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by ropable 6d ago
And so the mobile app development wheel turns. All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again.
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by ropable 13d ago
Thank you to the effort of building this game in the first place (I'm sorry that I never got to try it then), and thank you for re-introducing it to us today. I'll give it a proper play in my leisure time.
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by ropable 16d ago
Welp, time for my annual Dwarf Fortress binge.
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by ropable 16d ago
> My to-go order is always just an Americano. Friend: visit us here in Australia. Walk into any good local coffee shop and order a long black (or a flat white if you're feeling adventurous). Your mind will be blown.
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by ropable 27d ago
I think it's self-evident that that every legal system is both imperfect and unevenly-applied, being a finite resource. It's also a self-evidence truth that money & power buy resistance to the the legal system. It's hard
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by ropable 2mo ago
This is another reason we can't have nice things. The level of entitlement required to send an angry message to someone complaining about their free resource being offline is mind-boggling, though.
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by ropable 3mo ago
There exists a possibility that they were correct and you are not.
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by ropable 3mo ago
It's almost as though people and culture change over time. To be less glib, that amount of time is more than ample to see a generational change in a sector as fast-moving as technology. Perhaps some robust push-back on his ideas better
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by ropable 3mo ago
I have no idea why this post got such a large volume of upvotes. It's a clever remix on the original story, but that's about it. There's no great insight to be found here, IMO.
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by ropable 4mo ago
Everybody gangsta about privatisation until it starts affecting services they personally use. PE funds seem a bit like the latest manifestation of the 80s corporate raiders to me.
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by ropable 4mo ago
Nice straw man! Be a shame if it was a logical fallacy.
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by ropable 4mo ago
See also: How Insider Trading Destroys Armies (Perun): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lz3vTUbClc
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by ropable 4mo ago
Kalshi, Polymarket and every other prediction market should have been drowned at birth by regulators. They offer zero positive utility to the world. I hope that we follow Spain's example here in Australia; we have a hard enough time wi
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by ropable 4mo ago
I'm curious if you have any evidence stronger than your own vibes about this one sentence. I didn't get that sense from the article at all, and continue to assume that it's a genuine piece of history.
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by ropable 4mo ago
Never, ever ask for forgiveness for, purely for the love of it, learning skills and creating by hand anything that can be mass-produced. Learning and craftsmanship are their own rewards.
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by ropable 4mo ago
Really, really small generative code like this has me shouting "Witch!" Bravo.
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by ropable 4mo ago
You say that like it's a bad thing. Not everyone thinks so.
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by ropable 4mo ago
Oh my word. This site, orsm, ebaumsworld, etc. I'm glad to say that none of these were formative for me, but that were always morbidly entertaining to a young man still firming up his prefrontal cortex. They were like reliable garbage
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by ropable 4mo ago
Everybody gangsta about not needing government handouts until it's their own livelihood at stake.
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by ropable 5mo ago
Doki Doki Literature Club is a game that I played, and then replayed, purely on the basis of recommendations by trusted reviewers. The genre (visual novel) and theme (anime pin-up schoolgirl) are ones that I have no interest in. I was extre
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by ropable 5mo ago
It's very hard for me to see this war (regardless of final outcome) as anything other than a massive strategic loss for the USA. The US has spent a stunning amount of materiel and political capital to achieve nothing of lasting benefit
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by ropable 6mo ago
As evidence supporting the "bright side" outcome of this conflict, two separate people I know here is Australia have fast-tracked a decision to replace their ICE vehicles with an EV. It only took a week's sticker shock at the
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by ropable 6mo ago
I didn't quite clock what they meant in that paragraph. I'm pretty sure that a 1.8 degree drop in body temp is approaching hypothermia.
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by ropable 6mo ago
You mean that there is a rule which prevents for-profit companies offering personal health insurance from pocketing more than 20% of revenue? Those poor, benighted shareholders. What a socialist hellscape.
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by ropable 6mo ago
"New account". Meanwhile, the account is 4.5 years old with 2600 karma and has hundreds of thoughtful comments.
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by ropable 7mo ago
It gets across just how ridiculously energy-dense liquid petroleum fuels are.
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by ropable 7mo ago
Alternative story: they take these still-perfectly-functional finished products and find other markets for them. This isn't second-hand, damaged clothing, it's unsold new product.
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by ropable 7mo ago
I have a colleague who (inexplicably) doesn't trust Postgres for "high performance" applications. He needed a database of shared state for a variable number of running containers to manage a queue, so he decided to implement
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by ropable 8mo ago
Trump has done/is doing generational harm to the perception of the US worldwide, to say nothing of US soft-power influence. It's going to take decades to rebuild that trust after he's gone, and we still have a couple of years
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by ropable 8mo ago
From my perspective, the US is foot-gunning itself into geopolitical irrelevance through the destruction of its soft power and undermining the NATO alliance. For all its many, many faults, the CCP's actions around establishing itself a

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