bamfly

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by bamfly 3y ago
Mono Papyrus next? (I find no sign of such a thing existing, with a search)
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by bamfly 3y ago
"One more turn/match" is bad enough for sleep & life when it's not supercharged by actual gambling mechanics designed by a team of professionals to keep you playing. Yeesh.
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by bamfly 3y ago
Set up store on device before kids, or when they're very young and not gaming. Do not set require-password because putting it in with a controller for every single should-be-locked-to-kids action is very slow and annoying. Forget to ch
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by bamfly 3y ago
Lost about $100 a while back because my 8-year-old didn't realize he was spending real money in some F2P game on an at-the-time unlocked PS5 (though I didn't realize it was so unlocked that you didn't need a password to make
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by bamfly 3y ago
Jellyfin user here. Started on Roku, moved to a Shield because I needed more codecs (my server's too weak to live-transcode anything above ~720p) and wanted to get there cheap. Should have just gone straight to the AppleTV, which is wh
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by bamfly 3y ago
Looking back on high school, no wonder I was so damn bad at it and hated it so much. And depressed all the time. And probably picked up SAD that took me a decade beyond it to shake. I'd quit a job as soon as I could find another, if it
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by bamfly 3y ago
One contributes to building a public institution accessible to all, and the other does not. I'm also OK with taxes for public libraries, but wouldn't like my taxes going toward vouchers to help people pay for access to private lib
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by bamfly 3y ago
OK, yeah, I think we're basically in agreement. The core problem is that the effective route to massive improvements in equality of access to quality public education is basically "solve poverty, and concentrations of poverty&quot
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by bamfly 3y ago
> By grouping parents with like-minded parents, we'll amplify groups and clusters, leading to not only further stratification but also further decoupling society and greater inequality. This effect is super obvious if you've
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by bamfly 3y ago
Sure. Lots of people have ideas or preferences I think are terrible. I hope they lose at the ballot box. [EDIT] To make this more substantive: I think there's a distinct difference between collectively funding a public system, and redi
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by bamfly 3y ago
The funding thing's a red herring. The best-funded schools in my state, with by far the highest spending per pupil, excluding special cases (e.g. schools that are also correctional institutions or otherwise not an ordinary school, so o
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by bamfly 3y ago
Yeah, I'm OK paying taxes to get to live in a society with universally-available (mostly) fee-free primary and secondary education that aspires to some set of standards. I'm not OK paying taxes to help Bobby Baptist send his kids
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by bamfly 3y ago
Yeah—but part of the reason for this is because we aren't capable of addressing the actual causes of educational inequality (among other forms...) which have very little to do with schools. Instead we focus on schools and ask them to d
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by bamfly 3y ago
I think a new rise of trusted publishers is more likely than professional information-vetting services/jobs becoming widespread. It's sort-of the same thing, I guess, but with the due diligence up front rather than trying to sort
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by bamfly 3y ago
Right—I'm sure they won some business because they were actually a better experience in some ways, but I've ridden in like three taxis ever in my nearly 40 years on this planet, and never in the place where I live, but have take
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by bamfly 3y ago
I just mass-bookmark mine into a new bookmark folder periodically. Keeps it from getting anywhere near 2k. I've been doing this for years and have never , not once, looked at the bookmarks. But it gives me the peace of mind I need to
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by bamfly 3y ago
Interesting, thanks for the context. [EDIT] Worth noting that (and, yes, I checked Wikipedia because I don't trust my mental timeline on this) US aid dates back to 2011, before even that 2012 article about Euro allies agitating for int
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by bamfly 3y ago
US intervention turned Syria from a relatively quick civil war (to be won by Assad and his Russian pals) to a conflict of interminable duration. Elements of the fight against Assad were connected to groups arising from the chaos in Iraq, in
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by bamfly 3y ago
You're not wrong. They pulled the A ports way too early. I upgrade more aggressively than a normal user (though less than a real cutting-edge enthusiast) and have only recently passed the 50/50 mark for devices in semi-regular u
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by bamfly 3y ago
Stories of people's hundreds- to thousands-of-applications journeys make it on here what seems like a couple times per year, pretty consistently. All I can figure is I've been in a totally different part of the market from these f
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by bamfly 3y ago
Similar here, 20+ year career. I think it's because I've never targeted the FAANG tier. Started in the low hump of the trimodal dev comp distribution before I'd ever heard of it, noticed there was a middle hump and moved into
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by bamfly 3y ago
Heh—my favorite prose Odyssey's kinda a bad one, from many perspectives, as it's an even less a literal rendering than most: TE Lawrence's 1932 translation (publishing as TE Shaw—you might find it under either name). It'
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by bamfly 3y ago
> Any specific reasons why? I don't think it reads very smoothly, and Butler adopts a kind of archaic tone (even for the time, I mean—not just that the translation is, itself, now old) that does more harm than good to the text. Not
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by bamfly 3y ago
I wouldn't defend it as the best , but I'm personally a fan of TE Lawrence's 1932 translation, writing as TE Shaw. Odyssey only—he didn't translate the Iliad.
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by bamfly 3y ago
I read Butler's Iliad (mercifully, with the gods' names restored to Greek by an editor) and concur—avoid. It's often the case that there are multiple still-covered-by-copyright translations of ancient texts (and sometimes m
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by bamfly 3y ago
Flash is to web dev as Excel is to desktop applications: it "sucks" but is also arguably the single best tool the entire field has produced. The technologies that might replace Flash are "better" but also so much worse t
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by bamfly 3y ago
It's more like a math major speculating on some possible route to a proof of a hard problem without having dug specifically into the literature on that problem in particular, such that there's a good chance they're barking
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by bamfly 3y ago
Vonnegut wasn't "a nihilist" (not... many people are, really? Approximately zero? Not in some all-encompassing sense, anyway—"I'm a nihilist" usually means subscribing to some philosophy that features nihilisti
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by bamfly 3y ago
"Being" a nihilist is kind of a weird idea anyway. It's more a feature of (parts of) various other world-views or approaches to certain aspects of philosophy, than, like, some thing all its own. Pessimists, broadly, are close
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by bamfly 3y ago
There exist multiple good, free encyclopedias of philosophy online: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/life-meaning/#Nihi https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/nihilism/v-1

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