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I'm starting to feel iffy about ING, though. They've been pushing their app more and more and I would much rather never need it in the first place.

I literally know them in person. It's a guy. They have a signal and an email right there, you can message them and talk it's not that deep

One of the reasons is high resilience, practically state of the art as far as writing to a single storage device allows. You're less likely to end up with corrupted files with sqlite. This is much more difficult to get right when manipulating files yourself than you might think.

For your consideration (I'll add that I used to think similarly as you, and I still wouldn't use sqlite for everything, but it's shockingly effective):

https://www.sqlite.org/transactional.html

https://www.sqlite.org/fasterthanfs.html

https://www.sqlite.org/atomiccommit.html

https://www.sqlite.org/aff_short.html

https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html

https://danluu.com/file-consistency/

I don't recall exactly, other than having a hard time making sense of the transaction management.

This library is great, and recently saved a project of mine. Figuring out what was going on with some of python's sqlite3 quirks was too much of a hassle, meanwhile this more or less just worked the way I expected it to. Because of this experience I started defaulting to it over sqlite3 for other projects as well.

(This documentation page explains the library's intent: https://rogerbinns.github.io/apsw/pysqlite.html)

You might want to note that "this particular user" is "extremely active" on this website.

(Nothing against it, I'm always happy to hear what Thomas has to say)

Disappointed at the lack of replies here, I've had a similar thought before and I'd be curious to hear about the technical viability of this

Am I getting overly paranoid, or does this account look incredibly unnatural?

The monsters running away when wounded is a basic element in the Monster Hunter games, which are still very unique in how they present the relationship between the player character and the world.

Absolutely. Whenever I learn a new thing I'll always approach it from different angles - sources from people with varying skill levels (it can be useful to know how another beginner dealt with something!), video form, written text, reading the theory, seeing the applications, trying it yourself in various forms, different constraints etc. For example, since we're on hn - writing some data structure or algorithm you're learning in a few different languages. Doing all this helps massively with building up to true understanding.

(cooking - when learning a new recipe, I'll always find a few versions from reliable sources to compare, see what they have in common, and try to understand the reasoning behind differences)

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I'm surprised how many comments in this thread swear by the position that you literally can't tell based on a picture, as if eating trick foods designed to mislead you was an everyday occurence. Most of the time in typical use you could make a reasonable guess, maybe with some obvious caveats such as "well idk if that Coke is Diet or not so"

Oh, I was not expecting an entire DSL for this. This looks really useful.

God damn those featured pages load so fast.

Wait, I thought I've been seeing 'genuine question' a lot lately, but does that actually have anything to do with AI? I had assumed people were always annoying with it and it just so happened to bother me more recently

Ah, thank you. I was confused reading this article, thinking it's about the unique position that takes the most moves to reach.

Oh hey it's the thing that ruins an otherwise okay rhythm game.

Please chill a bit.

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

Despite the criticism, I surprisingly like these and would love to see the concept expanded & executed better.

This, watching the generated clips feels uncomfortable, like a nightmare. Geometry is "swimming" with camera movement, objects randomly appear and disappear, damage is inconsistent.

The entire thing would probably crash and burn if you did something just slightly unusual compared to the training data, too. People talking about 'generated' games often seem to fantasize about an AI that will make up new outcomes for players that go off the beaten path, but a large part of the fun of real games is figuring out what you can do within the predetermined constraints set by the game's code. (Pen-and-paper RPGs are highly open-ended, but even a Game Master needs to sometimes protects the players from themselves; whereas the current generation of AI is famously incapable of saying no.)

This is super random but for a brief time I happened to be in a WoW guild with Adrian, did some raiding together. Really should get around to reading Children of Time at some point.

Well if it's any motivation you should go get on that haha

>communicate with Google-esque customer service

This is a strange allegation; While I have little personal experience with Steam's consumer service, the typical report I hear is that it is excellent and very helpful, while Google more or less doesn't have it at all. I've even successfully refunded some games that were a bit over the 2 hour window.

> average driving style of Porsche owners

Just recently I've had a driver completely ignore me on a crosswalk, which I almost never see happen, and it sure was a Porsche.

Yeah, the page says "The game that created the genre" about Factorio, which isn't really true - the factorio-style gameplay was preceeded and inspired by tech mods in Minecraft.

The content here seems great, but for some reason I find the prose difficult to follow. Maybe I'm just too tired? Some sentences are oddly phrased and I have to keep backing up to re-read them.

Like the other commenter I also had to look this up to realize this isn't some sort of weird fiction.

I think just about everyone wishes we knew!

I have a friend in Sweden who is in the situation you described because of debt accrued by his father. It really is insane. I won't pretend I have any understanding of Swedish law but afaik in just about any other western country you can simply declare bankruptcy and you're more or less a free man once again.

You do see a lot of really poor understanding of statistics out there, but on reflection, I want to say the latter is much worse. If journalists with an agenda were actually good at manipulating data, it would be much harder to put trust in anything.