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by indigochill 3y ago
If you take the view that existence is physics and physics is math, then doesn't this follow from Gödel's incompleteness theorems?
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by indigochill 3y ago
> Bluesky is optimised to be able to aggregate likes across billions of tweets That might be part of the problem. It's self-evident why you need to do that if you're building Facebook or Twitter (a single platform where all the
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by indigochill 3y ago
TBH I'd be 100% more interested in Bluesky had they built it on Matrix since Matrix's decentralization makes a lot more sense to me and has more history behind it and battle-testing in real-world use cases like German government a
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by indigochill 3y ago
My understanding (possibly mistaken - I've only been casually watching from the sidelines) is bitcoin (and at least most other blockchain currencies) suffers a similar problem to credit/debit cards, in that there is effort involve
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by indigochill 3y ago
I can think of a couple people I know who work in high-end manual work but they both work effectively alone. One does old-school illumination and another makes expensive handmade watches. Both are what would probably qualify as "master
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by indigochill 3y ago
To extend the argument, one of the original military motivations for the design of the internet was resilience of the network (relative to radio, IIRC, where relying on a central broadcaster would be prone to failure if the broadcaster was
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by indigochill 3y ago
Is it my imagination, or have the shortcuts changed? I picked up the Steam version over Christmas but was actually really struggling with the UI whereas I have memories of manipulating the keyboard shortcuts without a second thought in the
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by indigochill 3y ago
> Anyway, cells can hold (super) primitive models of the world and maintain internal balance in the face of anticipated events. I'm not even a cocktail biologist, but my understanding is cells effectively operate via a web of comple
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by indigochill 3y ago
Ah, of course, I knew I was forgetting one. They did start that way although they've branched out since then. For example they sell Everspace 2, which is a much newer game. They actually might be my favorite since all the games they se
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by indigochill 3y ago
A society is just a collection of individual human relationships. We need to teach not just knowledge but character.
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by indigochill 3y ago
> There are a bunch of companies trying to compete with valve. What strikes me as a bit odd with relation to specifically competitors to the Valve client (essentially a game library and store rolled together), the competitors that come t
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by indigochill 3y ago
> You could argue that what constitutes “humanitarian value” is totally subjective and that decisions concerning such a large amount of money shouldn’t be left to one person. But on the flip side, would you say that most governments actu
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by indigochill 3y ago
> You no longer have to hire a copywriter, as many SEO spammers used to do. I used to do SEO copywriting in high school and yeah, ChatGPT's output is pretty much at the level of what I was producing (primarily, use certain keywords,
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by indigochill 3y ago
> I think Capitalism is a good system, but corporate Capitalism kills freedom. How do you picture capitalism operating such that corporations don't emerge? In my mind I can't separate the accumulation of capital from corporate
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by indigochill 3y ago
> It's the only policy are I feel Germany has nailed better than anyone else I'm aware of I'm not super familiar, but my impression is Germany also handled early 90s-ish hackers better than the US did. Just comparing the C
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by indigochill 3y ago
>and most importantly you don't need responsiveness I'm gonna ask a dumb question out of ignorance because I know responsiveness is all the rage, but... what do we gain from it? Would it not be more straightforward to build UIs
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by indigochill 3y ago
I wonder if there's any connection between theater and video games in Japan, since theater is another medium where emotion has to be exaggerated to get across to the audience. And some JRPGs (e.g. Final Fantasy or Octopath Traveler) ar
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by indigochill 3y ago
Although more lines _might_ situationally be better if it means the difference between a very clever but confusing one-liner versus a more verbose but comprehensible handful of lines. So like many things in engineering... it depends.
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by indigochill 3y ago
There's a YouTube channel called 3D6DownTheLine which has video series of two campaigns using OSE (one in Dolmenwood and another in a popular megadungeon). I can't really comment on how close it fits D&D from 30 years ago but
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by indigochill 3y ago
> As tech people we really should put our money where our mouths are on this and stop using github, and in doing so fix the pain points. Github is (in my mind at least) just one manifestation of this, but yeah, I host my own Forgejo (a f
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by indigochill 3y ago
No, I mean just mapping social media closer to actual social networks. As examples of how existing platforms have strayed from that: Something like 80% of my Facebook feed these days are content from groups I didn't join posted by peop
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by indigochill 3y ago
Ha, we might be neighbors. I took a pretty similar picture from Sörlaskjól. I just happened to be chilling for the evening when I saw the red glow on the horizon and snapped a picture just as it started going up: https://imgur.co
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by indigochill 3y ago
Relatedly, Old School Essentials is, IIRC, B/X just more streamlined in presentation? They also have a cool-looking setting with Dolmenwood (as I gather, basically "a mix of darkness and whimsy in the style of old-school fairy tal
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by indigochill 3y ago
Good to see this idea getting traction. In general I think we made a mistake connecting everyone to everyone else in a relatively "flat" structure with sites like Facebook/Twitter/MySpace/TikTok/etc. Never mind
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by indigochill 3y ago
The real startup I worked at was probably around a dozen people when I joined. You could probably grow some beyond that and still be reasonably agile (that is, the CEO still has a good idea of the day-to-day operations and can move the com
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by indigochill 3y ago
> A place that's fun and interesting enough that you feel happy to randomly think about work in the middle of the night for an hour or two I feel like in my experience it's actually less about fun and interesting and more about
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by indigochill 3y ago
I stand by the 10 Commandments, but people don't even agree what human nature is. I believe it's a reflection of a loving creator and others believe it's an evolutionary fluke while yet others believe it's a piece of a q
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by indigochill 3y ago
> There is a difference between tweets and feeds compared to peer-reviewed papers in magazine-like journals. > Federation might be a part of a solution to the problem, but no where near the whole solution. To be clear, federation and
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by indigochill 3y ago
> Unfortunately history has shown us time and time again that oppressive leaders disarm their populations before subjecting them to horrific abuses of their power. We aren't falling for it again. You've (collectively) already f
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by indigochill 3y ago
> they are still not made for the masses (which I suppose is to the liking of those that enjoy the fediverse) I think more to the point, the fediverse is largely anti-commercial. You -can- advertise, but risk getting defederated if you d

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