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Hostility might be a feature for someone who is (or views themselves as) in an "in" clique. But it's poison for the long term health of the game, because it discourages most partic…

It should be possible to respond "I don't know". When you really-really don't know, it's unfair to get a 1/4 chance at right anyway, or even better if you use routine multiple-choi…

The know your meme page on it is extensive. My distillation is: Mogging is behaving as though you expect everyone is going to think you're great because of how you look; in particu…

Candles are pleasant light, in a way difficult to acquire with other lighting types. That means there's a niche in which that facet is more valuable than the other technologies. I …

You, sir, are evil. I mean that in the most complementary of manners.

Got any links to that conversation? Sounds fun.

That's what struck me, seems kind of apropos.

Try 'Beyond All Reason', a passionate FOSS recreation of the core of Total Annihilation. It's got really decent naval combat, with a distinct feel compared to the land and air.

Inevitable: https://xkcd.com/927/

I think it's a cultural acceptance of lower quality, happily traded for deft execution, over and over. We're better at encapsulating lower-level complexities in e.g. bridge buildin…

I understand your point; but against it I lay the truism that every time a retail investor trades, value is destroyed. ;) My own personal financial history has been more damaged by…

Ahh, we can all buy the farm together. ;) I've been watching my investment accounts, particularly the TSLA fraction, and see-sawing between "This has got to collapse soon, I should…

One of the important roles of the Palantir was that they were scrying devices. Sauron gained some influence over them warped the impressions of those who used them, by affecting wh…

Do you really mean that it's very nearly the same thing "To be a" you, and an Elon Musk, a homo sapiens infant, and an Orangutan? And only modestly different from these to be a dog…

Jerry Pournelle wrote about this, I think I recall reading in USENET; how with the burgeoning availability of media, the role of the editor, the curator, would become critical. He …

And Allan Mallinson's series about Matthew Hervey adds another branch of the military. Post-napoleonic, but a fascinating trip through colonialism.

Why do you think this excessively verbose bit of LLM vomit contributes to the conversation?

It's been a LONG time since my latin. But doesn't the active vs. passive capture the distinction we're talking about in English quite well? A reflexive action is taken passively, w…

FIGHT ON! ;)

I expect that a dozen humans coming to Calibre for the first time would articulate at least a half-dozen mutually conflicting perspectives on what would be "intuituve". I further e…

Performance art?

Not GP, but I think the objection is: the engineer wants to build a thing cheaply enough that it functions, and then cheaply as can be while maintaining function. The MBA wants to …

Presuming good faith here, faking recordings has been harder to do, easier to detect, and less equivocal in the past than it is now. If it takes an FX house to generate a plausible…

Oh come on; "Jack the sound barrier; bring the noise."... That still rocks, or slaps, or whatever. And you can't tell me you don't shiver if someone says "I'm sure he'll listen to …

I think the intended parable is that an unstructured group of activists took down a much larger, much better resourced, hierarchy.