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Comment · 2 years ago
I think that releasing the map on torrent would be a useful idea as well. This fly could end up like the lobsters in Accelerando. In that book the mapped animal is lobsters and they get first mover advantage on some post-scarcity type things. Getting them to the Internet would be a good first step, IMO.
Comment · 2 years ago
I think this is a John Dies at the End reference! If not, John Dies at the End references this. A salute to you either way! Great book series.
Comment · 2 years ago
This article is an example of the Shirkey principle: Institutions Try to Preserve the Problem to Which They Are the Solution. Of course behavioralscientist.org wants you to think that everything is behavioral science. If it was, then we would need to keep the behavioral scientists employed.
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
I got used to normal look controls with practice but lots of 2005ish console games have inverted controls as defaults. I started a playthrough of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess on Gamecube to find that is has inverted left/right camera controls as the default. Also, GoldenEye 007 for the N64 has inverted up/down camera controls (if I remember correctly). If you're a certain age, you lived through a time when there was not an accepted default control scheme so console games just picked defaults and moved on. We got used to those defaults. There was a period of time where choice of selection of up/down inversion was seen as a must-have to even play a game (multiplayer split screen) and zero discussion or complaints would arise over 2-3 minutes of everyone (all 4 of us) setting their controls after every console reset. Eventually non-inverted controls became the accepted default. This likely happened during a time that many of us gamed less so we might not have the muscle memory of relearning the new defaults. That's my experience on the whole thing anyway.
Comment · 2 years ago
Please see this previous post for relevant further thoughts on the idea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37510829 . Additionally I thought it would be cool to have the inputs go in reverse too, like putting in swipes and getting text.
Comment · 2 years ago
They should not use CLA then.
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
They should have used the GPL, but that's the problem with the weak licences. Weak licences rely on trust for no reason.
Comment · 2 years ago
I like to use Mumble https://www.mumble.info/ for voice chat while gaming. It's really effective at voice chat and runs on a toaster. The server was really easy to set up on my raspberry pi. Is there another software that might be helpful that you can think of? Free software would be preferable
Comment · 2 years ago
I know you must mean VIIII
Comment · 2 years ago
You used the AGPL! Glorious! I commend and salute your efforts. Thank you for your contribution!
Comment · 2 years ago
This borked my nvim rc and was hard for me to fix. Ymmv
Comment · 2 years ago
I get burned out for the day easily so I just knock out the work as early and fast as I can to stay productive, then chill. After meetings I'm useless productivity-wise so that 4 hour block is really important to me. I play after work, pursuing whatever without feeling a way about it.

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