Zanni

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by Zanni 5y ago
This person made a mistake which was 1) more likely due to the design of the vehicle (ride height) and 2) more deadly (nose shape). That's something better addressed through legislation (or other incentives) than individual responsibil
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by Zanni 5y ago
"Poison pen" (or poisoned pen) is the phrase the answer is punning on.
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by Zanni 5y ago
That's called variolation [0], and it was floated early on by some pundits, but not seriously. It faces the same sort of pushback as challenge trials. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variolation
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by Zanni 5y ago
As an aside, manual switchboards survived longer than you may think. My summer job in the 1980s was as a telephone operator on a manual switchboard. This was in California. I don't think they completed the switch to digital until the 9
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by Zanni 5y ago
There are a couple of publishers looking for writers (if you don't want to self-publish). The biggest general publisher I'm aware of is Choice of Games. [0] Unfortunately, they have the least interesting (to a programmer) scriptin
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by Zanni 5y ago
"Interface" is exactly the right word. You're never going to capture the feel of a parser-based game with a choice-based engine because the input is so limited. But don't mistake the limitations of the UI for the potenti
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by Zanni 5y ago
Are you in Hawaii? It's at the Temple Valley Shopping Center, across from the McDonald's drive-thru.
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by Zanni 5y ago
I've got one up [0] at the Spring Thing Festival of Interactive Fiction [1] that's a pretty straight-forward example of Ink. [0] https://www.springthing.net/2021/play_online/CopperCanyon/in... [1]
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by Zanni 5y ago
You're severely underestimating the complexity of choice-based games. Ink, for example, is Turing-complete (it features variables, looping and branching. (As is your description of "fancy CYOA books," for that matter--take th
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by Zanni 5y ago
Yeah, maybe. It really depends on your use case and the charging you have available to you. If you're mostly going back and forth to work and you can charge there, then definitely yes. If you drive a lot and you don't have acces
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by Zanni 6y ago
I like to think of iambic pentameter as something like a grid underlay. It's there to create organization, but it's not the focus of the presentation. If you hammer the rhythm, it's like blacking the lines of the grid and obs
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by Zanni 6y ago
Not mandatory to donate. Mandatory to make an explicit choice of whether to donate or not (neither opt-out nor opt-in).
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by Zanni 6y ago
Recommended up thread, but Feynman's QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter [0] is fantastic and very accessible. It's not particularly "up to date" (dating back to 1985), but it's not obsolete. [0] https:&#x2
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by Zanni 6y ago
A critique of "A Critique of the Open Letter Calling for the Removal of RMS": the author claims that Stallman's transphobia is down to Stallman proposing a set of singular, gender-neutral pronouns other than 'they',
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by Zanni 6y ago
The numbers don't make sense to me. Their annual report [0] says pre-tax income of $2 billion, not $2.8 billion (p41). Even if you disallow deducting interest expense and use operating income, that's still only $2.6 billion. Meanw
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by Zanni 6y ago
Here you go. Third result for me, searching for "ad for turbo pascal in byte magazine" (which is where I first remember seeing it): http://tech-insider.org/personal-computers/research/acrobat/...
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by Zanni 6y ago
I think Tesla has missed a bet in not trying harder to get other EV manufacturers onto their charging network. The Tesla charge connector is vastly superior to the CCS or ChaDeMo in size, weight and convenience, but at this point it's
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by Zanni 6y ago
Bertrand Meyer, creator of Eiffel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Meyer .
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by Zanni 6y ago
You can copy and paste unfamiliar words (or words in unfamiliar languages) into Google Translate and hit the speaker button to get a pronunciation.
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by Zanni 6y ago
This. It's not a money-making play; it's a catastrophic insurance policy.
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by Zanni 6y ago
Not really. Meat, fish, fruit, vegetables and most nuts are unprocessed, and there are people who argue that's exactly what you should eat and nothing more.
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by Zanni 6y ago
You should test drive one. I felt the same way as you, initially. I hate fiddling around with menus for things that should be tactile controls. What people don't realize, until they actually try one out, is that Teslas do have phys
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by Zanni 6y ago
A better way to think of this is because Tesla makes so much selling carbon offsets, they can afford to plow more of their profits into expansion.
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by Zanni 6y ago
Here's an overview: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/what-is-microsoft... . I think more interesting than "low code" is the stated goal of enabling "the full spectrum of development fr
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by Zanni 6y ago
I traded in an Audi TTS for my Tesla Model 3 Performance. The Model 3 has better range (300 miles vs. 200), faster charge time for my use case (I plug it in overnight and never have to visit a gas station), better performance, more storage
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by Zanni 6y ago
Of course. Mamet is suggesting that they could have survived the exhaustion, injury, cold, etc., if they hadn't given up. But their embarrassment at their predicament short-circuited their survival instinct. I'm reinforcing nray
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by Zanni 6y ago
I'm talking about stock investors. People tend to buy on anticipation, so the folks who get in early drive up the price for the folks who are waiting for a sure thing.
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by Zanni 6y ago
There's a great quote from the Mamet film The Edge : Most people lost in the wilds die of shame. "What did I do wrong? How could I have gotten myself into this?" And so they sit there and they ... die.
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by Zanni 6y ago
I'm mostly on board with your formulation, but I'd tweak it some. I'd say the thesis is: 1. Battery electric vehicles are the inevitable future, so you can invest now (when it's possibly too early) or invest later (whe
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by Zanni 6y ago
Olympic weightlifting. Seriously. Any physical exercise is going to be a great mood elevator, and weightlifting, due to its high skill requirements and relatively low volume, not as punishing on older athletes. Plus there's a lot of (s

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