MFLoon

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by MFLoon 7y ago
I'm very pro OSS, but I don't think this actually makes sense. Other open source, non-free software is usually a general purpose piece of software expected to be licensed out to many users and run in a variety of environments, for
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by MFLoon 7y ago
Not that Microsoft Flight Sim or X-Plane aren't awesome and relatively high fidelity simulators, but I don't think that's a feasible QA loop, as a) they're not simulating all flight systems on a 1:1 basis, b) even if the
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by MFLoon 7y ago
I mean, though it's a variation on the "if you don't have anything to hide..." apology, you really shouldn't be having security sensitive group chats anyway.
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by MFLoon 7y ago
The fixed stack size doesn't really discount anything to me - it makes sense as an experimental control; and it's a cash game so there's no additional risk to going all in regardless of stack size. But yea the sample size is
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by MFLoon 7y ago
You're right that a single short stack hand in a vacuum has fewer game tree branches, and that factoring in chip utility is also fairly straightforward. But I strongly disagree that it reduces the overall complexity of the game. The mo
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by MFLoon 7y ago
Yea I'm not saying it's impossible to devise an unexploitable flop donking strategy. I think the reason thinking players generally don't is because of the complexity of adding significantly more branches early in the game tre
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by MFLoon 7y ago
Oh, sure. I more meant flop donk bets; I guess it doesn't specify which street the donking was happening.
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by MFLoon 7y ago
Ah thanks. As I suspected, cash game with fixed 100bb stacks.
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by MFLoon 7y ago
I also suspect it would not be able to maintain a ~40bb/100 hand win rate. The thing about human players is, while the best are capable of learning and employing truly balanced GTO strategies, in practice they rarely adhere to these be
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by MFLoon 7y ago
When human players donk bet it's almost always a weak player employing an extremely exploitable strategy, whereas pros almost never do it because the metagame has evolved around the presumption that nobody ever donk bets. I'd love
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by MFLoon 7y ago
I couldn't find it confirmed in the primary or secondary article, but I would bet the bot is just playing cash at a fixed stack depth rather than a tournament; just like in the wild, bots are much more of a problem in online cash than
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by MFLoon 7y ago
I think you're both right. It's very dilute, but even so it's many orders of magnitude bigger than the counter-examples you give, and even given the dubious content you have to wade through, the absolute volume of high qualit
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by MFLoon 7y ago
Not to be a pessimist, but just because a software error never caused a catastrophic space shuttle accident doesn't necessarily mean that the software actually was safe and secure.
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by MFLoon 7y ago
> Strength regimens basically all work, as long as you eat enough and increase the weight Agreed, but I'd also contend that for a total beginner (which is the context SSLP comes up in), choosing a well structured program that will a
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by MFLoon 7y ago
In response to some of the endorsements of Starting Strength/Stronglifts on this post, I'd like to advocate for an alternative source of strength training information, Barbell Medicine, https://www.barbellmedicine.com&#
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by MFLoon 7y ago
I'd contend that the very notion of muscular imbalance as pathology is somewhat in the realm of bro science. It's not that the mechanical descriptions in the article are inaccurate - weak abdominals will negatively impact your squ
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by MFLoon 7y ago
Coincidentally I was recently working on a project of localizing my company's product into Japanese, and the client who had requested the project asked if we could also address the name ordering issue. It turned out to be pretty non-tr
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by MFLoon 7y ago
That's a... strange thing to "totally vehemently disagree" with. For one, it's not an option for everyone, particularly the less able bodied. But more importantly, being the weak link in sports team can actually be a ver
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by MFLoon 7y ago
> The difference is it's (often) incredibly obvious that a building isn't safe the moment you step into it. This is just not true. If anything, our "danger detectors" probably give off an equal amount of false positiv
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by MFLoon 7y ago
I agree - being a pilot and a programmer is neither a necessary nor sufficient condition for being able to diagnose and solve an issue in a system as complex as a modern airliner. In fact I don't think any individual is capable of doin
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by MFLoon 8y ago
Hmm... or it's just proving that the coffee has more power over me.
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by MFLoon 8y ago
I'm not super familiar with how ETFs work, but I'm guessing the parallel would be ETFs as ABC players making safe, low variance plays, while the actively managed funds would be a pro looking to capture all of their equity edges, r
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by MFLoon 8y ago
GP was just distinguishing behind two kinds of bad luck - getting "cold decked" is being set up, where you're going to lose a massive pot no matter what because you get a huge hand when someone else has a better one. More gar
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by MFLoon 8y ago
That doesn't really sound anything like misdirected stoicism... that's just being a garden variety asshole.
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by MFLoon 8y ago
Sadly you're mistaken. Not many current American adults experienced them growing up even though school shootings have been happening for decades, but in recent years they've started to become as commonplace as fire drills in Ameri
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by MFLoon 8y ago
Greenhouse effect, ozone depletion, poisoning the hydrosphere and biosphere, etc; not going to dignify the question with further details. I don't understand why one wouldn't believe in the environmental dangers of conventional ene
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by MFLoon 8y ago
When we burn fossil fuels a huge volume of hazardous waste just goes into the environment, and we know what it does then. With nuclear there is also a huge volume of hazardous waste, but at least it remains spatially consolidated and in our
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by MFLoon 8y ago
I don't think Hanlon's razor should be applied to multi-billion dollar corporate persons. Private individuals, even small to medium sized institutions with limited resources and unproven levels of competence, are fair applicants t
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by MFLoon 8y ago
[nit] It was some dudes from the US and two Serbs (who are green card residents of the US and work for a security firm here).
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by MFLoon 8y ago
Are attacks on air gapped systems more likely to be uncovered though? Having it isolated makes auditing/alerting harder too, and could instill an overconfidence in the security of said system.

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