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>Oh please. The Imperium is evil in their own special way, just as everyone else in that universe. To believe that people who like them somehow feel the need to justify that rather than just enjoying a game for what it is, a game, is absolutely stupid, or at least extremely uncharitable.

It is absolutely stupid, or at least extremely naive, to believe that anything is ever "just a game" or "just a book" or "just a movie". You can't build a wall through your own brain.

>Why would playing the Space Nazies be any worse than the Space Communists, or the Space Bdsm Rapists, or the Space Super Spreaders, or the Space Insects That Only Like You For Your Biomass, or the Space Cockneys That Only Want To Fight, or the Space Zombies That Sort Of Kind Of Still Worship Undead Gods They Toppled?

You are making my point for me here. In a world where the only choice is between Hitler and Cthulhu, I'd go with Hitler, but I real life I'd much rather prefer to not be making this choice at all. But Warhammer 40k is not real life, and so the question is who and why would want to role play in an imaginary world where you have to make that choice.
> My experience is that muscle memory kind of resets anyway once the other hand joins.

I’ve never heard anyone suggest that before, and it is certainly not my experience.
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Completely agree - augmenting teams with extra people can have the opposite of the desired effect depending on the situation.

There's only so much work that can be parallelized efficiently before people start stepping on each others toes.

Even if you are able to split things into independently workable chunks, the lack of domain knowledge in a new team member will still often result in a net negative for the first few weeks/months
How do you know it's not that more people have access to cheap loans, more people are wanting construction done?
It matters whether they choose the door because it has a goat vs. they randomly choose a door that happens to have a goat.

It's not explicitly saying the former even when stating the result, because everything is written as a certainty in retrospect. You can say, "the roulette wheel stopped on 00," but it was still a random event when it happened.
Because it is interpreted and you can't really make full apps with 100% to everything unless exposed as interpreter API.

There are several other languages as well, including .NET.
It could be the point, but clearly it is not getting across, as the Warhammer 40K community is full of people joyfully and thoughlessly embracing the "Burn the Heretic! Kill the Mutant! Purge the Unclean!" attitude.
But why “are” and not “be” (past. bed)?

Also, pi was not strictly pi by Euler, who used pi for both 3.14... and 6.28... in different papers.

Edit: did you know you can do without “be” at all? It purely synthetic.
That makes sense if the policy change is instantaneous, but if they decide to boil the frog slowly, people are going to progressively adopt Monero.
> Is is absolutely stupid, or at least extremely naive, to believe that anything is ever "just a game" or "just a book" or "just a movie". You can't build a wall through your own brain.

LMAO. Ok then. I guess all of every fiction is now invalid. Not sure how to argue against this idea, because it's just blatantly untrue IME.

> You are making my point for me here. In a world where the only choice is between Hitler and Cthulhu, I'd go with Hitler, but I real life I'd much rather prefer to not be making this choice at all.

My point is that it doesn't matter which one you choose because you're fucked anyhow, and the way in which you're fucked doesn't really matter. Furthermore, it's not real life, so you don't have to make that choice.

> But Warhammer 40k is not real life, and so the question is who and why would want to role play in an imaginary world where you have to make that choice.

Because it's fun to roleplay. It's fun to paint small plastic mans with cool aesthetics. I can think something's cool without agreeing with it.
Today's BASIC is JavaScript. It provides relatively easy access to many things a computer can do — like BASIC did. However, the JS execution engines are highly optimized, and even my phone is a supercomputer compared to the machines that ran the BASIC of yore. It stands to reason that it will take the average newbie much longer to question whether JS is the right language.
You know what the path of high performance teams is? Not growing that fast. The children of Google, Facebook, and other Giants dispersed across the lands, begetting many an offspring, who worshipped their lord, Complexity, solving problems they don't have.

Don't solve problems you don't have. Most companies think they need microservices, for example. It is an extremely expensive proposition. Debugging anything becomes a nightmare and developer ergonomics are shot to hell. There is a reason why we stayed away from distributed services in the past. What, you think I could not have stitched together 20 different Python services on my machine in 2009 and put my productivity into paralysis? Don't fool yourself about things like Docker making things easier. It doesn't help people reason about distributed systems.

Instagram? Monolith. 12 people when sold to Facebook.

WhatsApp? Monolith. 32 people when sold to Facebook.

StackOverflow. Monolith, with a lite SQL ORM for highly optimized queries.

Look at that - all those things we did in 2004, still work like a charm. But heyo, go ahead and spend a few months learning Kubernetes while the lean companies laugh at you in the rear-view mirror.
I finally got around to listening to Led Zepplin I the other day...a couple of times I thought to myself "man, this sounds like the blues."
TI doesn't have monopoly outside US.

Yet HP and Casio alternatives aren't much different, because of the same education reasons.
Played the original rogue in the 1980s and dabbled in various versions nethack, angband, moria over the years but they always seemed too complex for my simple brain. I prefered the original rogue, because I could usually get to level 18 before the Umber Hulks got me - even fighting them in a corridor. WIll give this a go - I like the mouse capability although my fingers can move me around a dungeon using hjkl almost as fast.
This is good advice. Knockin on heavens door is the perfect beginner song, although at ultimate guitar I think the most popular version uses a capo, just ignore that and play the chords.

I like ultimate guitar a lot, there are often simplified versions of songs so you can make rewarding progress early.

If you want something simple but need a noisy thrash, the next song could be Neil Young "Rockin in the free world", easy to make that sound good even if you don't have a great singing voice.
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Like not living on US.
And whilst he is a great player, that win streak is mostly a record because no-one else wants to play DDAr consecutively forever just for questionable bragging rights.
These are great tips from someone who is a great player and has experience teaching the piano, but I'd also add that you need to also practice the theory behind the piece, specially for modern music as this speeds up the process of learning the piece.

Also, we all have very different objectives when approaching piano playing. Some will want to perform live with a band, others having just some fun at home and some will try and become classical concertists. Different goals, different approaches IMHO.
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I'd never heard of cannibalism outside of "eating your enemies" this explanation is really touching and quite sad
Interesting how destructive shame can be.

I think there is a parallel to how the whole west currently is shaming itself into oblivion for the many alleged unforgivable -isms.
"The bourgeoisie are probably smarter, better people than the proletariat"
This is a US thing.
I'm no expert, but I thought that Einstein was pointing out the flaws of the Copanhagen interpretation of quantum physics.

Sean Carrol gave a talk about his new book and his claim is that quantum mechanics is pretty straightforward, and all the spooky weirdness is only needed if you try to ignore the implication that the data supports the-many world interpretation.

https://youtu.be/F6FR08VylO4

i.e. similar to the sock example given, when you open the envelope you find out what universe you are in, the blue sock or red sock universe and that tells you information about the other sock in your universe. But another you is finding the other color sock in a different universe.
I don't like "are" for that purpose. "Is" is phonetically clearer and less awkward. I is, you is, he/she/it is, they is. I'll admit the past tense "ised" (pronounced izz-d) is still not very nice. Perhaps it should be "be"... I be, you be, yesterday they beed.
The problem stated as stated by vos Savant hinges on the words "Monty (the host) knows". It implied that Monty intended to only open a door with a goat, so using his behind-the-scenes knowledge he opened door #2 (goat). However, such knowledge does not imply intention a priori. It could be that Monty doesn't give a f---, and he made the choice completely at random, for example by flipping a coin. Under this interpretation, he could have chosen door #3 (car) with equal likelihood, despite knowing that it would end the game early. In this case, the 50-50 answer would be correct.

I think this is what trips many readers up, given that we tend to associate impartiality with game show hosts. A better statement of the problem might be something like "The producers have instructed Monty in advance that after the initial selection, he must open one of the unselected doors to reveal where a goat is (under such instruction he will never open the door with the car.)"
Not 40k but the warhammer armies project with some friends (most of them started playing fantasy back during the 6th and 7th edition).

For years I mostly painted without playing (it is a great source of calmness for me), but during the pandemic, my brother got himself a capable 3D printer and we started printing models (there is a huge amount of great and affordable ones out there) and I started building an army (beastmen) to play. We all are interested in fluff and storytelling, so that usually makes a long game go by quite quickly (and makes for great and very weird conversation pieces, even years later).

I also seem to have been lucky with the girls/women in my life, never seemed mutually exclusive (one of them actually taught me how to paint in a somewhat proper way).
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Great accomplishment, but people were building 3D ultrasonic scanners back in 80-ies, for much less than $100:

[didn't read your article, your claim has put me off, sorry]

-- use an electric spark gap as the wideband acoustic source

-- use 3 simple electret mikes on 3 axes. Mikes don't need to be high quality (spark intensity can always be raised as necessary), so they were hand-assembled using metallised mylar film (used nowadays to pack some food, or ESD-sensitive electronics components).

The rest was data processing.
Not saying this is the case, but the reporter could very well be a non native speaker. As a non native myself, I don't see anything disrespectful in their report.
It is the systematic breakdown of trust. High trust societies like USA take trust for granted and don’t consider how difficult it is to rebuild that fabric of trust once it has been deteriorated. It affects everything from institutions to the individual economic transactions between individuals.

Because of this, I’ve always thought it’s better to allow bigger economic downturns but don’t mess with that fabric of trust.
A quote from Google search: "The main source of concern when it comes to raw potato consumption is a toxic compound called solanine, which can cause headaches, nausea, diarrhea, and even death in extreme cases."
Yeah, it's completely impossible we both have two different experiences, I'm either lying or missing something, because every engineering-team waits for accountants before they do performance optimizations or capacity planning.

Whatever happened to "Assume good faith"?
Blueberries are a new world fruit (but then again so is the prickly pear that is so common in the Mediterranean), the European equivalent is the bilberry and AFAIK it only grows in mountainous areas at our latitudes. Blueberries are widely cultivated, but for example in Italy the largest production comes from Piedmont, which is usually classified as humid subtropical (almost no olive trees, but large grape productiont).
Weirdly the name of this tribe happens to be an exact match for the name of an android library that I publish - needless to say it didn't come up when I googled potential names :)
I think there is a compromise between nerfing the whole world and herding everyone like cattle, and allowing people who aren't well equipped lose more than they can afford in speculative gambling. As I mentioned before, I don't think I have this compromise worked out, and I don't know what the answer is, but it feels wrong to leave things at "Caveat emptor".

One idea might be some kind of test. Can you pass a basic financial literacy test? If so, then maybe you should be allowed to gamble even on high risk things. If not, maybe finance isn't for you right now. When you pass the test you get a license and need to provide that license when doing KYC checks with financial institutions.

I think we'll just have to agree to disagree on the question of whether all people have sufficient mental equipment to handle risky financial decisions.

I do think the concept of money is valuable. To put it in my earlier framework, I think the people who are consuming the value are the people who use money to exchange it for goods or services.

I don't think dogecoin innovates on money though. In many ways, I think dogecoin is a step back from money. For example, our current systems have vastly greater throughput.
>the original post was a bunch of inflammatory nonsense

The top comment was diplomatic and mine was not. I'm sorry if blunt words hurt any feelings.

>Why are you making indictments instead of asking questions?

Instead of refuting the points being raised here you immeidately resorted to calling any critical comment "toxic spin".

>The anti competitive behavior of "Have more gamestores than Steam"?

So lemme get this right. We need to have more game stores......by making games available from fewer game stores. If that how competition works?

>I don't really think we're going to get anywhere with this conversation.

Agreed. You could have summed up everything in one sentence "Epic can do nothing wrong" and that would probably sound less apologetic.
Short feedback: The phrasing in this message is a rollercoaster: https://bychgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/image-5.png

You have to imagine someone paid money for this and is eagerly awaiting a response. Queue "I got an e-mail!":

1) Green checkbox: So the item is legit?

2) "Good news!", so it must be legit?

3) "the item is 100% fake"

You should really consider changing the design and the tone of this message. People literally pay to get one answer so it should be the most obvious thing about the message.
> Generations of children have been getting themselves needlessly confused because of this terrible convention!

Childs perhaps then?
For what it's worth, I do feel the same way about bitcoin. I just feel like the argument is even more clear when discussing dogecoin. I also think that once you reach this conclusion on dogecoin it is easy to think "Well dogecoin is basically bitcoin, so..."
Misguided articles like this are the consequence of deifying “Progress.” Today is treated as necessarily better than yesterday. Whether this is actually historically true, or examining what “better” is supposed to mean, are never investigated.

It’s especially ironic when modern people look at past eras and think, “How could they ever have thought they were justified in doing what they did? How could they have assumed they were superior and on the right side of history?” Well, people are doing the same thing today. So it’s not particularly surprising.

This has its roots in Christianity and this is made clear when you compare Western linear concepts of time to say, Hindu cyclical ones. Which is, of course deeply ironic considering the ideologies involved here. It’s an odd sort of subconscious Christian ouroboros.
This seems so strange to me in 2021 that perhaps the most widely used OS kernel in the world wouldn’t be aiming to have test coverage, given the billions in value obtained from it. I guess this is for legacy reasons, and I know as a dev it’s very hard to add tests to an untested system both practically and psychologically and that’s in a team environment not open source
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As an Italian I'm thoroughly confused by the addition of balsamic vinegar to everything. I've heard Brits put it in Bolognese sauce (ragù) and now with olives. How about you try fennel seeds and orange zest next time?

Also would you consider focaccia still appropriate for brined olives?
This reads like a book report for "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution," which is a strange thing to publish in a magazine in 2021.
Have you any proof that the tongue-in-cheek usage of in-universe phrases in any way leads to real life ideals?
I always been a Casio fan.

During high school I got a fx 4500p, and during university the dream of most university students in computing, the last model of the BASIC programming models, FX 880p.

HP-48GX was also very appealing, but only wealthy students used got it.

Contrary to US, TI was almost nowhere to be seen.
It seems odd to judge the correctness of a historic philosopher by whether he conforms to current fads rather than any objective wrongness. Though I guess it's not really possible to judge any philosophical thing "objectively", so all we have to go on is the fads...
Still not something a unit test can really catch. An end to end test maybe (run multiple times coz it's a race condition).

I've seen unit tests that try to reproduce race conditions. They're naive mirrors of the code that break as soon as you even think about changing the implementation. They're kind of pointless.
Compare them to Steam and GOG, not apple.

- GoG will give you DRM free downloads

- Steam allows you to give out keys for free then use their infrastructure to download/manage the game (humble bundle steam keys)

- None of them force exclusives as far as I know

> Businesses have two choices: fuck off and die of irrelevancy, or put on the Apple gimp suit and get fucked.

No they don't. There's plenty of businesses that are alive and well and not getting fucked by anyone.
None of your examples: Mozart, beyonce, Fela Kuti, or Reich proves anything about the purpose of music as a whole, nor about the purpose of music for everyone.

Sure, some musicians clearly make music with others.

But some do not.

And for someone, no matter how learned or studied, even if they're a famous practitioner or a scholar, to dictate what music is for everyone is absurdly arrogant and myopic, to say the least.

If Reich has an argument to support his claim, he should state it, and his supporters should produce that argument, not point to him being a scholar, etc, as supposed evidence that he's right. That's an argument from authority and is a logical fallacy.

Different people have different goals and different aims. What meaning any particular person finds in an activity varies from person to person, and the wider and richer the activity is, the harder it is to make the case that there's only one right way to do it or that it means only one thing to everyone. Music and other arts are examples of such rich, wide-ranging activities.
I'm sure that's true and I certainly don't deny it, but we need to have space for lots of different comments. The other user wasn't saying anything about current wars.
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The solar war books are getting quite good. The latest one saturnine is actually a compelling story. Same with some of the watchers of the throne series. Also being a technologist I always like bellisarius cawl so really liked the great work.
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> there is no other animal out there who […] developed some kind of societal system to expands its own resources beyond what's available in the wild.

The trouble with this sort of quasi-dualistic general statement in my experience is it doesn’t hold up well to scrutiny by domain experts. Another way of looking at this is that humans have shaped their “wild” environment to their advantage which is something many animals do. The trouble is in defining wild here - your point rests heavily on a definition along the lines of “shaped entirely by non-human forces” which is a circular argument. For example (and I’m no expert) but think of dam making by beavers and whether the resulting pools which expand their habitat and food are “wild”?

I’d agree with you that there is a qualitative difference between say industrial society and the rest of the animal world, but it’s not easy to nail down that difference in a way which doesn’t wind up excluding much of human history.
It's unfortunate that preserving access to scientific knowledge is being associated with piracy.

I get the connection, but Libgen is an entirely different thing than torrenting copyrighted media for entertainment.
Gnuplot is not GNU
> What's fundamentally wrong with people losing a lot of their money on crypto?

The problem with any economic disruption that's large enough is that "the economy" includes both you and them. A concrete example is how "people" lost their homes in mortgages they shouldn't have taken in the first place: it didn't just affect them, the whole market crashed because everyone had an overvalued home. These things will cause rings on the water.

Dogecoin, Bitcoin, the TINA symptoms in the general equity market are all symptoms of a bubble. I just pray that it will peter out and not blow, because an economy where everybody's grasping their savings for dear life is not a very enjoyable economy to live in.
To clarify : I'm more concerned about "final" data formats, less about "transport" ones, which need much longer legacy support.
>Edit: did you know you can do without “be” at all? It purely synthetic.

Wouldn't it become rather difficult to do identity statements without "is"? E.g.

"The Tor network is an anonymous relay network overlaid on the internet".

You could perhaps say

"The Tor network works on top of the internet and performs anonymous routing",

but that's not quite the same thing as saying the anonymous routing is Tor's reason for existence (as opposed to just something it happens to be doing).

The E-Prime guys want the is-of-identity to be hard (if not impossible). But it's not obvious that everybody would agree with their sentiment.
For future reference, though I see you figured it out: asterisks mark italics, two spaces in front of an empty paragraph mark a code block, URLs in comments gets turned into links automatically. That's about all HN offers in terms of formatting. So, for bullet lists and footnotes, you have to use characters other than asterisks.

The format you picked in your edit is one of the typical people arrive at. Myself I do like you[0], but some use daggers instead†, or rarely, superscripts².

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[0] - Though I start my footnotes at 0, because https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-based_numbering.

† - Once you get to ‡ and ⸸ it's getting tricky to pick a new one.

² - More often seen in mathematical formulas.
Excessive focus on the past as better then the present leads only to stagnation. You wind up with policy-making that is just a cargo-cult of what history books and half-remembered stories say, rather then dealing with reality.