reinei

@reinei@lemmy.world
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And that's the thing:

Assuming it did, you couldn't see it approach until it hit you because it's moving at the speed of light! It could also have happened, but just super far away such that it will never reach us due to expansion between its origin point and us being faster than c!

Also just because the universe is frickin old doesn't mean it is statistically bound to have happened. There are plenty of ways of making it even more astronomically unlikely but still possible...

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So you are basically trying to humblebrag to everyone here that you already achieved a fucks-given-count of 0 for this app?

Impressive, if not a little underhanded. But still very impressive!

Except a kid like that automatically has a free pass for eternally being pissed about their father and their father before them not also having had that name so they could be "... the third'!

Whaat‽ You mean auto downloading and executing foreign JavaScript in a users webpage from some server/CDN I might not even know myself as an ad company could be an attack vector? Never!

(This mostly for those people who may not know that some [most? Dunno don't have a source for this] ad networks literally allow advertisers to inject small chunks of html into pages for "more interactive/better ads"!!)

And then there are devs/games like Nolla/Noita which specifically included a nice little message for data miners which asked them to keep all the gained secrets a secret until a certain date with a reward for both them and the community if they did and who would have guessed: they did! And now they are immortalized inside the games credits!

Okay what the hell did I just read?

From my very very rough and cursory glance though: wouldn't this also likely be infringed by games such as Genshin Impact for their Auto "fuse" (aka enhancement) selection mechanic or does this patent have some more nuanced/specific thing which everyone else did not implement to skirt around it?

Not quite, for Java you still need the Factory part at the end!

And yet for content I can be reasonably sure is actually human generated (read: niche enough to not have been flooded to the point I no longer can trust the "usual"/"big" sites) I might consider paying for server costs a little.

So do I understand correctly that a certain hox gene is activated in basically all cells which are in the "domain" of a certain vertebrae and they all activate some subset of homeobox genes which in combination with the original hox gene cause them to start turning into all the different parts associated with that vertebrae (so organs and other structures)?

Would we then need an entirely new hox gene to produce even a single gill? (I know you basically just laid out most of a response to this question.) Because I would assume although the exact point at which the development of our arms and legs begins is part of the whole hox gene "superstructure", but couldn't we 'basically just' highjack this same system and duplicate this gene to produce at least a single gill in the region where the current hox gene for our neck is expressed?

Long story short: what is the biggest reason why we can't just hack into a later part of the sequence and continue on from there with what you said?

Or would your proposed plan also just end up like this in the final product and you laid it out like this because it's already the most viable route into this mess? 😅

No no, I think selfcest wouldn't work to create a truly Christian baby...

Uff this started out for me as being "easy! Minecraft, Factorio and a third one!"

And then quickly and only devolved into an abyss of deliberation...

  • Do I take EU4+DLC+Anbennar because then I would finally have an excuse to actually learn and play this damn game? (Plus having base game and Anbennar basically doubles the replayability)
  • Do I take VintageStory so I can finally learn to actually play it well and start creating meaningful mods for it?
  • Should I take Noita or Caves of Qud? Should they be replacements for DF?
  • Is either of Civ V or Civ VI replayable about for me for this much time?

And from there the more basic questions:

  • Does any of the three games need to be entertaining enough to basically always run or could/should it suffice to simply rotate between them?
  • How much time would I reasonably want to spend playing vs creating?
  • Also am I allowed to spend some time basically daydreaming every day (aka the games are meant more to actually keep me sane rather than get people to recommend good games they have given thought and time to?) or should they/would I want them to keep me occupied basically 15/7?

So yeah, Minecraft probably still stands as there are way too many mods and building ideas for it to (probably?) become truly stale in a lifetime!

And Factorio because I still want to actually finish an AB run for once, or a SE run, or ... You get the idea. Buut the third slot would likely be a make or break for this whole endeavor and now it's back to square one again!

Also the way worse option of we had work often comes into play from people who lived in the Soviet Union and now have a stable job: everybody had to work or you were homeless/starved! Nobody could slouch off of my hard earned tax money and live a comfy life!

Which is like, what? The bare minimum socialism a country could have aka "if you are out of work (hopefully temporarily but we'll see) we are at least not letting you starve completely/immediately" is somehow too much now‽

IANAL and this obviously won't happen (because it's one of if not the stupidest way to go about it right from the get go) but still:

They can literally demand any and all European ISPs block all their traffic, they can still raise the fees and if they don't pay accrue interest/late claims on it. Will this change anything? Not immediately, but the moment that company does anything the courts can reach they are in a whole lot of trouble.


Anyway besides this are there really companies that are so US centric that a European court can't (like really absolutely can't) reach them?

And I will continue to demand it should! But yeah, sadly it's not...

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Introversion habe so far pretty much only knocked out well written games afaik!

Too bad I also came too late to the party to buy the source code discs they sold at the end of its lifetime...

Nah even statistics is perfectly logical and right, but not because truth is absolute (there may be such a thing, but we definitely don't have access to it in that case. [At this time?]), but rather because math defined there to be a way in which all you derive from it is 'absolutely' true. It just might be 'absolutely' true in a system that isn't ours, or isn't useful for answering anything we want to ask...

Which is exactly what I am trying but the payment redirects to the humble store at the end and they always cancel the transaction with no helpful error message.

And since their "projected time to answer" currently is 7 days it'll still be a short while until I get that sweet cracktorio hit again 😅

I heard them called "bats" because they flap around between different groups and are associated with darkness thus "shady"!

Your likely looking for the app "Puzzles" ob Android or one of its desktop versions, I am not entirely sure if they are actually open source but there are at least some people's contributions and it not only has "Killer" sudoku but a whole bunch of additional options (as well as tons of other awesome puzzle/logic games)!

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Thanks for sharing this as well! I also just imaged a detached hand + short bit of lower arm pushing the ball (for which I did imagine it to be of a gray shiny metal slightly larger than the hand)!

And I also imaged a super plain square wooden table so when the questions about the person hit I was super confused wether or not this counted as aphantasia or not (because I am fairly certain that I don't have it...)

Wait which part? (Also don't get too explicit because NSFW and also that'll kill the fun)

Cause I can't currently imagine which part exactly you say is kinda like sand... (Granted in a bag)

Without the creators having any way to patch in even harder endgame content because you got too close to finishing it too!

Wait confirm shouldn't be on the right? Like I am 99% sure most windows pop-up/modal Dialogs had ok on the left and cancel on the right but I am not entirely sure about Linux (also factorio has them left to right as in "go back and go forward" but I dunno if that is RTL dependent...)

Except then you learn that even this "unchanging" sky changed A LOT from the distant past to today!

Like sure most stars where always visible in the sky (always being relative to homo sapiens looking up at the sky and being able to communicate with each other verbally) but their position might have been different...

Okay that's the first argument I could almost accept except typing this response I remember kg which is already one example of a unit getting something semi-special in that it always has its prefix with it!

But other than that good argument there ^^

So possesion and manufacturing of dangerous chemicals?

Except even the best specialty coffee I had (and trust me I had some good ones because a friend of mine went down that same rabbit hole you probably went down and wanted me to try) still had way too many acids in it which meant it tasted great until it again turned my entire mouth to ash and grey bitterness...

So in other words the "primary" taste/body of coffee can get really great, but it's still not worth the bitterness after.

Didn't one of the original devs die and his son "take over" for a last few polishing updates/as a memorial?

Or was that another "small" game series? 🙈

Welcome to Greece! No, not our modern Greece, the old timey write philosophical questions into the dirt with sticks and argue with your best homies about it kind of Greece!

Want to compute something? Hope you got all your steps in linear order so you don't have to remember too much in between other steps!

/s (but not really so I totally am on your side, original formulations of math problems are a pain...)

No don't listen to them!

Keikaku means cake! (Muffin to be precise, because we got the muffin button!)

Nah that's really not clear enough to shoehorn him in... I mean he still needs to be able to breathe!

Except most of those people who don't know enough to recover most likely also use the default "all your data are belong to OneDrive" and thus won't lose absolutely everything and no one group of livid people will both be livid enough and big enough at the same time for a lot to change...

I just straight up can't buy it without getting a gog account (or going the steam route which is rather not for DRN reasons) because humble just flat out refuses to verify any and all purchase attempts...

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Wait what? Are there actually elevators "programmed" this way‽ (can this behavior even be changed in the controller?)

Because I have never "tested" this behavior per se (I mean you mostly want your elevator to move anyway so you ideally remove the obstruction the first time it didn't fully close...)

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