kibwen

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by kibwen 5mo ago
You are, in fact, allowed to hate both the player and the game. It is long established that "just following orders" is not a defense.
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by kibwen 5mo ago
No, neither the hardware nor software is anywhere even remotely ready, where by "ready" we mean "safe to share living spaces with unsupervised children and pets without EVER accidentally reducing your toddler to a fine paste,
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by kibwen 5mo ago
This policy appears to target ultra-wealthy investors who are just parking their assets in NYC real estate and don't reside in NY to begin with, and thus aren't paying NY state income tax.
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by kibwen 5mo ago
The lesson of the parable of the tortoise and the hare isn't that "slow beats eager", it's a lesson against unfounded overconfidence in one's own abilities.
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by kibwen 5mo ago
> and story NPCs which you cannot / are not supposed to attack It's even more complex than that, because a small number of NPCs, if not attacked and killed without provocation, will go on to kill certain other NPCs.
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by kibwen 5mo ago
> prompting your AI to “be secure” is not enough I mean, yes, but I suppose we live in such a nonsensically thoughtless time that stating the obvious has some value. > To combat this we need to write a security context file to guid
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by kibwen 5mo ago
> the moment it drops the exact resource the player needs to level up, can we really call that a genuine moral dilemma? New players to Dark Souls assume that they need to kill every monster in their way to proceed. But the design of th
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by kibwen 5mo ago
C++'s experience has caused Rust to rightfully learn the lesson that you don't allow optimizations to change the semantics of the program like that. Rust's goal is to be fast enough that any performance difference between C o
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by kibwen 5mo ago
> Function colouring a red herring Any time you see anyone overly fixating on "function coloring" for any context other than ancient versions of Javascript it's a clue that the speaker has no idea what they're talki
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by kibwen 5mo ago
I hereby suggest you take the fragmentary excerpts of the infamous erotic stage play The Lusty Argonian Maid shown in The Elder Scrolls series of games and extrapolate them to 100,000 additional full-length acts.
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by kibwen 5mo ago
I've arm-wrestled office workers; I stand by my assertion.
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by kibwen 5mo ago
Considering developed societies with access to those specialized diets and medical science, the median person is definitely not stronger than the median person from a pre-industrial society, even taking malnutrition and injury into account.
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by kibwen 5mo ago
Let's start by using strength as an analogy. A human is strong when they develop their physical body to its potential. That means developing muscles, cardio, lung capacity, flexibility, etc. A human is weak when they fail to develop th
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by kibwen 5mo ago
If you're paranoid, you can use the `forbid(unsafe_code)` attribute, which will produce a compiler error when any code in its scope attempts to use `unsafe`, which includes macro expansions.
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by kibwen 5mo ago
> take human intelligence to another pinnacle I see no indication that current human intelligence is at anything close to a historical pinnacle. Human knowledge, yes, but intelligence? No. Collectively, we're dumb and trending dum
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by kibwen 5mo ago
Correction: it's the golden age for code monkey employers. We as an industry have never deserved to use the term "engineering" to describe ourselves, and we are further from that ideal than ever.
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by kibwen 5mo ago
The author already had the hardware, better to not buy than to buy.
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by kibwen 5mo ago
This is only true to an extent. Yes, a larger rocket means a better mass:payload ratio, but a larger rocket also means more mass in absolute terms, and more mass means more fuel, and more fuel means more mass, and more mass means more fuel,
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by kibwen 5mo ago
Never heard of Ken Paxton, I suppose?
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by kibwen 5mo ago
"Center for Intellectual Freedom" is the doublespeak for the reeducation camp.
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by kibwen 5mo ago
"Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use
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by kibwen 5mo ago
The government has completely abandoned any pretense of following the rule of law. Don't be shocked when they start revoking green cards. Don't be shocked when they start revoking natural citizenship. "But they can't do
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by kibwen 5mo ago
You're giving people too much credit. People in general simply do not care about whether or not a government has committed atrocities, even when that includes their own government, as long as they think (rightly or wrongly (usually wro
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by kibwen 5mo ago
To merely disagree with someone first requires one to acknowledge the legitimacy of their capacity for logical reasoning. Rather, what I'm doing here is outright dismissing someone who isn't worth disagreeing with. There is no law
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by kibwen 5mo ago
To paraphrase Hickam's dictum, a phone can have as many sources of malware as it damn well pleases.
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by kibwen 5mo ago
People addicted to chatbots appear to be suffering from cognitive atrophy.
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by kibwen 5mo ago
Two peeves in one here: The "/s" is just punctuation, same as "!" or "?" or even ".", which was a radical suggestion at one point. Punctuation isn't bad, it's not necessarily good eithe
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by kibwen 5mo ago
It is in the nature of gravity and entropy that every roof starts sagging eventually. Congratulations on your good fortune, but the vast majority of people are not and will never be in your position.
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by kibwen 5mo ago
> Not being a single-party, notionally communist dictatorship may be helping with the image too? I don't know, spitballing here. No, everyday people are perfectly content to warm to brutal dictatorships who successfully put on a f
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by kibwen 5mo ago
> Westerners are taught by the media and education to idealize Japan and hate China almost everywhere. As an American educated by the American public education system and indoctrinated by American media, our government is certainly stu

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