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Well yeah, it did - I don't remember quite what, but I think it showed the experience rate or something like that. (there was also a hidden feature that showed your login/password …

Which was also abused to kill players, dragging them back and forth fast enough to essentially make them incapable of moving :o

I'm amazed to see Tibia show up on HN of all places! And a whole 22 years after I first installed the game on one of our high school computers. This game was the catalyst to my car…

I believe it started out as an independent company, but was later taken over by the Dutch government.

IIRC incarceration was a method started by christian monks, and the intention was that the incarcerated would use the time to reflect and contemplate his crimes - a form of rehabil…

Truffles are less potent than mushrooms, so you need to more or less double the dosage. I would think that the 15 grams of truffles then would be equivalent to about 7-8 grams of d…

But we do see the same problem in several European cities. For instance there's been some debate about how nurses can't really afford to live in Oslo anymore due to the discrepancy…

Anecdata, but I'm a typical lurker. If I don't have something to contribute to a discussion, I stay silent. I think that goes for a lot of people. There's also the commitment angle…

It still does occur though. A while ago I bought an Asus mini-pc to be used as a media server, only to be stumped by issues with the Realtek drivers. Apparently they're no longer a…

It's about time this became a public discussion. Websites have become so horribly bloated, while most discussions seem to revolve around whether ads are acceptable or not.

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History - Carlin has an amazing way of telling stories, and he goes really in-depth. Critical Role - A group of people playing Dungeons and Dragons, the episo…

That's an interesting point - passion does fade over time. I spent 10 years of my life intensely devoted to music, but at some point it just evaporated. It's baffling, really. As f…

It's fascinating how you can see hints of the city's history through these items. E.g. from the "golden age" (16-1700s) there are tons of items from the bustling cloth and textile …

Same here - with a side of Slack.

I imagine this could be developed to observe e.g. a budding powerlifter's form, pointing out any obvious errors and putting hordes of PTs out of work ;)

My fears, in no particular order: - Worsen the usability of the site, introduce dark patterns - Steal users' code (it has been rumored to happen before) - Introduce mandatory usage…

Thank you for your work! Metabase has been a tremendous help in getting my coworkers interested in data and analytics, and is probably the sole reason why our call center is finall…

I'm not sure there really is a difference. I often find myself drifting off into code issues - I've had many an epiphany while trying hard to focus on something completely differen…

I second this. The longer I work in tech, the more I want to jump ship and work the land instead.

Wow, this is great! I've hoped for Steam to implement something like this for ages, but they seem bent on making discoverability a hopeless chore.

Last year I went to a King Crimson concert. There were no "phone prisons", but they repeatedly informed the audience to keep their phones pocketed until the end of the show. This s…

But people enjoy different things, surely some might find a task you deem as boring to be enjoyable?

Sounds like an intentionally malicious function to me - just waiting for a proper payload.