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My “cool off” comment was a bad pun too

Wherever I'm going, I'll be there to apply the formula. I'll keep the secret intact. It's simple arithmetic. It's a story problem. If a new car built by my company leaves Chicago traveling west at 60 miles per hour, and the rear differential locks up, and the car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside, does my company initiate a recall? You take the population of vehicles in the field (A) and multiple it by the probable rate of failure (B), then multiply the result by the average cost of an out-of-court settlement (C). A times B times C equals X. This is what it will cost if we don't initiate a recall. If X is greater than the cost of a recall, we recall the cars and no one gets hurt. If X is less than the cost of a recall, then we don't recall.

Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

I’m sorry too. my stupid jokes in response to yours earlier were just me taking advantage of bad fan puns but others seem to have jumped on the downvote bandwagon.

How would you overcome the data source trust issue? In open data collection you either fingerprint the data to ensure validity or you anonymize the data to provide security, but striking the balance between the two seems like the biggest of hurdles in an effort like this.

The risk of the data being invalid seems as risky as the privacy implications in this case.

You seem a bit stuffy. Might need to cool off.

When people pay a large amount of money for something that means they wanted the thing more another thing. Money just provides the method to defer value transfer.

When the person paying the money is rich, the other thing they are foregoing is typically not a life necessity. When the person is poor, however, it typically is.

I think the joke blew right past you.

It’s a de-googled spyware app in case you’re looking to diversify your personal information loss portfolio across multiple firms.

I appreciate the vote of confidence but to be clear I just set it up on auto-reinvest for 24 months. There’s an initial setup every two years but the rest is mindless.

Maybe you’re right though. I maintain a non-trivial amount of data in my password manager to ensure I always have a centralized place to begin the hunt for information.

I find a T-bill ladder works best for me. I keep half my emergency savings in 4 week bills. Given that my emergency savings is intended to sustain me for months, I can easily access the back half of my savings over the course of 4 weeks as each bill expires, returning another 12.5% of my emergency savings to me.

And in a worst case scenario where I can’t access the front half of my savings due to a bank run or other failure, I am only a week or so away from getting access to some part of my savings.

Surprised more people aren’t aware of Montague.

https://www.montaguebikes.com/

Okay, but then by that logic a person making only $20k would break even at about an hour.

Are you suggesting that someone making $20k should be spending $200/mo on Claude?

It works over TCP too. No need for radio hijinx.

So you basically eliminate futzing around with the hard parts until you understand the reticulum network itself.

Basically work your way down the OSI model instead of working your way up it.

More like “we need to lower median salary”

How many folks within five to ten years of retirement do you talk to? If you’re surrounded by people under 50, you probably wouldn’t hear much about it.

> the government is captured by rich crime-loving assholes

It’s funny how fast average joe complains when a lack of economic growth slows down their 401k’s though…

Edit: Apparently I’m surrounded by non-standard Joe

The Vision Pro was a big bet that failed. But they tried.

If some language conveys meaning successfully, it ultimately doesn’t matter what the rules are.

Doesn’t matter. They’ll be pre-pardoned.

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5829203-presidential...

Yes but can it do any color a mantis shrimp would like?

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp

GP was discussing the overall name “nasa force”, not the wording of the job postings

Why would the president that created space force want to screw with it? Was there some recent bad blood or something else I missed?

The ability for audio processing to figure out spelling from context, especially with regards to acronyms that are pronounced as words, leads me to believe there’s potential for a more intelligent spell check preprocess using a cheaper model.

I suspect even typos have an impact on how the model functions.

I wonder if there’s a pre-processor that runs to remove typos before processing. If not, that feels like a space that could be worked on more thoroughly.

Meanwhile my LTT commuter backpack, while expensive, did not get worse on purpose. It’s so good I’ve considered getting their full size backpack as well.

https://www.enlightenment.org/ Seems down at the moment.

Coincidence, or collateral hug?

Without an archive link I think 90% of these comments will be in response to the title only.

Are you willing to pay $.27 for that perspective? Sounds like we have a market!

> I truly don't understand how the same folks…

Why do you think it’s the same folks? People tend to be louder when they don’t agree with something, and many topics will divide a community mostly in half. The end result is that you will more than likely hear complaints and subtle digs/insults no matter what happens.

The "better than X%" of players seems way off. If I get zero, somehow still better than 32% of players? and 25 planets is >99% of players?

The dotted line starting wide and slowly shrinking to the real orbit is a great touch. It makes the quick/fast/blazing/insane moves harder and more satisfying when they work. The angles encourage skips frequently enough to feel good.

I think the only improvement I would make to the look is perhaps the background. I still think the cyberwave aesthetic works and isn't played out quite yet, especially on mobile. But maybe instead of a boring flat grid, some very faint parallax points moving across the background might work better to give the game a bit more depth.

The pause->restart flow is way faster than clicking the restart button at the bottom of the screen. If your intent is to capture the end of every game to advertise the upcoming mobile game, then you might want to capture that method of restart as well.

Great game, thanks!