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by wcarss 4y ago
This is what I was thinking. The first one is a gift from God, the tenth is still fascinating -- the ten thousandth might still get a doctoral student's attention.
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by wcarss 4y ago
The argument would maybe be more readily taken if instead of mold, the GP had said "birds". We think birds are kinda neat, but most people hold a perspective with inbuilt human-exceptionalism, and birds are fundamentally not human
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by wcarss 4y ago
In summary, once you remove large teams like in particle physics and biomedicine and long running major cohort studies, and fix the data for bad disambiguation of non-Western author names, you get down to around a hundred people. Of those,
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by wcarss 4y ago
Weirdly, I think you could also argue the flip side of this: - restaurant: inconsequential which I pick, won't remember the quality of the meal, likely have a few similar options, very low stakes -- why support the chain that's ow
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by wcarss 4y ago
> I’ve made enough on this Kickstarter. I don’t need to squeeze people for every penny—but what I do want to do is find a way to provide options for authors. This is a kind of sentiment I wish was not exceptional. People often talk about
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by wcarss 4y ago
I'm not here to disagree with you but I'm pretty sure Banjo Kazooie was never on the GameCube.
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by wcarss 4y ago
some kind of mechanism must be devised to stream an evolving simcity world into minecraft live
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by wcarss 4y ago
https://www.etymonline.com/word/guy > guy (n.1) "small rope, chain, wire," 1620s, nautical; earlier "leader" (mid-14c.), from Old French guie "a guide,"... pretty wild what circles lang
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by wcarss 4y ago
- navigate a collection of randomly generated 2D maps - pause the combat system to think about your next move - often don't know what's around the next corner - balance decisions about what items/upgrades to buy in shops usin
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by wcarss 4y ago
It wasn't said that corporations were good but now are not, and it is not a requirement for the above to be relevant or true. The theory is that corporations will price at the highest price the market will bear and know that price from
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by wcarss 4y ago
I am willing to say I see your point. There are similarities in the structure of the situation of facing consequences for speech. You say something, someone doesn't like it, you face a consequence. But there's a broad spectrum in
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by wcarss 4y ago
It is a bit of a fair point though: you're only measuring "the success of people from HN who engage with your game", so it's not sound to draw conclusions about "the population of all HN users". Even if it is t
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by wcarss 4y ago
> Smartphones were already selling 47 million units in 2010. The bet isn't that the Quest or any extant VR headset _is_ the iPhone, the bet is that some successor of the Oculus could be the iPhone. Facebook is hoping they can either
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by wcarss 4y ago
> I can't just see the passwords for those users, that's not how it works But you _could_ likely install a malicious ssh server, bash binary, or whatever, that logs them for you as people enter them.
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by wcarss 4y ago
Properly punctuated, it's actually "Fools! Stop Mysticizing System Dynamics" This is a little like the classic "Free Consultation? No, Money Down!"
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by wcarss 4y ago
(disclaimer: I'm not a resident or any kind of expert, but I did read the article down to ~August 30th.) The "crisis" referred to appears to mean the recent loss of pressure throughout the system, which happened after the boi
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by wcarss 4y ago
A feature suggestion: a way to list specific possible outcomes, and have pros/cons/questions/votes relate to them. In the "We will open a new office in Amsterdam" example, it's expressed as just a yes/no s
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by wcarss 4y ago
A little bit of a feeling of the lamps going out all over Europe in this one very big, very unusual lamp's dimming.
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by wcarss 4y ago
as has been the case in many, if not most, times, places, and contexts.
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by wcarss 4y ago
Your last point there is the stinger: they rebuilt everything themselves after going cheaper to start. So: they had the money, and they had cause to spend it, but they chose not pay you for your service, and as a result they likely paid mor
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by wcarss 4y ago
I sincerely thought there might be something here related to The Mote in God's Eye [0], a pretty good book by Niven and Pournelle about far off future alien contact. I was dead wrong, but I'll still take the time to link it for th
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by wcarss 4y ago
This is with one month of notice? I don't use AutoCAD, so I'm a nobody here, but these sound like pretty important and often-used features to cut (er, transfer to pay-per-use) without _any justification_ whatsoever. Seems like a
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by wcarss 4y ago
+1 to sketchbooks. I started using them in ~2014 and have never stopped. The tricks for me were to fold each page in half to get more columns and restrict my wandering handwriting/doodles, to find cheap books (which still have hard cov
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by wcarss 4y ago
I agree that memory alone is not sufficient to "prove intelligence". Above, I wrote a paragraph sketching an example of complex behaviours, entailing creativity, humour, longevity, planning, memory, storytelling, object recognitio
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by wcarss 4y ago
> that's maybe too high a bar, but that's real intelligence. It's not necessarily a requirement, but I couldn't witness someone do it and then deny their intelligence.
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by wcarss 4y ago
you could think of "knowing what a giraffe is" in this instance as a slice of an intelligent thought, but it's not a whole thought, let alone a train of thoughts, or a plan involving many trains of thought over time for inter
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by wcarss 4y ago
Thanks for taking the time to look into it, that's an interesting point. According to the manual [1], InnoDB's insert locking should not prevent other inserts from executing, it only takes an exclusive row lock on the inserted row
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by wcarss 4y ago
"Whatever task your business needs me to do with a computer, I'll figure it out." Functionally today this usually means anything from CI systems and OS/networking config all the way up to CSS tweaks. Sometimes though, it
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by wcarss 4y ago
At the extreme end of this, you could also append a new row for every event and count them. If the number of rows would be too big over some period of time, you could similarly aggregate them occasionally and clear the "scratch" t
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by wcarss 4y ago
Maybe a few years out of date, another tutorial bringing you through implementing a roguelike in rust: https://tomassedovic.github.io/roguelike-tutorial/ I followed this one in 2018 and really enjoyed it, and it made a

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