foerbert

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by foerbert 4y ago
Same issue here. It's one of the reasons I've become so enamored with Ada. With Ada, it's not only easy, but encouraged, to encode so much information in about how things are modeled into the program itself. Not only does it
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by foerbert 4y ago
Neither apply to game mechanics. Even if all the WotC IP ends up with the most determined patent troll ever, the game itself could still be implemented. As for the card art... who knows what the legal situation would end up being. But even
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by foerbert 4y ago
I don't get the hostility, nor why you keep trying to shove words in my mouth. I never said anything about new customers, nor even old customers. I've also been very explicit that I'm just talking about seeing a plausible pos
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by foerbert 4y ago
WotC doesn't care if a potential consumer trusts their long-term business model, but they sure do care if the potential consumer trusts their purchase won't poof out of existence one day. By throwing it on the blockchain, WotC cou
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by foerbert 4y ago
I don't think that's the case. It's also a tabletop game so the rules are all out there in public and not even inhumanely complex. Even if WotC's servers go down, you could use the blockchain to prove ownership of a card
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by foerbert 4y ago
I think it's possible they might see some benefit. It would basically hinge on people's faith in WotC vs a blockchain to administer that data. If the blockchain was more trusted - say because of concerns WotC might go out of busin
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by foerbert 4y ago
There are other options out there. Ada, for example, has extended return statements and - more directly - expression functions.
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by foerbert 4y ago
I'd probably agree with that characterization. It's not that people are out there specifically claiming memory safety solves everything, but rather that the 'public consciousness' seems to have utterly forgotten that any
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by foerbert 4y ago
It's a hard line to walk. And I'm sure not everybody draws the same line. The part I think LTT and many other folks with a similar philosophy ignore is that even engaging with their title/thumbnail isn't free. Clickbait
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by foerbert 4y ago
> There's a lot more than a few paragraphs on the wiki You're right, I wasn't very fair to the wiki. I would have failed out way quicker without it. It wasn't intentional, it's just been a bit since I was looking
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by foerbert 4y ago
I think I looked at that briefly at one point. I passed by it quickly because it lacked support for both my usual editor and language. But I've recently revisted VS Code and found it improved enough to be usable for me. My hands have a
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by foerbert 4y ago
Well, I am a programmer, I just wasn't able to do much programming due to physical limitations. Admittedly I'm not much of a Python programmer, and I wouldn't be surprised if a deeper understanding of not-just-a-shell-script
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by foerbert 4y ago
I have some very mixed feelings about talon. I looked into it a decent bit when I started having hand issues as well, and never got anywhere useful with it. For one, it needs to be programmed to do anything. This gets you all the options, w
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by foerbert 4y ago
Only if you expect China to forgo their own development of these sorts of products if they are given access to them.
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by foerbert 4y ago
It is true. The only way to preclude jury nullification is to infringe on the rights of the jury as the sole determiners of fact, as you put it. Without adding another non-jury body that can overrule the jury on what actually happened, how
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by foerbert 4y ago
I recently had to dive into the world of linux GUI file managers and their various accessories after living for years pretty much exclusively with just i3wm and the terminal for that sort of basic stuff. I uh, can't say 'polish&#x
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by foerbert 4y ago
That's predicated on their ability to help catch murderers as well as their inability to allow police to enforce other kinds of crime. It's also possible for good-faith efforts to play into a feedback system that ends up resulting
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by foerbert 4y ago
Sure. Here's a video critiquing one of Veritasium's videos I had issues with. Check this[1] thread for further details about it from me and some good rebuttals from another commenter. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com&#x
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by foerbert 4y ago
> After watching the full video and reading the comments exchanged, I don't believe Veritasium there is guilty of anything more than believing studies with questionable funding sources and buying into autonomous cars too soon. Perha
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by foerbert 4y ago
Already posted in an earlier response to you. But no, nothing like that. These were relatively recent videos about newish but well-established industries. In particular Waymo's self-driving cars and, to a lesser extent, some company do
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by foerbert 4y ago
> I don't know what to tell you if you believe Thunderf00t's "debunking" is more valuable than your own viewing of any given channel. I wasn't very inclined to view Matt Ferrel's videos much in the first pla
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by foerbert 4y ago
> Disliking Veritasium because of some ads is throwing out the baby with the bathwater. I don't think we're talking about the same things here. I'm talking about wholesale videos that are effectively a big, undisclosed ad.
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by foerbert 4y ago
Is it? Maybe (probably) I'm unusual as far as US folk go, but I think it's pretty squarely in the realm of smartassery.
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by foerbert 4y ago
I mean, if you want to consider "selling ads" to include selling undisclosed ads as organic, original, and good-faith reporting of accurate information, then yeah, sure? I sure wouldn't, though.
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by foerbert 4y ago
Familiar to a greater or lesser degree with most, but not all of those. I'd take exception to a couple inclusions. - Undecided w/Matt Ferrel This one is probably the most questionable. I was always a bit leery due to the titles be
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by foerbert 4y ago
Unions also fight to have everybody paid more. The company dropping everybody to the lowest bar instead of increasing benefits for the worst off is absolutely not something the union demanded. As for outliers in general, sure. The whole uni
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by foerbert 4y ago
Which extension did you use for this? I basically use YouTube only without logging in, and rely a lot on the front page for my current interests (channels I want to remember long-term go in my RSS reader). It seems like YouTube always has a
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by foerbert 4y ago
I disagree. It's a useful clarification. The OP didn't say "most" but neither did they say "some" or use any language to that effect. A naive reading could even take it as an implicit "all."
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by foerbert 4y ago
I don't quite agree. It's not so much the meaning as the ease of use that's the problem. You don't need to have any worries about pronouncing, nor spelling, OpenOffice correctly. You can tell somebody about it without go
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by foerbert 4y ago
I don't think they are contradictory at all. Aside from the basic "it has value, just less than $10/month" option, they may also just be interested in the tech and are evaluating it in actual use, etc.

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