iron_ball

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by iron_ball 2mo ago
The article mentions this strategy, and points out that when confronted with an emotional emergency situation, the victims simply might not remember to use the protocol. Not a bad idea, but not a brick wall.
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by iron_ball 1y ago
No idea about the vibe-coding platforms, but systems like Claude Code have explicit allowlists for commands. Don't allow it, and it'll ask permission each time.
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by iron_ball 2y ago
Sure, can't argue with that. But there are plenty of stable points on the curve from 0% to 100% slavery.
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by iron_ball 2y ago
> corporations would pay zero and use slaves if they could Honest question: why is this absurd? Slavery has been a widespread practice in history, and it is still ongoing in some places. Corporations exist to make money. The brute mathem
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by iron_ball 2y ago
I mean, can't it be both? Individuals have personal agency and are responsible for their own actions. Individuals also respond to incentives which, in aggregate, alter the observed distribution of those individual decisions. The proble
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by iron_ball 5y ago
It supports includes, so your p8 file can consist entirely of #include statements and you can write all the Lua files with the editor of your choice.
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by iron_ball 5y ago
Teela Brown from Ringworld. She was the result of a selective breeding program intended to create the luckiest human alive... but it turned out the _real_ lucky ones were all the "failures" who did _not_ get recruited for an impos
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by iron_ball 5y ago
I participate in a Discord that is kind of similar. Not the same one, because my example has totally optional pronoun choice. But they have reason to be cautious of newcomers: before they added an interview/onboarding step, they were c
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by iron_ball 6y ago
True, but not strictly true. I played with 100% manual attacks and cures, but made heavy use of color coding to recognize threats in the rapid scroll of incoming text. It wasn't any harder than playing a competitive puzzle game: recogn
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by iron_ball 6y ago
Depends on the item. Some of them were quite powerful, but even then, generally you'd get a 10% edge or an ability from another class. And people would often have macros to unequip all their artifacts for a fair duel. The Lasallian Lyr
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by iron_ball 7y ago
Thanks for that link! It's always nice to have access to the original language.
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by iron_ball 10y ago
Only barely; he includes it as the middle of a chain of hacks that highlight, not remedy, the deficiencies of Javascript.
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by iron_ball 10y ago
Warren Buffet's advice for retail investors—that is, people who are not particularly wealthy, have no special connections in the finance world, and do not want to cultivate special expertise—is to buy an S&P 500 index fund with ver
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by iron_ball 11y ago
See The Diamond Age , where the poor areas were covered in "toner", the remains of nanobots killed in an endless self-perpetuating war.
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by iron_ball 11y ago
In Neal Stephenson's Anathem , there was an entire faction of monks who researched intellectual history specifically to warn modern-day philosophers when they were treading dusty ground. In fact, one of the only open questions (in the
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by iron_ball 11y ago
Correction: expanding the housing supply vertically.
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by iron_ball 11y ago
I think they're joking about the capitalization of the name.
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by iron_ball 11y ago
To borrow a turn of phrase from Bjarne Stroustroup, there are two kinds of software: software people complain about, and software nobody uses.
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by iron_ball 11y ago
On the other hand, if you can do this and your co-workers can't, you may be tempted to write complex and entangled code, because the implications of each line are perfectly obvious to you.
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by iron_ball 11y ago
Not arguing your larger point, but in American Psycho, the endless lists of brands and clothing labels illustrate the protagonist's obsession with surface appearance and the signals of wealth and status. It's one place where I thi
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by iron_ball 11y ago
I, and many other people regardless of graphics card, CPU, or RAM, are experiencing an issue where the game slows to a stuttering crawl after a while. Adding RAM extends the playable time period, but only staves off the inevitable. There ar
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by iron_ball 11y ago
Anyone who was going to get hooked on Game of Thrones is hooked, and anyone who is still on the fence isn't likely to torrent the leaked episodes. Incompetence is a better explanation, I think.
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by iron_ball 12y ago
The English proverb would be "who pays the piper picks the tune."
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by iron_ball 12y ago
The Z thing is killer. It puts you in company with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsez , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bratz , and numberless rappers, none of which make a professional impression.
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by iron_ball 12y ago
Completely agreed. I've been able to work quite effectively on a T520i -- but I've also experienced occasional frustration with the hardware integration. Every time I upgrade Ubuntu, I worry that I'm about to knock my system&
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by iron_ball 12y ago
I downloaded the application, and it prompted a restart to install a driver, but did nothing further. duet.app does nothing when I open it, and plugging in my iPad does nothing either. Looks like we have to wait for the App Store release to
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by iron_ball 12y ago
"In general, our advice is to develop a responsive site that can adapt to the capabilities of different devices. If you choose to build a mobile-specific experience then we recommend looking for the sub-string "mobile" in the
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by iron_ball 12y ago
It is certainly possible, but it hardly seems advisable. The worst-case scenario is exceedingly bad.
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by iron_ball 12y ago
The author does mention that you could just shut down your engines and wait to spot your prey; but once you put yourself on an intercept (by firing your engines), the opponent will know where you are.
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by iron_ball 12y ago
If Netflix closed its doors today, presumably Amazon Prime and Hulu would pick up the slack. The problem is not Netflix providing content; the problem is users consuming it. Users want better service than the ISPs are inclined to provide.

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