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by cthalupa 2y ago
> I’ve always hated the 1 rep max mentality. Mostly saw it in high school with kids trying to out do each other, but it fails to promote strength. Knowing your 1RM is a fundamental necessity in non-RPE based strength training programs. I
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by cthalupa 2y ago
I'm predicting nothing. I replied to someone who asked for further clarification on how this theory is supposed to work. I haven't put enough thought into it to have strong feelings one way or the other - I'm just aware of th
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by cthalupa 2y ago
Rich kid's tuition and endowments from their families fund the school to a high level allowing them to pay for highly talented individuals and prestigious research. They might not do as well academically, but still get to trade on the
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by cthalupa 2y ago
Many polls focus on specific states to determine EV allocations, yes. The Economist's model does take into account state level polls.
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by cthalupa 2y ago
It's an incorrect statement. There are multiple viable paths to 270 and some do not include PA. PA is a big part of the more likely ones, though.
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by cthalupa 2y ago
1) Yes 2) The Economist's prior election models are still on their site, so you can judge for yourself. They don't have a huge history - 2020 was the first year they did a full model, I believe. 3) The level of confidence is basic
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by cthalupa 2y ago
> The page communicates over a websocket with a Julia program running on a server. That program does the calculations, generates the plots and the sound, and sends them back for insertion in the page. No files are created. The part of th
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by cthalupa 2y ago
We have a whole subheader on how AI is supposedly going to kill dGPUs, but the paragraph explains nearly nothing as to why. It doesn't even begin to contemplate the idea that if AI does continue to grow in ubiquity, there's even m
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by cthalupa 2y ago
I've never heard of anything remotely like that occurring in the restaurant industry and servers - but there are industries where the reach of someone would be important for hiring or booking them for a gig. In today's world, soci
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by cthalupa 2y ago
Simply put, a DM should not allow you to roll in that situation. You only roll for things you might possibly succeed at. If I had a player at my table say that, I'd simply reply "Your hammer bounces off of it with great force, but
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by cthalupa 2y ago
I think the discussion itself is kind of a weird one to have. Most of the author's point is about OD&D, but OD&D itself was a very short lived phenomenon. People pretty rapidly moved to either the AD&D or B/X line of p
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by cthalupa 2y ago
> They have guns and smoke powder in 5e and it just doesn't feel right. One of the settings for the game that became OD&D included far-future alien technology (Blackmoor), so there's long been precedent.
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by cthalupa 2y ago
> If you accumulate enough levels in D&D, you can destroy entire armies and tackle literal gods. This is largely an invention of modern D&D, though. This was 100% not the case in OD&D, or stock AD&D 1E. Splatbooks in 1E a
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by cthalupa 2y ago
> everyone seems to have a different perspective on what D&D even is. There's a variety of axis you could split it on, but if you wanted to look at the departure from low-fantasy adventurer's just trying to eek out an exist
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by cthalupa 2y ago
Nope, that is Basic/Expert, and eventually BECMI/Rules Cyclopedia. These were released in parallel with AD&D. In theory they catered to different playstyles, in practice it was largely to escape paying Arneson royalties. OD&am
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by cthalupa 2y ago
Basic/Expert (and the BECMI -> Rule Cyclopedia) line were parallel to AD&D. TSR claimed these were the rules meant for "Home" play and AD&D was meant for "Tournament" play. More plausibly, this was an att
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by cthalupa 2y ago
It's a very different way to play than most people get to experience now, and one that I think is a lot more fun! Ben Milton of Questing Beast has a great video on the concept - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slBsxmHs0
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by cthalupa 2y ago
This is largely an issue of definition. When Tolkien spoke of disliking allegories, he was largely referring to the medieval tradition - https://slate.com/culture/2016/05/an-allegory-is-not-the-sam... - where
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by cthalupa 2y ago
Chainmail drew heavily on LotR, in no small part because Chainmail was heavily influenced by 'Rules for Middle Earth,' and halflings were even explicitly called hobbits early on, there were explicitly balrogs, etc. Gygax himself l
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by cthalupa 2y ago
> The actual adventure was mostly determined by the setting (often premade) Hmm. I disagree. Greyhawk and Blackmoor were published fairly early in D&D's history, but the majority of games falling into premade settings didn'
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by cthalupa 2y ago
This is pretty much canonical. Gygax didn't lean into it as heavily as Arneson did, but Blackmoor was pretty explicitly a post-apocalyptic setting, with remnants of advanced or alien technology being ubiquitous. Flying cars, laser guns
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by cthalupa 2y ago
Early D&D didn't really make any sort of assumptions about technology level, either. Arneson's campaign was heavily implied to take place in a post-apocalyptic future - Blackmoor was full of advanced technology, including nucl
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by cthalupa 2y ago
> All of the players were part of a single squad, and working (and cooperating) as individuals for their own benefit. Sorry, I'm not sure if this is specifically referring to Chainmail or early D&D. If the latter, this is explic
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by cthalupa 2y ago
Hmm. I still play a mix of ADD 1E and Basic/Expert twice a week, and regularly re-read the 1E DMG. I think Gary has a lot of ideas about how D&D is best played, and is happy to share them, but between what's written in the DMG
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by cthalupa 2y ago
You appear to be replying to the co-founder of iFixit, so presumably he knows what he's talking about. https://www.ifixit.com/Document/CPMKU1yOZAYVXbpB/FixHub_Sold... What he says matches their documentation
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by cthalupa 2y ago
The problem is that bad tools can be a limiting factor, regardless of skill level. The more skilled you are the more likely you are able to compensate for bad tools, but you'd still be more productive with good ones. A knife that won&#
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by cthalupa 2y ago
Hmm. I'm far from an expert, but I have seen chefs at work in person in about a dozen michelin star places over the years, and in videos/books/etc. of many more. My anecdotal experiences have lead me to believe that no, the k
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by cthalupa 2y ago
~80% of the US claims to be able to swim, though I've found some sources that say only ~60% have the "five basic swimming skills," but they don't seem to provide any details around how they determined that vs. the people
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by cthalupa 2y ago
I regularly pick significantly less featured init systems over systemd whenever it is feasible, because systemd and it's related components have caused some of the largest amounts of work for me over the past decade. I don't reall
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by cthalupa 2y ago
> Is this an argument for Illumos over Linux, or for translating SMF to Linux? I'd certainly like that! I had spent some time working with Solaris a lifetime ago, and ran a good amount of SmartOS infrastructure slightly more recentl

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