nikitau

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by nikitau 16d ago
Qud is a gem of a game, same publisher too! I get what you are saying, and it's use of ASCII plus ASCII-like graphics makes the experience a lot friendlier imo.
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by nikitau 24d ago
I'm also doing something similar, as for over-explaining state and momentary decisions, I have yet to find good wording for it too. I had a bit of success by running a reviewer at the end to look over comments and docstrings and judge
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by nikitau 2mo ago
At a state level it's a pretty good defensive strategy against the American AI industry, as a whole, gaining a monopolistic advantage. This prevents the US from using this as a coercive leverage through things such as tarrifs, export b
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by nikitau 3mo ago
While consumer electronics companies have gone for wireless earbuds, the hi-fi, in ear monitor market is very much alive. Not to mention also relatively affordable these days.
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by nikitau 5mo ago
That works under the assumption of the "wisdom of the markets", and we assume VC possesses that wisdom, but laid bare it's just as vulnerable to cronyism as any other institution.
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by nikitau 5mo ago
I have the same feeling about the whole discussion. I know that colloquially we use terms like "protein" to refer to dietary protein rather than the class of mollecules. But the way "peptide" is used by all the bro/
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by nikitau 6mo ago
Great stuff. Would make Kafka blush.
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by nikitau 7mo ago
Roguelike/lites are is of the most popular genres of indie games nowadays. One of it's main characteristics is randomization and procedural generation.
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by nikitau 7mo ago
There's also a whole, albeit niche, board game genera of so called 18xx game (eg. 1889 Shikoku) that deal with the economic aspects of 19th century railroads. Usually dry as sand, but some of the heaviest games out there in terms of co
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by nikitau 7mo ago
Nice. I've also been doing this for a while too. I don't like to depend on a lot of addons, so I find the ublock only implementation of it quite elegant and fast. I also try to use filters nowadays to block other types of dark pat
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by nikitau 7mo ago
I have a feeling OP used the phrase as a nod to "stochastic terrorism", which would make sense in this instance.
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by nikitau 7mo ago
And not to mention that a C compiler is something we have literally 50 years worth of code for. I still seriously doubt the ability of LLMs to tackle truly new problems.
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by nikitau 7mo ago
Maybe I should have been more explicit that here "variance explained by" is used quite literally with the meaning it has in statistical modeling. I get that you meant it in a "correlation not causation" way, but "co
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by nikitau 8mo ago
In (quantitative) genetics literature, heritability is usually defined (simplifying a bit) as the proportion of variance of a trait (lifespan, height, etc), in a population, that can be explained by genetics. The rest, by environmental fact
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by nikitau 8mo ago
Amazing. We have actually gone full circle reactionary on the typing debate where duck typing is considered the "traditional" way by some.
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by nikitau 8mo ago
Open book exams are not a new thing and I've often had them for STEM disciplines (maths and biology). Depending on the subject, you will often fail those unless you had a good prior understanding of the material. If you can pass an exa
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by nikitau 2y ago
I'm not very familiar with the ecosystem, but I have used this on an RPi4 to run some games through wine. I'm wondering, how's the landscape nowadays. Is this the leading project for x86 compatibility on ARM? With the rising