weeks as a language-learning exercise. While I was there the power adapter to my MBP broke, making it unusable. At the time there was no Apple store in the entire country! I had to go to Brazi
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by tomc1985 4y ago
At the rate that healthcare charges in the US, hospitals can more than afford to keep X+1 or +2 needed nurses around in three 8-hour shifts. They just don't.
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by tomc1985 4y ago
True, though in practice I haven't noticed it to be nearly as obnoxious as Apple stuff trying to upscale at non-integer intervals
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Text fuzziness has had nothing to do with your monitor ever since we've gone digital with HDMI and DVI Linux & Windows generally use implementations of antialiasing that aren't so "fuzzy," so you could always ditch t
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by tomc1985 4y ago
MATE Desktop is still pretty simple and great
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by tomc1985 4y ago
10-years-plus Rails dev here, I still get requests to connect from recruiters for Rails positions at least weekly, and my LinkedIn says at the very top that I am not seeking employment Judging by the responses here, Rails is no longer fashi
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by tomc1985 4y ago
With the amount of in-browser emulators how there it doesn't seem particularly difficult to recompile something existing to WASM. Archive.org has been doing something like that for years at this point This project is a nice resume badg
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by tomc1985 4y ago
It runs? I guess. Neither Sim City 2000 nor Warcraft II could start. Is this just another enscripten rush port or something?
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Geolocation can be done without a subprocessor. It goes against the grain of outsourcing everything under the sun but all you need is a high-quality local database of IP address ranges. And yeah, by all means, include that in your privacy p
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Let them analyze their webserver logs then. You don't need a cookie to geolocate users via IP

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