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For the human players, the map has a data layer where every tile has a number. Tiles not on the track are 0 and tiles along the course are numbered in ascending order. The game tra…

That's mine! :-) I still play fairly frequently. Just this week we had a gathering of 7 people, playing MMv3 all on one big screen, with modified levels burned to a CDROM, using a …

Sounds like they're thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drax_Power_Station (200 miles from London, but burns "biomass" and powers 6% of the uk)

So what do you mean by "It is VR-ready"? You plan to add VR in the future?

floorplanner.com does not appear to support VR (as far as I can make out)

I visited the website in my Quest 3 VR headset's browser and clicked "try it out", but was disappointed to not get it in VR. Did I miss a button or a link to get a VR demo? Very ex…

You are technically correct, but this is still a pointless argument to make. It's pretty easy to see that any finite machine isn't Turing Complete, because you just ask whether it …

Very much agree. Also, what's it for? None of these articles point to anything worthwhile that it's useful for.

EDIT: this was an attempt to get past the paywall, but looks like it's javascript driven, so this archived version breaks after a moment, unless you disable js https://web.archive.…

Probably not, but what can any individual do about it? It's very difficult to show monetary damages in order to actually sue

Yeah, I really agree with this I get lots of unsolicited "Microsoft Login" popups and even as a sophisticated user, there's no satisfactory way for me to establish whether this is …

UK shops do just that, for example milk in supermarkets is still sold in pints but labelled in metric due to EU laws.

Switching "brands" is a false choice when there are 100s of "brands" all owned by the same 4 conglomerates and all coordinating prices. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-i…

"greed"? The force that pushes back on corporate greed should be competition. The problem is the modern trend of consolidation, monopolisation and lack of proper competition.

You completely miss the point. The crypto key held by the EIDAS provider is not the weak link. They are very securely attesting ONLY that the signatory controlled a given email add…

http://achemicalhunger.com

Yes, a metaphor for doing it "even more". He means that they will be angry and will do more than just reverse the transaction: they will punish the merchant who fraudulently debite…

I think basisword is British (as am I). I think Uber came about because taxis in the US sucked. Over here we never had the same problems with no-shows or overcharging (I'm speaking…

What a horrible comment; totally without compassion or empathy; totally self-congratulating. What do you propose people who find themselves unhappily addicted to smartphones do? Ju…

Pretty weird "joke" or "a slightly funny hypothetical". It's a plausible but false explanation for an event people were trying to understand, posted to a programming forum. It feel…

I haven't seen this sort of nonsense for ages. That's not how the web or copyright works. Some workarounds: * Fetch the page in curl * Run this in the js console: `document.body.on…

There's a similar 1 page site for that problem: https://nohello.net/en/

No. Two influential tech thinkers that I admire and their views on Facebook / Meta: 1: Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/22/kropotkin-graeber/#zucker... 2: Jamie Zawins…

> If you operate on the assumption that all official data is false This is a strawman. It is possible to believe (and there is motive and opportunity in this case) that one "offici…

This is a good question. I think the answer is that it's difficult to define up-front what is illegitimate "online tracking" and what is legitimate tracking of users necessary for …