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New comment by azrazalea in "Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game"

azrazalea — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:27:06 +0000

It is a relatively simple formula that is very combat heavy with extremely simple economy. The campaigns are excellent though and as long as the true randomness of attacks/defense doesn't drive you crazy it is a lot of fun. Very challenging and has real strategic and tactical depth as well as pretty well balanced.

I personally never did multiplayer but last I checked the multiplayer community was pretty healthy.

New comment by azrazalea in "Women Who Code Closing"

azrazalea — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 00:36:19 +0000

The interesting part as far as the salaries they are not obscene. Many of the people who started learning at women who code could easily be making more than the CEO by now.

New comment by azrazalea in "FTC Approves of Amazon and Whole Foods Deal"

azrazalea — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 23:49:49 +0000

I mean, quite a bit of that stuff people pay premium for is already counterfeit even at stores like whole foods. I don't know how common it is, but it does exist.

Amazon probably wouldn't help much though yeah.

New comment by azrazalea in "Being Thankful for Free Software Developers"

azrazalea — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 03:16:14 +0000

> Apple offers quite a bit of free software when you purchase their hardware. This includes OS upgrades and their office suite as well as Xcode and Garage Band, among other things. It's quite nice and they are well made.

Most of that is not "free software" in the way this blog post is talking about (FOSS). XCode has FOSS components, parts of the OS are FOSS, etc. However, much of it is not.

New comment by azrazalea in "The Common Lisp Cookbook"

azrazalea — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 15:19:06 +0000

perl also grabbed a lot of things from CL, like moose(their MOP, at least so I hear).

New comment by azrazalea in "How I learned to live with multiple personalities"

azrazalea — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 21:07:40 +0000

I mean, at least in a social (not clinical) setting, i'd say the burden of proof is on society to prove that it doesn't exist.

I understand not wanting to clinically treat it if there isn't much evidence.

New comment by azrazalea in "How I learned to live with multiple personalities"

azrazalea — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 20:45:07 +0000

I mean, given their logic I think the Mister Rogers example would work too. The idea is having a consistent presence, I believe.

New comment by azrazalea in "How I learned to live with multiple personalities"

azrazalea — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 20:28:52 +0000

How can it be debunked? It's all internal to a person. I'm not comfortable telling people what they feel/who they are is wrong.

I know multiple "collectives", as I've heard them called, on some online chatrooms. They seem perfectly functional and logically consistent.

New comment by azrazalea in "Secret Government Report: Chelsea Manning Leaks Caused No Real Harm"

azrazalea — Tue, 20 Jun 2017 19:12:58 +0000

To be fair, while still awful, that's not a National Security threat.

New comment by azrazalea in "The Future of Ransomware"

azrazalea — Tue, 23 May 2017 17:06:25 +0000

I think it'd go a long way to make laws that require software that is embedded on devices to 1. be patchable by the user and 2. The software has to be open source if the company is no longer able to maintain it.

New comment by azrazalea in "Why do we love chilli?"

azrazalea — Sat, 29 Apr 2017 00:16:21 +0000

We have a bit of that in the US too. Not super popular though. Usually just chocolate but also some other stuff.

New comment by azrazalea in "TypeScript at Slack"

azrazalea — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 22:44:35 +0000

In case you are wondering about the downvotes:

There are millions(trillions?) of lines of code out there that is maintainable and dynamically typed.

New comment by azrazalea in "Measuring software engineering competency"

azrazalea — Mon, 10 Apr 2017 15:26:13 +0000

I know way more great developers who contribute to open source than great developers that don't.

New comment by azrazalea in "Measuring software engineering competency"

azrazalea — Mon, 10 Apr 2017 15:25:18 +0000

Maybe your area really sucks, but i've never had the misfortune to work at jobs even half as bad as the two you've described here. I'm not in a tech hub at all.

New comment by azrazalea in "Octopuses and squids can rewrite their RNA"

azrazalea — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 22:38:54 +0000

https://www.xkcd.com/224/

New comment by azrazalea in "Fact Check now available in Google Search and News"

azrazalea — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 21:30:08 +0000

With that definition of fact, very very few facts actually exist at all.

New comment by azrazalea in "Fact Check now available in Google Search and News"

azrazalea — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 21:27:58 +0000

Why would you include religious texts in a fact checking process unless the subject is religion?

New comment by azrazalea in "Libreboot: Open Letter to the Free Software Community"

azrazalea — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 21:13:23 +0000

> indicating she no longer thinks her accusations hold any water

This is the only thing in your summary I disagree with. From my reading of the issue and knowledge from following it I think Leah still very much believes in her accusations. She just has realized that at this point even if she's right nothing positive is going to happen and realizes she handled the whole situation awfully so is apologizing for that.

I didn't read anything that suggested that she didn't think the accusations were true anymore.

New comment by azrazalea in "Libreboot: Open Letter to the Free Software Community"

azrazalea — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 21:08:06 +0000

You act like that is the project's fault though.

The whole point of libreboot is to be a purely free software alternative and they can't do that with modern AMD/Intel.

Sure, that means the project will never be mainstream but it doesn't mean it is dead in the water.

New comment by azrazalea in "For 18 years I thought she was stealing my identity, until I found her"

azrazalea — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 19:56:59 +0000

If your definition of trivially easy is hiring a lawyer and waiting months or longer for a trial all while having a hard/impossible time to hold a job. You'd still have no guarantee of winning either.