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by rspeele 6y ago
It depends on which echo chamber you look at. Reddit at large has long been libleft. If you read comments from posts that hit front page, you will find overwhelming support for left-leaning policies (exception: Reddit has a distinct pro-gun
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Alice lends his 1 stock to Bob. Bob sells it to Charlie (but is still on the hook to return it) Charlie lends his 1 stock to Dave. Dave sells it to Eddie (but is still on the hook to return it). There is only 1 stock being traded here, but
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by rspeele 6y ago
Yeah. Copying my post from yesterday's thread -- which only looks more and more real today with increasing rationalization leading to explanations like that hedge funds are "short ladder attacking" GME. ----------------------
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The claims and the consequences are very different, but I definitely get the same sense I got reading Q stuff when I skim the current WSB page. - The media, government, and elites are conspiring against us. - Info that says short interest h
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by rspeele 6y ago
VLC "just works" and has done so for at least the 11 years or so that I've used it. What an excellent piece of software. Never change, VLC!
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by rspeele 6y ago
I am torn. On the one hand, the phrase is definitely overused. It's like "reason about" is the functional world's version of OOPs "modularity". It gets used so much it ceases to hold meaning beyond "thing
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Yes, when I heard that there was a report of "68%" error rate from the machines, I was a little surprised. Then when I heard it came from comedian Russell Ramsland, I thought: "Oh, I bet he did something like count all the me
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by rspeele 6y ago
This is exactly what I mean. The hand recount doesn't show the machines counted wrong, so conveniently you've got a workaround theory: "A specific number of newly created ballots could have been delivered during the after-hou
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Every time the states did something to check the integrity of the election, such as hand-recounting the ballots, or doing a signature verification audit, it was simply dismissed out of hand as a cover-up and not a real investigation. The ba
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The machines in question vary in type, but most are scanners to aid in counting paper ballots. The others are touchscreen entry devices that print a paper ballot as a hard copy. Hand recounts of the paper ballots have been done -- statewide
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While I see what you mean, it's also true that sometimes in games everything is TOO shiny. Or the wrong "kind" of shiny -- everything looks like a freshly waxed floor, or looks wet like GP comment mentions. Raytracing helps m
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by rspeele 6y ago
On a philosophical basis I do like the idea that no one person, nation, or corporation has control over the currency. And the irreversable nature of transactions is something I could accept, if I felt it was possible for me to have comple
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by rspeele 6y ago
What caused me to get out of Bitcoin was that in reality, the level of trust Bitcoin required from me was much too high compared to traditional banking. I had a few thousand dollars worth and I became quite paranoid that my coins could be e
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by rspeele 6y ago
Cyan's Obduction was pretty good but had its flaws too. I was just a kid when Myst was a hit, and never finished it. But I remembered being fascinated by the strange worlds to explore in that game and the uncanny mix of fantastic and r
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by rspeele 6y ago
I vaguely remember a dev commentary or interview about Amnesia. If I remember right, one thing they said was close to what you said about "you do not want to show the monster" -- but changed to "you do not want to show what h
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by rspeele 6y ago
SOMA was wonderful. Maybe it helped that I didn't have really high expectations going in -- I pretty much thought "more horror like Amnesia, but in a new setting". So I went into it blind. But it ended up being one of those e
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by rspeele 6y ago
I would check out SolveSpace for some of your personal projects. It is no SolidWorks but it is a parametric CAD program that works well, within its limitations. Very lightweight and not as crashy as FreeCAD. If your part doesn't need
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by rspeele 6y ago
I strongly recommend taking a look at SolveSpace[1] and doing at least the first tutorial. It takes maybe 30 minutes and gets you knowing enough to be dangerous. SolveSpace is missing a lot of advanced features, but is reliable and quite ad
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by rspeele 6y ago
I do a bunch of random little things on my CNC router -- mostly I make and sell wood handgun grips. I used 4 open-source CAD programs before finally just concluding I need SolidWorks to do serious modeling. But I do still use one of the ope
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Thank you. That makes it make sense.
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by rspeele 6y ago
The longer I code the more I value stability. That is not to say that stuff like immutability doesn't impress me -- I certainly do prefer an immutable data type for things like dates, strings, vectors, etc. But as long as the API doesn
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by rspeele 6y ago
I'm less productive working from home. I'm confident some people are more productive working from home. There's no one-size-fits-all solution.
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Not to deny that this has a legitimate use in graphics and stuff I don't know about... But I suspect I will see this misused more often than used correctly, when penny-wise and pound-foolish programmers feel, absent any performance or
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by rspeele 6y ago
What if somebody else with the same surname wants quirk.cc? All that you really have going for you is that you were there first. What if the other Quirk is somebody more prominent? What if they have a bigger family to give email addresses
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by rspeele 6y ago
Agreed, not just a time-saver but a self-documenting/maintaining advantage. In concept you could change the underlying keys that relate a Foo to a Bar, and still have your queries work. And prevents dumb typos/brainfarts like &quo
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by rspeele 6y ago
People would absolutely panic buy a Remington 870, if it was still good. A 12GA pump is a classic "don't know much about guns but want something to keep at home" purchase, and the 870 used to be THE industry standard. But the
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by rspeele 6y ago
I really like the syntax used to declare generic type parameters to functions in ML-type languages like F#. Writing the below in other languages (pseudocode) feels repetitive in the same way that `Thing thing = new Thing()` did back before
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by rspeele 6y ago
The problem I have with it is this part of your statement: > And it's not like we couldn't stop them: who was flying that giant plane? Who were those guys releasing these swarms from the van? Where did they buy these drones? Wh
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by rspeele 6y ago
I don't think somebody restoring and flying this plane takes any human lives. There is the opportunity cost argument -- you could've used that money/effort to save lives instead -- but again, you gotta condemn basically every
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Can you elaborate on what that means?

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