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> a bit idealistic about the efficiency of most human-to-human communication. I don't know if I would call it idealism. I feel like what we're discovering is that while the efficie…

I was about to recommend Caves of Qud, being a traditionally inspired rogue-like. However, it encourages slow and careful play over fast play. The game is brutally difficult and th…

Programmatically determining the region of an AWS EC2 instance using the metadata API was very annoying in the past; there was no endpoint for it. Instead, devs used many methods t…

> We don't know if pi is a normal number. Sure we do. There are plenty of proofs out there that pi is an irrational number.

> As a kid, reading aloud in class was always nerve wracking because of this. Yup, reading out loud was the absolute worst. I have different issues though, and because of my readin…

Through concentration and compensation skills we've acquired over the years, some dyslexic people can read _almost_ normally. At least, that was the case for me. If I really mental…

I can't find them either. I'm wondering if they only released them for streaming in Japan.

> their ROI must be incredibly low. Not according to [this reddit user's analysis]( https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/dgvmkk/crazy_... ).

I would disagree; "Better Platform" != "Supported Platform". While it is an admission Linux gaming was hardly going to take off on its own from a cold start, it allows people to us…

Valve

^^ These parts of the article also bothered me, and tainted many of his other possibly/probably valid points. > ...we have seen the development of machine learning tools that can p…

> ...we are entitled to do the same with the copies of it. No, that's not how copyright works.

The "left" and "right" political descriptors are often problematic in this sense, since they are relative terms. If you ask my conservative parents where CNN is, they'll describe i…

I have very mixed feelings about this. Let me explain: This move from China is definitely going to bring more incentive for illegal poaching. It's just simple economics: by officia…

That's true, but at the same time, there's something to be said for not storing my eggs in the huge basket with everyone else's eggs in it too. By separating the storage of passwor…