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by b0rsuk 3y ago
> Their tiny size notwithstanding, their awesome potential illuminates the profound ambiguity of the work’s title, which can be taken to refer either to the spaceship’s proud name or to the swarms of alien automata that threaten it. Err,
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by b0rsuk 4y ago
"Roguelike" is nowadays commonly defined by having a meta progression system (unlocks). Scroll through reviews of a game like Noita or DCSS (Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup) and you will see some people complaining the game doesn't
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by b0rsuk 4y ago
There's a mini discussion on HN about them here, when I last mentioned them. Crucially, they know alternative names such as "Flow Fields". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22848106
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by b0rsuk 5y ago
You've found a secret area!! The best, most addictive spiritual successor I've found to date is Eador:Genesis. Although it has a bunch of other inspirations such as Master of Magic. https://eador-masters-of-the-broken-w
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by b0rsuk 5y ago
If you have one group of coders writing new functionality, and another doing maintenance work on the application, you have diverging interests. The "new functionality" people have an incentive to rush stuff, because bugfixes won&#
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by b0rsuk 5y ago
Poland's last foreign ministers (Waszczykowski and Rau) have been inane. Nature doesn't like vacuum. Poland more or less left the stage, and Lithuania is trying to fill the niche.
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by b0rsuk 5y ago
This is especially surprising because the common idea is that civilization arrived later into northern, colder Europe. Bushcraft like on the wonderful Primitive Technology youtube channel is harder when you don't have a year-round grow
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by b0rsuk 5y ago
What you call "low-quality conversation", smalltalk, is particularly disliked by people with Aspergers.
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by b0rsuk 5y ago
I think the best part is not the recipe itself, but the error handling of the article. It goes into detail into what conditions are optimal, what kind of tools to use, how various mistakes look like (with photos!).
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by b0rsuk 5y ago
I'm patiently waiting for the desktop metaphor to die. I'm a very happy user of i3 (tiling) window manager and it's beautiful how efficiently it uses space. Meanwhile in the "desktop metaphor" world, interface desig
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by b0rsuk 5y ago
What you just did sounds like an interesting "Show HN" project. Automate the thing, so that a HN bot posts a comment with previous talk about the topic.
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by b0rsuk 5y ago
There's a song about this: "Dare to be Stupid" - Weird Al Yankowich https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMhwddNQSWQ Asking questions is really putting print statements(or functions) in ordinary, physical world. I
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DuckDuckGo said no. But when I reapplied as a black lesbian, they wanted me(lulz.com)
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by b0rsuk 5y ago
Likely because Muslims are very prickly.
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by b0rsuk 5y ago
Isn't it true for all programs? Not just _unix_ programs? Firefox is portable and it's a large program, but a LOT of effort went into that.
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by b0rsuk 5y ago
And here Ratramus, a 9th century monk researches the matter: "Do the Dog-Headed Men Have Souls?" I also learned a human head is round.
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by b0rsuk 5y ago
Chemical weapons are used for assassination, but not for large scale warfare. More like terror weapons on civilians (Syria?) and guerilla fighters with limited resources and few alliances.
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by b0rsuk 5y ago
I think the parent might be suggesting that sleeping on a wet bed might trigger peeing reflex.
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by b0rsuk 5y ago
It appears you've read the article to the very end - I'm glad you've enjoyed it. High ceilings - absolutely. Warm air goes up, can it get simpler than that? Primary/Elementary school physics. If you watch some videos on
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by b0rsuk 5y ago
If you're interested in low tech, passive and energy efficient technologies, I recommend the LOW TECH MAGAZINE For example, Revenge of the Circulating Fan: https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2014/09/circulating
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by b0rsuk 5y ago
Bret Devereaux is of the opinion that chemical weapons are not in use anymore simply because they're ineffective next to simple explosives. https://acoup.blog/2020/03/20/collections-why-dont-we-use-ch...
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by b0rsuk 5y ago
Tolkien fought in the trenches of WW1 and it left a mark on him. Mordor and the way orcs treat land are especially influenced by his experience. People started to call this type of landscape "moonscape". https://acoup.b
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by b0rsuk 5y ago
According to one book I read... Cheyennes divide birds into 3 groups: plain, great and sacred. They count magpie in the sacred ones :-). There's a magpie on my fence as I'm typing this. They like magpies because they're smart
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by b0rsuk 5y ago
You don't appreciate zero until you try to invent a positional number system. In the past, when they used positional system they would often just leave a blank spot in the place of zero. This inevitably leads to errors. Is that two n
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by b0rsuk 5y ago
I clicked on the link for fun youtube and streamable videos. There were none. I'm sure (animal intelligence) researchers would be getting more grants if they put more effort into capturing some of these feats on video.
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by b0rsuk 5y ago
I think TikTok will figure a way to cram advertising into 60 seconds.
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by b0rsuk 5y ago
No, I'm considering it. I need to travel more and compare before I make up my mind. It's unsurprising many people migrate because they're fed up with their country. Financial incentives is just another side of it, because it&
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by b0rsuk 5y ago
Some education systems put an emphasis on critical thinking, some on absorbing tons of information. Polish education is notable for memorization. One area where it doesn't seem to hurt is medicine. It appears Polish doctors and nurses
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by b0rsuk 5y ago
TabFS lets you mount Firefox tabs as a filesystem. You can then use regular scripting to operate on them.
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by b0rsuk 5y ago
Let me guess, because they had LOTS of sheep, which they had because they had LOTS of grass, which they had because they had LOTS of rain. And they were known for mass producing wool and exporting it to Europe. Ok, now I've skimmed the

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