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by kqr 1y ago
I disagree. There have been many other forms of gambling discussed in these comments.
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by kqr 1y ago
Brenner, Brenner, and Brown wrote A World of Chance in which they draw from large reams of data and conclude that gambling is often used by those that see no other way up.
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by kqr 1y ago
I think this is hard to argue against because you haven't defined what you mean by strict rules, but here are some positive outcomes of gambling: - Insurance prevents financial catastrophe by aggregating risk, yet it is nothing more th
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by kqr 1y ago
Yeah but those are separate claims. "Lead causes health problem, and vicious cycles are a thing, therefore health problems cause lead!" is not a valid shape for an argument. It may well be true, but both directions have to be esta
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by kqr 1y ago
> widespread gambling = negative social effects Though this is conflating correlation for causation. As you note yourself in GP, dire social conditions is what makes people see gambling (or risk-taking more generally) as one of the only
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by kqr 1y ago
The thing I miss most from Ada is its clear conception of object-orientation. Every other language bundles all of OOP into the "class" idea, but Ada lets you separately opt in to message sending, dynamic dispatch, subtyping, gener
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by kqr 1y ago
I have yet to find such a thing.
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by kqr 1y ago
Sure, and there are people who stuff themselves full of fast food, alcohol, and/or cigarettes. I get that those things are different in that it is possible to levy vice taxes on them, but the primary defense is and will be education. W
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by kqr 1y ago
I think the solution is to not aim to go online to "consume content". Instead, go online to learn new techniques and investigate well-reasoned opinions. Generic "content" is that which fills out the space between the adv
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by kqr 1y ago
I actually think this is rather sensible. If I didn't have to learn DOS from scratch[1] to do it, I would be tempted to use it as a platform for many of my side projects. As you say, it will forever be a desirable platform to maintain
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by kqr 1y ago
Languages often add features in ways that does not break existing code. I think here we are discussing changes that are backwards-incompatible.
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by kqr 1y ago
> mobile apps last a long time too Really? How come half of the apps I've used in the past are listed in the app store as "not compatible with this device, but they can be installed on $device_gone_to_rest_in_drawer_14_years_ag
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by kqr 1y ago
Perl is usually used with the first element being zero and the same loop would be for (0..$#arr) { foo(arr[$_]) } Whatever you're feeling is not in starting at one.
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by kqr 1y ago
But "broken your blog" could mean "shell access to your blog server" -- is there no risk of illegal activities happening on that server that put the owner at risk? Like, I don't know, drug trade or child porn or wha
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by kqr 1y ago
There are libraries for e.g. Python to make Minecraft maps entirely programmatically, as well as convenient tools for editing maps by hand.
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by kqr 1y ago
> (which I don't think existed at the time anyways) This surprised me at first because I remember using Python to create Minecraft maps early on, or at least in the beta. But it seems like redstone was added in the alpha, and the ea
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by kqr 1y ago
Balls. Having dug into it now, this would have been so much easier and more reliable. I guess I'm rewriting the script! Thanks.
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by kqr 1y ago
Oh those are on my wishlist. I can also recommend Cooking for Geeks (Potter) as a lighter introduction.
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by kqr 1y ago
This is one of the reasons to finish it in the sauce. It spends slightly longer ready when finished in the sauce.
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by kqr 1y ago
> use less water I agree, but want to note that this requires more actively stirring the pasta. The reason for the suggestion of lots of water is it allows the pasta to move freely on its own, meaning it stirs itself with the motion of t
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by kqr 1y ago
> I have a book here somewhere You can't just say that, mention a bunch of interesting things, and not tell me the name of the book...
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by kqr 1y ago
I think you're right about the F-16 being the first. My money would have been on the F-117, but that apparently started development three years later – the F-16 is surprisingly old!
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by kqr 1y ago
I did look into them a few years ago but back then they didn't offer ensemble forecasts. Now they do! I'll look into it.
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by kqr 1y ago
I suspect they have two containers for pieces, and they put the one container lid on the container with their colour when they have played, revealing the other's pieces and indicating it is their turn to play. It took me a bit to decod
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by kqr 1y ago
The Fischer quote sounds like the opposite of what you're saying, i.e. it's a suggestion to prioritise macro over micro: "from good logistics, tactics will sort itself out".
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by kqr 1y ago
Only one way to find out. If you dislike chess because you don't like abstract total information strategy board games you will not like go. If you dislike chess because - it has too many rules, - the board is too smalll, - the pieces m
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by kqr 1y ago
I disagree. For very high level play, yes, opening theory matters. For beginners, rote "reading", i.e. playing out moves in one's head, matters much more. This is an unintuitive aspect of go because it is different from virtu
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Learn to play Go(online-go.com)
403 points by kqr 1y ago|153 comments
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by kqr 1y ago
That sounds like an amazing interface. Would love that on my touchscreen device.
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by kqr 1y ago
Not really, no. They get stuck extremely easily. They can last longer with hand-holding but they still get stuck. Humans also get stuck, to be fair, but tend to be more inventive and methodical in trying to get unstuck, and more intelligent

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