PhasmaFelis

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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
Three, actually! They even had a bit of continuity. In the first game you have to escape the embassy by plane before a bomb goes off, in the second your plane crashes on a volcanic island and you have to escape by submarine before it erupts
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
> Cortesy of ChatGPT: Can we not, please? At the very least not unless you personally have the knowledge to confirm that ChatGPT didn't make any mistakes, as it did here.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
There may not have been any. Individual app-store reviewers can block you any time they feel like it, the guy checking your appeal is the same, and none of them have any real pressure to behave unless you have money and corporate power behi
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
If you make, say, a webcomic, a big publisher is not allowed to collect and print your comic, or republish it on their ad-riddled website, unless they get your permission and offer whatever compensation you demand. They also can't copy
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
"Why should child porn be illegal? It's just a pattern of bits on a computer!" Describing a reasonable legal principle in terms of physics phenomena does not make it unreasonable.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
> This Jeff Geerling which I have never heard of This guy doesn't have 1/10000 of the relevance Metallica had at the time It's weird that you seem to think a person's level of fame is relevant to a discussion of their
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
Then you'd be able to prove that you actually did that, for one.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
I was gonna say, the same thing that happened to all the western PC platforms that weren't Microsoft or Apple. Commodore and Atari and Acorn and Sinclair and Dragon and probably dozens of others I've never heard of. As computers b
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
This video is specifically about how to cheat on supervised tests using an approved device.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
The "clear uprights" feature is something I've been shouting about for a long time. It's inexcusable that commonly-used fonts like Verdana (right here on HN) can't distinguish between l and I.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
My original example was going to be, a young person reading an adult book with a large vocabulary. I decided that might come off as rude, so I changed it, and maybe lost some impact. Put more bluntly: having a reading disability does not o
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
That sounds very unpleasant. I'm sorry. With all respect, though, I think we can agree that that's an issue with the reader, not the writer? If I read a novel with a lot of Vietnamese characters and locations, say, I might well ha
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
That maybe very well be true, but it still doesn't indicate any problem with the McCaffrey sentence. Also note that it's the start of the second chapter, so some of those nouns may have been introduced already.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
I can't remember the details, but sometime in the '70s or '80s a sci-fi magazine ran a contest: take a short text (something like "a man gets onto a bus and notices another man wearing an unusual hat") and rewrite i
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
> it has four, going on five, esoteric proper nouns in one sentence. it's not hard to parse, but it isn't something I love reading either. Even so. If the sentence was something like "Kowalski's Mosquito soared high a
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
IIRC, dragonriders always elide part of their name, and indicate the gap with an apostrophe. It's consistent and explained in the text at some point.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
Can you name some? I know they exist, but in my experience 99% of them are small personal blogs maintained as a hobby. In 2024, it is practically impossible to focus on solid journalism and turn a profit, and every site I've seen try
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
This kinda reminds me of a middle school English teacher I had who insisted on receiving both a rough draft and (a couple days later) a final draft, which had to be different, because there had to be at least some grammar/spelling mi
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
If it's obvious that my boss' interests are far out of line with my own and he's fine with that, "us-versus-them" is simply the truth. The fact that he can rattle off a complex-sounding but empty justification doesn
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
"A handful of employees might not be performing to spec, and we can't be bothered to find a good way to measure that, so let's screw over hundreds and hundreds of good employees instead" is still basically malice.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
I thought "pie-eyed" was specifically where there's a triangular "shine"/cutout from the black pupil, like a pie with one slice removed. Your first example has solid black eyes.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
Not as much as you'd think. D&D's conception of elves, dwarves, and halflings was straight out of Tolkien, and...that was very nearly it as far as really unique elements (barring a few monster names and specific magic items, o
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
Upthread, bayindirh posted half a dozen examples of financially-motivated decisions that were actively, deliberately hostile, sometimes fatal, to the customer. We're not just talking about good-enough fiddly details here.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
There's a lot more slumlords than you may realize. Plenty of scummy property management firms, too. I suspect they far outnumber your nice guy landlords. Kind of depressing that the grandparent comment got people angry enough to flag i
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
"Unemployed landowner" is a pretty funny job status.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
What, exactly, do you want to do that wouldn't be allowed in the Culture?
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
That's no worse than how the large majority of humans live now, under masters far less caring than the Culture Minds. The fact that our masters are humans like us, and I could, theoretically (but not practically), become one of them,
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
That's no worse than how the large majority of humans live now, under masters far less kind and caring than the Culture Minds. The fact that our masters are humans like us, and I could, theoretically (but not practically), become one
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
Are you saying that Mondragon is a failure because you found the local architecture disappointing?
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
That doesn't change the fact that it's near-universally used as an excuse to underpay workers.

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