avenius

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by avenius 5y ago
Well yeah, it did - I don't remember quite what, but I think it showed the experience rate or something like that. (there was also a hidden feature that showed your login/password in the window title for a short while - I got acce
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by avenius 5y ago
Which was also abused to kill players, dragging them back and forth fast enough to essentially make them incapable of moving :o
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by avenius 5y ago
I'm amazed to see Tibia show up on HN of all places! And a whole 22 years after I first installed the game on one of our high school computers. This game was the catalyst to my career as an IT professional. I developed a tool back in 2
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by avenius 7y ago
I believe it started out as an independent company, but was later taken over by the Dutch government.
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by avenius 8y ago
IIRC incarceration was a method started by christian monks, and the intention was that the incarcerated would use the time to reflect and contemplate his crimes - a form of rehabilitation. As you say, that certainly isn't what's h
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by avenius 8y ago
Truffles are less potent than mushrooms, so you need to more or less double the dosage. I would think that the 15 grams of truffles then would be equivalent to about 7-8 grams of dried mushrooms. Since it was ingested throughout the day, I
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by avenius 8y ago
But we do see the same problem in several European cities. For instance there's been some debate about how nurses can't really afford to live in Oslo anymore due to the discrepancy between income and rent.
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by avenius 8y ago
Anecdata, but I'm a typical lurker. If I don't have something to contribute to a discussion, I stay silent. I think that goes for a lot of people. There's also the commitment angle - if you engage in a discussion, you're
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by avenius 8y ago
It still does occur though. A while ago I bought an Asus mini-pc to be used as a media server, only to be stumped by issues with the Realtek drivers. Apparently they're no longer available after kernel version 4.15. From what you'
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by avenius 8y ago
It's about time this became a public discussion. Websites have become so horribly bloated, while most discussions seem to revolve around whether ads are acceptable or not.
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by avenius 8y ago
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History - Carlin has an amazing way of telling stories, and he goes really in-depth. Critical Role - A group of people playing Dungeons and Dragons, the episodes are long and always keep me chuckling most of the w
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by avenius 8y ago
That's an interesting point - passion does fade over time. I spent 10 years of my life intensely devoted to music, but at some point it just evaporated. It's baffling, really. As for software development, I found my passion as a k
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by avenius 8y ago
It's fascinating how you can see hints of the city's history through these items. E.g. from the "golden age" (16-1700s) there are tons of items from the bustling cloth and textile trade. It's also interesting to see
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by avenius 8y ago
Same here - with a side of Slack.
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by avenius 8y ago
I imagine this could be developed to observe e.g. a budding powerlifter's form, pointing out any obvious errors and putting hordes of PTs out of work ;)
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by avenius 8y ago
My fears, in no particular order: - Worsen the usability of the site, introduce dark patterns - Steal users' code (it has been rumored to happen before) - Introduce mandatory usage of Microsoft accounts - Gain a competitive advantage b
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by avenius 8y ago
Thank you for your work! Metabase has been a tremendous help in getting my coworkers interested in data and analytics, and is probably the sole reason why our call center is finally registering data in a structured and organized way.
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by avenius 8y ago
I'm not sure there really is a difference. I often find myself drifting off into code issues - I've had many an epiphany while trying hard to focus on something completely different.
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by avenius 9y ago
I second this. The longer I work in tech, the more I want to jump ship and work the land instead.
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by avenius 9y ago
Wow, this is great! I've hoped for Steam to implement something like this for ages, but they seem bent on making discoverability a hopeless chore.
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by avenius 9y ago
Last year I went to a King Crimson concert. There were no "phone prisons", but they repeatedly informed the audience to keep their phones pocketed until the end of the show. This seemed to work wonders, as I didn't see a sing
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by avenius 9y ago
But people enjoy different things, surely some might find a task you deem as boring to be enjoyable?
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by avenius 9y ago
Sounds like an intentionally malicious function to me - just waiting for a proper payload.
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by avenius 9y ago
You make a good point - they appear to make themselves part of the problem, which in my view is the increasing polarization of topics. There no longer seems to be any middle ground in the public discourse, instead everyone is entrenched on
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by avenius 9y ago
Here in Norway, advertising towards children is actually banned (at least for TV). Some channels get around this by broadcasting from other countries (ironically the ones that show the most cartoons), but at least there was a conscious effo
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by avenius 9y ago
To be fair this sounds more like phishing. I would assume emails from facebook came from the facebook.com domain.
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by avenius 9y ago
It's funny - my group of friends used to be hardcore MMO gamers, but after a while the skinner box effect became so obvious to everyone that we could no longer bring ourselves to play them. We've been discussing whether the addict
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by avenius 9y ago
I've always used them exclusively for guitar picks.
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by avenius 9y ago
Plot twist: There never was a candidate.
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by avenius 9y ago
+1 for Metabase. I'm currently running a pilot project with it at work, and everyone seems to love it so far. The UI is simple enough that even "common" (as in technophobic) employees feel comfortable using it!

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