Not to burst your bubble, but the usual eye-line is the back wall of the theatre - or higher, if you're playing a auditorium with a balcony. It's to make sure everyone can see your face. I can promise that he saw you,…
I only watched the first season of Picard (and, sadly, didn't like it much), but I got the impression that Stewart was acting feeble. I saw him on TV a few times (Graham Norton, the Oscars, maybe something else) around…
That's such a total misunderstanding of the US constitution that I'll assume you're not a USA-ian, and explain it in simple terms. In the USA the people are sovereign; they delegate their power to Congress, who are…
I like my Bosch dishwasher, too. Never connected it to wifi; never downloaded the app. It broadcasts a Bluetooth channel I wish I could turn off, but I've not seen any other ill effect. There's just no compelling…
I'm not arguing with your basic point - in fact, "but some people are better at expressing their intent in code than in prose" instantly occurred to me, as well - but why should "it's always possible to leave holes and…
Agree. For the drama of it, I'd move the end-date up to 1969, just to catch the moon landing. My great-grandfather learned to care for horses, and drive a wagon / buggy, and keenly remembered the first time he saw an…
If you go back further, 80-100 years ago every American city / town had functional public transit systems. The wide median strips on a couple of boulevards in my mother's hometown recall the street-car lines that she…
Does selecting inputs work? That's all I need from a TV. If anything, needing to sign in to use the native interface would be a bonus, because it'd prevent non-technical family members from accidently using it. "Babe,…
Free install by ADB, and Developer-moding once per device, not once per app / install? Yeah, OK. I don't quite get the outrage, then. Before you @ me, HN, I run GrapheneOS. I fully understand and practice "own your own…
This is not unique to humans. Animal behavior also emerges from the complexity of their interactions. Look at the "[duck] raised as a [chicken]" genre of videos, for instance. To return towards the subject of the…
Some banks can schedule transfers, but not payments. Or, not payments by specific routes. My credit union will cut a paper check and mail it to your bank (yes, that's seriously what they actually do), but can't schedule…
> Companies expect you to learn the ropes elsewhere and only show up when you're experienced. This is every industry - barring unionized trades with established apprenticeship pathways - over the past few decades.…
Ding ding ding! Here is a photo of a cigarette packet included in a Christmas box sent to every BEF (British Expeditionary Force) soldier in France in 1914. You can see that the back offers quite a lot of room for…
> an upper limit on the number of radio-emitting civilizations in the galaxy at any one time I think there's a time-value parameter in the Drake Equation that captures this.
I agree. To expand your point a bit, it seems to me that for any civilization to get to the point of developing AI it needs a resource distribution mechanism at least as efficient as capitalism. It's not impossible to…
> Who was ever writing on the back of cigarette packs? British officers planning trench raids in the front lines during WWI. Or, at least, that's where I've been told the expression originates. Really, though, is it…
Europe offers a useful counter-example. They (EU? Most countries? I don't know exactly, but it's immaterial) cap transaction fees, and there's absolutely no shortage of "ways to pay by card". In my experience there are,…
Size matters. WinCo is big enough to do that, because it's a chain and a brand, and people make a choice to go there despite knowing ahead of time that's how it works. (That said, the first time I went into a WinCo I…
All of that, and more broadly because FOSS developers are horrible about accepting advice or feedback from non-engineers, like designers or "normie" users. (Naturally speaking in broad terms, here; I'm sure some are…
Unless they've recently changed the deal, they'll be selling GOS out of the box. That was the announcement two or so years ago, and so far as I know nothing had changed.
The problem happened during the formation lap. They red-flagged the race and brought all the cars off the track. I don't know any more about the update mechanism than you do, but GP's theory is plausible.
Huge mistake! I loved Wave, and used it very successfully on one creative project. When I tried again, with some of the same people, we'd collectively burned all of our invite tokens and couldn't get any more, so we had…
I have yet to replace any of the LED bulbs I bought at Costco in 2013. I dunno who manufactured them, or what kind of unobtainium they're made from, or whether I will jinx them by talking about it, but they just... Keep…
That's a fair point. Fortunately, most games are short enough that you don't lose a lot of time when that happens. Mostly, though, I see a way I could have tweaked my card mix a bit to have made it work, so I want to…
Yeah, but that's what makes it such a good game, in my opinion. Ten or so years ago I played a lot with / against two friends. With other "deep"(-ish) games someone who's never played before never has even a remote…
Not to burst your bubble, but the usual eye-line is the back wall of the theatre - or higher, if you're playing a auditorium with a balcony. It's to make sure everyone can see your face. I can promise that he saw you,…
I only watched the first season of Picard (and, sadly, didn't like it much), but I got the impression that Stewart was acting feeble. I saw him on TV a few times (Graham Norton, the Oscars, maybe something else) around…
That's such a total misunderstanding of the US constitution that I'll assume you're not a USA-ian, and explain it in simple terms. In the USA the people are sovereign; they delegate their power to Congress, who are…
I like my Bosch dishwasher, too. Never connected it to wifi; never downloaded the app. It broadcasts a Bluetooth channel I wish I could turn off, but I've not seen any other ill effect. There's just no compelling…
I'm not arguing with your basic point - in fact, "but some people are better at expressing their intent in code than in prose" instantly occurred to me, as well - but why should "it's always possible to leave holes and…
Agree. For the drama of it, I'd move the end-date up to 1969, just to catch the moon landing. My great-grandfather learned to care for horses, and drive a wagon / buggy, and keenly remembered the first time he saw an…
If you go back further, 80-100 years ago every American city / town had functional public transit systems. The wide median strips on a couple of boulevards in my mother's hometown recall the street-car lines that she…
Does selecting inputs work? That's all I need from a TV. If anything, needing to sign in to use the native interface would be a bonus, because it'd prevent non-technical family members from accidently using it. "Babe,…
Free install by ADB, and Developer-moding once per device, not once per app / install? Yeah, OK. I don't quite get the outrage, then. Before you @ me, HN, I run GrapheneOS. I fully understand and practice "own your own…
This is not unique to humans. Animal behavior also emerges from the complexity of their interactions. Look at the "[duck] raised as a [chicken]" genre of videos, for instance. To return towards the subject of the…
Some banks can schedule transfers, but not payments. Or, not payments by specific routes. My credit union will cut a paper check and mail it to your bank (yes, that's seriously what they actually do), but can't schedule…
> Companies expect you to learn the ropes elsewhere and only show up when you're experienced. This is every industry - barring unionized trades with established apprenticeship pathways - over the past few decades.…
Ding ding ding! Here is a photo of a cigarette packet included in a Christmas box sent to every BEF (British Expeditionary Force) soldier in France in 1914. You can see that the back offers quite a lot of room for…
> an upper limit on the number of radio-emitting civilizations in the galaxy at any one time I think there's a time-value parameter in the Drake Equation that captures this.
I agree. To expand your point a bit, it seems to me that for any civilization to get to the point of developing AI it needs a resource distribution mechanism at least as efficient as capitalism. It's not impossible to…
> Who was ever writing on the back of cigarette packs? British officers planning trench raids in the front lines during WWI. Or, at least, that's where I've been told the expression originates. Really, though, is it…
Europe offers a useful counter-example. They (EU? Most countries? I don't know exactly, but it's immaterial) cap transaction fees, and there's absolutely no shortage of "ways to pay by card". In my experience there are,…
Size matters. WinCo is big enough to do that, because it's a chain and a brand, and people make a choice to go there despite knowing ahead of time that's how it works. (That said, the first time I went into a WinCo I…
All of that, and more broadly because FOSS developers are horrible about accepting advice or feedback from non-engineers, like designers or "normie" users. (Naturally speaking in broad terms, here; I'm sure some are…
Unless they've recently changed the deal, they'll be selling GOS out of the box. That was the announcement two or so years ago, and so far as I know nothing had changed.
The problem happened during the formation lap. They red-flagged the race and brought all the cars off the track. I don't know any more about the update mechanism than you do, but GP's theory is plausible.
Huge mistake! I loved Wave, and used it very successfully on one creative project. When I tried again, with some of the same people, we'd collectively burned all of our invite tokens and couldn't get any more, so we had…
I have yet to replace any of the LED bulbs I bought at Costco in 2013. I dunno who manufactured them, or what kind of unobtainium they're made from, or whether I will jinx them by talking about it, but they just... Keep…
That's a fair point. Fortunately, most games are short enough that you don't lose a lot of time when that happens. Mostly, though, I see a way I could have tweaked my card mix a bit to have made it work, so I want to…
Yeah, but that's what makes it such a good game, in my opinion. Ten or so years ago I played a lot with / against two friends. With other "deep"(-ish) games someone who's never played before never has even a remote…