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The article mentions this strategy, and points out that when confronted with an emotional emergency situation, the victims simply might not remember to use the protocol. Not a bad …

No idea about the vibe-coding platforms, but systems like Claude Code have explicit allowlists for commands. Don't allow it, and it'll ask permission each time.

Sure, can't argue with that. But there are plenty of stable points on the curve from 0% to 100% slavery.

> corporations would pay zero and use slaves if they could Honest question: why is this absurd? Slavery has been a widespread practice in history, and it is still ongoing in some p…

I mean, can't it be both? Individuals have personal agency and are responsible for their own actions. Individuals also respond to incentives which, in aggregate, alter the observed…

It supports includes, so your p8 file can consist entirely of #include statements and you can write all the Lua files with the editor of your choice.

Teela Brown from Ringworld. She was the result of a selective breeding program intended to create the luckiest human alive... but it turned out the _real_ lucky ones were all the "…

I participate in a Discord that is kind of similar. Not the same one, because my example has totally optional pronoun choice. But they have reason to be cautious of newcomers: befo…

True, but not strictly true. I played with 100% manual attacks and cures, but made heavy use of color coding to recognize threats in the rapid scroll of incoming text. It wasn't an…

Depends on the item. Some of them were quite powerful, but even then, generally you'd get a 10% edge or an ability from another class. And people would often have macros to unequip…

Thanks for that link! It's always nice to have access to the original language.

Only barely; he includes it as the middle of a chain of hacks that highlight, not remedy, the deficiencies of Javascript.

Warren Buffet's advice for retail investors—that is, people who are not particularly wealthy, have no special connections in the finance world, and do not want to cultivate special…

See The Diamond Age , where the poor areas were covered in "toner", the remains of nanobots killed in an endless self-perpetuating war.

In Neal Stephenson's Anathem , there was an entire faction of monks who researched intellectual history specifically to warn modern-day philosophers when they were treading dusty g…

Correction: expanding the housing supply vertically.

I think they're joking about the capitalization of the name.

To borrow a turn of phrase from Bjarne Stroustroup, there are two kinds of software: software people complain about, and software nobody uses.

On the other hand, if you can do this and your co-workers can't, you may be tempted to write complex and entangled code, because the implications of each line are perfectly obvious…

Not arguing your larger point, but in American Psycho, the endless lists of brands and clothing labels illustrate the protagonist's obsession with surface appearance and the signal…

I, and many other people regardless of graphics card, CPU, or RAM, are experiencing an issue where the game slows to a stuttering crawl after a while. Adding RAM extends the playab…

Anyone who was going to get hooked on Game of Thrones is hooked, and anyone who is still on the fence isn't likely to torrent the leaked episodes. Incompetence is a better explanat…

The English proverb would be "who pays the piper picks the tune."

The Z thing is killer. It puts you in company with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsez , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bratz , and numberless rappers, none of which make a professio…

Completely agreed. I've been able to work quite effectively on a T520i -- but I've also experienced occasional frustration with the hardware integration. Every time I upgrade Ubunt…