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by db48x 4mo ago
Humans are fundamentally irrational. Studies with chimps have proven exactly how irrational we are. One classic experiment has the reseacher give the chimps tokens in exchange for simple tasks, like finding a pebble and bringing it to the r
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by db48x 4mo ago
I was reminded more of the alien AI from Constellation Games, which spawned sub sub sub agents to interview humans. The protagonist sends a message to the aliens asking to be allowed to review the alien civilization’s computer games. An AI
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by db48x 4mo ago
Well, I dunno. Sometimes the fix speaks for itself but the other party is as dumb as a box of rocks and doesn’t understand. It can be hard to tell the difference.
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by db48x 4mo ago
This is not true; there are quite a few people with guns who have never killed anyone, and quite a few people without guns who found a way to kill someone anyway. Poison, knives, hammers, rocks, windows, their bare hands. You name it someon
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by db48x 4mo ago
I have watched literally zero ads on Youtube since I installed uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock many years ago. If it’s a continuous fight then it’s one that adblockers continuously win.
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by db48x 4mo ago
Yea, I suppose if you gave the land to an organization dedicated to building parks then you could reasonably expect to get a park out of it. Of course, they might decide to build a garage to house and maintain their fleet of mowing and gard
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by db48x 4mo ago
I live in Oregon. The price was $900/month last time I checked. I believe they do provide a QSFP+ module to plug into your equipment. They also allow residential customers, at any tier of service, to announce their own IP blocks via BG
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by db48x 4mo ago
Yea, fiber is great. They can do hundreds of terabits/s per fiber today, and petabits/s is not far away. Bandwidth is fundamentally cheap enough that my ISP offers 50Gbps residential service!
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by db48x 4mo ago
If you want a park, then build a park. Don’t give away the land and hope someone else builds a park.
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by db48x 4mo ago
He means people who supported Trump. It’s not a very accurate description of them, but he has a point otherwise.
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by db48x 4mo ago
Another terrible name.
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by db48x 4mo ago
No, Kessler syndrome is pretty unlikely in this case. All of the guilty satellites are in Molniya orbits. Debris from destroying them would not greatly effect geosynchronous orbit or the low earth orbits used by Starlink.
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by db48x 4mo ago
Royce’s paper has a critical flaw. It assumes that a released system can be put into operation once and then run forever. There are cases where this is true, but real life offers more variation than that. In the case of the Luminary, the in
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by db48x 4mo ago
> Stripping out all the [critical] proprietary components would leave the game in a non-functional state. Correct. This is why I said that there would be multiple responses depending on the type of component. Many proprietary components
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by db48x 4mo ago
LOL. You’d need thousands of acres of solar panels to provide power for a single data center. Of course the exact area needed depends on what part of the world you’re in, but are you going to put up with 4 square miles of solar panels in y
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by db48x 4mo ago
Small power plants are less efficient and more polluting than larger ones. They are also harder to inspect and certify on a regular schedule. A single 1GW power facility in your county is much better than 10000 small power plants, one for e
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by db48x 4mo ago
Why do you think that? 99% of Americans have probably never even heard of it.
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by db48x 4mo ago
There’s no reason that has to be a serious impediment. Just release all of the components, plus a terraform file that sets it all up properly. In practice a lot of those components can be simplified when you don't have to support a hug
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by db48x 4mo ago
You only need that fancy database when you have lots of users. When you release a server binary that anyone can run it doesn’t need to support quite so many. Have a compile–time flag that excludes the fancy database when set, and have it fa
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by db48x 4mo ago
If the this law or something similar had been passed before step 2, then Developer B made a mistake. If the law passed after the game was released, then it doesn’t apply.
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by db48x 4mo ago
Why do people keep bringing up source code? It’s just as much a canard as the stupid “nonredistributable middleware” argument. The ideal way for a game company to keep their game alive after they have stopped supporting it is to build it wi
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by db48x 4mo ago
Or just not use that kind of component in the first place. There are bound to be alternatives that they could use and redistribute.
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by db48x 5mo ago
Actual waterfall development was far more iterative than most people realize. If you want a primary source, I recommend Sunbust and Luminary by Don Eyles. It recounts the development of the software for the Apollo lunar lander.
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by db48x 5mo ago
`printf` with some GNU extensions is accidentally Turing–complete because you can overwrite it's internal state. Common Lisp’s `format` is intentionally and safely Turing–complete because it includes directives for conditionals, iterat
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by db48x 5mo ago
It’s not elitism, it’s just self defense. Every forum starts out with high–value high–signal low–noise conversations and gradually decays towards low–signal high–noise conversations as new people are brought in. The new people are, by defin
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by db48x 5mo ago
Right. I’d have to go back and find explicit statements about the redesigns, but as I recall the v1 Starship had the flaps further forward and lots of tiles missing around the hinges. V2 moved the flaps back so that the hinge is shielded mo
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by db48x 5mo ago
Keep in mind that all the prior flights had deliberately missing tiles specifically to test how bad the damage would be. This one had no missing tiles so it should have essentially no damage to the hull.
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by db48x 5mo ago
Wait until you hear about Common Lisp’s string formatter.
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by db48x 5mo ago
That’s quite true. But even leaving that aside, most space battles are poorly written too. One of the best that I know of is the battle for Proxima from Babylon 5 (< https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE7lZv6LmrM >). This
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by db48x 5mo ago
This is a misunderstanding. In most cases you cannot sue the federal and state governments, with very important exceptions, but you can definitely sue the police. Government officials, such as the police, usually only have _qualified_ immun

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