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harph

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About harph

I liek pie

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    Comment #47032660

    Gemini does turn it into a joke, I was impressed.

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    Comment #46854653

    Because sometimes skipping is not enough: https://mrwint.github.io/winter/writeup/writeup.html

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    Comment #45052305

    It seems it's because OP is generating the whole screen every frame / every move. Of course that will give inconsistent results. I wonder if this approach would work better: 1. gen…

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    Comment #45023429

    So something that is not a thing yet, and is being actively campaigned against?

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    Comment #41078367

    This prompted me to check how long ago I was 13 years old. It was 26 years ago. Are we old yet?

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    Comment #39333546

    I remember getting this bug on accident when I was a kid. I was building a tunnel, but clicked the wrong tile. It popped up a huuuge sum of money and I got scared that I messed up …

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    Comment #38241457

    > using iPhones for 20+ years You probably meant Apple devices in general? The iPhone is not yet 20 years old.

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    Comment #37946322

    Skateboarding taught me the power of perserverance, and muscle memory. That and Quake 3: Defrag trickjumping.

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    Comment #37664570

    Llama2 was not released with 30B parameters, or was it?

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    Comment #37605683

    There's also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enceladus so it's not just one random moon.

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    Comment #35775187

    Is watching a twitch stream a social activity? I guess you can participate in the chat, but we know what twitch chat looks like...

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    Comment #35325740

    I've been playing games on Linux daily for years now (even AAA games like Cyberpunk 2077) and this is why I am still holding out on VR. I just don't want to be forced to go back to…

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    Comment #35149490

    > finite digital assets That's a nice oxymoron you have there. Digital assets are not "finite" or scarce, that's their biggest strength: that they can be copied and shared infinite…

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    Comment #35139006

    On the contrary, I would recommend everyone to try and make a game engine. Through my teens and university years I tried many types (3D, 2D, visual novel...) and it's an awesome le…

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    Comment #33170055

    Does that mean I don't need to create an account if I want to use the headset only with OpenVR stuff?

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    Comment #31470834

    Protective gear was always uncool in street skateboarding. Vert (Tony Hawk's main discipline) was the exception. From what I understand it's about being counterculture, punk etc. T…

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    Comment #31329013

    1 Work + play desktop PC 1 Laptop 1 HTPC under the TV All running Linux, fwiw

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    Comment #31252666

    I did some scripts for a NWN RP persistent world back when I was a teenager. Great memories

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    Comment #31152016

    When my wife was staying home with our son until he was 3yo, I got to write that into my tax returns and I got a tax bonus. A not working wife + a child = I didn't pay any tax and …

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    Comment #30290948

    First time I heard about this - I set up uBlock on my mom's Firefox years ago, and it's still there...

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    Comment #28259229

    All games on gog.com are sold like this.

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    Comment #27731127

    You mean the one from 1985 about those oldtimers bathing with lifegiving alien artifacts? Such memories! Also ofc I found it in one google search.

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    Comment #27231433

    They probably mean upgrade on purchase

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    Comment #26531720

    Looks like some gopro type actioncam with stabilization would work nicely. I made videos of hikes when I was on Azores a few years ago with an old GoPro 5 and they look pretty good…

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    Comment #3708688

    This. I will not be buying this game, because I don't want to support this model.