rout39574

6 ms·

1.
by rout39574 3mo ago
Hostility might be a feature for someone who is (or views themselves as) in an "in" clique. But it's poison for the long term health of the game, because it discourages most participation. The only ones attracted are those
2.
by rout39574 3mo ago
It should be possible to respond "I don't know". When you really-really don't know, it's unfair to get a 1/4 chance at right anyway, or even better if you use routine multiple-choice tactics. I got credit for
3.
by rout39574 5mo ago
The know your meme page on it is extensive. My distillation is: Mogging is behaving as though you expect everyone is going to think you're great because of how you look; in particular that you think you look better than someone rig
4.
by rout39574 6mo ago
Candles are pleasant light, in a way difficult to acquire with other lighting types. That means there's a niche in which that facet is more valuable than the other technologies. I had candles at my dinner table last Thursday, and am li
5.
by rout39574 7mo ago
You, sir, are evil. I mean that in the most complementary of manners.
6.
by rout39574 8mo ago
Got any links to that conversation? Sounds fun.
7.
by rout39574 8mo ago
That's what struck me, seems kind of apropos.
8.
by rout39574 9mo ago
Try 'Beyond All Reason', a passionate FOSS recreation of the core of Total Annihilation. It's got really decent naval combat, with a distinct feel compared to the land and air.
9.
by rout39574 9mo ago
Inevitable: https://xkcd.com/927/
10.
by rout39574 10mo ago
I think it's a cultural acceptance of lower quality, happily traded for deft execution, over and over. We're better at encapsulating lower-level complexities in e.g. bridge building than we are at software. All the complexities of
11.
by rout39574 10mo ago
I understand your point; but against it I lay the truism that every time a retail investor trades, value is destroyed. ;) My own personal financial history has been more damaged by actions taken, than by forbearance and waiting. "Tim
12.
by rout39574 10mo ago
Ahh, we can all buy the farm together. ;) I've been watching my investment accounts, particularly the TSLA fraction, and see-sawing between "This has got to collapse soon, I should..." and "You cannot time the market,
13.
by rout39574 1y ago
One of the important roles of the Palantir was that they were scrying devices. Sauron gained some influence over them warped the impressions of those who used them, by affecting what they could and couldn't see. It was part of the su
14.
by rout39574 1y ago
Do you really mean that it's very nearly the same thing "To be a" you, and an Elon Musk, a homo sapiens infant, and an Orangutan? And only modestly different from these to be a dog or a horse? If I've understood you co
15.
by rout39574 1y ago
Jerry Pournelle wrote about this, I think I recall reading in USENET; how with the burgeoning availability of media, the role of the editor, the curator, would become critical. He thought well and deeply about the challenges of the growing
16.
by rout39574 1y ago
And Allan Mallinson's series about Matthew Hervey adds another branch of the military. Post-napoleonic, but a fascinating trip through colonialism.
17.
by rout39574 1y ago
Why do you think this excessively verbose bit of LLM vomit contributes to the conversation?
18.
by rout39574 1y ago
It's been a LONG time since my latin. But doesn't the active vs. passive capture the distinction we're talking about in English quite well? A reflexive action is taken passively, without thought. A reflective action is taken
19.
by rout39574 1y ago
FIGHT ON! ;)
20.
by rout39574 1y ago
I expect that a dozen humans coming to Calibre for the first time would articulate at least a half-dozen mutually conflicting perspectives on what would be "intuituve". I further expect that each of them would be mostly articulat
21.
by rout39574 2y ago
Performance art?
22.
by rout39574 2y ago
Not GP, but I think the objection is: the engineer wants to build a thing cheaply enough that it functions, and then cheaply as can be while maintaining function. The MBA wants to build a thing as cheaply as can be while extracting maximum
23.
by rout39574 2y ago
Presuming good faith here, faking recordings has been harder to do, easier to detect, and less equivocal in the past than it is now. If it takes an FX house to generate a plausible recording of me saying something I didn't say, that&#x
24.
by rout39574 2y ago
Oh come on; "Jack the sound barrier; bring the noise."... That still rocks, or slaps, or whatever. And you can't tell me you don't shiver if someone says "I'm sure he'll listen to reason.."
25.
by rout39574 2y ago
I think the intended parable is that an unstructured group of activists took down a much larger, much better resourced, hierarchy.
26.
by rout39574 2y ago
Why is "Just" superior to any other e.g. bash script with a bunch of subcommands?
27.
by rout39574 2y ago
Everyone wants to write the build tool in their favorite language, and then stops when the work gets hard. :)
28.
by rout39574 2y ago
The avoidance of factory food is part of the point. GP is invoking Michael Pollan from the Omnivore's Dillema, among others. By 'Food', Pollan specifically means to exclude the sorts of chemical-engineered vague nutrient si
29.
by rout39574 2y ago
I love JQ. But ... I'd never considered its query language to be particularly admirable. If I want to ask questions of some databases, I don't understand why I'd choose JQ's XPATH-like language to do it.
30.
by rout39574 2y ago
Merely the best yet representation of the world around us. The nerve!

More ›