snerbles

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by snerbles 4y ago
A wonderful tool that promptly broke when I switched to Wayland.
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by snerbles 4y ago
When I first learned about Markov chains in the early '00s, I found and hacked at a simple IRC bot, and deployed it to a number of rooms found in the mIRC defaults. It would sit in each channel and learn, only replying when DM'd.
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by snerbles 4y ago
> very little question that they'll be punished for doing it The party of the state AG enjoys full control of the state, I'm pretty sure he feels quite secure in his position.
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by snerbles 4y ago
It's interesting that your first assumption is suburbia and not an actually rural setting.
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by snerbles 4y ago
> Seriously though, I find hostility toward Wayland so weird. I felt the same way until I tried to get Chromium working without turning into a blurry pixelated XWayland mess. I still run Sway, but the hours I've spent pouring over
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by snerbles 4y ago
Cognitive dissonance is a powerful force.
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by snerbles 4y ago
> as is yelling “fire” in a crowded theater A popular term from a decision that was overturned by the Supreme Court decades ago. https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-tim...
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by snerbles 4y ago
> it is so deeply short-sighted Supporters of tyrannical measures are often quite surprised when they themselves are eventually crushed underfoot.
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by snerbles 4y ago
He's taken to streaming on Twitch recently.
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by snerbles 4y ago
IBM was the real winner of the seventh generation console war. Though by not as much of a dramatic margin (Nintendo stayed with IBM for the Wii U and Nvidia for the Switch), one could say AMD won the eighth- and ninth-gen console wars in a
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by snerbles 4y ago
A modest $90,000 in donations to a very specific charity in Santa Clara county, though in years before I've heard it can be had for a bit less if you're not in a rush. https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/10/
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by snerbles 4y ago
The FreeAllegiance community is tight-nit, alive and well last time I played it in 2008. It's one of the most team-oriented games I've played.
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by snerbles 4y ago
> What has helped me is knowing that I am doing all of this for myself, and because it's fun and interesting to _me_. Thank you for articulating it this way. It's too easy for nihilism to bleed over into hobbies and pastimes.
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by snerbles 4y ago
Still is. When doing sneaky stuff in enemy territory and they have all exits blocked the usual procedure is to cloak up until the combat timer runs out, then ( after checking for hostile combat probes ) de-cloak and start safe logoff. If yo
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by snerbles 4y ago
It is worth noting that player-disconnected ships in emergency warp can be probed down by experienced players with the right equipment. The combat logoff timer was introduced as a countermeasure to the "logoffski", a tactic employ
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by snerbles 4y ago
There are mechanics that protect assets in player-owned (and therefore destructible) structures, so long as the station is properly fueled and maintained in known space. Your stuff gets whisked away to a nearby NPC station, where several da
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by snerbles 4y ago
Still have mine from the Air Force.
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by snerbles 4y ago
It looks like a fractional scaling issue.
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by snerbles 4y ago
I spent years working around the 150-click limit of the demo, finally buying a license in 2004 or so. I still use it every so often.
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by snerbles 5y ago
After some digging ("x-face image usenet" on DDG yielded a link to a page on curlie.org), I found this collection: https://ace.home.xs4all.nl/X-Faces/
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by snerbles 5y ago
In practice it seems Popper's Paradox is frequently cited as a justification of force against heretics, accompanied by claims that the heresy is in and of itself a form of violence.
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by snerbles 5y ago
> None of that is true. Really depends on your AFSC (job code), unit and era. I was in one of the more infamous career fields (Security Forces), and the running joke was that we were "real military" compared to the rest of the
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by snerbles 5y ago
I look forward to hieroglyphic CLI interfaces, where we compute like it's 2600 BC.
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by snerbles 5y ago
Photonicinduction's videos fulfill the wild mad electrical engineering fantasies I never had the guts to try as an undergrad.
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by snerbles 5y ago
It's entirely driven by spite and class warfare. Elite politicians and journalists were the first to happily bark "learn to code" at freshly-unemployed blue collar workers with all of the apparent condescension you described.
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by snerbles 5y ago
This narrow "Free Speech == First Amendment and nothing else" interpretation is quite common with those that advocate controlling the speech of others.
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by snerbles 5y ago
But not an uncommon one.
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by snerbles 5y ago
If only because it's posing an existential threat to society and the very powers that be that are contributing to this mess. Given current trends I expect things to get much, much worse.
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by snerbles 5y ago
You mean like when United Airlines employees injured a doctor while forcibly dragging him off on an overbooked flight? https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/doctor-dragged-united-a... https://en.wikipedi
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by snerbles 5y ago
How do you go about teaching people that are outright hostile to the command line and anything that resembles code? Currently dealing with a snobbish painter/graphic designer who has used Microsoft Frontpage and Adobe Muse for over 20

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