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As someone who has seen and used (and disliked) many similar pieces of software, something about this feels much better and natural (I think it's that your avatar is just a circle with your video on it). Great job on nailing the feel of it!

Thank you! Getting the vibe right was definitely a challenging part, especially light and colours

> What does DHH have to do with this?

DHH created Rails.


Jump is keydown because many games let you adjust your jump height based on how long you hold down space after the jump starts.


Games use keydown because it is more responsive and control responsiveness is vital to dynamic gameplay feeling good. There are some exceptions - if action can be charged, then it is on keydown. And then on gamepad sometimes actions are on release when developer has too many actions and not enough buttons, so it can be keyup vs hold.


I believe Real Soccer 2009 on the iPod Nano had the same "strategy". Funny how it exists in multiple games!


Amazing, good to know the exploit lived on :)


The one-shot game is definitely the hardest one here by a long shot, no idea why this is considered easier than having a model on pager duty. Aside from needing to generate coherent assets and having a meaningful creative vision, a good game is hard to make because it requires a lot of taste, not being good at programming (see the many indie hits from people who learned to program just to make their game, and were wildly successful with atrocious code).


What happens to that labor if everyone that would hire them previously is now using cheaper artificial labor? They don't exactly have the capital to make use of artificial labor themselves, nor do they have the skills to work other jobs. The problem is solved for the 10% who are citizens. Great! They don't have a moral quandary regarding slave labor anymore (notwithstanding that there are other ways to prevent being in that situation). But, the 90% of the population that is now displaced has a very serious problem if they cannot earn an income with which to feed or home themselves or their families.


You don't let it get to the point where only 10% has access to artificial labor. But also it should be pretty difficult for that to happen as the transition is gradual, not instant, so there will be a soft tipping point where access to artificial labor will be provided voluntarily or there will be revolution. Or mass death by deprivation.


Given that the moon is about 0.5 degrees in diameter from Earth, shouldn't we expect to see the stars and comet much more blurred than they are here though? Or the ground if it's stabilized against the rotation?


"Don't ask to ask, just ask" is great in general, but if I tell someone this, I'm not trying to schedule a single call. It's more asking for permission to call whenever. Depending on who you and your friends are, it can be necessary to give this heads-up at least once so that, as another user put it, they don't get a panic attack from an unexpected phone call. As an older Gen Z, it feels like no one my age really calls each other out-of-the-blue, and you need something like this to establish it.


I realize there are generational differences but I still default to the assumption that calling people whenever (outside of 10PM-7AM for non-emergencies) is fine, unless someone specifically tells me otherwise


No, I don't need something like that to establish anything. My friends are relatively sane it appears. Neither do I expect such a behaviour from anyone. I have a phone, feature of that is you can call me. Complaining about that is weird. If you don't want calls, turn the thing off... But yeah, I realize in other parts of the world, there seem to be different "rules". However, still very weird to me.


Good read (as is the next article in the series), but you can tell it hasn't been proofread due to "paypa׀.com" being described as a danger. Maybe in a different font than the website's, but in that case, maybe this should have been rendered out.


Costa Rica and Paraguay coverage was added recently (within the last year iirc). The author notes Paraguay as an example of a country that was not yet in the dataset they sourced from.

El Salvador does have a decent amount of coverage on street view, but this was done by El Salvador Maps (if you pan the camera down, you'll see this name on the cars used to capture the coverage). The dataset is curated by a member of the Geoguessr community, in which "unofficial" coverage like this is disregarded, which is why you won't see it included.


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