tehwalrus

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by tehwalrus 9y ago
- strange aspect ratio - tensile strength (it should be cartwheeling, there is a physics theorem which means everything tends to this configuration) - large flat or concave sections. - others are reporting it's mostly metallic. I'
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/other/why-one-lib-dem-exp... ^ Best article I've seen on Brexit options and why "reversing article 50" is not a viable option as far as the EU is concerned. It is based
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
Don't be ridiculous, truth is a defence against Libel (written down is libel, not slander). The onus is on the person who said the thing to prove it is true ("guilty until proven innocent," since it's a civil rather th
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
"Inter-personal skills" plus "works well in a team" seem to be those criteria, as I would describe them (from the UK). (I don't actually mind what anyone calls it, but "culture fit" has got a bad press and
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
Lived in London for six years, only spoke to my partner, people at work/uni and my landlord (who is also an uncle-in-law, if that's a thing). Two weeks before we left we got a dog. We met so many people from the area and the dog w
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
Isn't culture fit just another word for "people like me"? There have been numerous articles reporting the huge damage this sort of optimisation does. Did you mean "inter-personal skills"? The rest of your answer see
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
Performance reviews and their flaws are discussed in detail later in the article. In particular, they detect false positives but not false negatives.
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
Ah, "cards" may mean index cards. I just use notepaper, but the book recommends writing stuff on index cards so you can "publicly display" them to the players and remind yourselves of the state of the world at that point
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
I recommmend an online game then - Reddit "looking for group" is quite good as a hub. You need "fudge dice", but these are mappable from D6s. I recommend getting the dice though, as this is th table: 1 => -1 2 => -
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
I would compare GURPS to lisp, given that it tried to encompass any possibility with increasing complexity!
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
I don't know much about the difference between Core and Accelerated, I just bought the Fate Core rule book (amazon?) and workout out of it. This is how I run pretty much all my games, buy the book and read it. A new DM should (IMHO) tr
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
> "It's like programming languages, sure you can do anything in D&D (≈ Java, perhaps?)" I love it. But I would choose different languages: AD&D: C D&D 3.5: C++ D&D 4: Java/C# D&D 5: C++11 Fate Co
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
This is much more explicit in a different, much simpler RPG called Fate, which is my new favourite. GM'ing (Game, rather than Dungeon Master) is nearly as hard because of the improv story authorship, but the lack of rules-lawyering jud
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
Have you read Patrick Rothfuss' Name of the Wind? The Arcanum from it is a librarian's nightmare, I wondered what you thought of the description / if you've ever worked in a library that's too big to sort properly.
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
EPEL not being enabled by default I find a little weird, but sure it's not the end of the world. The thing I find strange is that the people I'm talking about will happily run code from random 3rd party repos (providing PHP 7.0 or
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
I've known people in authority positions who have insisted on CentOS because "red hat certification", "tested for enterprise" etc, whose first setup step is to enable EPEL and a bunch of 3rd party repos. They don&#x
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
I would say, given the state of politics and the general attitude to the climate and natural resources, our first priority should be colonising another planet. Putting some scientists on Mars for a few years is step 1 in that very important
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
How is your business tackling the current "impact factor" protection scam? (I am a fan of projects like yours, just much more pessimistic!)
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
I'll save my $25 for some time when I'll be not too busy to play all the way through. So, maybe at Christmas (if I even remember).
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
This is wonderful.
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
Set your default shell to bash, and every time something annoys you, look up how to fix it (stack overflow is basically complete at this point, if you know what to search for) and put it in your dotfiles. I used to rely on fish, but after a
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
We're nerds. I've met very few Lib dems who aren't nerds. And some of us are nerds about transport, and some of us are nerds about budgets, and so on. That is who we are above all else. We're ravenclaws. (With some huffl
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
You don't understand the Lib Dems if you think we'd have voted for Brexit. Especially under Clegg.
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
I am a social liberal (Lib Dem), my wife is a liberal socialist (labour). We disagree pretty much only on those issues (privacy, data protection.) Capitalism = bad, Markets = OKish. It's only the Tories who believe in unrepentant profi
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by tehwalrus 9y ago
Vote Lib Dem. Seriously. I am a candidate in very north london, we're all organised for this possibility.
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by tehwalrus 10y ago
To be honest, I'm not convinced anyone will try until a mass extinction is underway anyway, in which case you're only migrating your quota of humans for the rocket's load before the volcanic ash density hits 11 (or whatever).
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by tehwalrus 10y ago
> The question is how can we steer the ship. You mean how we can fix the leaks.
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by tehwalrus 10y ago
Doing this within democratic structures may be a hard problem, but that doesn't make it unsolvable. (I'm not sure where you get the authority to ban people from authority from. That was a fun sentence!)
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by tehwalrus 10y ago
Breathing is turning carbon that was already in the cycle into CO2. You don't eat coal, or drink crude oil, do you?
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by tehwalrus 10y ago
Sid's theory about games seems to suggest that Invisible, Inc. should be boring. I have to say I've found it anything but. Has anyone played both Covert Action and Invisible, Inc for comparison?

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