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  • Video games are not that expensive IMO, unless you really want it to be. It’s my main hobby, I certainly don’t have a crazy income, but I still have enough games for several lifetimes. My bank account is not the limit here, my time is.

    Sure, hardware cost might be a bit steep once in a while, but you don’t really need to go for the cutting edge, and there is no point having everything on release either.




  • Regarding how quickly Instagram started sending them personal stuff… Letting an app access your location, especially if it’s not a one-time authorisation, is basically telling it who you are.

    There was a newspaper investigation recently on data brokers, they approached one to get a sample of their data. It was “anonymous” data, only in the sense it didn’t contain names. Using Apple’s advertiser ID, they had no problem building profiles from specific devices and could easily identify a lot of their own employees, simply because their routine around a location made it clear it was their workplace. And from there, it was not hard to find out on the data what their home address was.

    It probably took only location for the burner phone Instagram to know that this is either the same person, or someone closely related to them.








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    I am not in that age group anymore and I can’t tell what war I was supposed to be obsessed with.

    Ah, yeah, around that time, maybe Fire Emblem. This is the “Crimean war” I used to be obsessed with, until…

    Fuck. I think I found the actual war. Definitely not something I’m enjoying, at all.


  • Imaginary numbers are a perfect example of that. It’s basically just “Okay, in the common number theory, you can’t get the square root of a negative number. What if you could?”. And what do you know, you can build a consistent theory where square root of -1 exists, and it has surprising properties.

    Intuitively, good luck trying to make sense of it. But it doesn’t matter, it works, and it’s useful to build other stuff. That in turn can be used as modelling tools in physics and all.


  • The comparison doesn’t work. Maths are abstract, you don’t “believe” in it. You build a consistent theory with minimum assumptions (axioms) and if something stops being consistent, it means some of your assumptions don’t work and you need to change them to build a better theory. Maths is an abstract tool, not a representation of reality.

    Infinity is just a concept you can define. There are tools to demonstrate something is true over an infinite space and obviously, you need those for a lot of basic maths. You’re not going to go anywhere in basic arithmetic or geometry if you can’t prove anything works over the infinite set of numbers or the infinite space.


  • I love that game, but if you are not enjoying it at that point I am not sure I can see it getting better for you for the rest of it.

    Though if you just beat Orochi, that’s more like a quarter of the game if memory serves. Ōkami is quite longer than your classic Legend of Zelda game, I’d say for me it took a bit more than twice as long to complete the first time compared to, say, Twilight Princess.

    Its story is more like a series of legends rather than a unified storyline, which didn’t bother me since it fits the mythology theme.