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by scandox 10mo ago
> it took several years and a small team of programmers to re-write the entire game in C++. It actually took a lot longer to re-write the game in C++ than it took me to write the original machine code version 20 years earlier. Expanding
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by scandox 11mo ago
As far as I knew I was agreeing with the commenter not condescending. The title is a great example of it's kind. It's funny enough to stop one interrogating the proposition it makes.
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by scandox 11mo ago
Classic example of humour as stop-think
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by scandox 11mo ago
The plots are also extremely illogical and incoherent. I think though the greatest failure is in character development. Rewatching it recently I felt like it was a drama about a really bad boss. Martin Landau's character is a terrible
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by scandox 11mo ago
Yeah I have to say that and the comments in this thread make me feel very ... directed.
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by scandox 11mo ago
That is a mistake I think. Many 'normal' people who grow up (emotionally) make a conscious effort not to instrumentalize their social interactions even if they do know how to do it. Certainly with friends they aim to be authentic.
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by scandox 11mo ago
I was so curious to see how the payment would work...I'm curious is there any way to make payment work without a browser? Is it impossible for any reason or just complex?
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by scandox 11mo ago
> The Shire is defiantly non-military and pre-industrial. The Shire stands as a symbol for a rural and peaceful life but their protected way of life is only possible because of the the military might of others and this is explicitly allu
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by scandox 11mo ago
Well in fact the raising of a huge army is indeed one of the goals of the protagonists. Of course for them the goal is to defeat evil. I'm sure that the people behind Palantir, Anduril and other such companies also believe they are bui
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by scandox 11mo ago
I don't know what Tolkien's personal philosophy was but I think a reasonable reading of LOTR would put it at centre right. The culture it valorizes has military capability and heroism at its core.
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by scandox 11mo ago
I get that it convincingly simulates a human but so do I (because I am a human) and I don't get through the paywall...
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by scandox 11mo ago
While we're here how does archive.today bypass paywalls?
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by scandox 11mo ago
> This is how world class athletes, musicians, artists, writers, and of course programmers take what is in their mind and translate it into reality. > It is the ultimate sharpening of the axe before chopping the tree[1] But if part of
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by scandox 11mo ago
Yes I also cannot do this. I comfort myself by believing the nature of their work allows them some sort of meditation on what they will do in those little gaps...but they may just have an enviable power that I do not have.
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by scandox 11mo ago
Interesting to see some bash curl being used by a renowned cryptologist...
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by scandox 1y ago
This is a remarkable and unfair truth. I have had this experience with Office365...when they're down a lot of customers don't care because all their customers are also down.
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by scandox 1y ago
> Perhaps some people do but that's their problem, it shouldn't be mine. In aggregate most people do need leadership. The kind of technocratic/managerial approach you suggest has led to the current societal problems we hav
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by scandox 1y ago
Wait till it's been rewritten by multiple competing safe link services many of which are blissfully unaware of each other...
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by scandox 1y ago
A former policeman told me about a case he dealt with in the late 1970s. A man had got up in the morning, had breakfast, got in his car and drove off to work. Halfway to work he had coughed a large amount of blood onto the windscreen of his
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by scandox 1y ago
> reduce injury to pedestrians Strange then that everyone around me is driving some kind of high fronted armoured car
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by scandox 1y ago
People are not very good at evaluating their own success. And also people learn to say things people like to hear.
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by scandox 1y ago
This one makes my palms sweaty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R3-YwDZrzg And it's just a ladder really.
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by scandox 1y ago
Not all the time and not across all populations. Even many poor people had adequate nourishment a lot of their lives. The real problem they faced was the precarity of their situation, since I think we can agree that even a short period with
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by scandox 1y ago
I mean that just sounds like bollocks to me. I house shared for years and it was just perfect. If I was going to become a crack addict just because I got cheap accommodation I mean what chance have I got?
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by scandox 1y ago
All the groups I mentioned are distinct groups of people some of whose members overlap and some not, so the size of the actual trans community doesn't really matter. I would say it is indeed their misfortune to have been made the subje
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by scandox 1y ago
I'm not attacking anyone. I am describing what I observed as a relative outsider of the social process that has occurred in the last ten years or so. Broadly I would like people to be able to live as they want and identify themselves a
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by scandox 1y ago
I don't see a contradiction. I'm happy for people to seek changes to the law that makes their lives better. But it is still seeking change to the law. I don't know the American system well but didn't gay marriage require
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by scandox 1y ago
I think the reality of what has gone on has several faces which are all worth thinking about: 1. A group of people that want to be different without harming anyone and be left alone 2. A group of people demanding certain specific and new le
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by scandox 1y ago
Oracle is like the magic word that makes me want to give money to causes. Which I rarely do or wish to do.
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by scandox 1y ago
Your comment contradicts itself. They produced this project at least.

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