honkdaddy

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by honkdaddy 4y ago
What’s the split in the chess community like here? Do most people agree with Magnus?
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
> "their algorithm" The Google web search infrastructure consists of dozens of different services hitting hundreds of different databases, most of which obviously contain PII. We're talking about layer upon layer of abstra
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
> disseminating information to the public for the purpose of image management. This is pretty much the definition of anyone ever making any kind of public statement. Choosing ones words carefully with the knowledge that what they're
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
Nobody's trying to villainize any LGBT people, you're the one jumping to that conclusion. I'm bisexual, two of my sisters and half my friends are queer, the fact you're unable to hear stories like this without assuming t
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
Apart from involving the same newspaper, how does this relate to the topic at hand?
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
Are you expecting a news article? This is a story a mom at the dog park told me last week. How you feel about it is entirely your own choice and makes 0 difference to me, but asking for a source on what a teacher said in a 7yo's classr
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
>When has this ever happened? >When has this ever happened? >When has this ever happened? Were you expecting a news article? I'm not the 7yo in the classroom, these are just things I've heard from other parents while I&#x
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
Thank you. Admitting your perspective on this topic is based in personal politics is ultimately a good thing, and makes for more better reading for other users.
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
4chan is as or more heavily moderated than most of reddit, I'm not sure where you get the idea it's not. 4chan culture is the way it is largely because of the demographic of its users, it doesn't really much to do with its mo
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
> Also, almost every k12 teacher I had would prepare a slideshow about themselves to present on the first day of class along with the syllabus This is pretty different from coming to school and telling 7yos about the sex party you went t
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
https://www.newsweek.com/kill-mockingbird-other-books-banned... Sorry, that one's actually a school board in California, but the same idea applies here, right? The state is to blame?
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
> Florida is purging libraries of unpopular political opinions I think the fact that you deliberately expressed what's been a complicated, and almost exclusively school-board driven, phenomenon in such a simple way shows you either
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
The periods where America was most globally dominant were not the periods where it’s immigration policy was most lax, if anything, the opposite is true.
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
Thanks for this. Seems like a topic better learned from a wiki article than a video.
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
Yeah this is a key point when you consider Valve’s strategy. Gabe still owns >50%, and is a billionaire without a tonne of outside ventures, he can afford to play around a bit. I think this is why they’ve been able to experiment so much
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
Russia has a long history of producing excellent programmers and software engineers, I'm not sure where you get the idea this is where they were outpaced by the rest of the world. If I had to attribute one thing to Russia's downfa
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
As an aggregate, having a largely positive or largely negative feeling about something still provides good information to whomever's asking. It may not be ALL the information, but it's still hugely valuable. It's not dissimil
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
I think so too. It’s become a term which means so many different things to so many different people, I don’t know how much value there is in calling someone a “postmodernist” from a political standpoint these days. Vonnegut, Pynchon, Wallac
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
"Innocent until proven guilty" is generally used in when talking about the state and punitive decision making, not a social norm. If my three best friends accused someone of trying to rob them, I'd be comfortable believing th
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
Mmm, that makes sense. I think it's easy for people (myself) who've only played at a very amateur (casual IRL games and sub 1200 online) level to make assumptions about how chess must be for high ranked players. Realistically if t
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
How so? If it’s Jan 4, what exactly would I be preparing with? The last three days of theory about the new row? If anything it sounds like a way to emphasize how to play positions you’d otherwise never possibly see in classical chess.
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
I think the two party system is ultimately to blame for this, though I have no idea what the solution would be. Up in Canada, we have three left-leaning parties, NDP, Liberal, and Green, which represent some very different political views b
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
Gotcha. BART being funded by the Bay Area Rapid Transit District is something I'd forgotten, and does make my point a lot less salient. It's been a long time since I was in SF, so it's possible my assessments here are way off
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
I haven't really played a Far Cry game since #3 and knew almost nothing about #5. Just did some reading about it and sounds almost exactly like what I was describing up there, hahah. Given I'll be spending at least a few months of
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
>Calling people from bay-area hacker spaces to give them a hand in creating something more modern. Tragically, from the small amount of time I've spent in SF, my understanding is this is unlikely to be their first instinct, even if
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
I felt a similar way after playing and tweaking lots of Mario 64 and OoT mods. Obviously I still love the games with all my heart, but getting to play it at so many different levels of polish and playability definitely allows the 'Wow
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
Wow, I can't believe the amount of skepticism and hate the guy initially got! He posts what will end up being a historically important leak that'll hit the mainstream news, and the first comment is "Sorry bud no pic no click&
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
Sidebar: if I wanted to eventually transition from Android dev to C++ game dev, is my time building C++ ImGui tools a comparable experience, or is game dev a truly different beast? Curious for some opinions :) The reason I like mobile and s
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
I'd play that game too. It'd be dark, controversial, and a political minefield, but I think a story-driven FPS set in a civil warring 2030 America would be awesome. The usual stories in CoD or Battlefield of USA military vs insurg
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by honkdaddy 4y ago
That makes sense. Honestly there are so many videos of me out there already which could hypothetically end my career, it's something I try not to stress about too much. I think if we're privileged enough to be having this conversa

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