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New comment by purpleflame1257 in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

purpleflame1257 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:44:53 +0000

GOG will let you download the offline installer for every game they sell, IIRC.

New comment by purpleflame1257 in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

purpleflame1257 — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:16:07 +0000

Counterpoint: China from Deng and onwards is an autocracy with rapidly improving material conditions

New comment by purpleflame1257 in "Supreme Court Sides with Cox in Copyright Fight over Pirated Music"

purpleflame1257 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:28:41 +0000

They were right. I never sold a taped VCR, but my parents used it to time shift Saturday morning cartoons every week.

New comment by purpleflame1257 in "Tracy Kidder has died"

purpleflame1257 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:27:15 +0000

Found this book in a little free library a few months ago and read it cover-to-cover in one night. It's crazy what Data General was able to accomplish with its little side project.

Fun fact: Data General was purchased by EMC, which used the name until 2012.

New comment by purpleflame1257 in "Sex Workers Are Built Different (Graph Dump)"

purpleflame1257 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:51:39 +0000

1) Sex work is largely criminalized around the world today.

2) Yes, childhood sexual abuse (again, also a crime) is associated with both hypo and hyper sexuality. Hypersexual individuals are more likely to engage in sex work.

New comment by purpleflame1257 in "Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn"

purpleflame1257 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 13:42:38 +0000

Venkatesh Rao offers the following definition of the "Fourth World"

Fourth world: Parts of the developed world that have collapsed past third-world conditions because industrial safety nets have simultaneously withered from neglect/underfunding, and are being overwhelmed by demand, but where pre-modern societal structures don’t exist as backstops anymore.

This is what this story reminds me of.

New comment by purpleflame1257 in "Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem?"

purpleflame1257 — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 14:49:53 +0000

Every time a read a story like this, I feel an atavistic desire to self-host eveything. But I've had my Google account for 20 years now; the die is cast.

New comment by purpleflame1257 in "Covid-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality"

purpleflame1257 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:36:37 +0000

It's interesting that they leave things at 18-59. Do they later stratify into 18-28, 29-38, 39-48, 48-58?

New comment by purpleflame1257 in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

purpleflame1257 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:44:57 +0000

That was more or less the case from the advent of TV onwards, though.

New comment by purpleflame1257 in "Google Antigravity"

purpleflame1257 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 19:46:45 +0000

Can't wait for my IDE to get sunset on me with no recourse. Thanks google, but I'll pass.

New comment by purpleflame1257 in "Fallout from the AWS outage: Smart mattresses go rogue"

purpleflame1257 — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 17:53:18 +0000

A few got stuck in inclined positions,but these don't actually tilt enough to crush even under normal conditions.

New comment by purpleflame1257 in "Is pawn promotion to rook or bishop something that is seen in play? (2012)"

purpleflame1257 — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 23:37:29 +0000

I had a rook under promotion happen in a real game on Lichess under time control. Queen would have stalemated, but rook was mate in 2.

New comment by purpleflame1257 in "EA Announces Agreement to be Acquired by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners"

purpleflame1257 — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:47:08 +0000

That's the difference between the VC and PE models. VC, at least in theory, allocated capital to new ideas. PE squeezes "efficiency" out of what exists.

New comment by purpleflame1257 in "An opinionated critique of Duolingo"

purpleflame1257 — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 14:32:58 +0000

One thing that I have found Duolingo helpful for is kana and kanji practice in Japanese. It's better than flashcards in that it also gives you stroke order.

New comment by purpleflame1257 in "UK, Canada and Australia formally recognise Palestinian state"

purpleflame1257 — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 00:01:40 +0000

Neither is comparable to Israel since there's no home country for most Israelis to return to.

New comment by purpleflame1257 in "Nvidia buys $5B in Intel"

purpleflame1257 — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 12:24:30 +0000

Defending against territorial conquest is considerably easier than defending against kinetic strikes on key manufacturing facilities

New comment by purpleflame1257 in "Nvidia buys $5B in Intel"

purpleflame1257 — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 21:02:40 +0000

This is why I love HN. You get devs from any software or hardware project you care to name showing up in the comments.

New comment by purpleflame1257 in "Nvidia buys $5B in Intel"

purpleflame1257 — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 16:02:45 +0000

It was a typo for $. The Arc B580 competed with the 4060 at 50 dollars less MSRP and 4GB more vram

New comment by purpleflame1257 in "High Altitude Living – 8,000 ft and above (2021)"

purpleflame1257 — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 04:56:00 +0000

One other fun thing about living at altitude is that the recipes you use need to be redesigned because the boiling point of water is lower.

New comment by purpleflame1257 in "The "We Evolved to Eat Meat" Argument Doesn't Hold Up"

purpleflame1257 — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 19:10:39 +0000

AMH shows up in the fossil record 40K years ago. The seeds and nuts she discusses don't show up until the late neolithic. Modern hunter gatherers eat what they can catch and make up the rest with plants, but none of them are strict vegetarian at all.