I used to think like this, but then I realized: jj-mode.el exists[0] and you can still use magic since it's still a git repo underneath. Seriously, don't let this hold you back.
Aardwolf does not have, and has never had, any content gated on payment. You can "donate" (legally purchase) money for in-game currency but it doesn't really affect game balance (you still have to grind for a billion hours to reach endgame).
same here! I eventually quit because I can't control myself enough to not grind for 8 hours a day instead of working but this game got me interested in writing code (to make text based games)
Not really. You can simulate a probability of 1/x by expanding 1/x in binary and flipping a coin repeatedly, once for each digit, until the coin matches the digit (assign heads and tails to 0 and 1 consistently). If the match happened on 1, then it's a positive result, otherwise negative. This only requires arbitrary but finite precision but the probability is exactly equal to 1/x which isn't rational.
> This is an excellent resource for people who are less militant about open source and just want to make music.
What a strange jab. People are militant about _freedom_, not getting things for free. If you don't care about freedom then just use Logic or Ableton or whatever, they're probably better than anything on Linux and they're industry standards. But they completely trash your freedoms as a user and that's what many people can't stomach. Plenty of software that respects the users freedoms is sold.
MUD clients and servers use MCCP which is essentially keeping a zlib stream open, adding text to it, and flushing it whenever something is received. I think this has been around since 2000.
> Sauron is also appearing on the scene as concerns rise about crime among the most wealthy. Recent high-profile incidents include a November armed robbery at the home of tech investors Lachy Groom and Joshua Buckley in San Francisco’s Mission District, where $11 million in cryptocurrency was stolen during a 90-minute ordeal involving torture and threats.
I'll never get tired the irony in one of crypto's most lauded design features (private key = money) leading to it being almost impossible to secure from an XKCD 538 style attack. In the crypto-libertarian's mind, the only solution here is to arm yourself and your house to the teeth and constantly look over your shoulder. Never mind the fact that the social contract is being ripped up and cynical actors are concentrating resources and preparing to shut the other half out for good.
This doesn't pass the sniff test. How could a civilization supposedly far more advanced than the Inca vanish without leaving the Inca a single shred of evidence of their existence? No tools, no records, no memory at all? Oh, except the giant intricate stone structures they built. A coordinated conspiracy to claim their superior civilizational achievements as their own might be the only explanation of that and that's veering into comedy.
[0]: https://github.com/bolivier/jj-mode.el
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