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As someone who's pushed on a technical law change.... "easily" DEEPLY, DEEPLY misstates the challenges of getting the law changed. Fun fact: people who oppose something tend to get…

> Well, I did write out a couple of paragraphs about what I thought I learned. > And further, because of the highly contrived nature of the game and it's uncanny closeness to the m…

TBH the "don't call yourself a programmer" part of this blog is the least interesting part of it. It's decent or awful advice depending on the person. The more interesting part, to…

"Code was never the hard part" misses the point but so does this blog post. This blog post from 2011 is worth reading and really cuts into the middle of the dreads-of-programmer. h…

I mean, ICE is already sidestepping transparency by delaying FOIA requests to the Nth degree. Have a look: https://www.muckrock.com/foi/list/?page=1&per_page=100&agenc...

In the same way that I have to think about how to respond and think about why you have a negative reaction to what I wrote, I also have to struggle with a reasonable way of communi…

No true musician got their start in Guitar Hero, eh? I got my start in drumming from playing on Rockband. When I mentioned it to the folk that I bought my first e-kit, they rolled …

Anecdata, friend. Two old friends became extraordinarily good at guitar hero and even won competitions. They're also some of the best guitar players I know. One of them is an extre…

Thanks!

Totally. But I just gave one example of the anti-camera activism from the UK at the time! There was a lot more than just this.

Is anyone actually arguing that it conveys creative skill though?

The paragraph in-question: Sure, it’s all gamified and fun and even addictive, but at the end of the day no outside, transferable skill accrues to the player. To do that, you have …

Not the argument you're looking for, but I've been playing drums for over ten years now because of Rock Band. Even used the sticks that came with it on my first e-kit. The game did…

FWIW, CCTVs in the UK weren't exactly loved either: https://www.wired.com/2007/12/burning-british/ "Motorists Against Detection, the vigilante anti-speed camera group have announce…

Great! Glad you were able to take off your rose tinted glasses, even for a moment. Peace.

I'm aware of what they're good at. I got claude 4.6 to run linux as a native postgres module inside linux inside postgres inside linux inside postgres on a mac. It was impressive t…

For those interested in FOIA lawsuits, there are many, many attorneys out there who'd love to take on a pro bono FOIA case. Lots of it is quite boiler plate and pushing back on arg…

Because I find what you have to say interesting. Sorry about that, I'll try to consider you less interesting.

What things have you tried that didn't go well? At this point, that's more interesting. If you want to have a whack at a hard problem, have a try at the cryptographic puzzle in Noi…

My point is just that you're talking past people and being an asshole in the process. Not everything is about winning an argument. Lower your temperature and you'll have more produ…

If that's what you got from it, then I hope you have a good life. Be kinder, friend.

"you should probably get your eyes checked." Don't be a jerk. A lot of people have had bad experiences with these systems from people basically saying exactly what you're saying. T…

We can, yes. But then everything looks weird. :)

Neat but still hard for me (red/green) to differentiate colors between some. The Merge + Tubulin one in particular.