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by bopbop 7y ago
Christ, you scared me there. Stallman is not dead.
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by bopbop 7y ago
<not the original commenter> It's a bit more advanced and complex then gamemaker - when I used it a few years ago a more direct comparison would have been a 2d specialist Unity (although it does 3d as well, and this may have sign
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by bopbop 7y ago
Some background on the Adidas/Puma rivalry, which is quite a fascinating story: https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/mgz97b/the-nazi-siblin...
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by bopbop 7y ago
Yes I am! Thanks!
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by bopbop 7y ago
To be fair, the 256 byte stack can essentially be used in assembly as 256 registers, which is also one of the features (along with indirect addressing) that make assembly on it awesome. My relatively poorly researched impression of it is th
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by bopbop 7y ago
Interesting - what would the evidence that current paywalls are/have restored quality journalism be? As in, do you believe this uptick in quality journalism has already happened/is happening? And what associates it with paywalls?
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by bopbop 7y ago
I wanted to follow along - your blog looks excellent, I'll check there and micro.blog. Thank you. Incidentally (and rhetorically), how I have not heard of micro.blog? It looks amazing! This whole thread has become a goldmine of interes
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by bopbop 7y ago
How do I get updates on the groups project? Wiby seems amazing - the first three surprise me links were a human powered ornithopter, lego maniacs and a guide to knife throwing. Thank you for sharing!
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by bopbop 8y ago
Bread and circuses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses
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by bopbop 8y ago
I can't comment nationally, but I've been having fish and chips a couple of times at our local and near my parents, both in London, and they're all using vinegar.
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by bopbop 8y ago
Death note is almost a reverse bird box. Bird box has an excellent premise, which turns out to just be a hook on which to hang some character development (I did quite enjoy it though). Death note has a really derivative premise, and then go
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by bopbop 8y ago
I think it's mostly a psychological barrier in most respects. There's also no necessity to comment - lurking, despite the quite awful name we've given the behaviour, is a perfectly normal thing to do. Plenty of people read bo
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by bopbop 8y ago
To be fair, it was the PUBG developers themselves who called Fortnite a clone: https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2017/09/22/pubg-deve... And also Epic themselves stated Fortnite was their &quo
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by bopbop 8y ago
There was a great list on BoingBoing recently of works entering the public domain this year: https://boingboing.net/2018/12/31/thanks-justin.html Also a rather sadder list following it of works that won'
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by bopbop 8y ago
This seems to be a classic example of an argument in which the ends don't justify the means (the means being allowing the lawsuits, the ends being publishers switch to "absolute paywalls") It may mean that without a harsh let
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by bopbop 8y ago
That's kind of awesome. How good with names would you say you are now? Also, is that the whole technique? Seems like you'd have to say it for quite a while to get it in to long term memory - if you're doing it straight after
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by bopbop 8y ago
Ah, that's awesome! thanks!
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by bopbop 8y ago
Great article. Wish he named some of those "obscure Eastern European computers". I know there are good communities around the Japanese microcomputers, the Sharp X1, the 8801, the 9801, MSX, MSX2, etc. http://fullmotionv
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by bopbop 8y ago
Do you have an online reference for that? I tried this IBM one but it has a terrible clickthrough to attempt to avoid GDPR: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-ppc/index.html And, as seems to pretty
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by bopbop 8y ago
Whether an individual building performs its function well or not, its still a central tenet of Brutalism to embed the function in the form. I appreciate that if everything was Brutalist it would be an overwhelming sight, but I definitely th
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by bopbop 8y ago
I can see how building a process directly into a building can lead to an inflexibility with changing the process. I think the argument you're making lends itself well to a criticism of any pre-planned system.
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by bopbop 8y ago
That's likely subjective, as I think it's extremely aesthetically pleasing - I've always seen Brutalism as having strong links with the Bauhaus style, something else I have high regard for. I won't argue with your city o
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by bopbop 8y ago
>They're just making the point that she didn't marry him for his social credit score, even though he happens to have a high score under the system. Yes, that makes sense. I still hold that the deliberate omission of her party
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by bopbop 8y ago
Just for reference the original title was 'Leave no dark corner'
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by bopbop 8y ago
I'd imagine given her husband is a Chinese civil servant, this is either with approval or she has been asked to do it. There's no way a marketing consultant and a civil servant don't understand the potential ramifications of
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by bopbop 8y ago
Amazing anecdotes.
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by bopbop 8y ago
Yeah, the title is awful - I was happier with the article then I thought I'd be, as it did go in to some of the negative points. To point to any atomic automatic judgment of ones citizens based on their beliefs as a good thing is a bit
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by bopbop 8y ago
Awesome, I'll check them out.
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by bopbop 8y ago
Ah, shame! I haven't read it in several years. I have not found anything better then Borges. Actually, it's kind of annoying because somehow reading Borges appears to have become synonymous with pretentiousness, at least to my fri
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by bopbop 8y ago
I'd say the Wind Up Bird Chronicles is a lot closer to the Hard Boiled Wonderland. 1Q84, while it has an excellent rendition of a cult member, is a simpler story, and has a tendency to repeat itself quite a bit. I don't know if th

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