wyattpeak

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by wyattpeak 5y ago
So, a few things. 1) I ask you to refrain from personal attacks if you want me to continue to engage. 2) I feel no moral compunction to read a twenty page supporting document to make a one-line comment about not trusting people's claim
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
Well that's what they've claimed, but with the ongoing spate of race-relaced book-banning, it's a moderately hard claim to believe. How many other books in their library do you think contain the phrase "God damn"?
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
I think you're right, but in another sense I think the consumerist junk reading is just one segment of the population looking down their nose at another. I'm not sure that a game I quickly become bored with is substantially differ
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
Ah, my mistake I'm sorry. Thank you for clarifying your thoughts.
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
It does, but the article is pretty cagey in its retraction (including following up with the comment "Though on the other hand, jamming is really bad for typing speed!"). The author seems to me to at least partly still believe its
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
Sure, I didn't suggest it was. I was only arguing against this: > If you didn't start with that belief, what observation could you make to come to the conclusion that there is an afterlife? Clearly, lots of observations lead pe
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
Irrespective of the reality of an afterlife, the very fact that the vast majority of cultures seemingly independently developed theories about it suggests that people do, in fact, come to the conclusion that there is an afterlife without st
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
It does in a funny way provide something of a metric for how willing the site is to be critical. Several video game reviewers I follow have stopped receiving product from some studios, which I think is a badge of honest review. Although it&
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
I don't think so. If the problem is people gaming the system, making it easier to game isn't going to improve the situation. It's not going to put good content creators on a level playing field with spammers, because good con
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
Off the top of my head: - What material are you making the rope out of? What data do we have of that material's behaviour under tension in a vacuum? - How is the craft connected to the rope? Is it a fixed bond or is there freedom to mo
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
It works in principle, but it's a very big engineering task, and an enormous expense to boot. To avoid noticeably different acceleration between head and foot,* it's going to have to be substantially larger than any spacecraft we&
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
That's fine, I'm not looking to debate, I'm trying to help. You're here presumably looking for input on your new project, but you're not taking any of it, and getting very defensive whenever anyone offers anything o
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
Sure, but you're ignoring flaws in the security to make a stronger marketing message for your site. Yes, there is nothing you can do about this, it's not under your purview. But nevertheless you can't make so strong a claim a
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
No, they're absolutely right. You can steal a person's computer. You can get them drunk and ask them to hand over their keys. There are a dozen ways off the top of my head that you can have a message that's not written by the
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
I can see why that argument might work for a laissez-faire libertarian, but we have innumerable laws on what is contractable. That this should be singled out specifically as something which shouldn't have any such protections seems in
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
> For games? No, for money. These actions are always dismissed on the basis that they're not selling something important. But setting aside the question of whether that's valid, they are selling in exchange for something impo
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
Of course it's an artificial limitation, the whole thing is an exercise in artificial limitation. Putting all pages in the same document is an artificial limitation. They're artificial limitations exercised in pursuit of demonstr
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
I'm not moving the goalposts, my goalposts are exactly where they were in my first comment: The concept demonstrated in the article was not possible twenty years ago. In fact I was very specific about what concepts were not possible tw
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
Not if you wanted multiple pages without Javascript it wasn't. Which is what's interesting about the site being described, although the article does a weak job explaining it.
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
This wasn't a foundational web standard. The :target pseudoclass was introduced in CSS3. The article is not another pointless potshot at frameworks, it's showing a clever use of a new standard to allow multiple pages in the same H
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
This was absolutely not possible 20 years ago. The only pseudoclasses available at that point were the anchor pseudoclasses and :first-line/:first-letter.[1] What's being shown off here is not having a single page of a website in
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
I think this is substantially cleverer than merely "not using frameworks". Nobody's surprised you can do this without a framework, but I suspect a good number would be surprised you can do it without Javascript.
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
> the 5 tests is clearly a better outcome for society. I don't think that's obviously true. Misread pregnancy tests are fantastically common, and someone mistakenly believing they don't have covid is going to be a signific
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
Civilisation started heavily relying on coal a few hundred years ago. The Earth was well-dominated by humans by then. It very probably would have taken a lot longer to get to where we are now, but I don't think there was any danger of
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
Unlike big-budget films, which are notoriously aimed only at nitpicking fans.
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
versioning != semantic versioning Semantic versioning is an approach to versioning. It's an approach which, as GP stated, was designed specifically to help with dependency updating. GP isn't proposing that languages shouldn't
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
While I'm not particularly sold on the shadowy organisation argument, what the majority of Americans want should be fairly irrelevant to a matter of British law. One would presume that Americans want possible crimes against them to be
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
I'm going to disagree with you there. I agree that their bottom line benefits from their being nice to me, but that's not the same as being motivated by profit. Similarly, I'm not looking to obsessively optimise for the best
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
That's fair, I should clarify: every public is motivated by profits. I don't actually think it's survivorship bias, my local coffee shop is good to me for little other reason than the owner and I get on well, and they're
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
I find this attitude, as common as it is, a bit of a non-argument. Every company is motivated by profits, and yet I have vastly different opinions on the behaviours of different companies. Even when you have one ultimate goal, there are a t

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