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Comment #49120064
If farms would choose to do solar instead of crops, I would assume that's because they can get more $/acre, but that could cause food prices to rise. At the same time, energy price…
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Comment #48942295
What are you referring to?
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Comment #48930410
Title is not misleading, you're just misinterpreting what they mean by command line. It's not a terminal game (in that you don't play it on your terminal and it's not limited to AS…
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Comment #48930362
It's been a while since I played, but I've picked it back up a few times, let's see how well I can explain it. Duskers is at its core a puzzle game. It could be executed just as we…
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Comment #48915732
Given that datacenters seem to much more manpower efficient, that seems like a poor trade, to the point it might not be worth viewing them similarly. I'm seeing info reporting abou…
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Comment #48915677
Ah, I see. The increment is so they can manually handle the included feature of the other cases, which number of the iteration you're on. Nice that it will automatically loop acros…
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Comment #48914953
So, it's just a while loop in a for loop's clothing? That's not going to be confusing for people at all...
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Comment #48898121
They look like stock Powerpoint slide templates to me, which if that is a common way for AI to show items, is likely because it was already a common visual technique and AI learned…
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Comment #48781305
> Ok, so 100 people can all drive to the store, or one delivery truck can drive to everyone's house. Whether you see that statement and read it as "obviously the delivery truck is …
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Comment #48635906
The lower g is, the lower the profit margin for s is, so so the fewer resources they will put into it. Unless there's unlikely to be more releases later or g are not cost sensitive…
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Comment #48566373
Groo was always a favorite of mine as a child. The amazing art of Sergio Aragones and the sarcasm and double speak that pervade the comic always connected better with me. That came…
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Comment #48545682
Doesn't tailscale require those all be administered and approved by one account? > there is one giant "network" of all your nodes From what I understand they're saying, the point i…
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Comment #48530446
But relevant to what? Some things are relevant directly to the outcome by nature of what you're trying to express, while some other things are essentially incantations you need to …
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Comment #48440373
Almost everything is a choice. The difference is that sometimes you're making a rational one and sometimes you only think you're making a rational one and to outsiders and in retro…
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Comment #48413514
This is how a chunk of people function anyway. There are plenty of people that choose to not install "point zero" release for software of a certain importance, assuming with any ma…
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Comment #48342755
To be absolutely clear, since on reading this later it may come across as me masquerading as part of the OpenBSD project, I am not affiliated with them. My "We don't" was in respon…
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Comment #48338923
To keep with the analogy, isn't that sort of like testing two cars by having them both drive the same few hundred foot stretch of new road at the posted speed limit of 35 MPH? You …
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Comment #48338679
We don't, since we're not implementing a UI from scratch, we're matching something else. Of the two possible worlds where in one this reimplementation matches what some see as anno…
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Comment #48332766
Even if this law just caused companies to put into their sales contracts that they will support the servers to a certain date X years in the future and then handling of the online …
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Comment #48332729
> Just releasing code to users would be a pretty serious abrogation of creditor rights. Would it, if legally required at the point of sale of the good the source code is based on a…
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Comment #48332711
If they did that, people would notice, it would be talked about, and it would be factored into (some) people's decisions on whether the game was worth the price. That's the market …
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Comment #48332619
Of which year? GTA6 has been in development so long they could miss that period slightly in a year and decide to wait for the next year and polish it up and they likely wouldn't ru…
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Comment #48332600
> So, the company makes the promise "we'll have ready by November". They make this promise in April. Make smaller promises but make them more often, and shit changes more often. Be…
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Comment #48332548
Definitely flying too close to Poe's law for some.
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Comment #47809602
I think maybe how you are conceptualizing design and how the GP meant it are not in agreement, and if you came to agreement on what it meant you wouldn't really disagree about the …