OkayPhysicist

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by OkayPhysicist 6d ago
Definitely my favorite of Shakespeare's tragedies. I've got a special place for the wild tone shift between the murder and the comic relief scene that follows in particular, as the rather temporary release of the tension that had
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by OkayPhysicist 7d ago
Surely at any point after "Make the "Add to Cart" button blue", it'd be faster to just do it yourself: "grep -r "Add to Cart", insert "addToCart" as a class to the html element, then crack o
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by OkayPhysicist 7d ago
That's not why East Germany's universal child care was dismantled at all. East Germany's universal child care was dismantled after unification because West Germany didn't want to pay for it, and former East Germany could
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by OkayPhysicist 7d ago
IMO, the bigger issue is all the things copyright covers. I don't think there's a particularly damning public interest in being able to publish an author's book without paying them. For art preservation reasons, the copyright
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by OkayPhysicist 7d ago
"Oh nooooo, my boring, ugly alleyway isn't ugly anymore".
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by OkayPhysicist 7d ago
IMO, Dwarf Fortress benefits greatly from the player seeing relatively few samples of the world gen, and the geography actually mattering to gameplay. The actual geography doesn't vary that wildly most of the time ( if you've se
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by OkayPhysicist 8d ago
It's not an excuse, but we hanged the guys giving the orders, too.
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by OkayPhysicist 13d ago
IMO, this whole case has a smell of politically motivated prosecution. The fact that the mom worked for Senator Jill Holtzman Vogel that pushed Virginia's free-range child law, which the judge allowed the prosecution to present a wild
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by OkayPhysicist 13d ago
You can waive your right to a jury trial, and it's sometimes a good idea in cases where either A) you're definitely guilty, and the trial is mostly going to be about sentencing or B) your defense is more complicated than "I d
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by OkayPhysicist 13d ago
I recall going to a carpet/tapestry shop in Turkey where, as we enjoyed the ever-present sales-pitch tea, the owner showed us his wares. After the 5 grand mark, he just stopped listing prices. For the final assortment, he brought out s
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by OkayPhysicist 13d ago
So, this kind of thing happens all the time, and there's the Public Suffix List for exactly this problem. There would be no issue at all if Verisign, or maybe Global Name Registry, decided to stick to the 3rd level registrations exclus
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by OkayPhysicist 14d ago
Capitalism only functions when you have people willing and able to buy your stuff, a state that protects fair dealings, and maintains a peaceful public order. It a luxury maintained by having a safe, stable society. Imagine trying to run a
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by OkayPhysicist 14d ago
Fascism is Capitalism's immune response. Under stress, whether real or imagined, the rich and thus powerful begin dismantling the very systems that made them that way, gambling that their existing positions of influence will ensure th
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by OkayPhysicist 14d ago
Congrats on rediscovering Anarchism from first principles. Hierarchy begets hierarchy. As long you have a society where some people can coerce others into acting for the master's benefit and against their own, you end up on a ratchet.
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by OkayPhysicist 14d ago
KeypassXC was threatened with blacklisting for deigning to let users access their private keys. Passkey Consortium lackeys will try and reassure you that you have control over your keys, but they are lying through their teeth.
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by OkayPhysicist 14d ago
The elevator pitch for passkeys is okay . A bit more complexity than we should be pushing non-technical users, but fine. A deeper dive into the the actual implementation reveals that the whole thing is a massive vendor lock-in hell-hole, p
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by OkayPhysicist 15d ago
The California version of "age verification" IS parental controls. There is no actual verification happening. The OS is required to have an age associated with a user, declared, but not proven in any way, at setup. That value is t
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by OkayPhysicist 15d ago
Don't try to deflect blame from the irredeemably evil fucks over at the Chrome team, who are sitting in their dark lair rubbing their hands together, scheming about how they can fuck the user over today. They are always to blame. gorhi
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by OkayPhysicist 15d ago
The free version got it's entire UI changed, matching the Steam version, just with ASCII graphics. Obviously you can still play old versions, but if you want to play with all the new features, you can't go full keyboard anymore.
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by OkayPhysicist 15d ago
You might really enjoy Caravaneer 2 (the original was a flash game, RIP, but the sequel requires no knowledge of the original). Whole game is traveling around a wasteland, hauling trade goods between towns that have their own industries, an
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by OkayPhysicist 15d ago
Their donation revenue was alright for a pretty significant chunk of that time. For the first decade it was ~$5k/month, which jumped up to ~$10k/month for the second decade before the Steam release. Toady wasn't exactly rak
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by OkayPhysicist 15d ago
I pretty strongly disagree. I can see some preferring some fan art style over the official one, even if I don't. But the official gui having support for rendering all the various critters, and factoring in clothing, multi-level, etc,
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by OkayPhysicist 16d ago
Edge still doesn't have a market share as big as Chrome, even among desktop browsers. Chrome is still a behemoth at 70% of all desktop browser usage.
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by OkayPhysicist 16d ago
I can't fix society. I can, however, take a pill that lets me hold down a job long enough to not fall into crippling debt.
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by OkayPhysicist 16d ago
Historically, they did a big update every year or two. Since the Steam release, they've sped up significantly, with medium sized updates every 2-3 months.
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by OkayPhysicist 16d ago
FYI, the newer versions with their mouse-driven interface solve a lot of those issues. Dwarf Therapist (the RAM reading tool you were thinking of) isn't needed any more, because there are much better in-game tools for managing what kin
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by OkayPhysicist 16d ago
Religiously subscribing to every "cornerstone of great game design" is how you end up with the plain oatmeal of videogames. Inoffensive, bland, and easily forgotten. I, for one, hate games spoonfeeding me. Most games are unlikel
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by OkayPhysicist 16d ago
No great game is enjoyed by everyone. Your options when making a work, of any kind, are to either A) make something utterly inoffensive to the point that no one will have strong opinions about it at all or B) make a game that some people wi
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by OkayPhysicist 16d ago
I'm in a similar, but less extreme boat. The new interface has its perks, especially in terms of discoverability, but for tasks that need to be done repeatedly (request 10 beds be made before you have a manager, for example), you real
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by OkayPhysicist 16d ago
You're completely missing the point. The Fed did a fantastic job, because they could have given a pretty good estimate of that number in 1914. If you had asked someone in 1814 what a dollar would be worth in 1914, hell, 1824, they wo

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