pseudonymcoward

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by pseudonymcoward 10mo ago
As a society we find violence or harm against children to be extremely shocking and tragic. As a society we would do almost anything to prevent it. Giving children the kinds of freedoms discussed in this article would lead to some harm comi
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by pseudonymcoward 2y ago
Maybe I'm an idiot, but I was really struggling to understand how this worked from the website, which seems to have no photos or video of it actually operating. I searched youtube and found a youtube short of it being used. First you h
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by pseudonymcoward 2y ago
The author addresses this in the post. "I'm not interested in temporary sheep like those that get driven over Southwark Bridge in September or shorn at the Lambeth Country Show in June."
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by pseudonymcoward 2y ago
I think this is kind of a bad take. There have been plenty of "monster catching game"/"pokemon with the serial numbers filed off" games that have been somewhat successful, but no smash hits. "Cassette Beasts&qu
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by pseudonymcoward 2y ago
My biggest question is "why would I buy this and not Aseprite?". Aseprite is very well established in this space and this new tool doesn't seem like it has anythign unique to offer. Not that building a new tool isn't a g
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by pseudonymcoward 3y ago
I recently tried Literate Programming and I've found that it has some downsides not commonly discussed by its advocates. (It also has upsides which are valid, this post may come across as overly negative because I'm only covering
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by pseudonymcoward 3y ago
I recognized the Reservoir Dogs example just from my brain. To the site author, if you're going to list unknown images like this it would be nice if there was a way to give you feedback on them directly.
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by pseudonymcoward 4y ago
The github page has screen grabs of all the fonts in each stack: https://github.com/system-fonts/modern-font-stacks
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by pseudonymcoward 4y ago
That's only for the telemetry that happens during the install process (if I've read the link correctly). Seems quite reasonable as long as we accept them sending telemetry during install. ("A single telemetry entry is also se
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by pseudonymcoward 4y ago
In Magic, cards come in one of 5 colours* - white, blue, black, red, and green. Each colour has specific mechanics associated with it as well as a general play style. Magic players often have a preference for specific colours as a result. T
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by pseudonymcoward 5y ago
It's not just you. There's a community on reddit called "mechanicalheadpens" centered around the overlapping interests in mechanical keyboards, audiophile headphones, and fountain pens. Hence "mechanicalheadpens&quo
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by pseudonymcoward 5y ago
I believe that they would have written the manuscript, probably by hand but possibly aided by a typewriter, and then given it to a typographer (probably one with experience working on mathematical material) who would have typeset it, cuttin
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by pseudonymcoward 8y ago
Interestingly named package given that it's clearly using quite a few non-ascii characters which will break non-unicode aware consoles. Also that the description, Node page, and github repo list different licences.
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by pseudonymcoward 8y ago
In general I prefer languages to be small and simple - like Go and C. This doesn't seem to be a design goal for Rust, which puts me off. Some specifics: Trying to do anything non-trivial with ownership/lifetimes/borrowing alw
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by pseudonymcoward 8y ago
I think this may be exactly what I've been looking for. I've been wanting a "Better C" type of language, but all the existing candidates fall down on some point like - too complicated (Rust/D/C++), no manual m
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by pseudonymcoward 8y ago
Mind if I steal this idea? I've been meaning to learn some elisp for a while and games revolving around fictional computer interfaces appeal to me.
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by pseudonymcoward 8y ago
It appears to be a standard 6 axis robot arm equipped with a specialist end effector designed to pick, mortar, and place bricks. It's possibly on a linear track to drive up and down the wall too. This is likely far cheaper than designi
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by pseudonymcoward 10y ago
This is only idle speculation but: A web cam resembles an eye staring at you all the time. This makes people feel weird, like something is staring at them. The threat to privacy is right in their face and on a gut level. That's the rea