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  1. Comment on Determinism and Back To The Future in ~talk

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    I think you're probably correct here, but I think that's also part main character syndrome "in this movie I'd obviously be Bill Murray, not some bystander". As well as the "this already happened,...

    That is, if you presented me the exact same option a million times with exactly the same conditions, I'd make the exact same choice.
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    For evidence of this, no one generally has a problem with the characters of groundhog day taking the same actions each day unless Bill Murray's character somehow influences them.

    I think you're probably correct here, but I think that's also part main character syndrome "in this movie I'd obviously be Bill Murray, not some bystander". As well as the "this already happened, so of course the outcome is deterministic" or maybe even "that's just the premise of the movie". I haven't heard anyone complain that timeloops like that aren't realistic either, and I'm pretty sure they don't think they happens. To summarize, I think you're right, but I don't find the evidence very strong.

  2. Comment on Determinism and Back To The Future in ~talk

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    If you believe in determinism, wouldn't "rationalize some way to motivate yourself to do things or 'choose' things" also be outside of your control? It's a bit ambiguous, but I assume you mean...

    If you believe in determinism, wouldn't "rationalize some way to motivate yourself to do things or 'choose' things" also be outside of your control? It's a bit ambiguous, but I assume you mean "You have to rationalize..." as "your life will suck if you don't rationalize...", rather than "the quantum state of things will inevitably end up in you rationalizing...".

  3. Comment on Reducing Europe's nuclear energy sector was 'strategic mistake', EU chief Ursula von der Leyen says in ~society

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    They campaigned on solar and wind being unreliable because of clouds and night and stuff. Also from what I understand nuclear isn't really cheap, but the whole thing is so politicized (sp?) so I'm...

    They campaigned on solar and wind being unreliable because of clouds and night and stuff. Also from what I understand nuclear isn't really cheap, but the whole thing is so politicized (sp?) so I'm not certain.

  4. Comment on Cave Creeps - my first Itch game! in ~games

  5. Comment on Cave Creeps - my first Itch game! in ~games

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    Ok, here goes =) I tried it on mobile first, for some reason the right thumbstick felt very unreliable, it'd just shooting and not continue for a long while until it started again. This may be...

    Ok, here goes =)

    I tried it on mobile first, for some reason the right thumbstick felt very unreliable, it'd just shooting and not continue for a long while until it started again. This may be related to the small bat shots being really hard to see on my phone, but I'm not sure that's only it. That said, I really liked that the bat shots interrupted my own shooting when I saw them. It made getting hit much more impactful and obvious.

    The game played much better with a proper gamepad on my pc. The two above problems were not noticable at all then. I think Zap were actually fairly balanced on pc with a controller, although I only tried it once. The Queen however were not balanced. The start was ok, but once I aggregated a critical mass I didn't even need to play. I stopped playing somewhere between 4-5k points having a blubbering mass of little friendly critters around me, no enemy at all on the screen. At that point I started eating my food and slightly after 8k points I died having done nothing while eating. I really like the little green critters though, but maybe limit the amount of them, either by limiting their lifetime or just a strict limit killing the oldest one when getting more than X critters. There was also what felt like an abundance of powerups during the Queen run, meaning that I early on I could just heal whenever I was getting low on hp.

    To sum up some easy changes I think would make the game more balanced

    • Bigger shots from the bats to be easier seen on mobile.
    • Try doing something with the right thumbstick on mobile, if you're not on 4.7 they added builtin virtual thumbstick support that you could try.
    • Spawn less powerups the longer the run becomes (or if you want to be fancy, maybe diminishable returns on move and attack speed).
    • Add a max lifetime to Queens critters.
    2 votes

  6. Comment on Cave Creeps - my first Itch game! in ~games

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    Impressive for a first project, do you want feedback? Either way, you should be very proud of your accomplishment. :)

    Impressive for a first project, do you want feedback? Either way, you should be very proud of your accomplishment. :)

    3 votes

  7. Comment on The first multi-behavior brain upload in ~science

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    While I think you're right I think people want some utility (perceived utility) out of it so it depends on what it's used for. And I'm pretty sure that animal testing on cosmetics is down by a...

    While I think you're right I think people want some utility (perceived utility) out of it so it depends on what it's used for. And I'm pretty sure that animal testing on cosmetics is down by a buttload, at least in some parts of the world, it has definitely affected legislation.

    That said I also think we are very visual when it comes to our relation/dislike of animal cruelty so I'm not sure that there'd be any traction for banning/boycotting pure simulation regardless of if there's actual sentience there on a similar level to the actual animals.

    3 votes

  8. Comment on Reducing Europe's nuclear energy sector was 'strategic mistake', EU chief Ursula von der Leyen says in ~society

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    In retrospect it would have been better to increase the capacity of the alternatives first, and only then reducing the nuclear power once the capacity is there. That said, at least in sweden the...

    In retrospect it would have been better to increase the capacity of the alternatives first, and only then reducing the nuclear power once the capacity is there. That said, at least in sweden the last government scrapped several huge windpower projects in favor of building out nuclear which is much farther from implementation.

    19 votes

  9. Comment on Engineers risk their lives to repair Ukraine power grid in ~society

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    Wow, that was really something, sounds like a fantastic man and Engineer. I hope they can find a good replacement.

    Wow, that was really something, sounds like a fantastic man and Engineer. I hope they can find a good replacement.

    6 votes

  10. Comment on What’s your preferred work monitor setup? in ~comp

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    Depends a bit on what I'm doing, but at the moment I'm really enjoying a single ultrawide monitor with Gnome/PaperWM. I stash away spotify, signal, etc.. on another virtual desktop. And then I...

    Depends a bit on what I'm doing, but at the moment I'm really enjoying a single ultrawide monitor with Gnome/PaperWM. I stash away spotify, signal, etc.. on another virtual desktop. And then I have room for 4+ windows (3 terminals+firefox atm). PaperWM has some really nice keybindings that makes focusing on my current task very easy, I don't mess a lot with window layout, mostly just making the windows wider/smaller or rearranging their order as needed.

    At work I have three monitors, but I prefer the single ultrawide at home even though I technically have more screenspace at work. It's just so much more messy managing multiple monitors.

    2 votes

  11. Comment on Device that can extract 1,000 liters of clean water a day from desert air revealed by 2025 Nobel Prize winner in ~enviro

  12. Comment on Anthropic rejects latest US Pentagon offer: ‘We cannot in good conscience accede to their request’ in ~tech

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    I think that saying "llms are the wrong tool for the job" has a much bigger chance of succeeding than "we think this is unethical". So strategically it would be bad to not include that argument...

    I think that saying "llms are the wrong tool for the job" has a much bigger chance of succeeding than "we think this is unethical". So strategically it would be bad to not include that argument regardless of the actual reason. Doesn't have to be just one of the reasons either, it can be both.

    8 votes

  13. Comment on You are being misled about renewable energy technology in ~enviro

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    Then I think it's probably a good thing under these circumstances that it's so far away from the polar circle. =)

    Then I think it's probably a good thing under these circumstances that it's so far away from the polar circle. =)

  14. Comment on You are being misled about renewable energy technology in ~enviro

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    As luck would have it, in Sweden and I assume Norway, the same areas where you get little to no solar are the areas where hydro is abundant. Not sure about Finland though. And this might not be...

    As luck would have it, in Sweden and I assume Norway, the same areas where you get little to no solar are the areas where hydro is abundant. Not sure about Finland though. And this might not be true for all of the world, just saying that it's probably not a huge problem for europe specifically.

    2 votes

  15. Comment on Request for help: Backing up NASA public databases in ~space

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    Thanks for the update, that sounds like very good news for a change.

    Thanks for the update, that sounds like very good news for a change.

    1 vote

  16. Comment on Ponderings on unicode support on the site, re: punycode, tags, etc in ~tildes

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    Just throwing it out there that you don't have to have only one representation of the data (e.g. tag), it's quite possible to use one thing for matching/searching and displaying something else. I...

    Just throwing it out there that you don't have to have only one representation of the data (e.g. tag), it's quite possible to use one thing for matching/searching and displaying something else. I don't know the code here, but maybe in this case you could keep the xn--gckvb8fzb in the db, and then substitute it for マリウス in the presentation layer.

    8 votes

  17. Comment on Some of my family members aren't convinced that ICE isn't overstepping and that they are just deporting people that broke the law, can you help me share unbiased links that proves they are? in ~society

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    I think this is a great suggestion, it also forces them to introspect (or at least pushes them in that direction) to think about "am I just digging my heels in, or do I have good reason for my...

    I think this is a great suggestion, it also forces them to introspect (or at least pushes them in that direction) to think about "am I just digging my heels in, or do I have good reason for my position"? Tbh I think this would probably be good advice for anyone to self-reflect on when you're feeling that you're in a conflict of some sort.

    6 votes

  18. Comment on After 1,600 years underwater, remains of the Lighthouse of Alexandria emerge in ~humanities.history

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    You might be right. Fire is usually 'eld' in Swedish, but I think the rest of your reasoning works. I have a hard time coming up with any modern uses of 'fyr' in Swedish that doesn't come from the...

    You might be right. Fire is usually 'eld' in Swedish, but I think the rest of your reasoning works. I have a hard time coming up with any modern uses of 'fyr' in Swedish that doesn't come from the lighthouse though.

    4 votes

  19. Comment on After 1,600 years underwater, remains of the Lighthouse of Alexandria emerge in ~humanities.history

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    Readly cool, It's 'fyr' in Swedish, so I guess that's the same as well

    Readly cool, It's 'fyr' in Swedish, so I guess that's the same as well

    3 votes

  20. Comment on What science says we’ve been getting wrong about exercise in ~health

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    I know I've been recommended to either go for full run 3 times a week or don't bother exercising at all by a professional, because it will give nothing. I've never believed it. I've also been told...

    I know I've been recommended to either go for full run 3 times a week or don't bother exercising at all by a professional, because it will give nothing. I've never believed it. I've also been told that walking for 20 minutes to work instead of taking the bus is meaningless from a person with serious interest in exercise. That stuff can kill motivation for sure. I've also been told that if I want to start meditating, I only need to do it for 40 minutes every morning. I don't think that person understand what it means to have kids.

    Just saying that even if you start out motivated, other people giving bad advice with good intentions can really break that down.

    13 votes