ergothus

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by ergothus 8y ago
The article undersells the whole story. The Open Gaming License of 3rd edition D&D was definitely open source inspired (despite my personal beefs with it) and kicked of a huge burst of new game developers, and that bubble collapsed righ
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by ergothus 8y ago
I must have expressed myself poorly: When I try to pick up a new skill, I would start by asking "what are the higher-level rules?" or some variation. Generally speaking, I've had a very, VERY low success rate at getting answ
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by ergothus 8y ago
It's not a matter of memorization, at least for me, it is exposure. You can understand the underlying rules without enough exposure to the subjects of those rules. I suck at memorizing and dont use it as a study technique, but when pic
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by ergothus 8y ago
Honest question: my whole life (I'm 42) I've seen inflation fears and gold promotions. By now, even if the inflation fears come true, it falls into the "stopped clock is still eventually correct", and the fetishization o
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by ergothus 8y ago
I'm a vegetarian, but I don't like bell peppers, kale, quinoa, raw tomato, mustard, dill, vinegar, and mayo (vegan or not). I like apples and spinach but they do not like me. This still leaves plenty of options for a sandwich, bu
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by ergothus 8y ago
As a vegetarian that is a fairly picky eater, and (a decade ago) a big meat eater, I have a different perspective. When you don't enjoy, say, bell peppers, it is really nice to have some meat-like textures and tastes. As we get close
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by ergothus 8y ago
The arguments against circle around unnecessary coupling. The arguments for revolve around necessary coupling. If a change triggers a change in multiple repos, it is easier to review those changes for completeness and administer them (comm
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by ergothus 8y ago
Every time I switch to a new area I try this, and every time it causes me great frustration. Learning materials arent setup to this, (and possibly brains). You have to learn enough fundamentals (usually via rote) before you can get overarc
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by ergothus 8y ago
One thing ivr done since I was a kid is buy pizza sauce, toppings, and pillsbury biscuits (or equivalent generic). You can work each biscuit into a mini pizza, top it as you see fit, and cook the lot for 8-12 mins (based on the biscuits ins
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by ergothus 8y ago
Not everyone looking to have a repo today and joining a team tomorrow where it will pay off for Github is a student. Being able to pay doesn't mean the same as willing to do so, particularly if they've not used github yet and hav
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by ergothus 8y ago
This will be my last comment on this thread as you've repeatedly failed to keep it topical, but I'm loathe to stop commenting and let your points appear persuasive by default. (the trap of the internet) The issue is not that I tr
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by ergothus 8y ago
> Why not? Drifting off-topic, but the short version is that "subscribe to a service that would independently validate pharmacies" (meaning everything on the shelf at the pharmacy), validating schools, etc all comes down to rec
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by ergothus 8y ago
> If we were getting what we're getting now and paying half the taxes then everything would be fine This is the statement I disagree with. Me having a few thousand extra $ at the end of the year does not give the homeless homes, do
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by ergothus 8y ago
I can see real value in such a Big List of Bad First Projects - why not toss what you have on github/gitlab/etc and ask for contributions? The explanations as to why those are Bad First Projects can be very informative.
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by ergothus 8y ago
> This also seems like a good job for machine learning eventually. I'm not sure what "this" you mean (testing the doctors or testing the patients), but I'd argue the opposite. ML is great at performing tests we under
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by ergothus 8y ago
While I agree with the general sentiment, I think this stresses an emphasis on taxes that isn't right. Do you think these people would still be unsatisfied if the tax rate was 0%? I do. Dissatisfaction with the govt does not necessar
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by ergothus 8y ago
(Increments time wasted counter)
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by ergothus 8y ago
While your logic seems sound, I feel like the last 10-20 years have involved simply not investing it. I have no particular explanation nor suggestion based off of that, but I know I've read a lot of articles about companies simply sitt
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by ergothus 8y ago
> I think I've also explained why I find the information incredibly useful You have, and your reasons are likewise reasonable - I just struggle to believe that there are so many people that are similar (but again, there clearly are
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by ergothus 8y ago
Not that I recall, but I was surprised at the notable effects overall. Caffeine is so prevalent and people so knee-jerk defensive of it that we don't notice the powerful effects (be they good or bad). Unfortunately, it's been se
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by ergothus 8y ago
(gross simplification below) I've done a little research on caffeine, and as far as wakefulness goes (not touching the other effects here), it works by binding to the same protein receptors the body uses to decide if it is tired. Body
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by ergothus 8y ago
The issue wasn't really the attractiveness of the info, so much as the attractiveness of constantly having the info. I personally get that info is sometimes useful ("We can go to the beach tomorrow, let's make sure it isn&#x
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by ergothus 8y ago
Many agree with you. I've not encountered an addiction myself, (yet, at least, knock on wood), so I have no stance one way or another, but I've read accounts where many people have experiences similar to yours, and yet there are
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by ergothus 8y ago
Right. That's the issue with moving from tipping to flat wages. Yet the US is one of the only countries that does tipping, and plenty of other professions have this issue in the US, so how do they manage ? I understand the problem,
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by ergothus 8y ago
Total agreement on the fairness. In this case, the tipping issue is that, since it's per table, busy times result in more tip money than non-busy times, which a flat per-hour wage doesn't account for. With tips, a restaurant can
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by ergothus 8y ago
I had a friend that was a manager at a chain restaurant in Seattle, and we had some interesting discussions. I'm a big fan of paying a living wage. I'm also not a fan of tipping (just raise the prices and pay people fairly). How
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by ergothus 8y ago
> Anything within the next two days is fairly accurate. Plans that involve the outdoors rarely involve only two days notice for me - plans are either spontaneous or in more than a week. Then again, my plans rarely involve the outdoors.
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by ergothus 8y ago
I can't speak from first hand experience or actual knowledge, but I've seen several articles over the years about AA being the only US court approved treatment, leaving some people with the choice of accepting only AA or jail. At
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by ergothus 8y ago
I am clearly a minority (based on incidents ranging from this, to how weather bug was the first killer app of the web, or how my grandfathers tv was permanently on the weather channel), but I've never understood the attraction of weath
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by ergothus 8y ago
Ah, I thought it consumed the style rules and rewrote to them, so you could pick your preferred styles and have everyone submit code that met them even if they didn't write in that way. Which sounds mostly correct, except for the &quo

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