Deestan
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- Comment on Why hasn't American football embraced AR and radio tech? 4 weeks ago:
Something is terribly wrong.
- Comment on Why hasn't American football embraced AR and radio tech? 4 weeks ago:
Apologies in advance, because this is in no way an answer to your question.
It is, however, related to the thought and super cool:
- Comment on Do drivers in the USA have to yield to alien UFO's? 4 weeks ago:
This is the type of information those classified air force documents are full of.
- Comment on Do drivers in the USA have to yield to alien UFO's? 5 weeks ago:
A few general traffic laws apply:
1: The UFO is not a legally registered road vehicle and they must yield to all traffic.
2: If you see a hazardous situation, like the UFO not clearly following traffic laws giving you space, you must do your part to avoid injury by avoiding a collision.
So after you do brake for the UFO, or swerve and honk, you may go to the police and inform them of the aliens’ traffic violation. They may then get a fine.
If you say “fuck it Im in the right” and crash into them, you are both breaking the law, but you are in bigger trouble for willfully endangering life and property. You get prison, the aliens get a fine.
- Comment on How do I install a python language server in doomemacs? 5 weeks ago:
Apologies if you already know this, but just making sure: A language server is first installed independently from its emacs/vim/etc integration.
You have lsp-mode set up. Did you install python-lsp-server and just need a guide to point lsp-mode at it?
- Comment on Steam Now Warns Consumers That They're Buying a License, Not a Game During a Purchase 5 weeks ago:
Yeah good ones last 200 years if stored correctly. Cheap ones are 5-10. 20 can be expected for quality CDs stored correctly.
- Comment on Steam Now Warns Consumers That They're Buying a License, Not a Game During a Purchase 5 weeks ago:
True, with some modifications:
Some games had online activation built in. Some games would simply not install on a second or third machine without getting permission from the publisher.
Regular CDs have a lifespan of 5-10 years, shorter if not stored ideally. Almost all games had sophisticated mechanisms to prevent backups being taken.
Even if you could take a backup, record associations and publishers lobbied to make it illegal and punishable by severe fines in many countries.
- Comment on Has anyone here ever bought games on eneba? 1 month ago:
Grey market key seller? Yes.
They sell cheap because they get them illegitimately. Leaked press keys, keys bought with stolen credit cards, keys scammed from developers, datamined keys…
What all of these sources have in common is that the actual developer gets nothing at best, and a chargeback fee at worst. All your money goes to middle men.
Just pirate instead. It’s more responsible.
- Comment on How do decide what language you speak living on a countries border. 1 month ago:
They speak what their parents and neighbors speak. This is constant even when borders shift.
The formal language they conform to is the nearest administrative region, usually in the country controlling the town.
- Comment on Why isn't apple a popular ice cream flavor? 1 month ago:
I’d love if it was more popular!
Mighy try and make at home. Parfait ice cream is reasonably uncomplicated. Wonder if I should make it from dried apples.
- Comment on What letter has the best games? 1 month ago:
Yessss, that was an embarrassing omission in my list.
- Comment on I make games and this literally happened to me this morning 1 month ago:
My bank: “We have a new valuation on your home! Open your app to see it!”
…
“It’s down 2%!”
- Comment on What letter has the best games? 1 month ago:
Fair! But why “Pirates!” but not Sim City?
- Comment on What letter has the best games? 1 month ago:
- Satisfactory
- Starcraft / 2
- Slay the Spire
- Saints Row
- Sam & Max (tons)
- Serious Sam
- Scribblenauts
- Shadowrun
- Shadow Warrior
- Shapez / 2
- Shovel Knight
- Skyrim
- Soma
- Slay the Princess
- Space Engineers
- Spelunky
- Sid Meyer’s Everything
- Stanley Parable, the
- Stardew Valley
- Stronghold Crusaders
- Subnautica
- Sunless Sea
- Sonic (all)
- Super Mario (everything)
- Superhot
- Super Meatboy
- Surviving Mars
- Comment on How do I make my own internet? 1 month ago:
Can you give an example of a possibility you think of? In its simplest form it’s exactly your house wifi if you disconnect your internet uplink. Anything bigger is also exactly a subset of the current internet disconnected from the rest, plus you having to maintain infrastructure.
- Comment on Are those top tier Geoguessers that do crazy stuff like figure out a location from 4 pixels and a mcslurry contracted by the CIA? 1 month ago:
there are many details in one image, and the chances of some player recognizing one of those details is an instance of the birthday problem?
That would be a valid model. But you are still right that it doesn’t apply: It would give the effect that a different geoguesser would get the picture right every test, while we are seeing consistent results from the top geoguessers.
- Comment on Are those top tier Geoguessers that do crazy stuff like figure out a location from 4 pixels and a mcslurry contracted by the CIA? 1 month ago:
I see your point, but the Birthday Problem would apply differently.
It is the chance of “collision” between randomly picked elements two large enough sets of random data. If I understand correctly, the random data here would be “geographical fact” like bush density and road width. Set A is geoguessers’ geographical knowledge, and set B is pictures’ geographical features.
So if we picked hundreds of random picture and hundreds of geoguessers and asked them, the chance of one guessing one image is high. And the person would be largely dfferent every time.
In this case, we can give one specific geoguesser a large amount of pictures and that same geoguesser would get most of them right.
- Comment on how do I accept I'll never know why any employer rejected me? 2 months ago:
As a hiring manager for nearly 4 years straight, dealing with way way more than 100 applicants for some positions, I know it takes minutes at most.
All hiring systems have ways to send batch emails to rejected candidates.
If you don’t have a hiring system for some reason, it’s still just hitting reply/ctrl-v/send to each applicant you move out of the “possible candidate” inbox.
Giving a reason “why” tends to hit people badly if they didn’t specifically ask, so a stock response is not only easy to give, but the best response. Whether and how to respond in more detail to people asking for “why”, is a less easy decision but good if you are able to.
- Comment on how do I accept I'll never know why any employer rejected me? 2 months ago:
There are a few benign-ish ways this happens, based on my experience from working on “the other side”. They reflect shittily on the hiring manager, but not on you:
You got no immediate rejection because they did consider you valid for the position, just not first place. Then they got a match on the first place and stopped giving a shit about the applicant backlog.
They got too many applicants and threw half in the garbage.
Upper management put a freeze, or reduction, on hiring right as they put an ad out.
They have a person already picked for the position, but they will get in legal or corporate or PR trouble if they don’t pretend to do a proper hiring process.
Their application process, human or computer, lost your CV.
- Comment on How come roosters crow but crows don't rooster? 2 months ago:
My mind has been shattered.
- Comment on How come roosters crow but crows don't rooster? 2 months ago:
For the same reason cows moo but a moose don’t cow.
- Comment on What types of math games are ideal for children? 2 months ago:
DragonBox have been excellent. Been a few years and ownership changes since I looked at their games, so hopefully they haven’t enshittened.
- Comment on Closure of exponentiation of real algebraic numbers. 2 months ago:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_number
They’re given as algebraic, which are countably infinite since they can be mapped 1-to-1 with integers.
- Comment on Tetris® Forever – Announcement Trailer 2 months ago:
Skyrim is ported to RealityV3. It is still buggy. Hackers have successfully run Doom on a hydrogen atom. Gamers are shitting and yelling that someone put a Martian as a playable character in Red Dead Redemption MCMVII.
- Comment on How can I recreate my grandfathers voice? 2 months ago:
While tools exist, like people already commented, remember that the result may not be what you expect.
A recreation whether by AI or a skilled voice actor will have slightly different intonations, emphasis, tempo variations, pauses and lack of pauses that are not your granfather’s. It is very likely to feel flat and wrong in an unpleasant way.
- Comment on How come it seems that there are little to no serial killers who are women in the modern age? Are they not caught or is it just the men that make the news? 2 months ago:
Nobody needed to know that
- Comment on It genuinely upsets me that Valve spent their time and resources on another Dota variation 2 months ago:
The laws of captialism entropy:
Any organization that sees success will attract profit-driven leadership, and will become such over time. The soul from the original founders will be watered down, dampened, or ejected.
A profit-driven organization will over time become more and more profit-seeking, never less. Once this reaches a certain threshold, we start to use phrases like “enshittification”. Valve hasn’t gone shit yet imho, but their soul and passion doesn’t seem to lie in games anymore.
The next excellent product comes from new, growing organizations or small teams that may grow into such.
It is best to just treat it as any other law of nature and so we move on from Blizzard, Google, EA, Valve, Epic Games, Unity, etc and go swim in the wonderful vibrant indie scene.
- Comment on Avowed Runs at 30fps on Xbox Series X and S, Obsidian Confirms 2 months ago:
It’s playable and you can enjoy the game, but 30FPS is embarrassing. It makes me feel like I’m a kid playing on a PC assembled out of old leftover components. Which was tolerable when I was a cashless kid playing pirated games on inherited frankenPCs, but it feels so wrong when playing a bought game on its intended spec hardware.
- Comment on Tactical Breach Wizards is out today! 2 months ago:
Been playing it a few hours. So far it the tactical part feels very similar to Fights in Tight Spaces but more forgiving. Puzzly, lots of interactions with environment.
The writing is really well done and the humor and tone are wonderful in the way only brits can do it.
There is something about an out-of-work elite strike team having to rely on public transport and using the lead wizard’s mom’s apartment for HQ while they are still taking everything seriously.
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