apocolyps6

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by apocolyps6 2y ago
I suspect that number comes from this quote a little further down > Every function in this program was just two, or three, or four lines long. Each was transparently obvious. Each told a story. And each led you to the next in a compelli
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by apocolyps6 4y ago
It's different for me in a couple ways: 1) I have the same background noise issue as the sibling comment. I can't have a conversation in a bar. Coffee shops are usually much more quiet, brightly lit, designed for sitting in and wo
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by apocolyps6 4y ago
> AI DM Only post singularity. Much of the appeal of roleplaying games is being able to do stuff that you can't do in video games. But a sibling comment did link to a tool that would let you play these maps with your friends by impo
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by apocolyps6 4y ago
How many generations ago did you write that comment?
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by apocolyps6 4y ago
> refactoring without test coverage is flat-out "Cowboy coding": reckless & irresponsible. This is basically what Fowler says in his refactoring book. Actually, he says it's by definition not refactoring. I'm curi
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by apocolyps6 4y ago
There's a big grey area between the life threatening stuff, and the stuff that will slowly mess you up for life. Simple example, but the drugs people take for pain increase your odds of a heart attack if taken habitually. It feels deep
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by apocolyps6 4y ago
People dink for fun mostly, or to make the experience more comfortable for them, rather than for productivity
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by apocolyps6 4y ago
> In the world of "decades ago" we are pre-smartphone. How, exactly, are you going to call up the taxi driver for a chat? People... talked before phones were invented? Why is it so hard to imagine that the guy from the car serv
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by apocolyps6 4y ago
The driver was a specific person that the company knew. Maybe they were a secret homophobe or something, but you could say that of all the company's employees with just as high a likelihood. > It's absurd to trust this person
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by apocolyps6 4y ago
A little confused by what you mean. TTRPGs were not originally about tactical combat (old RPGs were very lethal so combat was a fail state), and wouldn't tactical combat (rather than the RP) make the game more soloable (lots of video g
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by apocolyps6 4y ago
> 100% There are games that democratize the power of the GM a bit. Very traditional RPGs are into putting pressure on the GM to be a one-man band for the players' entertainment, but the more "modern" ones share the authori
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by apocolyps6 4y ago
It's more like if mineral placement was randomized at the start of a game, with players having uneven access. What you are describing with the build order exists also. Many Magic decks have a single game plan ("rush", etc) an
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by apocolyps6 4y ago
I'd say the number of games like that is not few. 10k in equipment in most sports will give you an advantage over 1k in equipment. It's more accurate to say that the entry cost into the Vintage format is 10k (or whatever the cost
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by apocolyps6 5y ago
This all seems a little misguided. All standard dice have opposite sides adding up to the same number and are otherwise evenly distributed, so a bias would have to be quite noticeable to skew the results on average. Dice that tend to roll h
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by apocolyps6 5y ago
So the Middle East and South America is okay but Canada is off limits?
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by apocolyps6 5y ago
Do people actually use hard mode? Seems like its only "harder" in the sense that it forces you to play less intelligently.
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by apocolyps6 5y ago
Do you consider hitting enter/return for a newline to be clunky as well? Its generally the same size as caps lock and opposite it on the keyboard. I'd say I press return a bit more often then Esc when using vim, but its close
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by apocolyps6 5y ago
You find it suspicious that most of the stories that become popular are appealing as stories and are the sort of stories people tend to tell? Is it also suspicious that they are all in English? I'm sure some of them are fake, but so wh
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by apocolyps6 5y ago
In case it helps anyone, doing regex-based search/edit in vim was annoying until I found this plugin. https://github.com/haya14busa/incsearch.vim
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by apocolyps6 5y ago
The laws of the country you live in have answers to those questions. Usually, you are the only person legally allowed to use your bank account. Nobody else is legally allowed to publish your book under their name, etc. There are no laws pro
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by apocolyps6 5y ago
What ironclad guarantees does the NFT provide?
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by apocolyps6 5y ago
No, they are comparing the atrocities of the Chinese government that inspired Tianamen Square to slavery, without saying that the two are equivalent
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by apocolyps6 5y ago
Why is that? Do you have some moral objection to python?
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by apocolyps6 5y ago
Kitty is about as fast as Alacritty, has tabs, and friendlier devs https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/
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by apocolyps6 5y ago
Just as a warning, its a relentlessly horny work. At least in the original series every single female character is sexualized, and two of them are 14 years old. There is at least one instance of "casual" sexual assault. The plot m
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by apocolyps6 5y ago
So for the 97% of humanity that are worse off than american software engineers, you think they are just not trying hard enough?
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by apocolyps6 5y ago
It's been working for me so far :)
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by apocolyps6 5y ago
> why hasn't it been removed? nobody owns a language >can I please have Take your pick. There is Esperanto, Loglan, Lojban, Ithkuil etc. The rabbit hole goes as deep as you want
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by apocolyps6 5y ago
Thanks for the citations. I'm always wary of this sort of reasoning since people often arrive at it via folk etymology, but this was very informative
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by apocolyps6 5y ago
This feels like cherry-picking. There are non-neuter ways to refer to kids, including in those languages. Also, the diminutive (at least in German) is neuter, and is often used with children. Some of these terms are specifically neutral (i.

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