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MajorHavoc

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  • Dying towns

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  • Yep. I think high quality Internet roll-out will make or break some of these plans.

  • Dying towns

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  • Yeah. Seems pointless, but I bet they're trying to attract folks with work-from-home jobs.

    There's a big migration of work-from-home folks out to areas where they can have bigger homes, gardens and such.

    I think the theory is that whichever towns or cities attract these folks first will grow into long term preferred work-from-home destinations, using the tax revenue and voting habits of the first folks to move in.

    It's a gamble, but an interesting one.

  • But they love him in the mirror universe.

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  • My head canon is that TNG, DS9 and Voyager are set in the Kelvin universe, where

    Most of the Vulcans are dead.

    I have no (in universe) explanation for the lack of proportional human diversity, in TNG, in particular, though. I notice sometimes during a rewatch and it does break the immersion.

  • Trump Selling Pieces of His Debate Suit - MeidasTouch News

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  • I'm getting tired of pointing this out, but...

    This is yet another technique where crime boss money could arrive in his account with plausible deniability.

  • UP Man Fined For Driving Car Without Helmet By Noida Police

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  • TIL each pawn in chess had a specific name/profession based on its starting position on the board

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  • (relevant section from Wikipedia: )

    In medieval chess, as an attempt to make the pieces more interesting, each pawn was given the name of a commoner's occupation:[5]

    • Gambler and other "lowlifes", also messengers (in the left-most file, that direction being literally sinister)
    • City guard or policeman (in front of the left-side knight, as knights trained city guards in real life)[6]
    • Innkeeper (in front of the left-side bishop)
    • Doctor (in front of the queen)
    • Merchant/money changer (in front of the king)
    • Weaver/clerk (in front of the right-side bishop, as they worked for bishops)
    • Blacksmith (in front of the right-side knight, as they cared for the horses)
    • Worker/farmer (in front of the right-side rook, as they worked for castles)[7]

    The most famous example of this is found in the second book ever printed in the English language, The Game and Playe of the Chesse. Purportedly, this book, printed by William Caxton,[8] was viewed to be as much a political commentary on society as a chess book.[7]

  • I created a simple Creative Commons sites index with high hopes.

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  • This is cool. Thank you.

  • Math and computation algorithms: why are they needed in programming?

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  • Formal math can be pretty dang handy, for programmin

    But I've never actually needed it, for programming.

    Boolean math does sometime look like a super power. I've noticed that veteran programmers pretty much all use it (or an intuition that is essentially the same thing), even if they've never been formally taught.

    "I think we can do this in one fewer levels of nesting."

    "No way."

    .... some time and analysis later...

    "How the hell did you know that?!"

    "I noticed the logic simplifies a bit with DeMorgan's theorum and still works out."

    "What the fuck did you just say?!"

    ...

    "I said it was a lucky guess."

  • DARPA suggests turning old C code automatically into Rust – using AI, of course

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  • "You can go to any of the LLM websites, start chatting with one of the AI chatbots, and all you need to say is 'here's some C code, please translate it to safe idiomatic Rust code,' cut, paste, and something comes out, and it's often very good, but not always," said Dan Wallach, DARPA program manager for TRACTOR, in a statement.

    "This parlor trick impressed me. I'm sure it can scale to solve difficult real world problems."

    It's a promising approach worth trying, but I won't be holding my breath.

    If DARPA really wanted safer languages, they could be pushing test coverage, not blindly converting stable well tested C code into untested Rust code.

    This, like most AI speculation, reeks of looking for shortcuts instead of doing the boring job at hand.

  • Did I miss the Elden Ring DLC discourse?

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  • This is the first comic that expresses why I rage quit so many games with overly difficult boss fights ( if there's any delay measured in more than microseconds between retries ).

    I played (and still do) the original one hit kill arcade bullshit. Hell, I beat Alladin on SNES. I'm not allergic to a challenge.

    But, today, I have no time to repeat anything that isn't fun in a video game. I could be filling out tax forms with that time.

    Edit: Rogue Legacy 2 is so good at this. It has deeply adjustable difficultly, short boss intros, and a fast forward function for when even the short intro is too long.

  • What technology will date us in the future?

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  • The fax machine is forever. There's a fax machine on the International Space Station.

    Okay, I'm joking. But I bet you considered it for half a second, because fax machines have been that damn hard to get rid of.

  • Would you consume your own content?

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  • True. I don't post the license prominently, but my comments are Creative Commons, Attribution, Share Alike

    Okay, I'm actually kidding about misunderstanding which bit of my comment your reply was to.

    Yes, it's great that MineTest is open source! And the mod community is impressive.

  • Would you consume your own content?

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  • My comments are pure Internet gold. I'm actually only here to read my own comments. It helps me remember how brilliant and humble I am.

    My posts help people discover the game MineTest Luanti. It's pretty great, and it's free.

  • Derisking a project 1 year out

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  • "No deviations will be approved from this year's Agile product roadmap!"

  • Bad news for coders: The US is past peak software developer

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  • We're in a "fuck around" cycle where they pretend that the problem was we didn't have "copilot", and not that all of our development managers are wildly unqualified.

    The "find out" part comes next.

    Which is fucking impossible to fathom, because my fucking grocery store's app can't even implement search reliably, today.

    I'm not sure how they're going to manage to make things worse.

    Actually, I'll make a guess. My guess is we will go under the critical skill level needed for building safe hospital equipment, and we will get a rash of that stuff killing people due to lack of programmer skills.

    I hope the asshole CEOs are the ones that die, but there's not enough karma in the world for that.

  • Pure light being

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  • The number of people saying "oh he's friendly" as their dog scares someone afraid of dogs because they're jumping up on them is stupid.

    This makes me angry, when it happens. I happen to be huge, and adore dogs, so I hide it well.

    Folks with dogs that jump up on people, need to keep those dogs away from other people. Others didn't sign up to have an out of control animal jumping all over them. Doesn't matter if the animal is friendly or not.

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  • As with so many scenes in "The Magic School Bus", that clarification makes me think "oh, that's better then...I guess...?"

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  • Someone could fake nearly any weird messed up scene and claim it happened in "The Magic School Bus" - and I would believe it.

    I've seen enough of that show to just assume the editors only knew the phrase "did the kids survive? That's fine then."

  • Mother Gaia and Humans

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  • No species ever lasts that long.

    Sharks enter the thread.

    Awkward silence ensues