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811.
by thom 3y ago
I wonder what the number is during vintage cube season. That’s the main reason I come back these days (never did manage to go infinite…)
812.
by thom 3y ago
I suspect it’s more about streamers on Twitch.
813.
by thom 4y ago
Just wait until you hear how often most of the books on my bookshelves get read.
814.
by thom 4y ago
It's worth noting that the ancient Greeks usually watered their wine (and indeed frowned upon those barbarians like the Macedonians who drank it unadulterated). I've always thought this line was more about how some water you could
815.
by thom 4y ago
Needless to say, Kingdom Come ended up with fast travel, but it's implemented quite tastefully - you have to discover fast travel points, as is common in all RPGs these days, and travelling (especially at night or through risky areas)
816.
by thom 4y ago
The historian Hegesander tells us that the ancient Macedonians wouldn’t allow men to recline at symposia until they had speared a boar without the use of a net.
817.
by thom 4y ago
I don’t think that is at all common in English English.
818.
by thom 4y ago
People nevertheless still say “Manchester City are a team” (and that sounds correct to my UK ear).
819.
by thom 4y ago
Yeah I've got my own code to do it, it just seems very flaky. Will give this a go!
820.
by thom 4y ago
These are with the Institute of Continuing Education at Cambridge: https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/
821.
by thom 4y ago
I’m doing a course on Alexander the Great at the moment and for a couple of seconds I thought we’d uncovered surviving versions of Ptolemy I Soter’s account (which Arrian used as a primary source). Nevertheless, that Ptolemy was a patron of
822.
by thom 4y ago
I’ve turned off nearly everything in my Emacs. Fullscreen, no scrollbars, minimal frame borders, modeline hidden. My only sadness is that you can’t completely reclaim the echo area when it’s not in use. But one thing this has always helped
823.
by thom 4y ago
As a parent, I’m just thinking of all the blocks needing to be tidied away.
824.
by thom 4y ago
The industry has gravitated to giving up and putting everything in containers because most languages’ version and package management was so terrible.
825.
by thom 4y ago
Eh, no longer really enamoured by these thoughts, because that's really what's interesting about almost any game, but somehow I still bristle whenever people bring this up about chess.
826.
by thom 4y ago
And while I understand that you’re coming at this from a technical standpoint and I can’t argue with the definition, I still think on a human level chess is more like poker than tic-tac-toe (because you’re spending a lot of time imperfectly
827.
by thom 4y ago
I suppose my problem is that the term 'perfect information' doesn't really communicate anything really interesting about chess. Whereas the equally valid term of art 'incomplete information' actually does, because i
828.
by thom 4y ago
Is it a particularly useful term here? It seems to mean you could theoretically play perfectly but in almost every real situation you can't, which is true of every human activity (including war). Information is hidden by complexity, bu
829.
by thom 4y ago
Any other naming here would be worse.
830.
by thom 4y ago
I care inasmuch as each of my kids had perfectly readable handwriting up until the moment their school wasted weeks teaching them cursive at which point their writing became a mess, which in turn caused them a fair bit of anxiety over the y
831.
by thom 4y ago
Where do you think the Habsburg chin came from?
832.
by thom 4y ago
This article is a pretty good overview of what it's like to play Crusader Kings III, in case the minutiae of succession types, fabrication of claims, and Holy Roman Empire shenanigans sounds fun to you.
833.
by thom 4y ago
And of course Julius Caesar gets you to Aeneas and Aphrodite.
834.
by thom 4y ago
Templated, reusable schedules so I don’t have to set up downtime for each kid individually. Allow overrides for holidays etc. Apple let you press a button for ‘one more minute’ that seems impossible to disable. Password management is horrib
835.
by thom 4y ago
Virgin Orbit actually had four successful launches and two failures (their first and apparently last launches). What’s sad about them collapsing right now is they were the only launch partner for the UK’s only spaceport, and if we were gene
836.
by thom 4y ago
As a correction, the first three were failures and Musk himself acknowledges that had the fourth failed they would have folded: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2017/09/29/elon-musk-9-years-ago-sp... https:&#x2
837.
by thom 4y ago
SpaceX’s first three launches were failures. I think the world is probably better for them not folding after the first.
838.
by thom 4y ago
Who would have thought that the Turing test would devolve into two diametrically opposed camps writing extremely confident essays about how wrong the other side is to judge an AI as promising or not.
839.
by thom 4y ago
I partly blame growing up on IRC for the behaviour - my brain seems to treat all communication as asynchronous. And while I often find myself apologising for the it, I also try and reassure people it's entirely because they said someth
840.
by thom 4y ago
I don’t actually disagree, but ‘must’ seems too strong here. It could mean that they’ve already reached a threshold of comprehension earlier in the current speech, or that they’ve latched on to a pertinent point and don’t care to hear the r

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