yetanotherloser

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by yetanotherloser 2y ago
Squidgeware.
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
I like that. A nice generalisation.
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
I'd construct a sad caveat to this, but Randall Munroe did it better than I can already: https://xkcd.com/1683/
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
Not to solder, but to use a crimped connector - the good ones come with hot-glue-lined heat shrink so you crimp the wires for a great connection, then heat the connector and the shrink glues itself down, making a totally sealed connection.
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
ps good shout on the letters, which I had thoroughly forgotten. The d20s still are odd though.
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
Making a triangle or square or even hexagon with rule and compass is fairly easy. Making a really regular pentagon also only needs rule and compass, but noticeably more knowledge with them. Try it. https://sciencevsmagic.net&#x2F
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
That's interesting, I thought the case made for oracular use when I read about it was reasonable, but I may be a bit put of date. There was a fair bit of weird belief washing around in later Roman times before Christianity won out, tho
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
re: being That Guy: I know. It's a weak "Romans were old school" joke.
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
I had that possibility in mind, yes :-)
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
Board games are much older than the Romans, though possibly not older than writing - and texts give us a bit of a clue that some early ones were part recreation part ceremonial. By Roman times pure recreational games were common and reasona
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
If your DM had you use these icosahedrons for saves... https://mymodernmet.com/roman-20-sided-icosahedron-dice/ then you really ARE old-school.
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
I like that theory too and offer a followon explanation: to make a dodecahedron you must make an accurate regular pentagon and this is not trivial with ancient geometric methods, you need to have learned a thing or two to get there. This ma
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
Quite a lot of 25kV AC overhead in the UK. I'm sure it is possible to create a dangerous situation with those and a helium balloon, but it seems to be very rare. I don't think this is a real problem.
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
that has some weird parallels with modern military radar. Also, I didn't want one when I read their marketing page, but now I'm intrigued.
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
There's a similar case in the US - Bridgeman vs Corel - that influenced the UK one. I don't think it forms a universal rule in the US, unlike the more recent UK ruling, but it is influential.
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
Hands. The general public's hands... clothes mark far less
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
There are also some heat treated modified timbers now which don't look like pressure treated sheds or fences but which are supposed to last well.
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
No questions, just want to say thanks for your amazing series of articles. I learned a lot from reading them.
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
Don't be bigoted against many-mouthed Shoggoths. Be pseudopod-positive.
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
I regret that I have but one upvote to give your post.
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
For you and, indeed, for me too. But, sadly, not for many people.
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
You get far more from the state as historical value than you would from the scrappy as bullion value. So, no, quite the opposite.
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
Don't be daft. The king is not the crown. Treasure items found in the UK are compulsory purchased by the state, not taken by the king. It's not a bad system in terms of practical results.
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
That is so much more than just patents. Vast engineering effort and process investment back up every "economy of scale". Unfortunately there is something about most e-ink designs so far that doesn't scale up in size very well
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
I've definitely met a lot of people who fail the GPT test.
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
To be honest, I think dynamic typing must contain a mind trap. Very smart people fall in.
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
Alert that can't be skipped? Un-ignorable hectoring about whatever they want you thinking about today, perhaps for political ends. Makes it even easier to turn warnings into mandates, and it's already too easy. Over-application, s
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
Why do we think there needs to be such a system? I don't. I'd rather delete the capability. The likelihood of bad uses overwhelms the slender possible benefits. Incidentally, in the UK the test messages could be opted out of, and
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
That's not very fair on clowns!
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by yetanotherloser 3y ago
Every database you've ever benefited from was started by someone who didn't heed this advice! That said, it's a hard job to do right and there are now databases of every different size made by people who are just much better

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