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by jghn 6mo ago
Of course. The flip side is that many, many more people are in the "low/medium scale" zone than would self report. Everyone thinks they're a scale outlier because people tend to think in relative terms based on their exp
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by jghn 6mo ago
> Today's game can be just as much roll-playing, it highly depends on the group. Yeah this is kind of my point, that I think a lot of the contemporary play style is cultural and not ruleset driven. And thus I'm skeptical that m
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by jghn 6mo ago
It's why I haven't tried to get back into TTRPGs. I suspect that even if I were to join in on an OSR group that the play style would still be closer to the modern improv group aesthetic.
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by jghn 6mo ago
When this has come up in the past the conventional wisdom seems to be the other way around. At some point they noticed that if they slapped a stepfamily label on an otherwise normal vid that most people wouldn't care and still watch it
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by jghn 6mo ago
There's a dichotomy here that I have always found amusing. To me, the older style of play felt crunchier, despite there being less of a rule focused. The most common style of play back then was more of a dungeon crawl, closer to "
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by jghn 6mo ago
Particularly in my earlier days we used psionics a lot, but it's because we were young and recognized them as being OP. So of course everyone just happened to have rolled their way into psionic powers when no one was looking. Like your
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by jghn 6mo ago
Right, but there's a difference between choosing not to use some subsets of the rules and just not understanding that they're supposed to be there in the first place. The ones that stand out the most to me are what I'd bin as
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by jghn 6mo ago
> I never fully understood the rules I played from the early 80s through early 90s. Mostly AD&D 1e but earlier on the red/blue boxes and later on 2e. Recently I've taken to reading r/adnd for nostalgia reasons. One thi
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by jghn 6mo ago
One side controls all branches of the federal government and by and large it controls the media as well. So how do you propose this strike happen?
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by jghn 6mo ago
What are they supposed to do here, exactly?
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by jghn 6mo ago
Taking down the power grid, water supply, and other types of things doesn't require nukes and would devastate the populace.
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by jghn 6mo ago
In a lot of ways I feel the discourse that he means a nuclear attack buries the lede. This is not likely to happen. What is more likely to happen is just as bad. Devastating civil infrastructure would put 10s of millions of lives at risk. A
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by jghn 6mo ago
> and it is written in Rust. So?
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by jghn 6mo ago
Little bit of both. From my own anecdata, most people I knew left usenet due to spam problems. Most of the people who did not were primarily the ones using it for binaries. And then yes, the binary angle started the trend where ISPs stopped
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by jghn 6mo ago
Last week the US stated they didn't need any of the oil, and that if other countries wanted it they could go figure it out themselves. Looks like they have. And yet the US is now back to threatening Iran if they don't open up the
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by jghn 6mo ago
I moved to the mid-hudsoen river valley in the late 90s. It blew my mind that there was material going around saying it was *finally* safe to eat 1-2 fish a year that were caught in it. Polution is a big deal.
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by jghn 6mo ago
I'll never be able to not think of this whenever I'm in the maze of roads downtown Boston!
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by jghn 6mo ago
A recent update got rid of the subagents for the self review and now does the self review in the main agent
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by jghn 6mo ago
Not everywhere in the US. Boston for instance is a notable exception
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by jghn 6mo ago
Depends. Where I live outgoing mail goes into the closest blue USPS bin. And given that most days all mail I receive is slop, removing the slop would remove the need to come to my house. Of course, where I live the USPS person stops in a ge
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by jghn 7mo ago
100%. To use my daycare example, if someone didn't have kids, they're not realizing any value out of that. So sure, there's an even more nebulous "value to society" concept, but since TFA is trying to get to dollars
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by jghn 7mo ago
I think that depends on one's definition of disposable income. I think technically it's more or less what I was calling "net". But many people use it to mean "after I pay my mortgage, and my utilities, and my other
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by jghn 7mo ago
Even from a pure financial perspective, given one benefit of these countries is you generally actually get useful benefits out of your tax dollars unlike the USA, wouldn't a better way of looking at this be some sort of weighted metric
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by jghn 7mo ago
> Nothing about how this war is going suggests he has any idea what he’s doing as SecWar For instance, he doesn't realize his title isn't SecWar. It's SecDef.
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by jghn 7mo ago
> deeply unhappy population A counterpoint is that perhaps we may have just radicalized a large portion of that unhappy population
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by jghn 7mo ago
Yes. And for the context of this conversation, the people in the USA are what matters. It's not like this regime is going to give up just because other countries dislike them. Their core fan base think it's going gangbusters.
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by jghn 7mo ago
this and people underestimate how many people in the country still think he's doing a great job.
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by jghn 7mo ago
Exactly. I think AI tooling will make that good group even more effective. And it will make the bad group even more pointless.
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by jghn 7mo ago
The tension is that QA is important. But most QA practitioners are not good. The world is filled with QA people who couldn't make it as an SWE and now are button pushers. But high quality QA people are amazing. These are the ones who u
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by jghn 7mo ago
Which of course is not dissimilar to the current state of using GenAI tools.

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