KingOfTheBailey
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KingOfTheBailey
6mo ago
Gave us the Ebola vaccine
I have been able to find things saying that we now have a couple of Ebola vaccines but nothing for a lay audience about their method of development. Do you have a link for this?
KingOfTheBailey
6mo ago
Alpha Centauri (Civ in Space) is also pretty good.
Its story holds up better than its mechanics, the exploitability of which limits the replay value. But I'd still give it more than a "pretty good".
Civ IV wasn't just about the mods. It was also that the developers were bold enough to include things like slavery and religions in a way that had some real mechanical meat. Made you think, as the player, without preaching at you.
KingOfTheBailey
6mo ago
KingOfTheBailey
6mo ago
Pretty much. His hope was that completing The Hock would make him attractive to women, who he thought were picking up on the fact that he hadn't done anything tough in his life.
https://manifold.markets/BenjaminIkuta/will-skookumtree-pinetree-successfu
KingOfTheBailey
5mo ago
I know you asked specifically for a book, but https://learn.cantrill.io/p/tech-fundamentals is a pretty good free course about the various layers of the networking stack. If you want to go deep on the protocol-level stuff then maybe Stevens' TCP/IP Illustrated could be what you're after? It might be too TCP-focused, since you also have questions about VLANs and UDP.
KingOfTheBailey
5mo ago
Nice hat...
KingOfTheBailey
5mo ago
By the way, it's "copyright", not "copywrite" because it's about who has the right to make copies of a work.
KingOfTheBailey
5mo ago
Please provide a pitch deck in next week's Tinker Tuesday.
KingOfTheBailey
5mo ago
I thought "plushie" specifically referred to stuffed toys with a particular outer fabric.
KingOfTheBailey
5mo ago
Would it be fair to call them the "rap interludes" of their time?
KingOfTheBailey
5mo ago
Recent iterations of windows are tolerable as an operating system for a gaming-only machine, though.
Modern versions of Windows don't crash like they used to, but you don't have to install BonziBuddy to get a machine full of ads any more; they bundle the ads with the OS now.
KingOfTheBailey
5mo ago
KingOfTheBailey
5mo ago
I'm annoyed at Rust for the same reason in the opposite direction. They added sum types, knew they added sum types, but called them "enums" - why?
KingOfTheBailey
4mo ago
Congratulations! I assumed you were already married and I hope he realizes how lucky he is. No actionable advice from me, I'm afraid — I'm still going on first dates.
KingOfTheBailey
4mo ago
Fauci, along with the US Surgeon General, lied about the efficacy of masks to manage supply. Fauci also deliberately moved the goalposts on population percentage targets for herd immunity. Those weren't "bad messaging", they were deliberate falsehoods pushed out onto the public.
KingOfTheBailey
4mo ago
I found discussion of this on a site about the 14th amendment. It links to a page from the Congressional Record, which seems to match a similar page in wayback from the Library of Congress. It records Sen. Jacob M. Howard (MI) as saying:
Mr. HOWARD: I now move to take up House joint resolution No. 127.
The motion was agreed to; and the Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, resumed the consideration of the joint resolution (H.R. No. 127) proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
The first amendment is to section one, declaring that all "persons born in the United States and Subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the States wherein they reside. I do not propose to say anything on that subject except that the question of citizenship has been fully discussed in this body as not to need any further elucidation, in my opinion. This amendment which I have offered is simply declaratory of what I regard as the law of the land already, that every person born within the limits of the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of natural law and national law a citizen of the United States. This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons. It settles the great question of citizenship and removes all doubt as to what persons are or are not citizens of the United States. This has long been a great desideratum in the jurisprudence and legislation of this country.
(Emphasis as per www.14thamendment.us.)
I am not a constitutional scholar, but this seems fairly straightforward to me. What am I missing?
KingOfTheBailey
4mo ago
That's some great context, thank you.
KingOfTheBailey
4mo ago
It's not about revenge. It's that activists have systematically taken over the academy and have been trading on its prestige to implement their goals. The result is that it's not at all clear from the outside who is there to just do actual science, and who is an activist doing activism with scientific trappings. Worse, the academy has become completely untrustworthy, so we can't ask the people who would know; they'd just run cover for each other. So, with a heavy heart, we voted for someone to take a flamethrower to the system and we'll see what green shoots come out of the ashes.
KingOfTheBailey
4mo ago
Computer science is mathematics, but its practical applications are very close to the theory, and that has saved it from some of the more embarrassing effects of political capture
I disagree with this - CS is very captured. The close connection between theory and practice might have kept the practice of the discipline close to reality, but the culture has been completely taken over, probably because by its nature, it is so much more "online" than other disciplines. I would speculate that it is probably the most LGBT-friendly discipline on account of its feed-in cohort being primarily online weirdos, support for transgenderism going back to when the graybeards were young, etc. I'd metaphorically bet on it having the highest raw numbers of trans people too (see e.g., the Rust community survey.) The industrial side has also been taken over - see all the codes of conduct, the big tech companies at the forefront of DEI pushes, etc.
This is a discipline that has the ability to cross-cut everything ("software is eating the world") and possibly even invent superintelligence. If you do not share its values, the fact that it is so thoroughly converged is not a happy one.
KingOfTheBailey
4mo ago
It's time to switch to Linux. There were some good threads on here recently.
KingOfTheBailey
4mo ago
Proton has become astonishingly good. The main problems I think are around invasive anti-cheat systems.
KingOfTheBailey
4mo ago
Yeah, it's still not perfect unfortunately. One upside of the impending paperclippening is that the chatbots have ingested everything ever written about how to solve Linux problems. If you haven't tried it yet, I'd recommend prompting an LLM to act like a condescending neckbeard expert Linux user and friendly troubleshooter, with permission to ask you for further info or to ask you to run commands, and see if you can get it to narrow down your problem.
KingOfTheBailey
3mo ago
I see you have also discovered the speedrunning community.
KingOfTheBailey
3mo ago
First time I've seen "grognard" used to refer to old-school computing people as opposed to old-school RPG/wargaming people.
I think my mind runs in similar grooves, and the answer is: integrity. Integrity matters: would you want to date or marry someone who is lying about something so fundamental? Would you want to carry a lie like that for years, knowing what would happen if the secret got out?
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