DradisPing
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DradisPing
7mo ago
I think that there's an understated risk to reading a lot of fiction. Because it's all made up it can teach false lessons and prop up self serving narratives.
Non fiction has the advantage that you can learn true things from true events, even if the author is completely out to lunch.
DradisPing
30d ago
Image hosting is straightforward, jpeg decoders are well established and safe.
They can be easily generated by taking a screenshot.
Bundling text and images together into a safe format that works in different screen aspect ratios is a surprisingly difficult problem. You're introducing a lot of complexity in generating them and safely displaying them.
DradisPing
1mo ago
The strong version gets pretty crackpotty, but in a fun way. It's a guilty pleasure to read.
However there's a weaker take. Astronomy of the solar system was developed before electricity was understood and assumes that everything is electrically neutral. The argument is that electric charges are important with things like asteroids and planetary weather can be affected.
They predicted the first astroid lander would fail due to a difference in charge and sure enough it failed due to a mysterious flash. The one that succeeded orbited the asteroid for a few days, which would have given the charges a chance to even out.
In terms of atmospheric effects it's not a well respected theory because it hasn't developed any predictive models that work on that scale.
DradisPing
2mo ago
Reddit was founded in 2005, so the shared hosting php servers at the time were quite a bit slower than they are now. Also phpBB has probably added some javascript to avoid the full page refreshes on each click.
DradisPing
4mo ago
I've always wondered if it was possible to rent a goat for a couple of weeks in the spring. Have a back yard petting zoo. Return it when all the plants are trimmed.
DradisPing
5mo ago
I think "wokeness" is the wrong way to think about what's happening.
It has more to do with women who have worked their way up in the entertainment industry with the help of some affirmative action and are now in important decision making positions.
As they approach the end of their careers they want to be remembered as groundbreaking feminists and give talks at women's conferences and that sort of thing. But they can't get much attention for that sort of thing if they are producing content that's mostly popular with males.
There are other contributing factors. Advertising driven TV networks produced content mostly aimed at women. Women make most household purchasing decisions, so they are what advertisers want. Subscriber funded content naturally has a more even male-female split. However the back catalog is more female focussed.
So the marketing numbers tell them to produce more male focussed content. The lady execs resent that and push back. It feels wrong to them.
There was that famous quote from an Amazon exec who complained that if they based their decisions on focus group results they'd make nothing but movies about white men with guns.
Which strikes me as false. I'm open to other races. I'm sure they could find an American Chow Yun-fat.
Sci-fi / fantasy genre content has another issue. Making content nerdy men enjoy feels low status. After a few comic con panels they want to try to attract young women.
There also seems to be a thing where men who have daughters start wanting to make their content more appealing to young girls. However they overestimate the crossover appeal of their stories and end up producing things no one wants.
DradisPing
6mo ago
There are a lot of up front costs with responsible gun ownership. Gun safe, range membership, knowledge of local firearms laws.
So the marginal cost of additional guns is relatively low. Plus if you're putting in range time then guns are officially one of your hobbies. Might as well get more guns.
DradisPing
6mo ago
The lack of support in Europe is more of a symptom of declining Christianity. When Jodan was in charge of the west bank they didn't allow Chrstian pilgrims, and that dispute goes all the way back to the crusades.
DradisPing
6mo ago
I think you're focussing on Mossad too much, the Epstein conspiracy theory focussed more on US intelligence with connections to other allied nations.
DradisPing
7mo ago
That's not true, peace offers have been well documented.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_negotiations_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine
Russia wanted independence for Luhansk and Donetsk, recognition of Russian control of Crimea, and neutrality from Ukraine (eg no Nato, no arms along the border).
The US and UK convinced Zelenskyy that Nato weapons would allow him to win the war and take back Crimea, so here we are.
DradisPing
9mo ago
I'd suggest using the FPS templates in Unity or Unreal Engine. You'll be able to do that without any coding.
DradisPing
11mo ago
I'd say that in most cases hyperbole is the point. They are sick of arguing and just trying to insult you by likening you to something unambiguously bad.
DradisPing
13hr ago
They're more analogous than you think.
The English rulers wanted to increase the number of domestic supporters so they imported supporters from England and seized land to give it to them.
The Irish left wants to increase it's number of domestic supporters so they bring in politically loyal but violent foreigners. They lavish them in tax dollars and pay them to live in local neighbourhoods. The imports commit violence against locals, but it's a hate crime to fight back. Eventually the locals flee.
So their goal is essentially the same result with a few more steps.
DradisPing
2d ago
The Irish left wing open borders position alway confused me. Isn't being upset about British immigration 300 years ago their whole thing?
DradisPing
9d ago
Is Expeditionary Force Craig Alanson?
Yes, Craig Alanson. The first book is Columbus Day.
DradisPing
9d ago
Can you post an update if it picks up? I couldn't get through it and gave up on the series. It'd be good to know if it's worth the slog.
DradisPing
10d ago
From about 2015 until Merkel's retirement people were regularly calling Poland WN or worse. I'm not exactly sure when it stopped, but from the Trump impeachment to covid it wasn't a priority and after the Ukraine invasion internationalist types weren't badmouthing it anymore.
DradisPing
10d ago
You can practice by working on some github issues on some repo like this random one: https://github.com/themotte/rDrama/issues
https://codecrafters.io/ is a bit pricey but fun. You should be able to burn through the "build your own http server" in python one pretty quickly.
I like to manage all of my language versions with asdf since it's one tool for versioning python/go/javascript/elixir/whatever.
Burning through a bunch of leetcode easy problems is a good way to get comfortable with a new language. Or if you've done a bunch of problems already try to translate those into python.
Swimming favours long torsos. That means cold adapted people. Also tall.
Black people tend to have longer limbs and shorter torsos, so they have a reach advantage in a lot of sports.
The mechanical device probably eliminates the reach advantage in cycling and rowing.
I wonder if you could adjust the gearing and crank length to field a Kenyan team.
DradisPing
1mo ago
Does anyone have thoughts on the Halo show? I know the fans are outraged, but I've been enjoying it.
I generally enjoy serials, space ships, space marines, and bad aliens being shot. So it's a pretty easy sell.
The writing could be better. They kind of botched the flood reveal.
The budget limits show. The first five episodes were shot in Ontario, they switched to Budapest for covid reasons for the rest of S1. You can definitely tell that they were shooting some outdoor combat scenes in stone and gravel quarries.
But they made practical spartan suits and warthogs, which is fun.
It seems fans were expecting Band of Brothers meets Lord of the Rings in space. Which was never going to happen.
DradisPing
1mo ago
It's called a loose meat sandwich. They were very popular in the period after ground beef became commonly available but before canned tomato sauce appeared in stores.
DradisPing
1mo ago
Adobe has been working on integrating their own AI tools for a few years now. Plus I'm sure there are plenty of plugins with exiting support.
eg https://youtube.com/watch?v=c1Z-449UIBg https://youtube.com/watch?v=pLRLJbvVUiA
I haven't found an exact video on Frankensteining people together and smoothing it out, but it seems like something AI tools should be able to do a this point.
DradisPing
4mo ago
DeSantis has staff and a legislature that support him. His staff also know how to pick winning political fights in Florida.
Trump expected that after the 2016 campaign was over the rest of the GOP would get onside and work with him, but that wasn't realistic.
Ideologically DeSantis has been more of a corporate republican of the Paul Ryan variety. But he's seen that's not a winning strategy these days and he's politically ambitious.
DradisPing
4mo ago
Creatine is actually interesting. It inflates your muscles. Also it binds to simple sugars and draws them into your muscles. You can actually add creatine to dishes to make them taste less sweet.
BCAAs are essentially pre-digested protein. You can drink them in the morning to get quick energy, but if you're on a high protein diet they aren't really needed.
Ephedrine is useful, it's a stimulant that opens up your airways. Just stick with one or two 8mg tablets. Some people take large does and that gets scary.
I'm a moderate believer in the electric universe theory, to the degree that I think it can explain a lot of strange celestial phenomena. eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1561_celestial_phenomenon_over_Nuremberg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Los_Angeles
Combine those with the fact that it's hard for people to judge the size of things in the sky without knowing what it is. The limit of stereoscopic vison is about 215m. After that your brain just making an educated guess about the size.
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