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by phaus 6y ago
When people notice an influential employee that works at a company is active in a community, that presents them with an opportunity to talk to a living breathing person that might actually respond to questions that they feel have been ignor
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by phaus 6y ago
Its possible that it happens, but from my admittedly limited anecdotal experience from seeing a half dozen or so people claim that they were banned for no reason and then taking a look at their comment history, they were absolutely banned f
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by phaus 6y ago
In a different thread someone recommended charging a small fee for new accounts to prevent abuse. Dang responded that its important for everyone to be able to participate. Between his response and this article I reflected quite a bit about
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by phaus 6y ago
I think you're taking it too literally, you can manipulate lots of quotes to turn them into something they weren't intended to be. Pretty sure the quoted person wasn't promoting the rape of intoxicated people. I think the int
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by phaus 6y ago
>I know that Reddit admins read HN so please please do not kill off old.reddit.com. The redesign is absolute garbage. People have ben telling them this for years. They know and do not give a shit or at the very least they are powerless t
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by phaus 6y ago
Sounds rapey only if you are ignoring the fact that people have a right to consent or not consent to sexual things that happen to them.
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by phaus 6y ago
I spent more time with videogames than encarta. However, trying to get pc games to run in the 90s taught me how to troubleshoot computers. When I had Internet access I still played a lot of videogames but I also learned a ton of stuff from
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by phaus 6y ago
Luckily my father introduced me to the first one as a kid. However, likely also due to being eclipsed by Wolfenstein 3d, I didn't even know there was a sequel.
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by phaus 6y ago
They just re-recorded their first album which was a pretty straightforward but still weird trash album from 85 that's arguably as good as anything else from the era. It was recorded by a kid on a 4 track though so the quality of the or
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by phaus 6y ago
He's definitely talented and I did watch his talk a while back. It was a pretty good talk and pretty enlightening. I didn't realize how much effort some musicians put into setting up like 40 different pieces of equipment to achiev
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by phaus 6y ago
>Doom scary creepy game? >People flipped out when Doom 3 ended up being low light horror game and not a fast paced shooter. A game can have a creepy aesthetic and even scare people without being a slow paced survival game where you wa
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by phaus 6y ago
I think you are on to something about the impact being forced to use your imagination has. Quake 1 had amazing art direction and each chapter had its own feel because each of them was designed by a different dev following his own ideas. I t
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by phaus 6y ago
>Halo's trick was to sloooow the action down. I agree that the action was slower, however, Halo's real trick was designing a set of weapons that were fun to use, but were mostly horribly inaccurate. The sniper was the clear exc
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by phaus 6y ago
>Diet Dr Pepper. No one drinks it because most people think even regular Dr. Pepper is gross, but Diet Dr. Pepper is nationally recognized as a household name in the US because of the extensive advertising that they do for it. "Diet
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by phaus 6y ago
Unlike those other topics we still have a culture where they wear their technological illiteracy as a badge of honor.
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by phaus 6y ago
They don't need to understand the tech to recognize that there's an issue, but they do need to understand the the tech if they want to have any hope of regulating social media and fixing the issue that they have identified. They m
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by phaus 6y ago
Perhaps instead of Tim meaning that its impossible for Apple to have a service outage, he was instead talking about the incredibly unrealistic things that were happening in the video. 1 guy accidentally unplugs 1 cable and brings all of App
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by phaus 6y ago
>IDA is great but Ghirda is the new hotness on the street. Ghidra is great but its got a long uphill battle before it dethrones IDA as the choice of professional malware analysts.
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by phaus 6y ago
Coding and math books frequently list prerequisites by saying something like "only really trivial mathematics knowledge that any adult should be familiar with" and then you start working through the book and realize they meant any
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by phaus 6y ago
Its just too much of a coincidence to me that at the same time they got acquired by a Bobby Kotick run company they started churning out games that, while not completely terrible, when compared to their older efforts were uninspired, generi
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by phaus 6y ago
>People Don’t realize, but industry workers get injured/die every year on movie sets (though it is better than it used to be). Is this largely due to construction projects like sets and the use of heavy equipment, or is it more from
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by phaus 6y ago
Replying to my comment because its too old to edit. Apparently Carmack is still somewhat involved and spoke at a recent Facebook event. He talked a bit about working on this problem. I'm hoping we see the results of Oculus' effort
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by phaus 6y ago
>Valve has been resting on their laurels for years. They aren't just a game development company anymore. Their primary product is Steam. If Half-Life Alyx was playable on any PC or console it would have been one of the best selling
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by phaus 6y ago
There is latency and in VR latency is more noticeable to begin with than it is with normal gaming. Also, there is a good amount of compression involved so the graphical fidelity takes a massive hit. They claim that they are going to be impr
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by phaus 6y ago
Not sure if it was the case for Chuck, but a small percentage Christians strongly believe that charity should be anonymous because it actually says as much in the bible. I'm not a Christian myself and definitely not rich at all, but I
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by phaus 6y ago
Its important to prevent individual companies from doing it but its also important to prevent groups of companies and even entire industries from doing it.
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by phaus 6y ago
It should be a real defense for mentally ill people that have conditions that make them somehow less culpable for their actions, regardless of wealth. I wouldn't be surprised if Holmes is a sociopath, she perpetually has a classic craz
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by phaus 6y ago
>failing to provide adequate representation This means they have to put an honest and significant effort into defending you to the best of their ability. They are responsible for the quality of their work, which is why they don't ge
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by phaus 6y ago
>This is false. No its not. You are moving the goalposts. Obviously people can hire whatever lawyer they can afford and potentially change lawyers if they have a valid grievance that a judge agrees is a reason to allow it. They can also
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by phaus 6y ago
I thought the uncanny valley specifically referred to things that are so close to realistic that it physically creeps people out because they subconsciously know somethings wrong. Not necessarily realistic graphics taking away the magic. We

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