douglasg14b

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Welcome to the age of bots.

  Enjoy your perpetual unavoidable and even undetectable bias and opinion influencing astroturfing.

  Paid for by whoever doesn’t want the things that you want, to influence the people around you to bite at each other’s throats and work against their own interests.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Cherry-picked examples are cherry-picked examples.

  The trend still sticks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is possible to learn to swim, just by reading a lot about it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They learned how to swim by being thrown in.

  Which would by definition be a form of practice.

  Which means they learned how to swim by practice.

  Which means they did not learn how to swim simply through theory. They first had to practice and then apply the theory they learned, which is still learning by practice.

  The spirit of ops question would be reading and learning about it and then being able to jump in the pool and swim without practicing, immediately. Because if you cannot and you first have to practice then by the very statement of this sentence you learned via practice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is possible to learn to swim, just by reading a lot about it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but if you’re doing it in a swimming pool to practice, then you didn’t learn how to swim. By reading about them, you learn how to swim by practice, which is how everyone learns how to swim

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is possible to learn to swim, just by reading a lot about it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That practice isn’t just reading or watching to learn. That practice is the motor skill development necessary to apply what you have learned.

  Which means the answer would still be no because you are cheating by practicing. You did not just learn about it by watching videos and reading, You learned about it through development of motor skills through practice.

  You have not “learned to swim” by only reading & watching at that point. You have learned to swim the way everyone else does, but being in water and practicing.

  Which is opposite to the presented problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is possible to learn to swim, just by reading a lot about it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just like many physical things, not really.

  A huge part of your brain is dedicated to motor skills and hand eye coordination. You aren’t going to improve or learn these things until you actually do them. It’s neurological, you can’t move a muscle you don’t have neurological connections for, it’s a learned skill. And you cannot learn it without actually doing it and making those connections.

  Imagine never letting a baby crawl, and you just teach them about crawling, walking, running…etc once they’re old enough to understand. But they have never moved yet in their life.

  They would essentially be disabled, none of the neural pathways necessary for the movement they need to do have been developed. These would need to develop from scratch, by struggling and failing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think forcing MMOs to release software is a bit much.

  Opted for large scaled systems. It’s more than just simple software. There is a ton of infrastructure and proprietary solutioning that goes into it. That’s likely used for other games as well.

  It may not even be possible to release the software because it is not just software and the resources to prepare it for releasing may not be available.

  Single player and local games 100% though should not be allowed to be killed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This really is the truth.

  The gap is almost insurmountable still, but the gap is narrowing thanks to the hard work Microsoft puts in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why was file search much faster in Windows XP than in subsequent versions?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Moving/copying/reading/deleting tonnes of tiny files isn’t significantly faster on an ssd because the requirements for doing so are not limited by HDDs in the first place.

  You mean the actual physical actuator and spinning platter? A hard drive has which limits its traversal speed over its physical media?

  You mean that kind of limitation?

  I would highly recommend that you learn what a hard drive is before you start commenting about its its performance characteristics. 🤦🤦🤦

  ---

  For everyone else in the thread, remember that arguing with an idiot is always a losing battle because they will drag you down to their level and win with experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why was file search much faster in Windows XP than in subsequent versions?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is like asking for a source for common sense statements.

  HDDs are pretty terrible at random IO, which is what reading many small files tends to be. This is because they have a literal mechanical arm with a tiny magnet on the end that needs to move around to read sectors on a spinning platter. The physical limitations of how quickly the read right head can traverse limits it’s random I/O capabilities.

  This makes hard drives, abysmal, at random I/O. And why defragmenting is a thing.

  This is common knowledge for anyone in it and easy knowledge to obtain by reading a Wikipedia page.

  SSDs are great at random I/O. They do not have physical components that need to move in order to read from random locations they generally perform equally as well from reading any location. Meaning their random I/O capabilities are significantly better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Kings Protest, USA, 2025⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The fact that you need a permit is already a violation of the right of assembly IMHO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon takes up microdosing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Either you don’t get it or you’re being intentionally obtuse.

  Education is kind of required for a democracy to function effectively in this new age of global communication. Where previously every village had an idiot, now every idiot has a village, And without good education and good critical thinking, this is an expanding and compounding problem.

  As such, democracy is doomed and societies that are spiraling will continue to spiral until whatever else forms forms?.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What level of interest do you have in "empire building" location based games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, location based as in you and the objects in the game are based on real world coordinates. The “grid” for the game is overlayed onto the real world

  Same ingress lost its appeal after a while. The gameplay loop was shallow and repetitive. It was based around rather fast gameplay loops, that would resolve, and then you rinse and repeat.

  I made some cool friends though, it was cool to meet people at capture points.

  I’m aiming for much MUCH more depth here. Fundamentally different from ingress of similar games, aside from being location based. More industry and exploration, with a more typical loop around economy, growth, and advancement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What level of interest do you have in "empire building" location based games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Great question, and one I’ve struggled with.

  I’m a big privacy advocate, and my personal devices and home network reflect that. Which really brings me to a difficult crossroads here.

  I don’t have a good answer for you right now, the best I have are the problems I’m trying to balance:

  • Anticheat: How do detect and build better detection for location spoofing? This, intrinsically, requires the recording of directly associated location data. How can I balance this against privacy concerns?
    • This is the toughest one here. Likely I’ll need a combination of data retention periods and anonymization. At the very least sensitive data is separated from the rest of the game data, and is encrypted at rest. Likely there are clever protocols and solutions already out there I just don’t know about yet that can improve protections here.
  • Audit Logs: When a player performs an action that interacts with a location-based feature, where they where when that action was performed it is stored alongside the audit log of that action. This ties in closely with Anticheat, and also enables pattern matching to try and find oddities (exploits, cheating, bugs, and other problems).
    • Right now these stay around forever, and can be used to simulate the global game state at any point in the past (really REALLY useful for debugging problems, especially when you don’t have a good repro). Eventually such state should make granular rollbacks possible in case of exploits or rampant cheating. (A game where you have to physically go somewhere to capture a mine means rollbacks have a crazy high cost, making them granular is pretty important)
  • Analytics and Telemetry: Location data isn’t in use here right now. And I don’t see how it would be while also respecting privacy.

  Selling the data: 😂😂😂 I’d rather light my servers on fire than stoop to that level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What level of interest do you have in "empire building" location based games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey that’s totally valid!

  I’m an avid player of Factorio and Dyson Sphere Project. Those really scratch the pure factory itch.

  I’m aiming to scratch a different itch here. Persistent empire building in competition with others over finite resources is an itch that’s REALLY hard to scratch. And that’s what I’m aiming for here.

  That sense that you have built something that feels more tangible than other games you’re accustomed to. There’s a real world element, you control something that someone else cannot, with that comes that empire building feeling I personally live, and want to build a game around.

• What level of interest do you have in "empire building" location based games?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why hasn't congress passed a law saying that you can only deport people *back to their own country*?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Whoosh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who should america be more concerned about MS-13 or Russia?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah this point?

  You’re own bloody country

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  … Or both?

  Why make a false dichotomy out of it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes because when are conversing in person you are conversing synchronously.

  Only one person talks at a time and for the most part only one major subject idea question or problem is considered at a time. You talk about one thing and then you move along and talk about another thing.

  This is not necessarily the case with written language. Where you have the benefit of talking about many things, changing subjects, and listing information out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The level of frustration from online discussions when the things you say are entirely missed or misinterpreted is a great example of this.

  Even mildly complex topics that touch anything politically charged or emotionally charged tend to be subject to groupthink dynamics in a format where group think is largely just a result of poor reading comprehension.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It really is a sad State of affairs that reading comprehension is so bad that people can’t answer questions in written form.

  I mean it’s literally written down you can’t miss it.

  And to clarify this is more of me complaining because I’ve experienced this a lot. It’s most apparent in online discussions, where seemingly a majority of what you say gets completely skipped missed or misinterpreted and replies often focus on just a couple words of your statement instead of understanding sometimes even just a whole paragraph.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did Mahmoud Khalil managed to challenge his (pending) deportation at all, while others were deported without due process? What makes Mahmous Khalil's case different?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So, a US Person. Who has all the rights of a citizen sans voting and a few other specific things…

  Not kind now till citizens end up this way

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how tf do you warm up plates?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Options:

  1. Very Wet paper towel on the plate, microwave the plate for 30s
  2. Heat it up over a flame, a ways away (ie. Butane torch under it, but like 12" away)
  3. If you have a small countertop over or air fryer/toaster. Heat it up in there briefly
  4. If you’re making toast, place it on top of the toaster (not too long, it can still break).

  I heat my plates up alllll the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would it be a bad idea to show up at a protest outside a Tesla dealership with a sign that says "Deny Musk, Defund Doge, Depose Trump"?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Enjoy Ecuador!

  Wish I was joking…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cathy, do the math.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cathy is the average American.

  Realize that half of the rest are even more moronic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why's everyone freaking out about Firefox Terms of Service? Isn't it Open Source?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s only works so long as Firefox stays alive and in development.

  LibreWolf relies on Firefox being funded, if Firefox dies then LibreWolf also dies.

  And so does the last actual open source browser that is in competition with chrome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, is the USA screwed?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Shitty time to be alive when it’s no longer cool to shoot Nazis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How likely do you think there will be a run on the banks?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s an absolute PITA in my experience.

  I tried this with TD Canada. Accessing the money was problematic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone planning on doing anything about trump creating a concentration camp at guantanamo bay?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait wut?!?

  Is there a source you can link to?