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by vlunkr 3y ago
> I'm so convinced that it's not possible to know what really happened This argument holds up when you're looking at truly old historical facts with no good evidence. We're not talking about George Washington cutting
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by vlunkr 3y ago
Sure 20 people could be lying. It's unlikely, and they have no motive really. They were paid for their work already. He's the one trying to profit from their work.
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by vlunkr 3y ago
> If anything, the way people treat themselves and others in ordinary life, the kind of mental gymnastics and self-inflicted anguish in "normal" society is the insanity. This is just "What if the people in mental hospitals
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by vlunkr 3y ago
> And I am confident in that guess because I understand people and people's behavior. How am I supposed to respond seriously to an assertion like that?
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by vlunkr 4y ago
Was the point to impress, or to be a research subject?
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by vlunkr 4y ago
Nice, this is great!
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by vlunkr 4y ago
Heardle was fun, but really needed more development. Why not use other parts of the song besides the intro? I think they also could broken it into genres or decades. I mostly lost interest because I'd go too many days with songs that I
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by vlunkr 4y ago
> That access acts on nil is unfortunate, but it's necessary for things like get_in. Ah, that explains it at least. Other atoms don't implement the access behavior.
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by vlunkr 4y ago
Sure, but as the company providing the product, you don't get to choose what types of parenting styles you're going to interact with.
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by vlunkr 4y ago
I'm in the same boat with Elixir. I love many aspects of the language, but it borrows the fast-and-loose type ecosystem of ruby. nil is an especially big problem. Any value could be nil, and this will absolutely bite you over and over.
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by vlunkr 4y ago
I disagree that it’s lazy programming, it’s actually a hard problem. If you’ve ever played an online game you know that people deliberately try to work around profanity filters by removing spaces or swapping some characters. It’s easier to
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by vlunkr 4y ago
The wii is probably not as good as you remember. I don’t know the technical terms, but the original controller didn’t actually do 1:1 tracking. Someone smarter than me explains here: https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~okreylos&#x2F
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by vlunkr 4y ago
That's a great question. I think it was just a fad. There weren't enough really good game ideas to carry it forward.
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by vlunkr 4y ago
The other thing about mono->stereo and monochrome->color is that they were backwards compatible. And even when creators adopted the new style, they didn't fundamentally change what they were doing. With VR, the majority of popula
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by vlunkr 4y ago
It's very popular right now, but it's really hard to tell if it's just a fad. Motion controls had a huge wave of popularity starting with the Wii, but that died off. It will be interesting to see.
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by vlunkr 4y ago
I'm not saying it's silly to be knowledgeable about the Beatles. I think it's silly to point to something specific like "Yoko/John/George broke the Beatles up!". Group dynamics are always more complex than
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by vlunkr 4y ago
I'm not a Beatles scholar, but trying to point the finger at a specific person seems really silly. They broke up for the same reason most bands break up: they grew up. They got together when they were young, and after 10 years, their a
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by vlunkr 4y ago
The way he talks about Twitter is wild. A couple of tweets earlier he said this: > I love Twitter. Twitter is the closest thing we have to a global consciousness.
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by vlunkr 4y ago
My beef with TVs these days is that they have no buttons. I’ve got little kids, the remote simply doesn’t stay in one place. Both of the TVs I currently own have one button on them. Why? Just give me some volume and input switching buttons
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by vlunkr 4y ago
One thing I love about Catan is how short the games are. Losing isn't so devastating because you aren't as deeply invested.
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by vlunkr 4y ago
You might enjoy this spot-on parody then. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTpzSjZvLPA
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by vlunkr 4y ago
If you haven't given the show a chance yet, it really is good. The goal seems to be to produce celebrity interviews that aren't boring, or staged, or overly promotional. It definitely succeeds at that. In some sense it's also
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by vlunkr 4y ago
As a huge fan of From Software games, I don’t bother with the character quests. They are incredibly obtuse. You can ignore them entirely and still enjoy the main experience. Exploration and combat is what really counts for me.
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by vlunkr 4y ago
Ah. That makes sense
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by vlunkr 4y ago
Does Orson Scott Card know anything about software development? It’s a legitimate question, I’m not trying to sound dismissive.
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by vlunkr 4y ago
> It's not like it will be hard for Twitter to check. Are you sure? That would require a centralized review and distribution process for all 3rd party clients, like the App Store for Twitter. It's not outside the realm of possi
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by vlunkr 4y ago
> Why couldn't they just add ads within the API Because the first thing every 3rd party client will do is ignore the ads and not show them to users.
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by vlunkr 4y ago
And the single option was cheap. There are cheap LEDs, but they're going to flicker, or hum audibly, and die quickly (contrary to the advertising). It's taken many rounds of trial and error, many wasted dollars, and I still don&#x
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by vlunkr 4y ago
I wonder where this guilt comes from. It seems highly illogical, yet very common. I've had to learn to ignore it with books and video games.
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by vlunkr 4y ago
I've had problems with bluetooth, but never wireless controllers. I don't miss the tangle of cords in front of my GameCube one bit.

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