KingOfTheBailey
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KingOfTheBailey
2d ago
Seconded. Please make a top-level post about this, @UnopenedEnvilope!
KingOfTheBailey
4d ago
I knew it had to exist, I just didn't know who to follow.
KingOfTheBailey
4d ago
Poor Miyazaki. I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone do Uncle Ted yet.
KingOfTheBailey
4d ago
How does 3D Aella have the stranger hand position?
KingOfTheBailey
7d ago
That was my experience with Mechanicus, a game that I really enjoyed until I was beating every fight in a single turn. Except it was so easy to fall into that part of character-build-space that you didn't even have the "else, die" to worry about.
KingOfTheBailey
7d ago
The big problem I had was the two-hundred-rupee-a-pop deciphering fee for each of the eight McGuffin shard maps. That made the whole thing feel bloated and not worth replaying.
And the lack of tacking.
KingOfTheBailey
10d ago
Scott edited out the fire in later revisions of that post, try this one: http://web.archive.org/web/20140801022058/http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
KingOfTheBailey
16d ago
To provide a contrary data point, I find that building you linked utterly repulsive.
KingOfTheBailey
16d ago
I was a aware of the technical fix (even Doom Eternal does it, and speedrunners combined it with the weapon wheel to turn that physics nudge into an abusable catapult), but I had never seen it called "coyote time" before. That name is perfect.
KingOfTheBailey
23d ago
First time I've seen "grognard" used to refer to old-school computing people as opposed to old-school RPG/wargaming people.
KingOfTheBailey
23d ago
I see you have also discovered the speedrunning community.
KingOfTheBailey
27d ago
Yeah, it's still not perfect unfortunately. One upside of the impending paperclippening is that the chatbots have ingested everything ever written about how to solve Linux problems. If you haven't tried it yet, I'd recommend prompting an LLM to act like a condescending neckbeard expert Linux user and friendly troubleshooter, with permission to ask you for further info or to ask you to run commands, and see if you can get it to narrow down your problem.
KingOfTheBailey
27d ago
Proton has become astonishingly good. The main problems I think are around invasive anti-cheat systems.
KingOfTheBailey
28d ago
It's time to switch to Linux. There were some good threads on here recently.
KingOfTheBailey
29d ago
Computer science is mathematics, but its practical applications are very close to the theory, and that has saved it from some of the more embarrassing effects of political capture
I disagree with this - CS is very captured. The close connection between theory and practice might have kept the practice of the discipline close to reality, but the culture has been completely taken over, probably because by its nature, it is so much more "online" than other disciplines. I would speculate that it is probably the most LGBT-friendly discipline on account of its feed-in cohort being primarily online weirdos, support for transgenderism going back to when the graybeards were young, etc. I'd metaphorically bet on it having the highest raw numbers of trans people too (see e.g., the Rust community survey.) The industrial side has also been taken over - see all the codes of conduct, the big tech companies at the forefront of DEI pushes, etc.
This is a discipline that has the ability to cross-cut everything ("software is eating the world") and possibly even invent superintelligence. If you do not share its values, the fact that it is so thoroughly converged is not a happy one.
KingOfTheBailey
30d ago
It's not about revenge. It's that activists have systematically taken over the academy and have been trading on its prestige to implement their goals. The result is that it's not at all clear from the outside who is there to just do actual science, and who is an activist doing activism with scientific trappings. Worse, the academy has become completely untrustworthy, so we can't ask the people who would know; they'd just run cover for each other. So, with a heavy heart, we voted for someone to take a flamethrower to the system and we'll see what green shoots come out of the ashes.
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
That's some great context, thank you.
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
I found discussion of this on a site about the 14th amendment. It links to a page from the Congressional Record, which seems to match a similar page in wayback from the Library of Congress. It records Sen. Jacob M. Howard (MI) as saying:
Mr. HOWARD: I now move to take up House joint resolution No. 127.
The motion was agreed to; and the Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, resumed the consideration of the joint resolution (H.R. No. 127) proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
The first amendment is to section one, declaring that all "persons born in the United States and Subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the States wherein they reside. I do not propose to say anything on that subject except that the question of citizenship has been fully discussed in this body as not to need any further elucidation, in my opinion. This amendment which I have offered is simply declaratory of what I regard as the law of the land already, that every person born within the limits of the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of natural law and national law a citizen of the United States. This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons. It settles the great question of citizenship and removes all doubt as to what persons are or are not citizens of the United States. This has long been a great desideratum in the jurisprudence and legislation of this country.
(Emphasis as per www.14thamendment.us.)
I am not a constitutional scholar, but this seems fairly straightforward to me. What am I missing?
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
Fauci, along with the US Surgeon General, lied about the efficacy of masks to manage supply. Fauci also deliberately moved the goalposts on population percentage targets for herd immunity. Those weren't "bad messaging", they were deliberate falsehoods pushed out onto the public.
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
Congratulations! I assumed you were already married and I hope he realizes how lucky he is. No actionable advice from me, I'm afraid — I'm still going on first dates.
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
I'm annoyed at Rust for the same reason in the opposite direction. They added sum types, knew they added sum types, but called them "enums" - why?
KingOfTheBailey
2mo ago
KingOfTheBailey
2mo ago
Recent iterations of windows are tolerable as an operating system for a gaming-only machine, though.
Modern versions of Windows don't crash like they used to, but you don't have to install BonziBuddy to get a machine full of ads any more; they bundle the ads with the OS now.
KingOfTheBailey
2mo ago
Would it be fair to call them the "rap interludes" of their time?
TracingWoodgrains once likened him to Nikocado Avocado, a man (or catgirl?) made ever more grotesque by the vehicle that brought money and fame. I cannot unsee it, despite enjoying some of Kulak's earlier writing (like the Alex Jones/WWF piece).
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