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droptablemain··on Using any C++ library in Godot
Assuming it's a 2D game, why not just use something like SFML to build your own simple RTS engine at that point?

Seems like carrying a lot of Godot baggage around for nothing.

droptablemain··on CSS-Tricks in Limbo
Is this an article about CSS-Tricks or a hit piece on DHH? Hard to tell.
droptablemain··on Oracle’s 6am layoff emails hit staff amid new wave of cuts
I assumed the reason was Starfleet Academy was complete slop
droptablemain··on Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
You do not need an account to access specific X posts/tweets. You do need an account to read all replies.
droptablemain··on Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
What's the point of such a service? It sounds like performative nonsense.
droptablemain··on Got kicked out of uni and had the cops called for a social media website I made
I guess I'm too old for this sh*t, the whole thing just sounds terribly juvenile.
droptablemain··on EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
Not even a little bit.
droptablemain··on Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued
No, not millions. Billions. Like $70+ billion.
droptablemain··on The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video]
Interesting. Assuming it did not use DirectDraw -- that's often a major pain point.
droptablemain··on The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video]
This is pretty much the experience of trying to play any game from the '90s on modern hardware. It always requires a bit of tinkering and usually a patch from the modding community. Funniest one I've found is Fallout Tactics. The random encounter frequency is somehow tied to clock speed so you'll basically get hit with random encounters during map travel about once every half second.
droptablemain··on Los Angeles ends strange rite of passage with new fridge law
I've lived in LA ~12 years in a couple of different apartments. In all my apartment hunting I've never encountered a unit that doesn't come with a refrigerator.
droptablemain··on Why I'm Leaving Harvard
-> or take horse medicines

Guessing you're referring to the long-debunked notion that Ivermectin is purely "horse medicine." A cursory search (which you apparently have never bothered to do in 5 years) reveals it's been approved by the FDA for human use since 1987 and is on the WHO's list of essential medicines.

droptablemain··on Instacart reaches into your pocket and lops a third off your dollars
I don't need to use him. I know plenty of poors who routinely shoot themselves in the foot IRL.

Cognitive ability/IQ is actually a better metric for predicting poverty than socioeconomic background BTW.

droptablemain··on Instacart reaches into your pocket and lops a third off your dollars
You make dangerous assumptions about me in order to justify your preexisting view of poverty and socioeconomic mobility.

My background is very poor. Food stamps, raised by single mom, whole nine yards. For most of my 20s I existed in the very same cycle of bad financial decisions that many other poor people engage in.

My situation had approximately a 0% chance of changing until the behavior changed. That doesn't mean behavioral changes are always enough, but they are the absolute bare minimum and an excellent starting point.

People I still know in bad situations refuse to acknowledge this and refuse to critically examine their decisions. They do nothing but avoid, avoid, avoid and hope for a miraculous windfall.

droptablemain··on Instacart reaches into your pocket and lops a third off your dollars
Have you ever watched Caleb Hammer's "Financial Audit?"

People in dire financial situations very often have a history of making bad decisions with money.

Personally I do not struggle with money/budgeting but the only time I will ever use something like InstaCart is if I am sick and can't leave the house.

droptablemain··on Man Asks $75M for 'Lambo.com,' Court Gives It to Lamborghini for Free
It's state-facilitated theft from an individual to a $20 billion multinational corporation.

Sure he tried to do something bad but he should've been compensated a fair market value for the domain.

droptablemain··on Django 6
Hah, I used this a few years back on a project. Great work!
droptablemain··on The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia
The famous little jingle "shave and a haircut, two bits"

Most people today have no clue what a "bit" is.

I imagine the future will hold something similar for the penny in all the idioms and cultural phrases we have. What the hell is a penny?

droptablemain··on James Watson has died
And why wouldn't that be plausible given effectively all available cognitive data support this conclusion?

Of course I'm being facetious. I know why. No one wants to ponder that because of the stigma, so everyone puts their head in the sand and avoids the uncomfortable.

droptablemain··on How do we stop AI-generated 'poverty porn' fake images?
I would much rather live in a society that tolerates and shakes off a bit of racism than one that jails people for offensive memes.
droptablemain··on How do we stop AI-generated 'poverty porn' fake images?
You can't police people into not being racist. People have always been racist/xenophobic to some extent and always will be. It's cultural conflict and tribal in nature.
droptablemain··on Is Sora the beginning of the end for OpenAI?
to be fair we also got Stephen Hawking bungee jumping | snowboarding | wrestling | drag racing | ice skating | bull-fighting | half-pipe
droptablemain··on Autism should not be seen as single condition with one cause, say scientists
No one proclaimed that.

They announced that Tylenol could be linked to neurological development issues, including autism.

droptablemain··on Bluesky Issues Warning to Any Users Celebrating Charlie Kirk Assassination
Right now seemingly all of Bluesky is in a frenzy trying to insinuate that this killer is somehow a Republican or "MAGA." Or a Groyper.

The level of cognitive dissonance when people lock themselves in echo chambers is truly astonishing.

You can literally scroll for hours, thousands of posts of people making the same sorts of outrageous and deflective claims.

https://bsky.app/profile/trending.bsky.app/feed/412019139

droptablemain··on Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)
My understanding is that the current "Big Beautiful Bill" reverses this
droptablemain··on The Dire Wolf Is Back
Be neat if they opened a theme park on a remote island filled with de-extinct creatures.
droptablemain··on 'It's a Heist': Real Federal Auditors Are Horrified by Doge
Are these the same auditors that led to U.S. citizens' tax dollars funding transgender surgery shops in India? Two million dollars to understand the psychological effects of losing rock-paper-scissors? If so I don't put too much stock in their opinions.
droptablemain··on Moving on from 18F
The only insight I got from reading this is that the author doesn't like the president or his administration. Big whoop.
droptablemain··on Police arrest apparent leader of 'Zizian' group
Transgender vegan murderous AI apocalyptic cult?
droptablemain··on Javier Milei backtracks on $4.4B memecoin after 'insiders' pocket $87M
The Solana trenches are effectively a giant crime-riddled casino. Everyone who plays understands this -- you can make money but you're essentially gambling. I'm not saying this is OK, but it's the current state of things.

When this $Libra token launched, everything else dumped as capital flowed into it, and then effectively got siphoned off by insiders. So even people that didn't chase "Argentina's coin" got screwed. Rinse, lather, repeat. There are some winners in this game, mostly insiders and cabals, but a whole bunch of losers.

I would say something's gotta give, but the stark reality is that America's casinos are always jampacked with dream chasers.

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