ImplyingImplications @ ImplyingImplications @lemmy.ca

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Thank you. It makes me lose hope for the future of humanity everytime I read comments saying we should remake the mistakes of our past. If we had nukes in 1914, the world would have ended because the Archduke of Austria was shot.

The Archduke of Austria, a title that doesn't exist anymore, was the heir to rule Austria-Hungary, a country that doesn't exist anymore. He was killed by a Bosnian because he didn't like being a part of Austria-Hungary. Bosnia would later become a part of Yugoslavia, a country that doesn't exist anymore. How many nukes would have been launched to save these meaningless titles and borders?

Wikipedia says she has released 25 singles and 3 albums since Friday and none of them even got close to the same success. Having rich parents must be nice.

A child will ruin your future! Why aren't you having children?

From the point of view of a single player, you're a cog in the machine. You're paying to have a second job. From a meta point of view, the game generates a history similar to real life history. Clans conquer large areas of the world before a revolution/war results in another clan taking its place.

It might not be the engine. Some companies just don't care much about optimization when they can just tell their players to buy better hardware.

Take GTA5 for example. It had a notoriously long load screen when starting up. Ranging from 2 minutes to 10 minutes depending on the read speeds of your storage drive. A modder ended up finding the problem. The code to load up the items in the game opened and read a file, but there was a bug that caused it to read through the entire file for each item loaded. The file was being read thousand of times. The modder changed one line of code and the loading time was reduced significantly. This was a bug that plagued GTA5 for years, caused by a single line of code, that the company didn't fix because their fix was to buy better hardware.

Do you not keep a 6-sided die next to your microwave? I thought everyone did that...

The Queen's face and name has been on everything for decades. There are Canadians in their 70s who never knew anything different. That's just the way things were. It was tradition. That's how I saw it anyways. Anyone who complained about it was just complaining about a symbolic action we've all been doing for generations. Nobody is actually swearing their life to the queen--it's just a tradition. Then she died.

Now some random old guy's face and name is going to be on everything. If we're going to change everything anyways, then why not change it to something different? The argument that was seen as a small complaint before now makes a lot of sense. If we're changing the words to our oath anyways, then why not change them to words we can all agree on?

What is in the Charter is the right to safety and that seems to be what the defendants are arguing. That the prohibition is creating a safety issue and is therefore a Charter violation.

Valve wrote literal research papers on player experience and level design. The stuff they came up with have just become the norm in other games. For example, Valve found that players never look up without a reason to. They came up with ways to get the player to look up without directly telling them to with level design choices. Things like rays of light coming in from above, or ropes hanging from the ceiling.

Unless the rules have changed, scamming players wasn't only allowed but actively encouraged. The theme of the game is unregulated hyper space capitalism where players have little to no built-in protection from each other.

Groups can hide bases in space and players from rival groups would attempt to join up in order to find the coordinates and the best times to attack. Sometimes going as far as hanging out with the other players irl to gain their trust.

Market traders would claim to be running mutual funds that you could buy into and receive huge returns when in reality it was a Ponzi scheme.

Players would offer high paying contracts to ship an item to a player owned base. Once another player accepted the contract they'd be denied entry to the base forcing them to fail the contract and pay a cancellation fee.

In every way except for income and exchange rate. If you're converting most of the money you earn into Rupees and sending it to India, America is the better choice.

When looking up why he went to jail I also saw an article about how he's Russian and has complained that "politics" (sanctions) have taken his paycheque from him. Apparently that didn't go over too well, especially from Ukrainian devs who said "politics" have taken their loved ones from them.

Context: in 2020 he accidentally killed someone in a motorcycle accident. He has since been released.

The first round was the only hope Tyson had. By the third round he was just standing there eating punches. The fight ended with Tyson landing something like 18 punches in an 18 minute fight.

Hopefully people remember and learn from the Australian government who allowed water to be traded like stocks. The idea was that farmers and companies that needed water most would pay for water rights from people who didn't need it.

In practice it lead to mega rich foreigners buying up all the water rights in Australia and preventing anyone from using them which created artificial scarcity and drove up prices. These mega rich foreigners then sold Australians their own water back to them at exorbitant prices.

Steven Hassan was a former member of the Moonies cult who obtained a PhD in psychology after being deprogrammed and has written books on the psychology of cult recruiting. Interestingly, he points out that the same tactics are often used by organizations that aren't cults. I highly recommend reading one of his books!

Mike Tyson once said "Social media made y'all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it." There are things people would only say behind a keyboard.

It can be hard not to get upset over mean comments but I try to remember I have hundreds of pleasant Interactions with people daily and I shouldn't put so much weight on the few negative interactions with random internet people.

Functional Programming Theory: 500 pages of lambda calculus and endofunctors

Functional Programming Practice: Quicksort

Unfortunately the Jones Act means shipping from Hawaii to the continental US requires the use of a shipping vessel constructed in the US, flying the US flag, and entirely crewed by US citizens which makes the shipping costs expensive as fuck.