capncleaver

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by capncleaver 5mo ago
Awww I am sorry your piratey romance didn’t work out, people can definitely turn out to be different from their pirates, but I hope Puzzle Pirates (my game) was overall a positive experience for you. It’s nice to see it mentioned on HN. It’
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by capncleaver 6mo ago
The aside about mailing lists is well made: with the exception of SMS, email is the one method of customer contact not mediated by big tech networks (save arguably Gmail) and portable across service providers. In games it’s the best way to
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Sparky – useful 'living' OpenClaw bot(alexisgallagher.com)
1 points by capncleaver 7mo ago|1 comments
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by capncleaver 7mo ago
The bot 'inhabits' a Reachy Lite Mini and uses a mix of local and frontier models. github: https://github.com/algal/sparky
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by capncleaver 7mo ago
Not whom you are replying to, nor a rocket hobbyist myself, but yes, they do build and launch rockets for fun, eg VC Steve Jurvetson out at black rock: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/54815036982/
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by capncleaver 8mo ago
Surely! Too perfect to be accidental. Context: Charles Stross 2005 book Accelerando features simulated Lobsters that achieve consciousness and, with the help of the central character, escape their Russian servers for the cosmos.
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by capncleaver 8mo ago
This is common practice in gambling and now games, too: Zynga has 'VIP' teams for high-spending free to play game customers, they would talk on the phone at length, get to know them, fly them to Vegas for jaunts, etc. https:&#x2F
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by capncleaver 9mo ago
This redistribution of revenues from new to old has also taken place in games: ~90% of time in games on PC is spent in games older than a year, ~50% in games 5+ years old like Fortnite, CoD, Roblox etc. Around half of revenues are 'fre
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by capncleaver 9mo ago
This is my earliest memory. When I was two, and did not yet know how to swim, I was visiting with family who had a place right on the river Thames near Henley. I was running around with my seven cousins, but I was the youngest and at some p
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by capncleaver 11mo ago
Yes. See 'Thinking in Bets' by Annie Duke for a good summary of why Poker is interesting / useful. World is Casino! Blood on the Clocktower is great! My 15yo son is always trying to get a group of 8+ together for a game. Came
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by capncleaver 1y ago
If you have not, do read Cory Doctorow's 'The Lost Cause': it features a rebuild like this (no robots tho iirc.) You might like his mid-singularity novel Walkaway, too :)
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by capncleaver 3y ago
This looks like a great tool and sort of makes me wish I was starting a new game rather than hand-knitting more cruft into our homemade backend. Kudos for open-sourcing it with a proper license.
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by capncleaver 4y ago
This is a short seller trying to profit by shouting 'fire': https://twitter.com/Seonicx/status/1634804400567746560 Bank runs are a tragedy of the commons, trampling people in panic and naked greed, burni
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by capncleaver 4y ago
My lad has been learning Python in Replit. It looks like they are trying to introduce community feedback loops. For making games, Roblox is perhaps a good choice. You can post a modded example game and get your friends playing it very quick
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by capncleaver 5y ago
The choice between mandatory ‘more than half time’ in the office and completely remote (‘with on/offsites!’) is interesting. Swooping through the office for meetings is discouraged. What a challenge for management!
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by capncleaver 5y ago
Leaving aside whether debt is 'fair' (is it fair that productive assets like land are in the hands of a hereditary plutocracy?), there is some evidence that debt forgiveness can work -- indeed, it might have been a critical releas
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by capncleaver 6y ago
With a scrap of paper holding the PSS codes and login info I was introduced to MUD by 'Innocence the Witch', school computer lab admin by day. I played from 1982-84, usually ~5am-7am on weekdays and 2-7am through on the weekends.