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I suspect that number comes from this quote a little further down > Every function in this program was just two, or three, or four lines long. Each was transparently obvious. Each …

It's different for me in a couple ways: 1) I have the same background noise issue as the sibling comment. I can't have a conversation in a bar. Coffee shops are usually much more q…

> AI DM Only post singularity. Much of the appeal of roleplaying games is being able to do stuff that you can't do in video games. But a sibling comment did link to a tool that wou…

How many generations ago did you write that comment?

> refactoring without test coverage is flat-out "Cowboy coding": reckless & irresponsible. This is basically what Fowler says in his refactoring book. Actually, he says it's by def…

There's a big grey area between the life threatening stuff, and the stuff that will slowly mess you up for life. Simple example, but the drugs people take for pain increase your od…

People dink for fun mostly, or to make the experience more comfortable for them, rather than for productivity

> In the world of "decades ago" we are pre-smartphone. How, exactly, are you going to call up the taxi driver for a chat? People... talked before phones were invented? Why is it so…

The driver was a specific person that the company knew. Maybe they were a secret homophobe or something, but you could say that of all the company's employees with just as high a l…

A little confused by what you mean. TTRPGs were not originally about tactical combat (old RPGs were very lethal so combat was a fail state), and wouldn't tactical combat (rather th…

> 100% There are games that democratize the power of the GM a bit. Very traditional RPGs are into putting pressure on the GM to be a one-man band for the players' entertainment, bu…

It's more like if mineral placement was randomized at the start of a game, with players having uneven access. What you are describing with the build order exists also. Many Magic d…

I'd say the number of games like that is not few. 10k in equipment in most sports will give you an advantage over 1k in equipment. It's more accurate to say that the entry cost int…

This all seems a little misguided. All standard dice have opposite sides adding up to the same number and are otherwise evenly distributed, so a bias would have to be quite noticea…

So the Middle East and South America is okay but Canada is off limits?

Do people actually use hard mode? Seems like its only "harder" in the sense that it forces you to play less intelligently.

Do you consider hitting enter/return for a newline to be clunky as well? Its generally the same size as caps lock and opposite it on the keyboard. I'd say I press return a bit more…

You find it suspicious that most of the stories that become popular are appealing as stories and are the sort of stories people tend to tell? Is it also suspicious that they are al…

In case it helps anyone, doing regex-based search/edit in vim was annoying until I found this plugin. https://github.com/haya14busa/incsearch.vim

The laws of the country you live in have answers to those questions. Usually, you are the only person legally allowed to use your bank account. Nobody else is legally allowed to pu…

What ironclad guarantees does the NFT provide?

No, they are comparing the atrocities of the Chinese government that inspired Tianamen Square to slavery, without saying that the two are equivalent

Why is that? Do you have some moral objection to python?

Kitty is about as fast as Alacritty, has tabs, and friendlier devs https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/