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by ineptech 2y ago
I find this mystifying. I think of "choosing a dwarf makes you a lesser wizard" as being a pretty core part of D&D. Have they released specifics on this? If race/species is going to become purely cosmetic, have they ex
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by ineptech 2y ago
I think you're trying to force a narrative that doesn't really fit. This change isn't in response to "everything is woke now", it's in response to people playing with strangers more.
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by ineptech 2y ago
The point of single payer is to tell doctors and patients unambiguously how much they can spend. The free market puts the insurer(s), the provider(s), and the patient in a competition to see who can stick whom with the bill. The savings c
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by ineptech 2y ago
Understandable, but I guess it's hard to put much weight on this data given how easy it is to introduce the effect being studied intentionally. Were the subjects aware of D-H-M beforehand? I wasn't before today, but I've bee
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by ineptech 2y ago
Hi, thanks for replying. I have no complaints about your analysis, and agree that your results strongly support the D-H-M model (that there is a slight bias in coin-flipping over all and that it is caused by precession). However, it looks
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by ineptech 2y ago
Agreed, and I suspect part of what made it great is that it was being ignored. I love all the dubious new features it doesn't have, and the complex larger platform offering it isn't a part of.
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by ineptech 2y ago
People will keep saying it, because that ratchet only seems to go one way. Consumer access to general purpose computing is something we take for granted, but every year it seems like there's a bit less of it, and once we lose it we wi
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by ineptech 2y ago
Well, I wish you luck then. I still don't think PPA represents capitulation to advertisers in any significant sense, but I can understand why a purist would disagree, and certainly the fact that they get so much of their money from Go
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by ineptech 2y ago
What browser do you use?
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by ineptech 2y ago
You're preaching to the choir, but even preaching needs to be truthful and I don't think calling Mozilla ad-tech or suggesting that it's just as bad as Google is remotely true. This is where "the perfect is the enemy of
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by ineptech 2y ago
> Mozilla is an ad-tech company too now. I'm sorry, this seems egregious. I agree that it should've been off by default but I challenge anyone to read how the implementation works (not just the blog post and the FUD responses
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by ineptech 2y ago
> the warrant was issued because of his alleged failure to cooperate with the French authorities. That would seem to be the key bit. Makes one wonder what level of cooperation is required to not be charged with a slew of the worst crime
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by ineptech 2y ago
Relatedly, the author Robert Anton Wilson tried to manually implement a Markov-chain-bot in the 1960s by cutting up passages from various books, selecting them from a hat, and looking for overlapping words and phrase fragments. The best r
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by ineptech 2y ago
Streaming was forced into existence by the invention of digital media. The ~20 years between the point where could stream and the point where we did stream seems in retrospect to be an artifact of having an entrenched industry clinging des
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by ineptech 2y ago
I would definitely take Agreeableness and Conscientiousness and so forth into account in hiring, if I had any faith in my ability to determine those things from the interview process without being fooled. But the only thing I am confident
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by ineptech 2y ago
It so happens that toms recently tested this exact question (how much performance do you lose pairing a modern card with an older gpu, compared to the same card with a modern cpu). Full results at [0] but the short answer is that a $900 RT
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by ineptech 2y ago
It's not that it would be embezzlement, it's that it pattern matches to embezzlement. People with purchasing authority generally can't choose vendors they are involved with because that's such a popular way to steal mon
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by ineptech 2y ago
Not to be that guy, but the article discusses this at some length. Find this bit: > However, such tests rely on introspection and self-reported experience, which made some neuroscientists doubt that aphantasia was real. Could reported d
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by ineptech 2y ago
He wrote the "Notebook" column in Harper's magazine regularly for many years, and one of the very admirable things about Harper's is that the entire history of the magazine is (for subscribers) available in PDF. Here&#x
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by ineptech 2y ago
We've indisputably lost whatever Minecraft would be today if notch hadn't sold it. We can't know what that is, maybe it would've sucked. What we got instead feels like just another corporate studio game, a good one, yes
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by ineptech 2y ago
I'm not super knowledgeable about it so I should just let someone else answer; but to clarify what I was saying, I'm not talking about the account migration, I'm talking about the fact that the new version ("education&qu
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by ineptech 2y ago
It's hard not to mourn what was lost though. Minecraft mods were how a lot of teenagers got acquainted with scripting, and it's a lot harder to get started with your own server since MS bought it and forced it to authenticate thr
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by ineptech 2y ago
The vertical bars don't seem to be draggable on desktop, took me a while to figure out you have to click on letters.
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by ineptech 2y ago
Agreed, unless you're desperate it's madness to accept a job without having had a discussion with your prospective manager. And not just to make sure they're not a big jerk, this is your chance to find out what kind of team
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by ineptech 2y ago
Can you post a summary? We're affected but I don't have access to that portal.
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by ineptech 2y ago
No offense but are you confident you know what PPA is/does? "volunteer their data" doesn't seem a remotely fair characterization to me. Ignore the CTO's hand-wavey justification and go look at what it actually does
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by ineptech 2y ago
I don't think this is fair. It's not like we have great privacy now, and Mozilla is in danger of giving it away; advertisers already fingerprint your browser and tie your traffic back to a real-world identity today. I don't
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by ineptech 2y ago
I clicked on this with a rebuttal already half-written in my head, but (after skimming the CTO's post and then reading the detailed explanation of PPA[0]) I'll admit that I jumped the gun on assuming that PPA was just the latest n
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by ineptech 2y ago
Developing this a bit; I get that founders might object to being lumped in with the asshole-rich-guy demographic associated with the term, but "capital" doesn't mean people who never had to work hard, it means capital. When
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by ineptech 2y ago
> You would think, after having been on the side of labor in its fight with capital for almost two centuries, that the far left would be happy that labor has finally prevailed. But none of them seem to be. You can almost hear them saying

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