Linosaurus

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by Linosaurus 3mo ago
Ok, so they don’t call it a ’buy’ program. It’s a lending program, for free. With a deposit for full value so it becomes a purchase if you don’t return it in time. Same structure but the phrasing matters. Cool idea.
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by Linosaurus 4mo ago
> , is "man, capitalism is a mistake" Man, we need a better term for this criticism. The US right now is more harsh to live in than the US pre-Reagan, which was more harsh than many countries with a strong welfare state, but al
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by Linosaurus 6mo ago
It’s rather neat, and recently hit 1.0. That game, Timberborn, shares some design elements with roller coaster tycoon. A block based 3d world they can be modified by the player. Units walking around on player defined paths, with their mood
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by Linosaurus 1y ago
> Vertically they produce 77% compared to 90% of the tilted panels? In what graph is the lower number better? 77% of the ’normal orientation’ per year, but the graph and 131% value is for a day in winter (January 15 this year). At least
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by Linosaurus 2y ago
Iirc I thought they were a bit disingenuous. In theory the change in electric field will induce a small current in the other wire, and their magical science lamp turns on at any non-zero electricity. Whether the wires are connected or not a
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by Linosaurus 2y ago
Centralized moderation is a big thing. Usenet was a very open system, where iirc moderation sometimes happened per discussion group but otherwise everyone individually had to ignore bad actors (add to killfile). It scaled badly with more pe
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by Linosaurus 2y ago
> actually explain the "double" part in detail? $100 appears in your account. That’s one part. The other part depends on why. * you moved money from another account, the double is -100 in that account. * you sold stuff, +100 in
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by Linosaurus 3y ago
When describing a game that looks like it had a smallish team and graphics budget, ‘indie’ is a useful shorthand. It sets certain expectations. Certainly marketing and media (as evidenced by the article) find this useful, but I think many c
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by Linosaurus 3y ago
That’s because it’s not a self-improving computer system. It’s just programming as it exists today for thousands of years.
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by Linosaurus 3y ago
No. If you listen to only a single artist for a month, your payment is still split the same way everyone else’s payment is, by total streamed numbers. It sounds better if they artist got your entire monthly payment (after payment processors
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by Linosaurus 3y ago
Unfortunately, games involving human reflexes or difficulty-to-see visual clues aren’t very fun against strangers who can run what they want on their devices. Because cheating. I don’t think a good solution exists except to keep those games
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by Linosaurus 3y ago
Sounds like the initial table has just one row and one column, containing the entire 16mb csv string.
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by Linosaurus 3y ago
> To the developers: You signed a contract, and now you expect to not have to live up to it? From what I can tell, it’s more like they have a short term contract they are happy with, but their business model requires them to be able to e
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by Linosaurus 3y ago
Yes, both meanings exists in dictionaries. Fortunately usage has consolidated. In my experience a factoid is generally intended to be true in (American?) English, but untrue in Swedish.
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by Linosaurus 3y ago
> The key question is /why/ air moves faster on one side, and once you get away from the misconception of same time, I've never heard an intuitive argument. Since the air follows a curved surface instead of straight ahead,
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by Linosaurus 3y ago
> quite circular In this case it’s 106m away from a perfect circle. Almost nothing compared to 20km, but a real thing.
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by Linosaurus 3y ago
> In this analogy, Coinbase is upset its heroin sales are illegal when a licensed pharmacist can sell a similar product. In this analogy Coinbase' story seems to be that they asked how to apply to become a licensed pharmacist, but n
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by Linosaurus 3y ago
Levine is using a lot of hyperbole there. To me it looks like a clearly-defined line between text and real-time voice/video. What the user experiences, not the technical background. Ie it would have been perfectly fine for google to ba
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by Linosaurus 3y ago
If YouTube-dl let you bypass the paywall, that would make its main use closer to “obviously illegal”. If it only allows a paying user to make a local copy against the company’s wishes, we would have about the same situation as today. And ma
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by Linosaurus 3y ago
> You're in this country and sending spam? We arrest you. Further laws around spam might help, but you don’t need the government to actually run anything for this.
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by Linosaurus 4y ago
> If the question always ended with "remember: Monty knows where the car is and will use this information", it would be more obvious. And perhaps also, “remember: Monty will always open a door, and the contestant knows it”. M
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by Linosaurus 4y ago
‘Eternal September’ possibly started as far back as 1993, so this particular nostalgia isn’t unique.
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by Linosaurus 4y ago
You seem to be saying, that bank owners can take big risks and make enough money that it’s worth it to occasionally lose all equity. But if we make sure depositors also lose money from this, you think depositors will be more careful - they
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by Linosaurus 4y ago
In Mario kart, the dollar -> ruby -> gold -> toad chain (from the OP) is designed to obfuscate the cost and get players to spend more money than if it was just dollar -> toad. Multiple currencies (that can be indirectly bought f
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by Linosaurus 4y ago
He’s technically only claiming that turning the company around was his job description when recruited. Is that this was a lie told to him.
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by Linosaurus 4y ago
That’s a really good fit, seems chat AIs would be really good at it. Next we’ll have a game where that’s the only interface for this information, and enemy spies makes it lie to you.
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by Linosaurus 4y ago
None of those say that the destination server is forced to import anything. This part specifically mentions the controller you originally gave data to, but says nothing about whom you now want to import it to: > without hindrance from th
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by Linosaurus 4y ago
From your source it’s pretty’s exact, for the US. > Twice a day, every day of the year, weather balloons are released simultaneously from almost 900 locations worldwide! This includes 92 released by the National Weather Service in the US
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by Linosaurus 4y ago
Running it until the battery drains say 30% probably gives more useful data than once. And much less harmless.
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by Linosaurus 4y ago
Yes, but then you are stealing mail. Which is bad. For a relatively small payoff.

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