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by rcoveson 5y ago
Chess colors and the rules around them will probably change at some point. What's worse is that people will act like the prospect is utterly ridiculous while the idea is in its infancy. Then, after FIDE or some other Chess organizati
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CDNs aren't making you look at anything. The service they offer makes websites quickly accessible to people who request them. You believe that CDNs should not offer that service to those you consider propagandists. How does the avai
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by rcoveson 5y ago
You've come out against idiots spreading misinformation and calls to action _in general_ in this thread. You don't want tolerance, you want orthodoxy. Intolerance of all things that are bad, tolerance of things that are good. If o
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by rcoveson 5y ago
Here's a good example: The article's author is actually the security team chair of a lightweight Linux distro called Alpine Linux. A base installation of Alpine includes BusyBox vi but no nano.
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by rcoveson 5y ago
> But I do think there is a fundamental (human, psychological, emotional) difference between a tool running on a server and one running on my device. Strongly agree. A law requiring police cameras in rented trucks is an invasion of priva
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Puppies aren't messy at all. You can shave all their hair off and there are efforts to deal with the slobbering. You can put a diaper on the back end of it and everything will still work.
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> On the topic of foobar - CS has pretty much wholly converted the usage away from FUBAR - "foo" and "bar" are now commonly used variable names that have a colorful history but aren't frequently associated with e
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Your username contains "foobar", which comes from the military acronym "FUBAR", which stands for "fucked up beyond all recognition". Should the tech world move away from foobar as well? "Penetration"
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Here is the reference wikipedia gives for the two historians who have tried reconstructing the rules[0]. It seems that only "tomb images" and some game boards and pieces are used in the reconstruction. The article doesn't sug
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by rcoveson 5y ago
I urge you to read the sets of rules invented by the senet historians referenced in the wikipedia article. I think you are overstating their knowledge of the game. From wikipedia: "Although details of the original game rules are a subj
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by rcoveson 5y ago
This is a great example of the fallacy of gray. Compare the changes to the rules of chess you've described to the descriptions of senet's rules referenced by the wikipedia article[0]. If these are the best attempts at senet rule r
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by rcoveson 5y ago
> loud and dangerous and hot and chaotic I was a sysadmin for an on-site HPC cluster and this sounds familiar. Compared to a restaurant, it's probably less dangerous and chaotic but more loud and hot.
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I think we've really lost track of context here. The thread began when it was pointed out that it wasn't just any corporation to which we handed so much power over us, it was a corporation dominated by white men . The reason I
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> ...he can basically be considered white for purposes of discussing his privilege. This is a distraction, and a confusing one. Calling that out is not an "attempt to quash any discussion". Let's discuss race when race is
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What a take! "Success and non-whiteness are incompatible." For the purpose of discussing the lack of privilege of homeless people, should we consider them black? It's almost as if race is just a confusing distraction in conve
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I think, like with the square, the question is: "What are the characteristics that make the set of actions which should be prevented by regulation narrower than the set of all undesirable actions." We know there are a huge numbe
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You're not disagreeing, or the way you think you are disagreeing doesn't fit the original statement. Your exchange is analogous to this one: A: A square is not simply "a quadrilateral whose every angle is 90 degrees." B:
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by rcoveson 5y ago
> The idea that people's political beliefs, what, don't affect other people who live in that country? Is insane. Yes, that is insane, but I don't think the person you're replying to or the FNAF guy believe that. It so
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by rcoveson 5y ago
Original HN post flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27394925
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Linux distros offer a lower-case "app store", a "garden", while also allowing you to straddle the line between the garden and the outside. On the same device, at your own discretion. They don't make it any more di
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by rcoveson 5y ago
> There was time when Linux distributions were thought of as walled gardens. Cobble together just the right collection of source for you! Don’t let Red Hat control your mind! No, that's just a garden. A garden is where a single trus
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by rcoveson 5y ago
Yes, the difficulty of traveling "overseas" is closely correlated with the size of the seas over which one must travel.
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Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/373/
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You can’t hold an audition as part of a conversation. A better question in that scenario would have been, “oh, have you been in anything I might be familiar with?” If you knew the color of the couch, it costs you nothing to blow my mind. Yo
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The problem is a clairvoyant isn’t anywhere near as useful to me, or anyone, while unproven. Performing a simple controlled experiment is perfectly logical, not “unduly negative”. It’s like auditioning an actor. I don’t know what “better th
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> Even in a universe where I did 100% know the colour of your carpet via some form of clairvoyance, I've now understood that you will continue to react with confrontational scepticism. In this hypothetical, you are clairvoyant. This
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Three people claim to be able to predict when and where a solar eclipse will occur. You ask them for their predictions. The first provides a haiku which they claim encapsulates the point in time and space where an eclipse or other significa
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> Yeah, it's called "inverted pyramid"... Narrow (succinct) at the top and broad (detailed) at the bottom seems like a normal pyramid to me. An "inverted pyramid" would be like one of those poems that describes f
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> Why are we even allowing the concept of [] to exist before it's legislated against? Have we learnt nothing that we should probably make laws first, otherwise it's essentially a free-for-all situation which is not good for soc

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