sellyme

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by sellyme 5y ago
That was a mistake on my part, definitely meant to include him! Very familiar with his work and it's all exceptional.
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by sellyme 5y ago
> I've gotten emails from multiple bigtechs -- dropbox was one IIRC -- that were half in German, half in English. There is one website I use that sends emails when a staff member takes an action on your account (an extremely common
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by sellyme 5y ago
So my current "people who consistently do really cool niche stuff" list contains foone, Neil Cicierega, jan misali, and now this guy. Any other suggestions?
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by sellyme 5y ago
> There doesn’t exist any official Git GUI. There absolutely does. It's called Git GUI. It's right here: https://github.com/git/git/tree/master/git-gui
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by sellyme 5y ago
> Most people spend years learning the things that are required to understand how git works They don't need to know how git works, they need to know how to use it. Just like I don't need to know the details of an internal combu
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by sellyme 5y ago
I was going to say, sending "most" of $600M to organisations like archive.org would be quite a news story.
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by sellyme 5y ago
> Social media is just advertising that avoided regulation by being on the internet. Now it's rediscovering why public broadcasting laws are necessary. Weirdly, online advertising is in some cases more restricted than traditional
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by sellyme 5y ago
> Even the question whether one can 'think' of something without having a linguistic representation is a topic of active debate. This seems fairly trivially true just based on how common it is for someone to have 100% full unde
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by sellyme 5y ago
> in rare cases it's possible for the rules are poorly worded in a way that would allow something stupid I would not describe either of the chess examples as "stupid". "silly", sure, but neither of them is really
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by sellyme 5y ago
...is it even an industry?
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by sellyme 5y ago
> It's only ambiguous wording of the rules There was nothing ambiguous about it. There was no possible interpretation of the rules that would have prevented those moves.
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by sellyme 5y ago
> Those are obscure. Obscure, but also completely to do with how the pieces on the board can actually move, which I bet most people would have suspected that we worked out a few centuries ago. The decision of who goes first doesn'
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by sellyme 5y ago
> I wonder if you misunderstood? [...] I meant the cake cutting for only the very first move. No, I got that. > I fail to see how this would be the case. I think it may even increase opening variety. At a high level players will be re
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by sellyme 5y ago
It's also trivial to make chess fair by agreeing that every match ends in a draw. The concern is in how we can make it fair without making it less interesting. The cake-cutting solution would severely reduce opening variety.
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by sellyme 5y ago
> The football (soccer) offside rule is often held up as an example of complication I don't follow the sport much - what's so complex about it? It always seemed fairly simple to me, especially in comparison to other sports&#x27
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by sellyme 5y ago
> Chess is way older than a few centuries, so why do the extra rules sidle in and when? Not exactly what you were asking, but you may be shocked to learn that Chess has had two significant patches very recently - namely clarifying the ru
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by sellyme 5y ago
> People really don't like it if stuff like that suddenly changes. I think that's reasonable and normal. Normal yes, reasonable no. It's a problem that solves itself extremely quickly if you just learn to accept it. It&#x2
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by sellyme 5y ago
> where the waiter explains the food carefully, tells you where it’s sourced and with which wine to pair it all. These are all functions that can be served equally well by an inanimate object. Why pay someone $25/hr every night to s
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by sellyme 5y ago
> multiple users telling them that their stuff is broken You can find multiple people who would describe anything as broken. I'm several dozen comments into that thread and I still haven't found a single person even attempting
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by sellyme 5y ago
Where I live it's been about a decade since waiters were anything except glorified conveyer belts that serve no purpose except to move my food from the kitchen to my table, and if anything that has drastically increased the quality o
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by sellyme 5y ago
If it tastes good I couldn't care less what it's made of.
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by sellyme 5y ago
> Everything else was a step backwards from the previous version. You're claiming that XP was worse than ME?
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by sellyme 5y ago
Best I can do is Bogo security
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by sellyme 5y ago
I know it's technically accurate, but the description of Starbucks as a "local option" is extremely amusing.
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by sellyme 5y ago
> I still prefer their attempt to be somewhat more appealing than Subway/Burger King/Dunkin Donuts/whatever other garbage tier food option used to be in the same spot In my experience Subway has a 100% hit rate of being be
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by sellyme 5y ago
> Mass media is nothing new You literally used "before printed media" as an example. > you greatly over estimate how differently rumors and gossip circulate today vs any time in the last couple centuries No, I'm pretty
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by sellyme 5y ago
> Why exactly is this such a problem? People have been making up bullshit stories to sell a narrative since there have been printed media You've answered your own question. It's tough to get your bullshit spreading when you nee
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by sellyme 5y ago
There's a very very large gulf between "don't get banned from the entire country" and "actively support said country's human rights violations". Plenty of game developers do not support the CCP, yet have t
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by sellyme 5y ago
It also helped that Google, by-and-large, were doing extremely good things. For all the complaints about the (very real) problems the internet has today, I think people have lost sight of how much the internet sucked in 1997. There's a
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by sellyme 5y ago
Even ignoring the extremely explicit Robin Hood example that's already been pointed out, there's a hell of a lot of fiction centered around going to the lair of a dragon that does nothing but hoard gold, and killing it. Possibly y

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