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by db48x 9d ago
I completely disagree. Not everything can be included in the Constitution. We have ordinary laws to address things like this.
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by db48x 15d ago
They fixed all that. Go give the free version another try; it has the updated UI but not the new sprites so it feels a lot like playing the older versions of the game but with more polish.
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by db48x 15d ago
This just isn’t true. Plus, all the DFHack stuff that added UI to the game has been ported over and now integrates with the new UI perfectly well.
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by db48x 15d ago
O(n²) scaling is brutal. If n=100, then that is 100×100=10,000 mood checks. When n=101, that grows to 101² = 10201. 102² is 10404. You see how fast it is growing¹? Every person you add causes far more mood checks than the last person you ad
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by db48x 15d ago
No, no. If you cannot figure out a game then it won’t be fun, and you won’t enjoy it. But other people _will_ figure it out, and will enjoy it. And many of them will enjoy it more _because_ it was challenging to figure out and to do well at
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by db48x 15d ago
No, that’s not a game’s job. You will not enjoy every game. Those games that you did not enjoy are not necessarily failures. They are simply games that _you_ did not enjoy.
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by db48x 15d ago
Programmers and artists at Kitfox helped, but no, 95% of the work on the UI was not outsourced. Perhaps if you add in all of the countless time spent drawing sprites for all of the creatures in the game. And your understanding of “layering”
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by db48x 16d ago
It’s not that economics is hard to understand, it’s that it requires the participants to reason about their actions. First problem was the coins. To buy something the dwarves had to haul the coins to the seller, one at a time of course. And
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by db48x 16d ago
Try the game again, the performance has improved significantly. One major problem that was affecting most players were the line–of–sight calculations. Every person and animal in the game has an opinion of every other, and can get mood chang
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by db48x 16d ago
The version available for free on their website is the same exact program as the one you purchase on Steam. It simply includes a different set of graphics for the UI. These graphics are designed to look as if they are made up of text charac
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by db48x 16d ago
What you are asking for is completely unreasonable. There’s no way that one programmer can maintain two completely separate UIs. Keep in mind that they could not simply “add graphics” to the existing interface, they had to write a completel
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by db48x 16d ago
Regulation is not the free market. Of course companies are going to lobby for more regulations if they think that they can get away with it. It only works because the legislators are idiots who think that free markets _must_ be regulated. I
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by db48x 16d ago
Yea, I remember when the family computer had a 40MB hard drive and it was never ever filled to capacity. Now I’m wondering how many new disks to add to my ZFS pool, and when. And how to budget for it.
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by db48x 20d ago
Municipal fiber exists in some places, but not most. It’s actually fairly common up here in the Pacific Northwest. Dozens of towns dotted around the map have their own municipal fiber networks, but Ziply serves more customers than all of th
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by db48x 21d ago
Exactly. You patent the robot, I’ll patent a computer programmed to do the trick.
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by db48x 21d ago
Several. If you cannot say what you mean, you can never really mean what you say.
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by db48x 21d ago
You must live under a rock. A quick search will find you plenty of video of politicians talking about defunding things, cancelling Thanksgiving, abolishing ICE or the FDA or the Senate, undercutting small businesses, introducing rationing,
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by db48x 21d ago
Oh, I agree. There are huge distortions that have delayed the roll out of fiber internet by decades. But money talks, and ISPs are now building huge fiber networks in some parts of the country in spite of the best efforts of our government.
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by db48x 21d ago
The problem in the US is less of a geography problem and more of a regulatory one. Many towns and cities in the US gave the cable companies local monopolies back in the 50s and 60s. There are technical reasons why this worked ok (not well b
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by db48x 22d ago
You can copy from a link by holding alt while you click and drag.
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by db48x 22d ago
This argument is so dumb. SF spends so profligately that a well–run system could spend less money and be just as effective, if not more effective. Nobody would be turned out onto the street just because less money was being spent. Half of t
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by db48x 23d ago
Spending less money more efficiently would not make the problem worse.
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by db48x 25d ago
They themselves literally say out loud that they want to abolish our existing institutions. If you want to debate that point, go debate the DSA candidates themselves.
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by db48x 26d ago
Yes. Newspaper writers are frequently stupid.
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by db48x 27d ago
I don’t think Canada has an opinion. It’s a country, not a person. And the many and varied opinions of the Canadian people don’t seem to matter very much either, since the Canadian provincial governments impose tarrifs on imports from the o
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Moon→Leo Transfer Sims for a Lunar Mass Driver, Terrain Analysis, Power Sizing(youtube.com)
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by db48x 1mo ago
You cannot patent a skateboard trick. Only novel arrangements of matter can be patented (plus software for bad reasons).
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by db48x 1mo ago
If you’d like to go tell Bill Clinton that the bill he championed and signed into law in 1991 is racist then be my guest. That was the last time our immigration laws were amended. The immigration model we use in the US is that immigrants mu
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by db48x 1mo ago
They are both groups with a high likelihood of skipping town instead of showing up for sentencing. And most of them were never refugees. They were economic migrants who were already in the country illegally when Haiti had an earthquake.
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by db48x 1mo ago
It’s not a tangent. It’s the simple truth. American criminals often wear ankle bracelets as a condition of their release from prison, and that’s not racist. But suddenly because we require it of illegal immigrants, it is racist? Nonsense. I

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