chrispine

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by chrispine 2y ago
Heh! I remember getting shit about this early in my career because of a 3-star commit, because wtf is wrong with someone who needs a pointer to a pointer to a pointer? But it wasn't; it was the address of an array of strings. Because C
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by chrispine 2y ago
I have this map, and we spent a LOT of time pondering it when we were making Civilization 3! (I was lead programmer on it way back when.)
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by chrispine 3y ago
Hey, I love the recent UI update! Thanks so much!
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by chrispine 3y ago
Looking forward to this change! I am constantly switching to the wrong piece by clicking on the piece I want when it's already selected. Another thing that would help me is if it showed a ghosted image of where the piece will be befo
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by chrispine 3y ago
This book sent me into a four-year-long depression and existential crisis. Best book I ever read. I guess.
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by chrispine 3y ago
It builds on the Peace War, and I'd read that first. (But also, both books are fairly short, much smaller than Fire Upon the Deep.)
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by chrispine 3y ago
But maybe with proper pathfinding and better terrain generation? :)
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by chrispine 3y ago
Strong +1 for the Waking Up app. (I also ready the Waking Up book, and found it to be quite hit-or-miss for me. But the app is just wonderful.)
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by chrispine 3y ago
Not disagreeing, but it's also correct on some levels.
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by chrispine 3y ago
Thank you!
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by chrispine 3y ago
Well that sure looks similar: https://pine.fm/music/ChordGear I rotated the inner ring to capture the sense that (for example) Amin shares two notes with Cmaj and 2 notes with Fmaj, so belongs between them. You can dra
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by chrispine 4y ago
My forties were _so far away_ in my teens, like impossibly far away. But on this side of it, it really doesn't seem like all that long ago. Time isn't the same over here.
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by chrispine 4y ago
I don't know if qnt's suggestions are the right ones for you or not (that's for you to decide), but you know what? I believe in your ability to make a better life for yourself. You can do this.
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by chrispine 4y ago
Same thing for fossil fuels, CFCs, and leaded gasoline, right? Turns out they were fine all along.
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by chrispine 4y ago
It's true, but I don't think this has anything to do with decriminalization. Covid and the months of protests and Portland becoming a target for Proud Boys and the like, those are what destroyed downtown. (AFAIK, the rest of Orego
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by chrispine 4y ago
Seems like a disproportionate number of these comments are about using the vegan analogy. So setting aside offense or ethics, do you think it was a good idea to go with this analogy, or is it detracting from "the value of sparking use
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by chrispine 4y ago
"vegan / not-vegan" is a false and harmful dichotomy "meat-based" vs "plant-based" is a spectrum we are all on; no reason to make it all-or-nothing
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by chrispine 4y ago
For real. Also, why are some of the links struck-out?
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by chrispine 4y ago
When we (like, nearly everyone except maybe Wolfram) talk about intelligence, we aren't talking about computational complexity. We're talking about the ability to learn, and to apply that learning to achieve desirable outcomes. Ju
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by chrispine 4y ago
Or require CVS to disclose on each receipt how much of the bill goes towards subsidizing the other 2 meters of receipt paper.
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by chrispine 4y ago
True, and there are lots of these (Bayes's theorem, Bresenham's line drawing algorithm, Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm all spring to mind). But I kind of assume that it's because it's useful to have a name for D
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by chrispine 4y ago
Yes, cannot push/deploy. Also can't view https://help.heroku.com/UMAUQ4UF/why-am-i-seeing-application... because it says I'm not logged in, but also I can't log in. Also, why do I have to be logged
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by chrispine 4y ago
Latest Chrome, macOS 12.1, using the trackpad The scrolling is awful: feels laggy and... squishy? oily? really hard to describe, but it's horrible. Also, it feels like the scrolling sticks at random times while scrolling.
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by chrispine 5y ago
link? I'd love to see it!
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by chrispine 5y ago
While I'm not necessarily a Sam Harris fan in general, I am a huge fan of his Waking Up app. It's approachable, serene, sacred (but also no-nonsense), and really just beautiful. And useful! I can't say enough good things ab
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by chrispine 5y ago
From the folks who have left the LDS church that I've talked to, "friendly and with all respect" is profoundly not the experience that most have. And my personal experience: it was a great shame on my family, and all the ch
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by chrispine 5y ago
I mean, you could say the same about guns, automobiles, table saws...
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by chrispine 5y ago
I really appreciate that you are not taking this issue as an ethical binary (100% vegan or "I could never do that"), but instead treating it as a spectrum on which our various competing values play out, with various costs and bene
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by chrispine 5y ago
Factory farming is not tens of thousands of years old. Equating that to hunting and fishing (which I think you are doing, but maybe I'm misreading you) would be "unfathomably ignorant" as well.
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by chrispine 5y ago
I know this wasn't your main point, but IMHO it's not helpful to think in binary terms: "strict vegan" or "not at all". In terms of animal welfare, or in terms of environmental impact, or whatever impels one to

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