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You can just say Square Point...
No, not really.
Re:Building an Economy Simulator from Scratch on Saturday September 16, 2023 @12:41AM (#37532102)
I believe that the economy aspect is going to be (eventually) re-worked entirely for a better simulation and to interact better with the existing game. The current development arc is going on several years at this point, so who knows when that might get addressed.
Re:Show HN: Shrinkflation Tracker on Saturday September 16, 2023 @12:34AM (#37532074)
I'll do my best to keep it going, unless you have a better term. Enshittification clearly communicates the point trying to be made.
Whoosh
Really? I have a hard time believing that. The concept has been around since the 80's, if not before then. Should we be putting scare quotes around the word "Mouse" when we use it to refer to a computer mouse because it's not a literal animal mouse?
Re:How Southwest Airlines melted down on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @04:56PM (#34166542)
Pilots are only allowed to fly 100h a month? That seems really low, considering a 40 hour work week over 4 weeks in a month is 160h. Although I guess I would rather have my pilot more energized than overworked.
Re:Ask HN: Risk of unsafe software in automobiles? on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @04:06PM (#34165956)
As long as you're not buying a Tesla/other "self driving car", you will not be the cause of an accident due to automobile software.
Re:Detecting the use of “curl | bash” server side on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @01:42PM (#34164201)
If a user is running a non-standard installation, I would generally assume that they're competent using a package manager.
Re:Detecting the use of “curl | bash” server side on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @12:09PM (#34150750)
Almost all package managers have a graphical front end. I'm not sure how that's not "Normal user" oriented. Windows even has a "Windows Store" bastardized version of a package manager,