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by T-hawk 6y ago
But be careful about which way the causation goes. More guns don't cause less crime; more crime causes anti-gun measures.
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by T-hawk 6y ago
You're correct, in that given a board state the right move can always be exhaustively computed, because the game has no randomness or hidden information. But enough computing power doesn't exist on the planet to iterate through a
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by T-hawk 6y ago
The problem with prohibiting hate speech is that you can prohibit any speech by calling it hate.
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by T-hawk 6y ago
It is the result of the free market of news. Bad news drives out good, just as bad money drives out good. (Bad as in quality, not as in pessimistic. Bad meaning emotional and inciteful rather than informative and constructive. Humans hav
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by T-hawk 6y ago
There may well have been a bigger delta in usage from Sunday Jan 3 to Monday Jan 4 2021, than for any particular pair of days in March-April 2020. Of course 2020 saw an increase, but it was smeared over a week or a month rather than being a
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by T-hawk 6y ago
Yes, but not right away. It took a while for the knowledge and processes to become established. Piracy wasn't what sank the Dreamcast. By the time piracy became commonplace, roughly mid-late 2000, the DC was already pretty obviously
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by T-hawk 6y ago
Right, the doubling cube is what sets apart the good players. For every possible state, there is an expected value of your outcome, from the current state averaged over all possible continuations of the game or match, if you make perfect mo
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by T-hawk 6y ago
> If you're going to move where you live or significantly alter where you spend you time because of 0.4% of things above 30M, that's a real sign of just how far American greed has gone. I would say this isn't any different
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by T-hawk 6y ago
I'll give you more detail of one way to use that trick then. The single-bit missile and ball objects are turned on or off by writing to their activation register, controlled by bit 1 of that register. Why bit 1, why not 0 or 7? Beca
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by T-hawk 6y ago
Yes. It's really that everything exists in both pages. The video registers exist at 0x00 through 0x3F and the RAM is at 0x80 through 0xFF, both in zero-page for the fast access instructions and in page 1 for the stack pointer. It&#x2
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by T-hawk 6y ago
Multiplexing on the 2600 can't go nearly as far as that screenshot shows. The 2600 has two sprites per line plus a few single-bit objects. There's a particular way to reuse sprites within the same scanline, but only at certain f
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by T-hawk 6y ago
2600 cartridges can contain any amount of extra RAM or even CPU hardware. But this pretty well isn't real. There's no way you could drive a workable Ethernet connection just from an RF output. Also the "screenshot" is
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by T-hawk 6y ago
On the 2600, you can use a fourth register, the stack pointer. The 2600 as a machine has no interrupts, so if a section of code doesn't push/pop/call anything, stack memory is never touched and you can do whatever you want w
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by T-hawk 6y ago
Minor nitpick, that episode is Voyager, not Next Generation. And it was directly inspired by Dragon's Egg.
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by T-hawk 6y ago
Well, there's the selection/survivorship bias there: You only see what was deemed notable. The stuff that wasn't isn't there for you to see. (Unless you specifically go looking for it, in discussions about what was dele
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by T-hawk 6y ago
3% chance in a given year. And for how many years when it didn't happen have we been running this many lotteries? Probably right around 33.
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by T-hawk 6y ago
Our sun is exceptionally stable - it has no close encounters with other stars that might disrupt planetary orbits, which does happen in galactic nuclei or globular clusters. We are in that nice little stable oasis.
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by T-hawk 6y ago
They all cross the antipode, but not at the same time. There is no point where they all meet at the same time, if the planet is oblate rather than spherical, or has other irregularities in pressure or temperature or surface terrain.
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by T-hawk 6y ago
There is the anthropic principle regarding that last: if the star wasn't typical and stable, life wouldn't have developed here to observe it.
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by T-hawk 6y ago
It wouldn't be simultaneous. The difference in great-circle lengths based on nonspherical oblateness (tens of miles) would account for up to a minute difference in arrival times at the antipode. At most it would be a sustained rumbli
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by T-hawk 6y ago
+1 for the TI-99/4A, that was my introduction to computers and Basic too. I spent quite some hours typing in program listings from computer magazines from the library... none of which had versions for the TI or ever worked in the TI&#
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by T-hawk 6y ago
This is correct, Jennings said (a while back but probably still true) that he doesn't want it. Short version: he doesn't want to uproot his family from Seattle to LA or have to commute between them. He also doesn't really w
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by T-hawk 6y ago
You might want to clarify that this is a devil's-advocate kind of point. I thought at first you were serious and apparently so did someone else.
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by T-hawk 6y ago
This is it. The social media depression effect is that you're always comparing yourself to the top of the bell curve rather than the middle. Suppose you have 52 friends who all go on vacation one week out of the year. Every week yo
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by T-hawk 6y ago
Self-selection. The women who aren't chasing the top 10% find a workable match sooner and remove themselves from the pool. It's the same adverse-selection effect as "why are all my job candidates terrible?" Because you
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by T-hawk 6y ago
Yes, your last paragraph is my natural position, with the elbows farther out. 'wefv' exaggerates the effect to demonstrate; the real position is about halfway between 'wefv' and 'sdfv'.
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by T-hawk 6y ago
Am I the only one who just keeps their hands/wrists straight on a regular unsplit keyboard? I've always naturally done this and never had any problems with strain. The best way to describe it is that the home keys aren't ASD
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by T-hawk 6y ago
Also network effects. Facebook and Twitter aren't king because of their scalability, they're king because you use Facebook/Twitter to connect with the two billion people who are already on Facebook/Twitter. Not even Go
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by T-hawk 6y ago
That has nothing to do with HTML. That's an HTTP header. This thread has a surprising amount of not knowing the difference between HTML and HTTP. The original post is entirely about HTML and does not involve HTTP transmission at all.
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by T-hawk 6y ago
If it's truly a Sid Meier product, once you start, you'll keep doing one-more-page until it's suddenly sunrise :)

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