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John_Doe_Fletcher

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John_Doe_Fletcher


								

								

								
								
								

								
							
					
 
				


				
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				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 24, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I've sorta-kinda heard this, but have you got any examples I could look at?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for March 16, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Well, no kids yet but I've got two cats. I think I'd prefer the black version anyway, so ultimately it's moot. :P


Thank you for the rec!


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for March 16, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Well, I can be $30 flexible. How long have you been using this one?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for March 16, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Does anyone have a good budget office chair recommendation? My current chair is a piece of shit and I want to replace it with something more ergonomic with (ideally) a mesh back. Would like to keep it under 200 USD if possible, cause whatever I get I'm likely to get for my partner as well.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for March 16, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
As I noted when I recommended the novelization in the other thread, I'd very much suggest picking up the whole Dark Lord trilogy, not just ROTS. There's more exploration of the political friction between Palpatine and the Jedi Council,  the ground front of the attack on Coruscant gets a proper setpiece, Anakin and Obi-Wan get some quality adventuring time, the cat-and-mouse of the Jedi coming this close to discovering Darth Sidious, I could go on and on and on. And that's just sticking to Labyrinth of Evil! Seriously consider the whole set.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 10, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
That's fair and I think we're on the same page. Thank you for the elaboration. :)


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 10, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Well, does our hypothetical manlet want to be a horse jockey? Would he find it fulfilling, compared to his strongly indicated preference of merely playing professional basketball?


I'm getting a takeaway of "if you don't have a realistic chance of being the best, or at least above average in your chosen field, you're doing the wrong thing pursuing it." I don't agree with this, even though I think we'd agree on a close converse of "if you could be the best, or above average at an occupation, it's not wrong to pursue it."


Is "contributing to the overall success [of the NBA]" as you put it expressed solely by players at the peak of natural talent and aptitude, or is there room for people doing "just OK, slightly below average, could've been amazing at something else" to keep the show going on? Like, sure it's not optimal, is it actually wrong in your estimation?


(Not to get totally sidetracked by the analogy, I think my line of questioning still tracks to the original topic at least.)


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for March 7, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Anyone else here ever get easily 'bumped out of' these very good but long games where you feel like you kinda have to invest a lot of time per session and immerse yourself?




I've been driving my partner nuts with how much trouble I have sticking with Baldur's Gate. I don't quite understand myself here, honestly. I don't have an issue with point-and-click, I played Runescape for the better part of two decades. Long RPGs? No problem if it's a JRPG. Even if my go-to habit game (Warframe) wasn't a grindathon, I just don't get why I can't get myself to spend more than an hour at a time on BG3.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for March 7, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I'd just like to chip in that Matt Stover's Revenge of the Sith novelization does a good job at fleshing out Anakin's worldview and motives, as well as his dynamic with Obi-Wan - though it's also helped that my copy of ROTS is the three-in-one binding of the Dark Lord trilogy. You get the entirety of Labyrinth of Evil first to set up Revenge, and that's a great story that also shows Palpatine's surrogate-uncle relationship with Anakin and how he's been playing the long game of being Anakin's confidant while subtly cultivating his worst traits - his pride and his fear of loss.


Not to invalidate your critique of the prequel trilogy, I think it's a fair critique. I know saying "they fixed it in the novelization" doesn't fix the problems with the film, but I do think the novelization is worth your time if you want an official version (well, Legends-official...) of the story that's more coherent.


Also, I haven't talked about Rise of Darth Vader as the third part of the Dark Lord trilogy - it's good, but really more of an epilogue. Aftermath of Revenge and some character work on Anakin grappling with his cybernetics and dependency on the suit. I'm not doing it justice, unfortunately.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 24, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Yes that something was a Supreme Court case legalizing same sex marriage across the entire country under the concept of civil liberties. Of course you stop fighting as hard when the supreme law of the land says that it's legal.




Supreme Court decisions are decidedly not law, they are interpretations of law intended to set precedent. The deliberate conflation of Supreme Court rulings with laws and "constitutional protections" is part of why we're in this king-of-the-hill conflict over control of the SC, because people believe that capturing the court is a pass to end-run Congress and anchor in the policy du jour without going through the actual process of lawmaking, which would involve that ickiest of things, actually having the House of Representatives represent their constituents.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Speechcraft and Pithiness: Give your tips here
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
tl;dr: putting the unique info up front gives the reader the most important bit first, then lets them decide if they want to wade into the details.


See also: abstracts in scientific papers. I could expand farther on my point with examples, but I frontloaded so much of the main idea there's not much meaningful stuff left to say.


Also, putting the tldr at the bottom of a post is bad netiquette used by people that don't grasp the literal attitude of too long; didn't read.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Tinker Tuesday for February 25, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Reposting for visibility: Quokkit now supports clicking posts or comments to select them, as well as jumping to the current comment's immediate parent comment or the top-level comment in a given comment's ancestors. Link to manually update the userscript: Quokkit v1.0.2


Next on the docket is making the "More Comments" (expand comment subtrees) and "View More Comments" (fetch more comments under the fold) buttons navigable and actionable with the keyboard. I'd almost include it in this release, but I'm having some timing difficulties with updating state when AJAX stuff happens. I'd call it 95% done, but it needs a little more TLC. The work in progress is in the dev branch.


Comments/concerns/suggestions appreciated.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 24, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
To be blunt, if a terrorist attack happens, it strengthens the case for stronger borders (if foreigners did it) and is terrible optics for a domestic terrorist's cause (because terrorism is antisocial, obviously). That's how I see it at least.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Tinker Tuesday for February 18, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Quokkit now supports clicking posts or comments to select them, as well as jumping to the current comment's immediate parent comment or the top-level comment in a given comment's ancestors. Link to manually update the userscript: Quokkit v1.0.2


New keybinds (case-sensitive):


    

  • p: jump to parent comment
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  • L: manually reload Quokkit's internal post/comment list. This should happen automatically whenever a button (like More Comments, Read More In Thread, etc) is clicked, but it's not perfect, so this is the manual override.
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Comments/suggestions/concerns are welcome. It's not big and it's not great, but it does 80% of what I want it to.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for February 16, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
If you don't mind my asking, what sort of birth defect? I ask because I was born with a cleft lip (possibly palate? unsure tbh) which was treated quickly after I was born, but I've got the "dad cough" and I apparently snore like a lawnmower. "Moderately clogged all the time" sounds familiar enough for me to wonder if I should get my nose looked at.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for February 16, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
That's quitter talk. Do it for the craft, do it to skill up, do it to impress your friends, anything - but talking yourself out of having fun because the end result may possibly be dredgeable out of the electronic collective unconscious is stupid. I've talked myself out of working on side projects before because someone's already done it, and I was still wrong to do so! Don't do nothing now because you'll (presumably) be able to do it better in the future, you're skipping the important steps of practicing and fucking up, also known as having fun and learning!


Anyway I'm working on my attention span. I haven't given myself time to touch most of my side projects recently because IRL, but I did take some time to set up custom firmware on my friend's 3DS. I'm also trying to work through FUTO's guide to setting up a self-hosted home cloud.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 3, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
And he's back.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 27, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Mu!


I'm not engaging with your argument, I'm criticizing your process of Notice lack of knowledge -> Consult unvettable bullshit generator -> Present unvettable bullshit generator output. Would you ask a parrot its opinion on the field of economics and place any real weight on its response?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for February 2, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
That's pretty much right. Were you expecting a novel?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 27, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


As I'm not an economist, I asked GPT for what economics has contributed to mankind and the best I saw in its list was game theory.




If you don't know what to say, you can just not say anything. Don't be a conduit from the weighted random text shoggoth to the comment box.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 26, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Call me a Luddite but the ChatGPT joke in their readme is a red flag that they use it at all, and my limited experience with Rust is that it's a very verbose and dense language when written by humans. I can't satisfactorily convince myself that their code isn't LLM generated. That's all.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 26, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
ClamAV is quite good, I've been using the Windows frontend ClamWin for over a decade now. I believe Trellix also has an AV product for Linux, though it may be more along the lines of enterprise endpoint protection than no-frills AV. There's also libredefender, though it seems like it's basically a frontend for ClamAV and I have some concerns about their ChatGPT/Copilot usage.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 26, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I second this - I've read Macintyre's book, it's excellent. Also I feel like it's got a very approachable writing style, even for a younger reader.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Tinker Tuesday for January 21, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Started actually teaching myself some Processing 3D utilities this week. I'm gonna clone Dungeoneering if it kills me!


Missing the ability to jump to "next comment at same level" is really starting to get to me now that I'm actively lurking again, so I'm gonna hack that into Quokkit this weekend probably.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for January 24, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Ooooof, that sounds rough. At least my shop is aware of the licensing problem - part of our major infra push is an effort to fix it, but we're still kinda kneecapped by policy at the end of the day.