roganartu

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by roganartu 3mo ago
The most relevant example of this for the games industry is probably Steam’s refund policy. They allow you to refund a game if you bought it less than 2 weeks ago and have less than 2 hours playtime recorded. This is their policy for all us
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by roganartu 5mo ago
> But why not just use the AI? Because you can still use the AI once you're seriously good. Perhaps because the jury is still out on whether one can become “seriously good” by using AI if they weren’t before.
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by roganartu 1y ago
Another feature of this is that if your primary PC crashes, which happens sometimes especially with some games, your stream doesn’t go down too. This is more important for streams with more viewers and longer runtimes, as restarting the str
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by roganartu 1y ago
I haven’t watched any scenes from Bluey before (though I have a newborn now so I suspect that will soon change), but I lived in southbank for a few years during uni, basically right beside the cultural center bus stop. I watched the clip an
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by roganartu 1y ago
I don’t think this really has much to do with fidelity/clarity, so much as accuracy. One could have an extremely high fidelity visual of a bike that is incorrect and you wouldn’t say they had aphantasia as a result. I have aphantasia,
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by roganartu 1y ago
You simplify the tax code so that, like the vast majority of other developed nations, these situations do not apply. However that requires a centralization of power that is politically unpalatable in the US currently. In practice, I think t
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by roganartu 2y ago
Notoriously difficult to find one with a landing strip inside, however.
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by roganartu 2y ago
I’m Australian and have been living in the US for the last 7 years, working for the same employer the whole time. I was originally on an E3 which was renewed twice, before transferring to a H1b and finally a greencard. The E3 is not “automa
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by roganartu 3y ago
> I wonder how that latter price compares to the price in the US My guess is not favourably for the US. My wife was diagnosed with MS about a year before we moved to America and, since I knew we were moving and was thinking about insuran
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by roganartu 3y ago
Which is bad, from a consumer protection perspective. The retailer should absolutely be on the hook. They are the ones with a working relationship with the manufacturer, and hence are best positioned to be able to hold the manufacturer acco
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by roganartu 3y ago
Not everything is zero sum. The important element is not whether or not it is mutually beneficial to the companies, but whether it is detrimental to some other party. Price fixing, wage suppression, monopolizing etc are all detrimental to t
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by roganartu 3y ago
The first town on the list is a place famous for building houses underground due to the heat on the surface being too extreme. It’s also in the middle of nowhere. The rest are country towns, not suburban ones. Where you need to drive hours
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by roganartu 3y ago
Unlikely. The trades that caused KCG to collapse [1] were not reversed (~$400m in losses). Any firm worth their salt has risk systems in place to prevent runaway trading too, and those aren’t black boxes like AI/ML. They’re limits set
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by roganartu 3y ago
The beauty of open source is that the community will either figure out how to make it easier, or collectively decide it’s not worth the effort. We saw this with stable diffusion, and we are seeing it with all the existing OSS LLMs. “It’s to
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by roganartu 4y ago
As the post points out, Python web frameworks have historically not prioritized improving the performance of serving static files, and that seems… fine? If we assume that all projects have a finite amount of engineering effort available, th
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by roganartu 4y ago
“It couldn’t have happened to a nicer person” and other variations are usually used in a facetious manner. Basically, it’s sarcasm. The people using this turn of phrase are effectively saying “good, he deserves it for being a bad person”.
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by roganartu 4y ago
> I will want to win, but you can't win, you can only dominate It is common for EVE players to refer to quitting as "winning EVE". I won EVE around 7 years ago after falling 800-hours-in-6-months deep into the optimisation
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by roganartu 4y ago
There is a lot of empty space in EVE, but there's also a lot of activity. The fact that your empty space can rapidly turn hostile forces you to take a certain approach to gameplay that I've yet to experience in any other game. I u
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by roganartu 4y ago
Perhaps this is a byproduct of the UI (which I totally agree is bad), but this is not true. `git reflog` contains a full history of all refs you’ve been on in chronological order. Unless you explicitly delete them, dangling refs are not cle
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by roganartu 4y ago
There are plenty of ways to describe the Australian federal government’s handling of Covid, but to use the term “concentration camps” is unnecessarily inflammatory and not a sentiment that is shared by Australians. The problems were not in
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by roganartu 4y ago
I’m sorry but this is a dangerously inaccurate summary of Australia’s gun laws and how they are perceived socially. For starters, private gun owners are not actually allowed to use their firearms in self defence. There have been some cases
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by roganartu 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31802600
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by roganartu 4y ago
> and the product looks somewhat like an off brand Nutella and doesn't smell as bad as it tastes... As an Australian, I found this part of your statement confusing, as (unlike Marmite) Vegemite tastes great. More seriously, even in
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by roganartu 4y ago
When you’re an interviewer and you’ve asked the same question enough (tens of time is plenty, really) you’ve seen it all and it’s really obvious when someone has seen the question before. People who haven’t seen the question before always s
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by roganartu 4y ago
I have 2600 hours in Rocket League. It's a fair bit for a "casual" player, but it's got nothing on pros (who are mostly up over 15k hours these days). I have some friends I play fairly regularly with, but we don't u
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by roganartu 5y ago
> There are other viruses like this as well (ones that most people get/have but aren't dangerous). I was on one medication where I needed to be tested monthly because if I got one particular (normally harmless) virus, the suppr
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by roganartu 5y ago
I’ve been doing this for a while, and it’s a neat trick. I noticed the same uptick in stackoverflow clones recently as some other commenters here have, and quickly blocked them too via this method. It’s worth pointing out, however, that the
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by roganartu 5y ago
> Keeping the dependency information in a database, which is queried during the resolution process, allows us to choose dependencies using criteria specified by the developer instead of merely importing the latest possible versions, as p
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by roganartu 5y ago
Yeah, I agree with all this. Amusingly, from your extended list I have also written a non-trivial amount of Java, JS, and Perl too which perhaps demonstrates your point further. I hadn’t before considered the laziness part of Haskell, perha
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by roganartu 5y ago
> If people who only know JS and won't learn anything new can't contribute then that's a cost worth bearing. I think this is an unfair and unnecessarily-snarky take. My list of languages is fairly long these days. I’ve wri

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