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by Dove 2y ago
These are good attributes for code to have, but I would strenuously disagree that they are what makes code good . Harder to measure, but I would say more important, are softer qualities like being clear to read, safe to modify, easy to le
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by Dove 2y ago
I can't find the essay now, but I remember reading something from years and years ago: Bruce Schneier arguing that it made sense for airline pilots to go through security with everyone else, in spite of the silly appearance, because th
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by Dove 2y ago
Defense companies.
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by Dove 2y ago
Aim Assist falls into a category of cheats that are more or less undetectable and unavoidable over the internet: skill assists for something a computer does better than a human. How central these are to the game depends on the game. For
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by Dove 2y ago
I've seen those symbols in the cartoons for years! While it's fun to read the author's explanation, I never wondered about any sort of meaning behind them. I just figured someone who found humor in the bizarre and nonsensic
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by Dove 2y ago
This is an argument commonly raised in favor of a whole food diet: if what you're buying is recognizable, there's less room for tampering. Buying an apple, there could be pesticide residue on the skin, but buying applesauce, good
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by Dove 2y ago
I don't know how much of a problem this was in the rest of the FPS world, but in the Descent world in 96, 97, 98 - when keyboard only was a common choice, at least for beginners - there was trouble with keyboards detecting all the nece
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by Dove 2y ago
You could even write a script to traverse all the files in your bin directory and make all the aliases.
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by Dove 2y ago
There is a lot of research done on the topic. A fun exercise is to enter a random vegetable or spice into the search box at pubmed. It's amazing how often you'll find something like cinnamon or beets in trials for the treatment
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by Dove 2y ago
I don't think it's advertising that's inherently evil. Like government, it's a good thing, even a needed thing. People need laws and courts, and buyers and sellers need to be able to connect. It turns evil in the prese
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by Dove 2y ago
I'm sorry for your troubles. I too have a lot of experience with the danger of being swallowed up by medical demons. CORBA isn't really a solution, and I don't really think Medicare[1] is either writ large (though it certai
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by Dove 2y ago
Well, the conclusion of this study appears to be that it doesn't. Or rather, if I'm reading this right, they're saying the increase in deaths due to skin cancer is just a statistical artifact: more women in the sun exposure
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by Dove 2y ago
I thought the books matched the atmosphere and quality of the games very well. They didn't read to me at all like merchandising, but rather as an expression of the same artistic vision in another medium. I remember reading one as a t
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by Dove 2y ago
That's not a serious question. It's a sloppy and unfair assertion that is something you would only say if you'd already made up your mind. The wealthy are not a monolith - they are people. Judging one for the actions of an
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by Dove 2y ago
... support policies that punish and ultimately eliminate rich people. Privately rich people have the power to change the world, sometimes for good and sometimes for evil. The dream is to eliminate the Bill Gateses, Elon Musks, Donald Trum
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by Dove 2y ago
Oh! Or when they do, it involves a 35 acre lake. https://betterbuildingssolutioncenter.energy.gov/showcase-pr...
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by Dove 2y ago
> I wonder how big a geothermal system would have to be to be an effective heat sink for a data center. Ah. 500 feet of pipe per 3.5 kW. That might be why they don't do it that way. XD
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by Dove 2y ago
Building on permafrost is actually tricky with just residential levels of heat - houses are sometimes built on stilts in order to avoid melting the ground under them and making it unstable. But I like where your head is at. Maybe an offsho
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by Dove 2y ago
That's exactly what I'm trying to say! By virtue of its being able to seriously injure you, software controlling an insulin pump is safety-critical software. This should make it more like an airliner's fly-by-wire system th
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by Dove 2y ago
Well, yeah. Controlling things with an app may seem like a sensible and efficient design given that the user already has a phone, but it seems outrageous to pull a whole phone's worth of complexity into the problem from a safety or se
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by Dove 2y ago
While I don't have a good way to articulate it, it does seem to me that the modern software development style which involves an explosion in complexity, either in terms of dependencies or infrastructure or both, in order to make develo
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by Dove 2y ago
I had the opposite reaction. This didn't look that hard. Then again, I have a lot of experience in two related contexts: I like timing-oriented video games, and I am a musician. The game show movements look to me to take about a quart
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by Dove 2y ago
Sorry - didn't mean to offend. I know unsolicited advice on the topic is unwelcome, and I don't exactly mean that I think I can solve your problems. More like, you seem frustrated by simple explanations, and I wanted to point yo
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by Dove 2y ago
I always hated running, but I had always been doing it for exercise. Perversely, this meant if I moved inefficiently and made the movement harder, I was doing better. I characterized running as "competitive suffering". No pain
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by Dove 2y ago
I'm sorry to hear about your troubles. I have occasionally shared them. :( If you're interested, I do have a recommendation for you. For my money, Joel Greene is the best scientific thinker on the topic of diet and health, and
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by Dove 2y ago
I suppose there's a numerics take on the situation: Epsilon times negative infinity is so poorly conditioned that we procedurally set it to zero until we can get some real numbers.
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by Dove 2y ago
Oh! I think I know what's going on here. This isn't a logical argument so much as it is a heuristic - and I think it's a very functional one. Consider Pascal's Wager. Should you follow God? Consider the consequences.
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by Dove 2y ago
1996. I'm 14 years old. My best friend and I are obsessed with the new big game, Descent. My city suffers a massive freezing rain storm that coats everything in ice. Power is out almost everywhere. School is cancelled. My neighbo
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by Dove 2y ago
OP may be thinking of Tyndale. He printed the Bible in English for the first time, making it accessible to a much broader range of people. (Gutenberg's was in Latin). That together with the fact that he was executed for heresy leads
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by Dove 2y ago
> Never understood why this concept didn’t become a whole genre. The subgenre is called 6DOF, and it does have games. But I agree it's not as big as it could be, and that the magic hasn't really been recaptured. Game developer

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