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by rtb 21d ago
It hits very differently in 2026 with people outsourcing their thinking to AI There's some more discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/asimov/comments/1u76f8l/the_feeling...
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by rtb 2y ago
For the human players, the map has a data layer where every tile has a number. Tiles not on the track are 0 and tiles along the course are numbered in ascending order. The game tracks the last numbered tile each player was on. When the play
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by rtb 2y ago
That's mine! :-) I still play fairly frequently. Just this week we had a gathering of 7 people, playing MMv3 all on one big screen, with modified levels burned to a CDROM, using a PS2 with the sticky tape hack. It was awesome! AMA
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by rtb 2y ago
Sounds like they're thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drax_Power_Station (200 miles from London, but burns "biomass" and powers 6% of the uk)
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by rtb 2y ago
So what do you mean by "It is VR-ready"? You plan to add VR in the future?
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by rtb 2y ago
floorplanner.com does not appear to support VR (as far as I can make out)
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by rtb 2y ago
I visited the website in my Quest 3 VR headset's browser and clicked "try it out", but was disappointed to not get it in VR. Did I miss a button or a link to get a VR demo? Very exciting space; I think this has great potentia
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by rtb 2y ago
You are technically correct, but this is still a pointless argument to make. It's pretty easy to see that any finite machine isn't Turing Complete, because you just ask whether it can compute a function that doesn't fit in it
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by rtb 2y ago
Very much agree. Also, what's it for? None of these articles point to anything worthwhile that it's useful for.
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by rtb 2y ago
EDIT: this was an attempt to get past the paywall, but looks like it's javascript driven, so this archived version breaks after a moment, unless you disable js https://web.archive.org/web/20240324050221/https:
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by rtb 3y ago
Probably not, but what can any individual do about it? It's very difficult to show monetary damages in order to actually sue
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by rtb 3y ago
Yeah, I really agree with this I get lots of unsolicited "Microsoft Login" popups and even as a sophisticated user, there's no satisfactory way for me to establish whether this is a trustworthy request or a fake login page. F
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by rtb 3y ago
UK shops do just that, for example milk in supermarkets is still sold in pints but labelled in metric due to EU laws.
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by rtb 3y ago
Switching "brands" is a false choice when there are 100s of "brands" all owned by the same 4 conglomerates and all coordinating prices. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/202
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by rtb 3y ago
"greed"? The force that pushes back on corporate greed should be competition. The problem is the modern trend of consolidation, monopolisation and lack of proper competition.
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by rtb 3y ago
You completely miss the point. The crypto key held by the EIDAS provider is not the weak link. They are very securely attesting ONLY that the signatory controlled a given email address at the time of the signature. If I can get control of y
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by rtb 4y ago
http://achemicalhunger.com
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by rtb 4y ago
Yes, a metaphor for doing it "even more". He means that they will be angry and will do more than just reverse the transaction: they will punish the merchant who fraudulently debited your account. They will levy a fine on them (any
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by rtb 4y ago
I think basisword is British (as am I). I think Uber came about because taxis in the US sucked. Over here we never had the same problems with no-shows or overcharging (I'm speaking in general, of course this varied a lot). Uber hasn&#x
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by rtb 4y ago
What a horrible comment; totally without compassion or empathy; totally self-congratulating. What do you propose people who find themselves unhappily addicted to smartphones do? Just feel bad about their lack of "character" and wi
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by rtb 4y ago
Pretty weird "joke" or "a slightly funny hypothetical". It's a plausible but false explanation for an event people were trying to understand, posted to a programming forum. It feels more like disinformation to me. I
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by rtb 4y ago
I haven't seen this sort of nonsense for ages. That's not how the web or copyright works. Some workarounds: * Fetch the page in curl * Run this in the js console: `document.body.oncontextmenu = null` * Open the dev tools ui and co
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by rtb 5y ago
There's a similar 1 page site for that problem: https://nohello.net/en/
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by rtb 5y ago
No. Two influential tech thinkers that I admire and their views on Facebook / Meta: 1: Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/22/kropotkin-graeber/#zucker... 2: Jamie Zawinski (jwz) https:&#
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by rtb 5y ago
> If you operate on the assumption that all official data is false This is a strawman. It is possible to believe (and there is motive and opportunity in this case) that one "official" statistic is manipulated or does not show t
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by rtb 5y ago
This is a good question. I think the answer is that it's difficult to define up-front what is illegitimate "online tracking" and what is legitimate tracking of users necessary for things like accounts and saving of preference
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by rtb 5y ago
Do you know that Visa have backed down and not Amazon? Can you share any info? I wasn't able to find any details of the deal.
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by rtb 5y ago
How would crypto force gaming companies to keep servers for old games online?
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by rtb 5y ago
Yes. The article doesn't appear to have any new evidence. A few ad-hominem attacks on Nikolay Zak and a few sneering comments about some of Zak's weaker pieces of evidence, but nothing that advances the argument in either directio
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by rtb 6y ago
The "grep" and "wc" commands that are included in that table don't attempt to solve the problem. That wasn't clear to me on first reading. I suppose they are included as a baseline for reading a file and for to

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