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The Kavanaugh Confirmation Charade Thread
legend replied to Commissar SFLUFAN's topic in The Political Re-Education Camp
I don't know if that's thinking they're suckers, it might be overestimating them. Unless the democrat was in fact worse than the opposition in the eyes of a democrat, then democrats should vote no matter what for the democrat. Given the state of the GOP, it's hard to imagine that a democrat would find the opposition to a democratic candidate preferable. Choosing to abstain from voting to make a "point" is very rarely an optimal long-term strategy, if ever. -
Mac Tech Apple to refresh Mac line in the fall
legend replied to RedSoxFan9's topic in PC/Mac Technical and PCCB
My anecdotal observation is that you will find many software engineers be windows users, because for their job, they kind of had to be and they became familiar with it. (There also legitimate reasons to prefer Windows too. I don't mean to portray that as the only reason). Computer scientists (academia or industry research scientists) are heavily split between Mac and Linux, with Windows occupying a small fraction of what's left over. If someone only saw an AI conference they'd think Apple dominated the paid PC market with all the mac laptops you'll see Personally, if you asked me in 2010, my rankings would go Mac > Linux >>> Windows Today, because Mac has gotten worse, while Linux and Windows got better, it's Linux > Mac > Windows -
Mac Tech Apple to refresh Mac line in the fall
legend replied to RedSoxFan9's topic in PC/Mac Technical and PCCB
Windows isn't open source either. In my experience (and counting myself) developers who prefer Linux, prefer Mac over Windows because Mac is Unix based and makes development far more compatible and similar. That's starting to change only recently since MS has begun adding the excellent feature of a Linux subsystem. -
That's not entirely fair. Red lights in GTA mean you have to be a bit more careful as you speed across the intersection, whereas this guy was completely irrelevant
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May the door hit him on the way out.
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Cool. Yeah I think we agree.
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Meaning, you could make a law and punishments about distribution of the code and even though the nature of technology means people will still distribute it often getting away with it, the possibility of being caught distributing it with the punishment it brings may be an imperfect, but still helpful, deterrent. Whether any given set of laws and policies would in fact bring a beneficial deterrent is the empirical question.
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I think there are some more reasonable lines between this and other speech, but overall I agree with you and that's why I said I'm not confident that even if we could get an amendment that it would be a good one that we'd be glad to have. Ultimately, people are the bottleneck here. Enforcement of it is tricky for sure. But I'm not sure there would be no value even if you couldn't do it perfectly. Would ultimately be an empirical question we could try to evaluate, but once again, I don't have much confidence that our government or the people in this country could approach it in the right way. I'm comfortable with your alteration
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This seems like a decent example.
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All this signals to me is that the first amendment is antiquated. Unfortunately, I'm pretty pessimistic that we can get any amendment to it and if we did, I'm also pessimistic that it would be a good amendment rather than a backwards one.
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We'll have to leave the topic of Job's talent for another thread. Seems like we're mostly on the same page on this matter though.
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I think Jobs was uniquely talented, just not in the engineering sense (although he wasn't bad, he wasn't great, either). He had a great sense for what a technology product should be, more than most people in tech. But I absolutely agree with you that Jobs gets the name recognition because he's an egomaniac and extended it far beyond reality to his and others' detriment. I don't think I'd like people to worship either of them. It's just plain bad. If we can ever dissuade people from that attitude, I don't think we have to compromise on them only worshiping one shit head That is of course, a big if. I don't hate Musk either. I'd rather he existed than not. Same goes for Jobs. Hate is a pretty strong word and it takes a lot to get into that category for me. Nevertheless, I've come to dislike him as a person the more I learned about him and I find the worship of him gross.
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I think it's incredibly hard to quantify that, if for nothing else than the fact that the names you'll remember will tend to be egomaniacs, impact aside, because they're often optimizing for attention. It is true that many highly influential egomaniacs have existed in our history. But I'm not so sure it's usually the case. There are any number of hugely important scientists and mathematicians whose work has catapulted our society, and yet people don't know their names. Elon got his name because he's in the media and works the business angle to make his wealth. I also definitely don't think it goes the other direction (I've met a lot of tremendously mediocre egomaniacs). Ultimately though, it's kind of beyond the point. You can appreciate Space X and Tesla while disliking the person and highlighting his faults. It's something more people should do, because his "fan" base really doesn't help.
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I dislike Musk because he's a petty egomaniac who thinks he knows more than he does. How about this winning tweet and thread? The content of this response itself is stupid, but it's also a completely unnecessary petty attack for someone of his position. All it does is sick his disgusting fan boys on this person so they can high five and circle jerk to the alter of Musk. Just look at the bullshit responses. His need to tackle any such slight like this is not dissimilar from Trump. Or you can go and look at when he attacked (comparatively) small time Upulie Divisekera (who didn't like his idea about people voting on news trustworthiness) over the fact that she has the word "nanotechnologist" in her bio and apparently that's "bull shit." Nevermind that there is legitimate nanotechnology science and that she actively contributes to the field. Or you can look at how he talks completely out of his ass about AI but thinks he somehow is an expert on it, because he's hired people who work on AI. He's pushed for some really cool stuff, but he has a gross personality.
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Thanks, I'll take a look at this. I also did a little bit of searching this morning and found some other possible directions, but I need to figure out how to vet them.
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I thought we had a thread on this topic already, but if we do, I can't find it anymore. Popping up on a twitter is a lot of reports of women in Iran who protest by dancing in the street, or at home and publishing to Instagram, being sent to jail and and getting lashings. Here is one example: This shit is fucked. I would like to help, but have no idea how given it's a very different country. Anyone have thoughts?
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I doubt it would slow it down. I think worst case it's not meaningful. Best case is it does change the way you tackle the combat and has impacts for people going for speed runs or similar achievements.
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Trans actors are indeed not well represented in Hollywood. Part of this is probably a function of the fact that very few make into Hollywood, and there are very few trans people. But lets go head and assume they're underrepresented anyway. We also, presumably, want to help normalize trans people. In fact, that is probably the main social goal if we can ascribe any to a movie. With that larger goal in mind we can ask the question: "which will be more successful at normalizing trans people: a movie about it staring a big star like ScarJo? or the same movie that casts an unknown trans actor? There is a reasonable argument to be made that the star power of ScarJo will have greater impact than finding an unknown quantity. There is also a reasonable argument to be made that finding an equally talented trans actor for the part is infeasible and may insisting on a trans actor may require settling for someone less talented. Consequently, the movie might not do as well. Of course, I don't know if that's true or not, but at least now we have an objective question we can try to debate, and we can set aside our internet outrage to investigate it.
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Just because its Metroidvania doesn't mean they can't try to add other elements into it. Multiplayer is certainly where this kind of stuff is more important, but it could make the game more replayable if done well, especially for the speed run folk. It could also be done poorly and not matter
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The new abilities should absolutely be included too, no disagreement there. But stat upgrades are not as meaningless as you make it sound if it's done right. In a good system where there are non-linear interactions between your set of abilities and their strength, it affords a huge strategy space with very different outcomes. Diablo 2 excelled at this, both in its skill and equipment. My friend and I played for a really long time because we had a lot of fun coming up with very novel character builds and seeing the consequences (especially in PvP for D2). The way our final version of a Sorceress played was radically different than other players at the time, and it was incredibly satisfying to crush people with a very different play style than they were used to. The difference is these effects usually take a while to manifest. A single upgrade point won't do a lot to change your play, no. But by the time you've invested a bunch, it can make a huge satisfying difference. Again, if it's a we'll done system.
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I think the core gameplay still holds up and I think other than the graphics and other polish-like details is better than D3. Plenty of modern RPGs also still have ability upgrades and are still enjoyable. When done right, this kind of mechanic affords a lot of character strategy.
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So, you're not a fan of Diablo 2?
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Television The Handmaid's Tale
legend replied to Minnesota Fatz's topic in The Performing Arts Centre
Agreed I think the treatment of women it shows would be adopted by a non-negligible minority of our own country if they could get away with it; it is not far off from how women are treated in other cultures; and wasn't that far off from mankind historically. In short, the culture in their society is completely monstrous, but also a believable possibility within the scope of human nature.
