anewone

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by anewone 5y ago
One problem for me is opening more interesting links than I have time to get to. Bookmarks don't really solve the core problem of not properly managing my time. When I used to use RSS, I would have many feeds racking up dozens of unrea
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by anewone 5y ago
There have been plenty of games with over 1 million in sales being labelled as roguelike in the past decade or so, for example: FTL, Binding of Isaac, Slay the Spire, Dead Cells. You might note that each of these games has a completely diff
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by anewone 6y ago
Generally images in emails are linked, and not actually sent with the email. So any time the email is opened, the email client makes a request to the image host, and this request can contain a unique identifier for the recipient. Some email
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by anewone 6y ago
There are certainly companies doing this already. The only advantage of a tracking pixel is if your email content doesn't have any images already. And I guess it sounds scarier for a headline.
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by anewone 6y ago
I'm curious how they're doing it. Without having used their product, I gather that they're blocking certain known trackers and/or checking for tracking pixels directly. But it's not hard to put a unique tracking lin
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by anewone 6y ago
Gmail can do their own tracking on what emails a user opens. If they find that a user is leaving a lot of mail from a domain unread, they might decide to start shifting that mail into the spam box to provide a better UX. As a sender, it&#x2
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by anewone 6y ago
They don't, but they also don't share that information with the sender. Gmail wants senders to be proactive and auto-unsubscribe disengaged recipients, which requires tracking open/click rates.
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by anewone 6y ago
And on top of that, some mail providers like Gmail won't even tell you this is happening. I understand why they don't but it's really difficult if you're a small time newsletter trying to get off the ground.
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by anewone 6y ago
Tracking pixels are the closest we have to determining whether somebody opens (& hopefully reads) the email. Click rate is the next best thing but unless you are an incredible marketer it will be far below open rate, possibly 1/4 o
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by anewone 6y ago
He doesn't have a Wikipedia page, but Cleveland Blakemore certainly fits the Usenet gamedev troll profile.
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by anewone 6y ago
It's just a censor.
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by anewone 7y ago
They're referring to the number of times to subtract 35 from 350. Do it 10 times and you end up with 0, there is nothing more to divide and so 10 is the answer.
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by anewone 7y ago
Your point on time limits reminds me of XCOM 2, where Firaxis added turn limits to most missions to combat this same problem. They ended up doubling back a bit in the expansion by adding more untimed missions and a setting to ease the timer
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by anewone 8y ago
Reminds me of: "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."
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by anewone 8y ago
While that was my first thought on reading the headline, consider this scenario: Man makes a drug to help people in pain. Turns out this comes with some nasty side effects. Feeling guilty, he works on a way to help undo what he made. Not th
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by anewone 8y ago
It amazes me how difficult it is (relative to the drink complexity) to order a regular black coffee at a Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts.
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by anewone 8y ago
Yes, digraphs involving z are quite common in Polish so it's not as bad as it looks. Still, English would never have a string of them like "szcz" ("shch" in English orthography).
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by anewone 8y ago
I think it could have been interesting if it was somehow based around the contrast of what Jack thinks he's doing and what's actually going on. But from skimming the article it seems that they wanted their canon to be that he&#x27
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by anewone 8y ago
The constant +-25 is just a consequence of the matchmaking enforcing balanced MMR matchups. It's not like chess where you're more likely to have some kind of imbalance. That's why it breaks at the extremes.
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by anewone 8y ago
They still teach Animal Farm. Remember: Russians are Bad.
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by anewone 8y ago
I'd rather be a replacable cog than a crucial lynchpin. I prefer to look at my job in the same way. It's much less stressful that way.
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by anewone 8y ago
Same thing. The time is the investment. There are always projects with better RoI so a rewrite is constantly at the bottom of the pile. "We'll get to it someday."
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by anewone 8y ago
I tend to do the same, picking at uneven feeling bits. What sucks is how it turns into a vicious cycle. If I can somehow keep away long enough for the skin to heal, I can usually stop. Until I find another spot.
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by anewone 8y ago
It always surprises me to hear that people enjoy carbonated water. Different strokes. The only way I can stand carbonation is with some flavor. Tap water is just fine to me.
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by anewone 8y ago
Alternatively: the study was about "low carb", while keto is "extremely low carb".
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by anewone 8y ago
It's possible to control for these factors by adjusting your expected outcomes accordingly. Not saying they did since I haven't bothered to read the study though.
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by anewone 8y ago
Trousers as well. Kept losing my phone until I got a case.
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by anewone 8y ago
Isn't the fact that it needed hard work an indication that the statement is useful for the average person?
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by anewone 8y ago
But that doesn't emphasise why. The point is to say "keep on truckin'". If you have to spend a minute thinking about erosion first then it loses its punch.
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by anewone 8y ago
It's saying that it's easier to see flaws in other people than in ourselves.

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