Taikonerd

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by Taikonerd 3mo ago
> With this news, I have to wonder how much longer bluray will live. I hope that physical media sticks around. DVDs and Blu-rays often include something that digital releases don't: director's commentaries, "making of&q
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by Taikonerd 4mo ago
Does the Mexican residency have to do with the AI stuff that the article mentions? Or just about making your retirement money stretch further? Or something else?
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by Taikonerd 4mo ago
> I’m surprised to not see more commentary on this one. I agree -- this is big news, but the thread only has 21 comments?! When the Trump admin kinda-sorta banned Fable a week ago, it seemed like it might be a one-off event: handicappi
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by Taikonerd 4mo ago
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48526633
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by Taikonerd 4mo ago
> Turning this essay into a song in the style of 2000's Hip Hop? It used to be hard Have you listened to the song he links? It's very convincing. If you were just casually listening to it in the grocery store, you wouldn&#x
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by Taikonerd 5mo ago
Maybe "social capital"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_capital
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by Taikonerd 5mo ago
> The signature declares types, preconditions, postconditions, and effects. The compiler verifies the contract via SMT solver. This reminds me of Dafny: https://dafny.org/ Actually, that's an interesting question:
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by Taikonerd 6mo ago
I'm very in favor of high-speed rail, in general. But I remember when the price tag had jumped to "only" $100B, and that was already considered a scandal. At some point the state has to say, "our requirements are making
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by Taikonerd 6mo ago
I wish the rules were trimmed down a little. I feel like there's a really lovely tight game under all the accumulated house rules and finicky stuff. And the existing rules tend to scare off newbies. Interestingly, an experienced play
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by Taikonerd 6mo ago
The article is smarter than the title makes it sound. He's not seriously proposing that being rich makes you happy. And he notes that there's a big drop around 2020 specifically , which long-term trends don't explain. Just
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by Taikonerd 6mo ago
> Games ship with "6 expansions in box" which sounds great [...] until you realize that they're poorly playtested, lack balance, and add a confounding (and sometimes contradictory) number of rules. Hot take: I have never
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by Taikonerd 6mo ago
It's interesting that you said "how to beat me." You also get better as you play the game more, right? So it could be you learning how to beat them ;-)
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by Taikonerd 6mo ago
Agreed that Captain Sonar is awesome, if you can find 7 other players that are into it. It's a rare thing: a real-time board game. No turns!
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by Taikonerd 6mo ago
In support of Dominion: there are a million expansions that add new cards and mechanics.
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by Taikonerd 6mo ago
It's very similar; they're all "social deduction" games.
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by Taikonerd 6mo ago
I love the word "nerdgeist!"
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by Taikonerd 6mo ago
Sure, there are lots of good lightweight card games. For example: * Skull: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/92415/skull * Cockroach Poker: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/11971/co
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by Taikonerd 6mo ago
I'm thinking of breaking up with my local board game Meetup. The reason why is: everybody there has board game ADD! I've been coming for 2 years, but we never play the same game twice; someone always brings the Hot New Game of th
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by Taikonerd 6mo ago
What workflow do you use to backup Blu-rays? I was looking into this before, and I couldn't find anything convenient...
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by Taikonerd 7mo ago
> The US passed laws meant to limit marketing and overhead that tied insurers economics to the size of the overall medical bill... which means as healthcare spending rises, the dollars they’re allowed to retain can rise too, which basic
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by Taikonerd 7mo ago
I think the root problem is fee-for-service. Doctors and other providers bill for each individual thing they do. But that means that their incentive is to do as much as possible , so they can quickly rack up billable codes. It's like
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by Taikonerd 7mo ago
> You are extremely close to arriving at the solution, which is medicare for all. Cover everyone, then almost noone uses the insurance except when they need it Most Medicare recipients do get supplementary private insurance though?
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by Taikonerd 7mo ago
> We can still have your employer provide a X% or $Y to an HSA account that the employee can buy health coverage wherever they like. (I'm not optimistic that this will ever happen politically) Doesn't this already partly exis
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by Taikonerd 7mo ago
I feel like this article ends just as it's starting to get going ;-) In the COBOL modernization space, I want to highlight Mechanical Orchard[0]. Their analysis tools can trace the execution of individual jobs, and decompose a complex
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by Taikonerd 8mo ago
Hi Maximilian -- nice to hear from you! I'm sad to hear that about LLMs. I sometimes wonder if the software world is going to be "locked into" our existing languages, because it's what the LLMs can work with. FWIW, I th
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by Taikonerd 8mo ago
Sure, but they never intended to support everything you can do in SQL. For example, they say on the Roadmap page that they're only going to support SELECTs -- there won't be a PRQL way to do an INSERT, UPDATE, etc.
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by Taikonerd 8mo ago
Google's "pipe syntax" is a similar idea: [0] It's not as elegant as PRQL, because of course it's bolted onto the existing SQL syntax, rather than a redesign from scratch. But it has a big name behind it, and it&#x
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by Taikonerd 8mo ago
Is this project stalling out? The last post on the "posts" page is from March 2023. But the last commit to the git repo was last week...
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by Taikonerd 8mo ago
I've only listened to the French revolution, but it was absolutely electrifying. I would listen on my car ride home -- one day I burst through the door to my house and yelled "CHARLOTTE CORDAY MURDERED MARAT!!!" at my wife l
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by Taikonerd 8mo ago
True. Institutions like that have a lot of momentum, and they sometimes outlive their original rationale. But on the other hand, Russian aggression is back in the headlines these days...

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