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> I see people on Reddit complaining about 5e (the current iteration of D&D) all the time: there are too many rules, combat is boring and drawn out (since all people really want to do is roleplay), keeping track of health and statuses is impossible...the list goes on.

This is obviously super subjective, and everyone's opinion is right for themselves, but as someone who learned 3.5e first and then eventually moved on to Pathfinder and now plays PF 2.0, it's crazy to me that 5e would seem to rules heavy and combat too complex. I specifically prefer Pathfinder because 5e feels _too_ simplified compared to what I'm used to, and I just don't get the same enjoyment out of having a character that "feels" less powerful.

> "I think I finally fixed D&D!" I heard someone on Reddit excitedly explain. "I just make up all the monsters' dice rolls and abilities and do whatever feels most cinematic, my party loves it!"

> "That's not D&D," I want to say. "That's make-believe that involves you lying to your friends."

Honestly, I don't really see anything wrong with that. I don't DM much anymore, but I totally am fine with the idea that my DM might occasionally fudge things to make the game more fun for everyone. Is it fun if in the first first round of the first encounter of an adventure the monster gets a lucky crit and kills the fighter, leaving it free reign to mop up everyone else? Some people might find it more enjoyable if it's "real" and want there to be randomness and a sense of danger! On the other hand, if this is the very first time this group of people has played, and they were enticed more by the roleplaying than the combat, it could sour their perception to the game to the point where they don't end up pursuing it despite the potential for them to have a lot of fun. I think an experienced DM will generally develop a good sense for their group and be able to tell when something warrants a bit of fudging to make the game more fun for everyone, and that's a good thing. This is sometimes even explicitly written in D&D rulebooks (I believe the 5th edition Player's Handbook includes this) as "Rule 0", which is that the rules are subject to the DM rather than vice-versa, and that every play group is free to customize the rules as they see fit. Obviously, there's a degree to which the rules can be changed or thrown out at which the game no longer resembles "by-the-book" D&D, but personally I don't think that it really matters that much where the line is (as long as you're not, like, trying to market things commercially as D&D when it's not, but that's really the purview of the company holding the trademark to decide).
Overview: [1]

Army training film for a truck-mounted Teletype message center.[2]
Also available in an armored version, on a M113 chassis. This is 1960s technology.

Army communications in Vietnam.[3]

[1] https://www.smecc.org/military_teleprinters.htm

[2] https://youtu.be/xOo5dk35Mz0

[3] https://youtu.be/zreruf3s8R0
What's your theory then?
It says "Apache" right there on the tin.
Because slavery is complicated, and historically comes in a huge variety of forms, often with completely different social expectations and rights, but a general theme:

The theme is that your labor, and the value it produces, is not captured by you. You work, but do not capture the benefits of that work in meaningful and significant ways. This is directly related to "you do not own - you rent". Because that (quite literal) rent seeking behavior is leaching additional capital from you.

If you prefer, or if "slavery" is a term you feel loaded, you can substitute "serfdom" instead. It's also not quite apt - since it implies a tie to a specific geographic location, but it's close.

Alternatively, you might consider this very similar to a person in a "company town" - they work all day at the company, only to be forced to buy literally every item from the only store in town - the company's store. Which, conveniently for the company, charges them roughly their month's wage for housing/food/clothing. They are working and gaining nothing.

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So in this case, what happens when every item you need (not want) to participate in society is costing you a monthly subscription cost equivalent to your monthly wages?

What happens when internet, car, home, phone (and the apps on that phone) are all rented items, that capture literally all of your wages?

I'd actually say that for many lower class folks in the US right now this is already the case - they work 80 hours a week at two full time jobs, and literally all of it simply gets them to tomorrow. Nothing can be saved, there is no chance to "own" any of it. They certainly make plenty of value - it's just captured by someone else.

It's not going to stop there, though - it's going to keep eating through the ranks of our society. You will be free! (please note that your freedom is the choice to rent an Apple or a Google phone). You have choices! (please note that your choices are limited to renting a car from BMW/Ford/Tesla/etc). You will make decisions! (please note that your decisions are limited to selecting whether to rent content from Hulu or Netflix). You can vote for any one you want! (please note that they must be either Democrat or Republican).
What problems are rampant and compared to what?
It isn’t unrelated. Their reference to “cultural marxism” is a common antisemitic trope used by exactly the same groups of nazis who marched in Charlottesville. The whole lot of them use plausible deniability about their nazism to avoid tarnishing their reputations, but deliberately signal common themes to fellow travelers. Doing the one nazi thing in the context of an obvious reference to the other is exactly that kind of signal. I’m not confused. I’m unfortunately very familiar with how nazis organize and present themselves.
People join for the company and leave because of the boss.
RuckZuck: A transparent OSS winget alternative Software Package Manager
It's concerning on a lot of levels and I don't understand it fully myself, it feels like an overreach
We usually hire people unhappy in their current position and make an appealing offer. The chance that switching jobs may not work out is a chance all employees at all companies take. We don't do anything specific to protect against that like 99% of employers.
> Filipinos do not have the same history in the USA as Black Americans. If there is an anti-Filipino bias then I’m all for correcting it. Are Filipinos disproportionately filling our prison system? Were their ancestors enslaved? Do they have social networks where nobody in their entire network has gone to college?

I thought we were talking about why racial quotas for Asian people were good, not some other topic.

Filipinos' ancestors were placed in human zoos in America in the 1900s. After the Japanese surrender in World War II, Americans continued bombing their villages. The US has bankrolled a dynasty of looters who have overseen the decline of the country in the postwar period and, recently, the slaughter of tens of thousands of innocent people flimsily accused of being affiliated with organized crime.

A lot of this is fairly typical of the US's treatment of any country where the US fought a war between World War II and the Vietnam War or any country where the US has had a preferred political party, so I don't have any particular argument for correcting injustices carried out by the US against Filipinos that does not also apply to a slight majority of South American countries. We do not currently have a program of racial quotas for South Americans though.

> Are you really trying to grapple with the problem here, or is it as simple to you as “we should never take steps to affirmatively correct past racial injustices”?

Perhaps it would help if you could reply to what I wrote, and not to what I did not write?

> Your deep concern with Jews being treated too well makes me suspect you aren’t arguing from a genuine place of concern about injustice, but carelessly lobbing white supremacist talking points.

Maybe you're thinking of some other comment you read elsewhere? I'm honestly not sure what to say. Maybe I could randomly impugn your motives as a proponent of the reinstatement of Japanese internment or whatever, if this is your preferred way to chat with people, and you are trying to show me how you would like to be treated.

To be clear, I am not concerned with Jews being treated too well. Jews seem to be treated appropriately now, as far as US college admissions go. They were treated unfairly in the past. We rightly see the way they were treated in the past as an injustice. Why do we not see it as an injustice when we apply the same rules to different minorities? That is the question I originally posed. So far you chose to reply to "It was wrong to do discriminate against Jews. Why is it right to discriminate against Filipinos?" by calling me a white supremacist.
They might need help detecting sarcasm.
Managing state is hard and always has been regardless of the underlying technology.

I have been using Kubernetes for a few years now and whenever I see people putting manual steps they should instead be using an operator. What the author is describing as a problem has a solution (they even added it to their own operator).

Kubernetes has a steep learning curve but if you want to do nontrivial thing like have state than you need to learn nontrivial things like operators.

The default controllers that come with Kubernetes do not cover everything under the sun and they do require extensions via the operator pattern for some tasks.

Just my two cents.
Which, by the way, means "sharpened". Probably "peak" has the same root.
What proof do you have this is happening?
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the-white-house-privatel...

This case is far from clear-cut but it does appear that pressure was applied.
Yes, actually in this case that's a valid reason and your attempt to use it as a counter argument is wrong
Same here, and I'd also like to see what explain analyze shows about the plan and execution details. Also, some system setup may also help, e.g., memory size and check if spill kicks in, etc.
> You can only buy them in packs of 500 and higher, and they expire in a year’s time

This is like a bad carnival game
Key word being seeks
goose was a navy wizzo.
> If not, are there good electric stoves that work with hard cast iron pans?

Induction works great. You onnly need gas for wok. It also doesn't become dirty like a resistive stove but you do have to be careful not to drop the skillet onto the glass.
Man, I can’t understand what they’re thinking over at Autodesk. Right now I have the student license for Fusion 360- I was (still am to be frank) thinking about becoming a paying customer at some point- occasionally they do a $100 a year sale, which is a far more reasonable price than it is normally. But when they keep pulling crap like this, it makes it real hard to commit to, especially with Onshape existing and SOLIDWORKS having not-terrible personal offerings now.

If I were pulling the strings, I’d go all in on trying to convert hobbyists and students- pricing at $100/$150 a year all year round and add a monthly tier for $15/$20. I don’t even mind locking features like simulation behind a paywall- 99% of users designing for 3D printing, 2D manufacturing like laser cutting, and basic CNC machined parts don’t need them (though I’d throw in a few free cloud credits for the value-add, and make them a bit less of a rip-off). What do I know though.

One thing I suspect- there are a lot of people using the free license to make money (which is not allowed), so I guess they’re turning the screws on.. their paying customers? Much easier to just make the software good value IMO.
but then you have to contend with the various potential different webviews from different OS'es.

The weight of an app is more than just the size on disk, which tbh, is insignificant in today's harddrive. What's a couple hundred extra megs?

The advantage of shipping your own browser is the control, and thus, reduction in having to support multiple different webviews and the bugfixing associated with that.
After clicking nihilism, determinism was my next stop for sure. I didn’t have any expectations that weren’t met!
Why would readily admit you base some of your views of the world from TV. In the past people would be embarrassed by this fact and not admit it
GitLab is a company I've always felt hasn't quite found product market fit.

However, its "open source internal practices" model is the gold plated standard for a 21st Business.

If you're any kind of manager of anything, do this.

See: http://blog.idonethis.com/managers-write/ for more.
> I believe that this makes twitter a de facto NGO and therefore they should be subject to the enforcement of the first amendment.

Is this belief formed by research (i.e. laws, regulations, and cases)? Please share if so.
For terraform and terragrunt, I have been using tfswitch and tgswitch respectively.

Also tfswitch has the ability to parse the required_version constraint in the terraform file and switch to the appropriate version based on that which I find quite handy.
"Wheat, the new sexy" by Zeihan: https://youtu.be/Wi_nFz1CJSI?t=2115

This was a pretty entertaining presentation.
Even accounting for the webview (on windows at least) it’s still a really substantial improvement. I only did a toy test so I have to do something more substantial, but I’m impressed enough to try it out on something a little bigger.
I can't believe they didn't make their logo something like ⧊ :)
They are two different governments. If I wrote a negative review for the movie "Argo" would you reply "Imagine if this review was about Star Wars"
Intelligence agencies would be negligent if they weren't putting their people in key positions at large tech companies. I can guarantee that nobody affiliated with any ABC agencies has any influence on my Mastodon server.
There’d be war over it if it was proven extraterrestrial tech
done exactly this - reading & commenting from an old ThinkPad running OpenBSD. I don't buy new computers, I buy old ones from craigslist (in fact, multiple, so I can use the same system & compatible parts for many years to come). :)
How good is he? If he’s VP tier hood at coding, maybe. If he just got promoted up like most, then probably not.
Quake-mode (being able to hide/show with a global hotkey) is a required feature for me, and yakuake is one of the few that support it. I have no idea how anyone gets any work done without being able to quickly get to a terminal.

Funnily enough, on Windows their new Terminal supports it also if you dig in the settings a bit. That gets me through the work day, when I'm stuck on Windows.
There was inflation and high gas prices before the war in Europe.

If this is what people think “pretty good job” looks like then I would hate to see how this progresses.
What part of the first amendment deals with enforcement?
Please let's explore this a little. How do you feel about a person that builds a house with their own hands and then rents it out for the next 50 years?

I personally am ok with that.

What if they rent it out to the same tenant for 50 years? I am ok with that but start to question the wisdom of the tenant. What if rent keeps going up even beyond a reasonable mortgage payment? It doesn't make me question the landlord more. It makes me question the tenant more.

Now if you add a wrinkle like the landlord passes a law that no more houses can be built, then my prejudice switches. Or if it is more subtle like you can't build with the same kind of materials, or reuse a concept like footings.

I oppose that kind of rent-seeking. But it's not the rent-seeking to which I object. It's the moating.

Of course, it's hard to build a new house even without moating. I see too often people who just pay rent because it's inconvenient to look for alternative housing. And building their own seems way too hard. Their own creation would never have the bells and whistles of what they are renting.

Wells Fargo is a perfect example. You get cheated and abused and swindled, but you don't leave. Microsoft was an example for a very long time. Intel has been an example. Amazon is in a big way.

"There's no other option," people cry. But of course there is. Regarding Autodesk, FreeCAD is an option. "Not even close!" some claim. MicroStation? "No way." Solidworks? "Well..."

Build your own, rent from somebody else, go homeless, or stay where you are and pay your rent. And if somebody makes it illegal to do anything but the last, revolt. But don't claim there's no other way if you just mean you want to be entitled.

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I would argue that it's a cynical way to look at the world, and it doesn't foster an environment for collaborative, clear-thinking problem solving.

Most things we do simply aren't political (at least not intentionally, not saying they can't be interpreted by others that way), they're just things we do from being on autopilot most of the time. And I strongly want to give people the benefit of the doubt unless it's quite obvious that they meant some form of malice by an action.

I still have no idea what most of our employees' political leanings are. What is important to me is that they are (genuinely) kind and respectful to each other, have a desire to work together, and that we are solving problems and helping our customers every day.

It's important to me that people have one place they can go to, where we work together as a team to focus on the problems we and our clients face, and come up with solutions to those problems in as objective a way as we can, as fellow human beings. That's the kind of team I would want to work with. And since it's in my control, I'm making it happen.

Not saying everything's perfect obviously, we're all still human, but we do aspire to preserve that aspect of our culture.
In the same way every single mechanical engineer should study Challenger '86, yes. Learn from fools and from sages.

But in reality it wouldn't amount to much, since very few countries have as strong a states/province rights as the US.
I’m not aware of any instances of that, but regardless, it wouldn’t matter, as they have no regulatory power.
Didn't Google Talk, Google Chat, Google Hangouts, and Google Meet all support group chats? Didn't Google Talk even allow for federation?

The problem with RCS as a solution is that you're either going to rely on the carriers or Google and Apple to host infrastructure. Requiring Apple to implement support for Google (hosted) products is ridiculous as Apple already lists Google chat apps in their app store. Requiring Apple to host their own servers to interoperate with Google's services is also ridiculous because again Apple already provides software to interoperate with Google's chat services.

Requiring Apple to support RCS so their users can leverage carrier hosted RCS is also ridiculous because that's a fancy way of saying Apple should be required to monetize their users for the carriers' benefit. Per the Wired article linked to MMS was created solely to extract money from their users (or as Wired put it to "collect a fee every time anyone snaps a photo"). I'm sure most folks who are old enough remember when SMS (which literally consumes no additional bandwidth) was a paid feature, does everyone remember when MMS cost even more than a plain SMS?

RCS may not be a cash grab by Google, but they certainly haven't had any luck in getting the carriers to implement customer friendly features. Another lowest common denominator "standard" like RCS isn't an improvement at all, especially not in the face of the freely available, cross platform messaging apps.

What does RCS theoretically bring to the group chat table?

File transfers? Google's gonna mine them or carriers will charge exorbitant storage/transfer/viewing fees.

E2EE? Carriers don't, Google does.

Tapback? Meh.

Typing indicators? Really?

International communication? You're gonna pay…
What evidence do you have this is a goal of the FBI?
Isn’t this like asking why we still have fires if firefighters are so good at putting them out?
Python syntax is very elegant.
It appeals to people with good taste. Try writing a dict comprehension in Java.
Here I'm going to put aside the issue of what the FBI can (or "wants" to) regulate. Clearly, they investigate. Social media is at times connected with criminal activity, so the FBI is going to ask questions. It makes sense that social media companies would like to have internal expertise too. It might be used to streamline the process, to reduce risk, to push back against perceived overreach, to help PR, to listen to the grape vine, and more.
That wasn't clear to me
> Our government is run by monkeys.
> My best guess is they consult a successful team of astrologers.

I feel great sympathy for you. From JPN.
The entire LA and San Francisco Bay Area regions were for half a century dumping grounds for far worse stuff than most of the radiological hazards at Santa Susana Field. The worst hazards at Santa Susana Field itself were probably the rocket-related research and associated non-radiological chemicals. This seems confirmed by the Woolsey fire, when nobody was able to detect radioactive contamination.

Detection of radionuclides is easy and reliable; detection of all the myriad other industrial chemicals less so. California hosted a disproportionate share of defense and industrial research and production facilities which are known to have released insane amounts of non-radiological hazardous waste, often adjacent to large populations. As cities expanded many communities, rich and poor, now live atop of it. Even just run-of-the-mill lead hazards are pretty bad in California because the state rapidly expanded coincident with peak usage of lead in fuel and paint.

Unless you live on a property far outside coastal LA and Bay Area cities, it's not entirely unreasonable to reflexively pave over backyards, etc, especially if you have kids. Alternatively, pay a sizable amount of money for soil testing.

Testing soil samples for lead is cheap/free, though, through some government programs; just be prepared to resort to plan A. When we bought our house in the Outer Richmond of San Francisco, I meticulously took samples of our backyard and shipped them off for spectroscopic measurements through one of those programs. Unsurprisingly they all came back near or above the threshold for "absolutely don't garden here". A couple came back near the threshold for "you're required by law to inform the EPA", which was pretty insane because the thresholds for mandatory declaration of soil lead contamination are (at least in non-commercial contexts) way, way, way above recommended safe limits; this is to minimize the economic burden of remediation.

A family member of mine develops small and medium size apartment complexes in Southern California and she deliberately avoids soil tests. She assumes any parcel of land in a populated area is contaminated and designs projects accordingly--e.g. cover any common areas where kids might play with known clean soil from elsewhere. She also reminds contractors to follow basic safety measures, like not washing their work clothes in the same wash load as other family members. If she voluntarily tested as a matter of course she'd subject herself to expensive, mandatory remediations, and construction of anything except luxury housing wouldn't be economically viable.
I cook scramble eggs in cast iron and while it sticks a bit you wash it right away while it’s hot in water, takes less than a min. Given that you seasoned it and you don’t burn the egg
This essay has not aged at all well.