galagawinkle489

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by galagawinkle489 10mo ago
The war crime is when Hamas and Hezbollah fire rockets indiscriminately into Israel to kill innocent civilians. Any and all means are and will always be justified to prevent that.
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by galagawinkle489 10mo ago
The "legal way to wage war" is only relevant when you are waging war against an army. Hezbollah is not an army, it's a terrorist group. It attacks civilians. It doesn't wear uniforms. It ignores the laws of war.
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by galagawinkle489 11mo ago
It isn't overcharging on Mobile either IMO but the difference is pretty obvious: there is only one way to get your app onto an iPhone or an Android and that's through those stores. PCs are an open platform. It is very different. &
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by galagawinkle489 11mo ago
Steam is not a natural monopoly.
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by galagawinkle489 11mo ago
Amazon sold products at a loss for years in order to capture market share, then raised prices. That is blatant abuse of market power
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by galagawinkle489 11mo ago
"Monopoly" is a distraction. The issue is abuse of market power. Having market power is fine. You can't punish people for being successful. Steam doesn't abuse being successful to lock out competitors. You can sell produ
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by galagawinkle489 11mo ago
Indie game development largely owes its existence to Steam. I know I would spend a lot less on indie games if I had to buy them from their own websites or, god forbid, through an awful laggy "app store" run by Ubisoft or Microsoft
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by galagawinkle489 11mo ago
In one quote they used glossy to describe it. How does that mean they said that glossiness made it better? The other quote is just a list of ways in which the screen is better. It is YOU that is conflating these and saying that this list of
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by galagawinkle489 11mo ago
It is well written and that makes you think it was written by AI? AI doesn't write as well as that anyway.
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by galagawinkle489 11mo ago
I'm talking about the user interface, not how difficult it to click a button to do basic actions. VS is incredibly cluttered. Too many buttons, cryptic icons and entirely unclear how to do things in the options. I'm not comparing
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by galagawinkle489 11mo ago
The game isn't balanced at all. Are you playing the modern version or something? I'm talking about D&D which was always traditionally a roleplaying game and not a rollplaying game.
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by galagawinkle489 11mo ago
Programming well requires taste and creativity. A different type, but no less rare than taste and creativity in "arty" fields.
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by galagawinkle489 11mo ago
Clearly this is not true. Photoshop is difficult to use. I have opened it and tried to use it many times. Its UI is super complicated. There are endless buttons and I have no idea how to do anything. There are heaps of Photoshop tutorials o
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by galagawinkle489 11mo ago
And why exactly should free software prioritise someone's first five minutes (or first 100 hours, even) over the rest of the thousands of hours they might spend with it? I see people using DAWs, even "pro" ones made by compan
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by galagawinkle489 11mo ago
Why should they work for pay on free software? Nobody expects to be paid to work on the software itself. Yet artists expect to be treated differently. If it is your job, then go do it as a job. But we all have jobs. Free software is what we
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by galagawinkle489 11mo ago
You didn't mention it explicitly or otherwise. Why lie? That's such a weird thing to do. I can read your comment and catch you in the lie so easily. Free will is the entire point. You are saying "the choice will [be] based on
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by galagawinkle489 11mo ago
It isn't a board game. Maybe that's your problem. It is a roleplaying game. The mechanics of spellcasting aren't very important because combat just isn't very important. Most people don't even play with a grid and f
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by galagawinkle489 11mo ago
Referring to books as "dead trees" is such a pathetic thought-terminating cliché. If you don't want to cart books around that's fine but you can easily play the game with only the basic three (and players just need one).
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by galagawinkle489 11mo ago
Book opening is fine. Post-it notes exist. You can easily open the book to the right spell. Just write down the names of the spells you have chosen to memorise for the day on a piece of paper and cross them off when you cast them. As for ru
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by galagawinkle489 11mo ago
You appear to be saying that we have no free will because our choices are decided by us and we are the result of our environments. Your self-modifying code argument is that the result is already essentially there from the beginning because
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by galagawinkle489 11mo ago
I think I have heard the same. People whose lives are hopeless are much more likely to get addicted. The addiction then makes their life worse which causes this downward spiral of despair. People with physical addictions can choose not to u
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by galagawinkle489 11mo ago
The atmosphere has so far barely changed in temperature compared to natural variations in temperature over time that had smaller and lesser effects than the effect we are seeing. The abnormally rapid rise in CO2 levels we are seeing is unus
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by galagawinkle489 11mo ago
> user IDs are 36 base64 chars, or 27 bytes if you store them max-packed Stupid. You aren't going to have 2^288 users, why do you need that many user IDs? A 64-bit integer is already overkill. >YT video IDs are 11 base64 chars, s
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by galagawinkle489 11mo ago
He was wrong. He wasn't right about everything just because he's reddit's favourite physicist (after Neil Degrass Tyson).
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by galagawinkle489 11mo ago
500 bytes? A user ID couldn't be more than 8, a date is another 8, a video ID is another 8, and an IP is 16. Even if you assume there is some overhead, a database cannot possibly need more than 100 bytes per row.
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by galagawinkle489 11mo ago
Many sources for Wikipedia articles refer to Wikipedia without citing it. Many journalists will work from Wikipedia, and most of Wikipedia's sources are journalistic articles. It happens to be that often this isn't noticed because
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by galagawinkle489 11mo ago
Why would random answers correlate? Statistical significance for something like this is all about rejecting results consistent with randomness. Correlation means it appears to be non -random.