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by xg15 10mo ago
Whether you can or can't omit a closing element is one thing, but it seems like a useful thing to be able to quickly determine if some content is inside or outside a tag, so why complicate things? (This is especially relevant with &quo
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by xg15 10mo ago
> The political sophistication on display here (BLM, LGBTQ+ rights, ICE, even the Spanish language switch playing on immigration anxieties) suggests someone with a deep understanding of American cultural fault lines. Or an AI.
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by xg15 10mo ago
I mean, Trump is talking about Iran nonstop. https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/2026-01-10/ty-artic...
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by xg15 10mo ago
> So where does value live now? In what requires showing up, not just specifying. Not what you can specify once, but what requires showing up again and again. Sounds like even more incentive for "managing" problems and creati
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by xg15 10mo ago
No mention of Deutsches Museum in Munich? Whaat!? https://www.deutsches-museum.de/ Also recommended: Arithmeum Bonn: https://www.arithmeum.uni-bonn.de/ Miniaturwunderland Hamburg: https://www.min
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by xg15 10mo ago
This sounds like defeat - essentially retreating into niches that only a handful of enthusiasts will be using, while leaving the mainstream to Google etc.
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by xg15 10mo ago
Don't want to exonerate the regime - they are an Islamist dictatorship. Though, so is Saudi Arabia and I'm not hearing about mass flight from there. Maybe just a little bit because one is sanctioned and the other is not?
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by xg15 10mo ago
This happened: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2022/03/22/1087654279/how...
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by xg15 10mo ago
> Yeah, because millions of people are just stupid remote-controlled robotic zombies who will, upon a command of the CIA, go into the streets against Basij thugs who are willing to shoot at them. Not the CIA anymore. Today, it's d
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by xg15 10mo ago
> (the lack of large scale human rights abuses is a big plus) Inside the country at least...
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by xg15 10mo ago
> It enables us to reach the look and feel of a $100+ million dollar Pixar, Star Wars, or Marvel film without the budgets we could never have without insane luck or nepotism. I can understand filmmakers wanting this, but less so aud
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by xg15 10mo ago
I absolutely agree with the author that we should normalize "finishing" projevts again - but I think there are some practical differences between "finished" and "abandoned": - There might be security vulnerabil
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by xg15 10mo ago
As we should with conservative or "pro-business" politicians. But what goals specifically do you mean here?
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by xg15 10mo ago
Someone watched Small Soldiers and mistook it for an instruction manual.
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by xg15 10mo ago
The most concrete part I get is that it has a recognition and positioning system built-in, so it can recognize the IDs and relative positions of nearby beacons. Beacons are inside bricks, tags and minifigures. The bricks seem to also have s
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by xg15 10mo ago
And of course: Buy additional walls using in-game purchases! (jk)
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by xg15 10mo ago
I'm pretty sure the author got the domain first and then designed an (awesome) game around it.
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by xg15 10mo ago
I mean, the horse does sometimes talk about the demon god if you click on it, so who knows...
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by xg15 10mo ago
Looks like some people have discovered the first "accidental" game mechanic: The horse can walk over cherry fields, but the player cannot place walls on them - so if a level designer places cherries strategically, they can create
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by xg15 10mo ago
> I don’t think the gates should animate up into the air. It breaks the visual logic of 2D for no benefit. It’s subconsciously confusing to see a gate I place in one cell move to occupy pixels in the cell “above” it. I interpreted it a
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by xg15 10mo ago
Wasn't there also drug honey a few weeks ago? Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45803097 We also got blue honey ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32801032 ) and cannabis honey ( https:&#
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by xg15 10mo ago
> All of this reeks of the entrenched (pre-) Victorian British worldview, where it is natural and appropriate for the "more civilized" to look down on the "savages" of "lower order", as if a moral ladder li
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by xg15 10mo ago
During Christmas shopping, I saw several books and board games with illustrations in the signature ChatGPT cartoon style [1, 2] as cover art. (As well as a coloring book that was literally only ChatGPT images) They were sold both in comic
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by xg15 10mo ago
There is a big nostalgia factor which I think corresponds to the UIs you grew up with and are most familiar (would be Windows 2000 and XP for me) however I think it doesn't explain everything. By that logic, you shouldn't have a
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by xg15 10mo ago
The "don't explain variable definitions with comments because people won't see the comments at usage sites" argument also seems obsolete in the face of modern(?) IDEs. If I look through code and see a variable I don&#x27
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by xg15 10mo ago
No one said your user can't be a lizard.
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by xg15 10mo ago
It's good, though a bit too on the nose for my taste.
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by xg15 10mo ago
Those are some good quotes. Just speculating, but I wonder if there is another purpose as well: To hand the military a story it can tell itself to assure they are still the "good guys" - i.e. ensuring "troop morale". If
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by xg15 10mo ago
Interesting to keep reading the narrative about the supposedly worthless Venezuelan oil here. So worthless that the US has to block sales with an embargo and is starting a war over it, apparently.
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by xg15 10mo ago
Note that this is pretty much how Russia argues with Ukraine.

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