panzagl

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by panzagl 6y ago
Remember in the mid-nineties when all the object-oriented programming consultants were 'discovering' patterns? I think 'unrepentant baguette merchant' had something to do with multiple inheritance.
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by panzagl 6y ago
Do you know any cyclists? All the ones I know have had accidents ranging from bone-breaking to fatal.
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by panzagl 6y ago
I can't read the article, but I listened to Adam Savage's podcast where he talked to one of the principles of BattleBots. He described the steps they had to go through to run/film during CoVid- it included dedicated complianc
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by panzagl 6y ago
But if you need to ship twice as much unpackaged as packaged you're harming the environment in other ways.
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by panzagl 6y ago
The Soviets were bad, but I am not personally familiar enough with the sources to say whether Soviet atrocities were official policy, ill-disciplined soldiers or both. The Eastern Front is popular with a certain sort of armchair historian&#
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by panzagl 6y ago
I was going to add the Soviets to the list, but I don't know enough about their mass treatment of German civilians in particular, though obvious they treated their own civilians badly enough. The Eastern front was more brutal, but brut
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by panzagl 6y ago
The Romans weren't particularly brutal given their time- being beaten by the Celts and being beaten by the Romans would be a similar experience. What the Germans and Japanese did was of a scale and brutality that had not been inflicte
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by panzagl 6y ago
There's more to this article than SJW outrage- after WWII the allies (well, US and UK) tended to sweep German atrocities under the rug in order to use them against the Soviets in the Cold War. This has made the semi-fetishism of the n
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by panzagl 6y ago
If it were historically faithful the German player would never know how many of his forces were going to never show up because of mechanical failure and air interdiction.
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by panzagl 6y ago
I came to this article prepared to defend games where you play general, but this is not about that. The moral ambiguity described is playing a game where you are specifically playing a nazi general, and the 'Good German' myth pro
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by panzagl 6y ago
You know, ignoring laws and abusing workers innovative, like a rideshare service or Amazon.
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by panzagl 6y ago
I understand the sentiment, but how many people were ever going to understand their systems at that level? I'm sure Gen Z will have their own tech equivalent of Roy Underhill telling them to put down the Ikea bookshelf and grab an axe
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by panzagl 6y ago
They want to Immanentize the Eschaton? Luckily we fnord know how to deal with that. Hail Eris.
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by panzagl 6y ago
So you're saying no one would have died from CoVid-19 if Trump weren't in office? Citation needed.
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by panzagl 6y ago
I accept that to a certain extent, but it's a slippy slope to 'why should I pay taxes to try to help those people'
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by panzagl 6y ago
That's pretty much the definition of fascism there.
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by panzagl 6y ago
You do realize your argument is just as easily applied to every disadvantaged/disenfranchised population, right? "You just can't help those people..."
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by panzagl 6y ago
They'll be cheap if sale and distribution is legalized- this just amps up the demand side of the curve.
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by panzagl 6y ago
Nah, that's regular parenting.
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by panzagl 6y ago
No kidding, this article is someone complaining about easy mode...
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by panzagl 6y ago
Yes. Hail Eris.
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by panzagl 6y ago
So many car washes being built in Colorado now- why wash something that is going to be 50% hail dings in 2 years? But Californians love their cars, and Texans love their trucks...
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by panzagl 6y ago
Probably to present at the Space Symposium which would have been in a week. Gotta release it now so it looks like you did something in FY 2020.
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by panzagl 6y ago
I think he means a gap hour for the whole school- that you couldn't just put everyone in study hall all at once.
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by panzagl 6y ago
CubeSats are like the Raspberry Pis of engineering departments- fun to play with, but by the time you overcome their limitations (power, antenna size, heat) you've basically proved that small things can do small things.
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by panzagl 6y ago
Lucasfilm went after FASA back in the Eighties for their board game 'Battledroid', forcing them to change it to 'Battletech'. It's a trademark with a long history of being contentious. Think he could name his compa
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by panzagl 6y ago
It's a popular narrative amongst the 'intellectual' class in the US, which traces its roots back to the initial wave of Puritanism in New England. It's easy to trace the path from Mather to Emerson/Thoreau to Silent
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by panzagl 6y ago
'Welfare' on a federal level now means a combination of Social Security disability and redeemable income tax credits- basically they have no income, but Child Tax Credit, Earned Income Credit, means they get money back on their ta
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by panzagl 6y ago
I wonder if the people downvoting you actually remember the Netscape dark ages- IE was a revelation.
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by panzagl 6y ago
Also note if you're an English speaker and pronounce 'mozzarella' using these rules I will secretly hate you.

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