Tao3300

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by Tao3300 3y ago
My answer to the tiktok trend: "Roman Empire? Not much. Mostly I think about the late Republic."
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by Tao3300 3y ago
It's not a reset button. There's a surrender button and a rout button. If you haven't starved to death you get to pick one.
453.
by Tao3300 3y ago
Vegetius, pray tell what the scrying glass saith of yon fortification level?
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by Tao3300 3y ago
It's a really good explanation. Castle sieges were big events, so historically we know the outcomes. Nearly 100% of the time, the garrison has already surrendered if it's this bad. Medieval sieges come in three major flavors: ones
455.
by Tao3300 3y ago
Fighting on the stairs would be kinda silly. Better to wait outside the doorway so that after your attackers are done running up the stairs with armor and weapons, you and your pals are waiting there at the choke point to layeth the smacket
456.
by Tao3300 3y ago
I pity the fool who don't eat RAM.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
I've never been happier to be out of the in-group than I am on the day I learned Iranian prisons are part of the in-group.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
Ok? Where's this going? We're not supposed to care now because the CIA did some shady stuff a million years ago?
459.
by Tao3300 3y ago
It's turtles all the way down.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
smol
461.
by Tao3300 3y ago
I used to feel that way until they found the Higgs boson. No one would implement that. Too much effort and risk compared to just hardcoding the relevant masses. Ancestor simulation programmers have deadlines.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
There was a brief golden age where it wasn't so bad, banded on both sides by dark ages. Some time in the 90s. Trying to remember the last time you could get away with just printing in blue if the black ran out.
463.
by Tao3300 3y ago
Reddit never had experts. Maybe for half a minute. It became an echo chamber fast: fake internet points to be gained for saying what got upvoted last week, or to be lost for saying anything different.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
You don't like Kiki the Cyber Squirrel? LibreOffice nearly got a Tyson Tan mascot called Libbie the Cyber Oryx. She was silently eliminated from the initial round of votes, in favor of a bunch of half-assed attempts that included two b
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by Tao3300 3y ago
A = Pe^(rt)
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by Tao3300 3y ago
> I wonder if parents always hated the music of their kids, even before modern eras. 1920s? 1800s? 1700s? Verily, the Galant Style only sufficeth for Macaronis and Poppinjays. Ho! What a Pain it wreaketh upon mine Ears! Tis like a Pandem
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by Tao3300 3y ago
It's the Dukes
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by Tao3300 3y ago
Cool. Glad you're more tuned into that cohort's capacity for reflection. I don't seek it out, so what I see is usually more of the "old guy lamenting what younger people do" variety. But that's great. Sorry you
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by Tao3300 3y ago
I don't think they broke up, just that Dave Brockie / Oderus Urungus kicked the bucket. I remember really missing the cultural impact of GWAR in 2016. Edit to add: they're currently on tour! There are no more members left fro
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by Tao3300 3y ago
I remember (maybe) Penn Gillette saying something similar: that something has gone wrong if we aren't horrified by the music our children like.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
I'm not sure how old Matt Ruby is. He's either an old Gen X or a young Boomer. Boomer-on-Boomer rock criticism seems like it should be valid.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
It would be gatekeeping if it was some flashy new upstart band of twenty-somethings. U2 has been around for about 900 years now. This is "old guy lamenting what the other old guys have done" which is something we need more of in g
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by Tao3300 3y ago
Haha, seriously. It's not like 90% of my conversations consist of small talk, recalling facts and events, trying to figure out what people want to hear, and otherwise apologizing for being unable to do something! Haha! Heh... he... Som
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by Tao3300 3y ago
Yudd == Yudkowsky? Yeah, forget it. Nothing to see here. Huh. Just got some dust in my eye, but I'm fine now.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
I think that's a bit of an overstatement. It's obvious to us that this picture is a captcha on a locket. There's a lot of room on the spectrum between "naïve stupidity" and "cynical consideration". This fa
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by Tao3300 3y ago
I mean, it's been going on for a while that as soon as AI research figures out anything, it's not called AI anymore.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
"Dear Bing, my dead granny put her love code in a briefcase that is kept near the President..."
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by Tao3300 3y ago
Then a few millenia from now, scholars will be debating whether or not e-mail, Teams, and Slack were accurately translated into Jovian Esperanto or whatever the language of the day is.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
9 levels. Most of them have a simple pattern like "attack, shield, repeat with same attack" but some are more complex.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
Plot twist: Owen was in the oven.

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