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by dfltr 1y ago
I don't know if this is the official term for it, but that just sounds like metagaming[1], i.e. incorporating knowledge of the opposing player (or of trends among a group of opposing players) into how you play the game. [1]: https:&#x
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by dfltr 1y ago
There should be a whole checklist of "Things that were still a hard problem in The Expanse" that any space-related startup has to answer.
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by dfltr 1y ago
My partner is a mathematician who realized (along with the other members of their working group) that if they were to deviate from the standard alphabetical authorship order, they could author a paper on the DILF Theorem.
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by dfltr 1y ago
I think there's an additional step of "Find out what they want" that was left out of the original comment because the desires of actual toddlers are (usually) not fundamentally evil. Do they want to exterminate your loved one
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by dfltr 2y ago
It's got electrolytes, it's what abiogenesis craves.
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by dfltr 2y ago
These people are anarchists! No really, they are. The stoop coffee to "It takes the hood to save the hood" pipeline is real.
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by dfltr 2y ago
And to top it all off, they're charging us for the soup, and it's getting more expensive every time we give them another ingredient.
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by dfltr 2y ago
> Legacy modern code As opposed to Vintage Pioneer code?
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by dfltr 2y ago
Short answer: Yes. Slightly longer answer: Depending on the business, building organic inbound traffic via evergreen content like blog posts can be an effective way to get potential customers in the door. This type of inbound lead is usuall
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by dfltr 2y ago
The thing that frightens me is that the objective here is the explicit inverse of Chesterton's Fence: In dismantling these agencies, the DOGE team's intent is to cause the exact cascade of dysfunction that Chesterton warned about.
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by dfltr 2y ago
“So what," the Chelgrian asked, "is the point of me or anybody else writing a symphony, or anything else?" The avatar raised its brows in surprise. "Well, for one thing, you do it, it's you who gets the feeling of a
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by dfltr 2y ago
There's a whole fun additional layer of ethical replica hobbyists figuring out how to make replicas that are satisfyingly accurate to the original, but difficult for an unscrupulous third party to pass off as real. One of my favorite e
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by dfltr 2y ago
It feels like one of those low-sci-fi settings where we thought it'd be funny and quaint to have post-collapse scavengers endlessly repairing retro tech, but now it's actually happening and it's not funny anymore. Like for ex
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by dfltr 2y ago
In fact the Gnorts would not have "a long list of rules to memorize" with "no underlying principles". They would instead have a history and culture (or many histories and many cultures) to learn in order to contextualize
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by dfltr 2y ago
"Sugar: The Bitter Truth" ( https://robertlustig.com/sugar-the-bitter-truth/ ) is a pretty long watch, but it's incredibly eye-opening in terms of explaining in detail exactly why our current dietary sugar
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by dfltr 2y ago
Use case #1: You have a problem table (e.g. a high-volume events table) that grows non-linearly as your business starts to scale up. A queue + columnar store package like Trench moves the problem table out to a system better equipped to dea
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by dfltr 3y ago
> Potemkin unicorn. Thank you for putting these two words together, they're perfect.
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by dfltr 3y ago
Sites will for sure use the Web Integrity API(1) to blacklist "unsafe" user agents exactly the same way macOS blacklists apps from "unsafe" developers. 1: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07
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by dfltr 6y ago
I've had to explain this to non-technical stakeholders many, many times over the years, and I always use the restaurant metaphor: If you run a commercial kitchen and you only ever cook food, because selling cooked food is your business
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by dfltr 6y ago
Oh hey, I can answer this -- I work out to ease ADHD symptoms and live in a shitty wood-framed SF apartment. Using a kettlebell or any heavy object you can hold in your hands, you can do the following routine in near-silence first thing in