indigochill

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by indigochill 2y ago
As someone with both AAA and game jam experience, you just put my vague misgiving about the AAA process right into words. This is exactly it. At least my game jam teams have always focused on what the core game loop is first, built that, th
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by indigochill 2y ago
> Maybe with laser cutters there's a new market for wooden construction toys. At least in my very limited experience, merely the cost of quality wood makes it an expensive material to build toys from. For example: https:/&#x2F
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by indigochill 2y ago
I think we're agreeing. > But even there, what you need is a persistent identifier with which to build a reputation, not a government tracking number The persistent identifier is all I mean. I agree that tying it to a government-iss
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by indigochill 2y ago
> worth compromising the design of a network That depends on what the design of the network is. In my mind Freenet is too free for reasons discussed in sibling comments (but in short, literally no safeguards against Not Safe For Life con
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by indigochill 2y ago
> You are not going to solve a hard math problem with average IQ no matter how much persistence you throw at it. I'm inclined to disagree, but there's an important piece here that I've found when solving problems that were
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by indigochill 2y ago
Sorry, I meant it as an example specifically of this (similar to the Hobbits "outsourcing" their defense): > There's not a lot places in the real history of the real world where a society had no defense burden I'm cer
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by indigochill 2y ago
Iceland is one example. They have a coast guard but no standing military. On the other hand, their independence is formally guaranteed by the US (and maybe others, I don't remember), so nobody's gonna be trying to annex them any t
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by indigochill 2y ago
I'll take a stab at it, since I'm one of those privacy advocates (and also prone to making sweeping statements like this). Let's say Alice and Bob are doing life and emailing each other about normal life stuff. Charlie runs t
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by indigochill 2y ago
Although a different context, I always find the writeups of cybersecurity CTFs that go through the "What I was thinking, what surprises I encountered, how I pivoted" process both more enjoyable and more enlightening than writeups
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by indigochill 2y ago
I've never heard of a musical group or artist who can make a sustainable living on just a local scene (although maybe that's rather the point, since they stayed local to wherever they are). Even for huge artists, from what I'
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by indigochill 2y ago
He also designed the Netrunner rules that Android: Netrunner was based on, and that had such a committed community that when Wizards pulled the license from FFG, the fans just kept developing the game.
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by indigochill 2y ago
Just a point here, you're talking about MTG Arena, which is the new online game. There's a much older game still called MTG Online which preserves the gambling aspect, where you buy packs and event entries for real money as well a
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by indigochill 2y ago
I tend to think the answer is to go back to villages, albeit digital ones. Authentication only enforces that an account is accessed by the correct "user", but particularly in social media many users are bad actors of various strip
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by indigochill 2y ago
I disagree that open platforms are always susceptible to EEE. In my mind, their openness (or more precisely, the true openness of their protocol(s)) prevents that. Sure, there's a lot of DRM crap on the WWW now, but there's also s
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by indigochill 2y ago
Something I'm coming to realize is even independent of the whole "engagement" thing, media in general (that also goes for movies, TV, video games, etc) are manipulating our brains into expecting higher highs and lower lows th
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by indigochill 2y ago
Imagine engaging users with a desirable experience they look forward to returning to vs trying to force content on them that they resort to third parties to deflect. Way back ~2006 or so if memory serves, Facebook was actually fun and the c
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by indigochill 2y ago
Been tinkering with my personal site again for no particular reason. 1. Looked at what it would take to turn it into a sort of "pubnix" for some friends 2. ...which got me looking into how to set up Postfix to manage local emails
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by indigochill 2y ago
> companies might start learning that in 10 years or so after they've replaced a few generations of programmers, nobody knows how anything works, and suddenly software quality starts to actually matter to investors and consumers I s
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by indigochill 2y ago
I've tended to hold that view as well, but a fellow circled-A enthusiast of my acquaintance pointed out that a challenge may arise when it comes time to enforce the will of the small state against the will of larger states. I see the M
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by indigochill 2y ago
Correct (at least insofar as that's the assertion I'm making).
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by indigochill 2y ago
> Party politics were a mistake Agreed, but I don't see practically how to avoid them in a democracy/republic, even if you started from a totally clean slate and could unilaterally make all the rules before setting it loose. A
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by indigochill 2y ago
That's super correlation vs causation, but also the explanation there seems straightforward to me: regardless of what IQ is or if it even exists, if you produce a standardized test that those who succeed in will be given (all other thi
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by indigochill 2y ago
The crazy imaginative class selection in ToME (special shoutout to the chronomancer) easily makes it my go-to roguelike, but I do find I have trouble really feeling what the impact of my build choices are, although this is a common feeling
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by indigochill 3y ago
> Why don't Christians want to enter "christian unions" and cede control over the word "marriage" to the state as a legal construct? Because many Christians to varying degrees don't see marriage as a legal c
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by indigochill 3y ago
> Unless someone has a really new idea how you can make a defensible, healthy 'public townsquare' ... I think this change is that idea. The thing about a 'public townsquare' is that it's a square for a _town_, no
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by indigochill 3y ago
I'd guess from "It is not a full-fledged, properly maintained thing" in the README, probably not.
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by indigochill 3y ago
> The corner shop is boring if it's almost always empty, and the only people that ever show up are other corner shop proprietors or corner shop enthusiasts. As a self-identifying corner shop enthusiast, I think the magic of corner s
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by indigochill 3y ago
> When I work there the whole time, and nobody ever gets stuck for 3 months, my value is unclear. Well, a problem that hasn't happened yet is a risk, right? So you can apply risk assessment math to it: Value = Estimated risk of the
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by indigochill 3y ago
Isn't it more Pijul vs Git than Git_hub_? There's a massive git community/ecosystem that has nothing to do with Github (e.g. Linux kernel development, at least last I looked). I've dropped off Github for personal project
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by indigochill 3y ago
> "if you don't like it here, just move to another country". But that _should_ be easier in the digital world than the physical one. That Github has become such a center of everything _is itself a problem_. Codeberg is one

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