EmilyHughes

This is impressive but I don't get it. All that work and you have a game written in JS of all things. Why not write it in a desktop language und port it to JS. Now this will always need a browser to run, feels like a waste of time to me.

Whats so crazy about it though? Intuitively it seems very likely to me that all possible states of 2028 would fit into a 64 bit number.

4x4 = 16 tiles, 64/16 = 4 bits, 16 powers of two = space for 0-65536 per tile.

So going up to only 2048 would leave some room even.

This still of programming does not adhere to MVC though, you can't ever swap out the frontend because it's basically merged to the backend and I suspect complex to debug simmilar to JSF.

I miss these kind of applications. Nowadays everything is flat tons of wasted space, unresponsive and eats 300mb ram because it runs on electron. Just compare windows 11 task manager to windows 2000 task manager.

Not at all. Any song on youtube uploaded in the last 5-10 years is as good as a 320 kbit mp3. Why would it be with the bandwidth anyone has to today?

This came out yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs0-8ZwZgwI

Apparently in germany they caught a pedo like that. Watching certain nodes and the sizes of files that are sent between them to identify the admin of a pedophile image sharing forum. Took them 1 1/2 years to identify the specific person, but they got him.

Considering this I would imagine it's pretty safe for the average user since they have to specifically target you for a long time, however it seems like with enough effort it's possible to identify someone even without Clearnet slip-ups like it was the case with Silkroad.

Once they have your address they will just storm your house and catch you on the computer, then you are done for.

yeah kids are gonna love this

1. Doesn't look like fluid at all 2. Goes down to 40 FPS on my computer

Granted this is web, but I think I can simulate that many particles with a simple loop in java on 60 FPS.

How is this a trick question? Maybe I am dumb but I would have no idea how to solve this.

UTF-8 is downward compatible to ASCII, so anything that is just a standard character (like every character in this comment) is just a byte.

I am on the fence with this, maybe there should be research to create safer alternatives to the illegal recreational drugs. They are trying to make amphetamines and opioids that are safer and not as recreational for medical purposes. Why not make it safe and try to keep the recreational aspect of it. I am sure this can't ever be achieved 100%, but lots of people would probably rather buy some pure milder stimulant instead of random powder from a street dealer. Same with cannabis, the THC content on legal plants should have a limit on the THC content.

For the psychedelics this is very true, I enjoy mostly low doses. But I am not so sure about the MDMA. If I didn't have enough to get "over the hill" it always felt it's about to come on now but it never does it's just a very dissapointing limbo state. Even worse, redosing after that won't get you the full effect either for that night (maybe because some serotonin was already depleted at that point).

That might be, but then don't wonder if people look at you strange if you tell them you got burnout from a job where you never met any colleagues and didn't get paid either.

If you don't get paid to do something it's not fun, how about you just stop doing it?

I disagree. I loved that there were no loading times. I always thought PS1 games felt cheap and slow compared to N64 games. Nobody really used the CD space for game content, they just filled it up with ugly prerendered cutscenes, which I didnt care about.

Going by how long ReactOS is developed and how unuseable it still is I wonder if the time would haven been better spent decompiling windows 2000 and structuring the code. Once that is done you have a solid base to modify and modernize the OS however you want.

How about you stop caring that much about proving others right.

Honestly the only thing extasy did for me was let me rave for hours to electronic music at clubs. It also opened the door for other chemical drugs which led to benders and hangovers that were so bad people who only drink alcohol have no idea are even possible.

Granted, I never did it in a quiet "therapeutic" environment, I would have thought of it as a waste because I considered the music and dancing an integral part of the experience, it's a pretty recreational and hedonistic substance after all.

Another big reason is that the limitations actually make you more creative. I learned producing EDM in the FL Studio era and in a sense it's a godsend you don't have to buy all that expensive hardware. On the other hand modern DAWs give you so much freedom its somewhat exhausting. The entry level to produce technical genres like DnB are extremely high nowadays.

I also use Bitwig. I switched from Ableton because it was cheaper. It's objectively a better DAW from a technical standpoint.

But I have to say the sounds and plugins it comes with are not on par with ableton, some presets really have me scratching my head and it took forever until they gave us a decent convolution reverb. For the longest time I was not able to get a simple sine-wave out of the synthesizers it comes with (wtf?). It's also worth mentioning that back in the days this DAW was promoted with a feature that lets you collaborate with others over the network, now 10 years later there is no more mention of this feature and I think most forgot it was even planned. Recently they tried to sell you stock-plugins for a premium but back-pedaled quickly. That is just ridicoulous after I sunk hundreds of dollars in their update plans.

That being said I still recommend it.

I guess because it's nothing more than a transparent window that is reading out information about other windows and changing its own position. So pretty basic WinAPI calls.

Why is never a binary provided?

Me and 99% of users won't check the code for malicious behaviour so I might as well run a binary from the web.

>if you believe that e.g. the machine elves some people see on DMT are real, there are all sorts of experiments you could do to test that

Well you can't even proof that any human you encounter in a sober state is "real". Scienctific theories are predictions and don't tell you anything about metaphysical truth. For all you know you could be plugged into the matrix, right?

2 Points to consider.

1. Brain scan shows that the brain activity is acutally decreasing on psychedelics.

2. Most people hold a hidden assumption that the sober state is more truthful, which really can't be proven.

But it's the job of the government to enforce that via warnings and fines, not private entities sueing for "emotional damage".

The IP alone is almost useless anyway unless it can be tied to other information you've given up to google already - in which case you can't tell you are that cautious with your browsing to begin with.

In Austria there was recently a case of a women sueing thousands of businesses for using google fonts on their website. The reasoning was that the fonts are hosted on google, so by visiting these sites they sent her IP to google without her knowing (what is meant is just the font download via the browser from google servers, nothing was actually "sent"). Apparently she visited these thousands of business websites one by one and the infringement on her privacy caused her so much emotional damage that she wanted to be compensated for it. The women herself remained anonymous but last I heard the lawyer that worked with her on this got his tires slashed and threatend with violence.

I was just exaggerating with the presets but I think it's nothing special. Never seen the movie so maybe it fits the atmosphere but just on it's own its a bit bland.

Extrawelt - 8000: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMDrGTZ6uEA

Minilogue - The Leopard (Extrawelt Remix): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnTg4vzli5s

Extrawelt - 8000: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMDrGTZ6uEA

Minilogue - The Leopard (Extrawelt Remix): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnTg4vzli5s

I imagine doing enterprise level java work with vim is a nightmare.

No, that track sounds like random presets thrown together. If it were uploaded by a nobody to soundcloud nobody would care about it.

I think it's fair to compare this track to techno, because that what it tries to sound like. If you listen to some cutting edge techno/minimal music you will easily find more atmospheric, nuanced and better produced songs than this. Just my opinion.