SteveKirk
2yr ago
If it makes you feel any better, I should be yet am not doing all those things, and don't have the excuse of being pregnant.
I really want kids, but having lived with a very talkative little kid for a few months the idea of spending years constantly worn out and never keeping a train of thought running is terrifying.
Oh God one of those setups, that's awful. Literally no workarounds short of relaying everything through an outside server, and at that point you might as well host it with them in the first place.
So my question is how you can set up a home security system to be able to resist a swat team with 15 seconds+1 minute of driveway approach warning.
That's barely enough time to get awake enough to check your cameras to identify the threat, let alone get guns on target.
I've been testing my reaction time on alerts, and it's not good enough yet. The only way to buy time is stalling intruders on the driveway or at the perimeter fence. Forget about activatable measures if you can't even hit the button in time.
Of course playing individual defense is a loser's game in the first place, so it's probably a waste of time. Better to spend your effort making sure the midnight death squads are going to the enemy's houses rather than yours.
Realistic Randomizers
So I have a project where sprite elements (head, hair, colors, several body bases, clothing) get composited into a character, and I want to add a random function to it. Call it an NPC generator.
The problem is most programs like this produce a jumbled mess: black-skinned blondes, children with beards, etc., and the end result looks like a Portland street camp.
Does anyone know a standard way to sample from multiple correlated variables to give realistic results? I'd prefer that over hardcoding a bunch of rules or templates, which is what most people default to.
A simple example of the handmade mechanic I already use is age+sex+race= height distribution.
The first 3 are uncorrelated and picked randomly unless a selection toggle overrides it. Age multiplies the mean of the normal distribution, then sex multiplies both the mean and standard dev, and finally race does the same. Height is then generated from the modified normal distribution with cutoffs.
Is there a better way to do this for e.g. hair color or presence of freckles? Someone much smarter than me must have encountered this problem and come up with a solution.
Ideally I'd just like to make a huge n-dimensional joint probability distribution to sample from. This would probably be a lot easier if I'd paid attention in linear algebra.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
I saw it on Reddit so $100% chance it's fake, but still couldn't stop laughing.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
Yeah, she's finding stuff to do to make herself anxious/justify anxiety. Always baking pies and repainting things is anxiety-refocusing behavior, not the cause of the anxiety.
I wouldn't, because realistically the deal would (Lando mutter) keep getting worse all the time.
Wil Stancil clones would come along to slap down favelas in your village as revenge against class enemies for living comfortably, as we've seen him announce as his actual goal.
A huge brokerage account backed by political power is the only thing that can't be taken away, and that means I don't get to take it easy if i want my grandchildren set up in an enclave free of murder and dysfunction.
Yeah, the actual figure is pretty easy to measure by comparing peoples' actual takehome pay after mortgage and property tax.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
Where do you get your burners? I need to get one for a new identity.
I never could make a Twitter account through protonmail and vpn, totally locked down.
Truly pulitzer-worthy "anthropological curiosity" on display, dedicated to broadening the intellectual horizons of his audience.
tactically in places like Berkeley it seems like it allows Dems to cooperate with/coopt fringe GOTV groups for third party candidates. That brings communists who would otherwise disengage and form genuinely competing groups back into the party machine.
"Vote for Antifa McSlaughterkulaks, but make sure Embezzlea Demqueena is your second choice!" is an easier sell to low turnout leftist voters in those places where wiki says ranked choice has been implemented. Saves having to make the "vote for the greatest evil that still has a chance of winning" arguments we see so much of in presidential elections.
It fits the theme of "managerial democracy means making the voters feel heard without any risk to single party rule by the Serious People."
I think we can expect to see masses of performative fringe and ethnic parties that serve to A) smoothly introduce radical policies to moderate dem voters, B) shift the Overton window of what moderate means, while C) maintaining unity with radical factions and minor ethnic blocs by making electioneering cooperative rather than competitive.
Similar to how the parliamentary system works in Europe really, but in some ways even more effective because the minor parties don't have to be brought into a ruling coalition. They can be given non-policy sinecures reviewing Racial Equity Progress Reports from the DEIB offices of city departments
SteveKirk
2yr ago
I'm mostly a reply guy, but it frustrates me that some of the best top level posts get zero engagement.
Maybe people don't have much to say other than officially discouraged low effort agreement.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
in the same way they write about isolated tribes in the Amazon.
I'm pretty sure the authors of pieces about isolated tribes in the Amazon don't go on Twitter to gloat about how it made the subjects "seethe" and scatter in fear. Are you going to update?
You put a lot of effort into this reply and he ghosted you because he got bored of trolling. So he won, and you lost because you allowed him to troll you... Again. For what, the 7th year running now?
Typically that goes "oh in season 8 some girl stabs the scary white ice king I guess, the end." Or "some girl has a mystic Jedi powerup and stabs the somehow-has-returned evil space wizard guy I guess, the end." (Note: I haven't seen either of these so don't quote me)
The plot doesn't have to be good or make sense, the point is manipulating the audience to feel a certain way about themselves by feeding their insecurities, which in itself is the attraction of these shows to the target audience.
I don't know, if Current Thing hasn't moved on by the time the show finishes, maybe some brave Arab girl will magic-suicide-bomb Homelander somehow I guess, the end.
Then the audience will cry and go "the protagonist did the violence our self-inserts were too nice and principled to do. The service is over, pass round the collection plate for the Hamas bail fund"
SteveKirk
2yr ago
Sure it's not an issue with brewing? I used to hate the bitter taste of green tea until realizing I'd been steeping it 30 degrees too hot my whole life. Literally just screwed up every cup I ever drank.
I think you're missing the real point of it. Liberals love criticism of liberalism that goes "we need a Super-Hamas-Man to just literally murder the enemy we're too Nice and Honest to viciously stomp the way he deserves (btw this means trump and anyone who ever opposed Current Thing, and we want to make that unmissably obvious with the least subtle metaphors you've ever seen)".
That's why it's so stupid. It's done on purpose because it's supposed to be Hutu-radio level murder propaganda with the barest hint of plausible deniability so they can sneer at anyone who points it out.
This is classic 2016-2020 liberalism self-criticism designed to morally excuse themselves for having handed the keys of society to violent leftists. Self-identifying as the wishy washy liberal who TV says should just get out of the way and let the death squads work is masturbatory denial of responsibility, because it gives them a passive role to follow.
"MLK hated white moderates like us, so we'd better stay silent and give money to the antifa arson squads whever the TV tells us to" was half of reddit in 2020. This is just a more developed form of that.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
More likely every Ukrainian who would think to do that will be dead by the war's end, and the country will be run by parasites that went to Harvard's Kennedy School of Government
SteveKirk
2yr ago
Finally you've got something proper to wear to the neighborhood meetings lol. (Do you go to those?)
That's a good point. Can't see Trump ever doing the old "baby I love you, but I need you to get this abortion because I can't leave my wife for you just yet. Come on, it's for us!"
More like "you and I both know it's 1-in-10 I'm the father, how's that paternity suit going to work out for you?"
Having so many different writers work on big projects is my least favorite parts of western comics, and that's stiff competition against all the other stuff they do wrong.
I read all the early Judge Dredd comics once, and important details got changed every single issue on the whim of some writer who couldn't even be bothered to coordinate with his coworkers.
Is the megacity super wealthy with interstellar colonies and is technological unemployment only a problem because people go crazy from idleness? Or is it a decaying hive full of poor starving people commiting crimes out of desperation? It's a coin flip every issue!
Have you seen what's happened to lesbians lately? They have absolutely been attacked for "don't ask women to suck your dick at a lesbian bar" policies! The thing you're suggesting would never happen already happened 5 or 6 years ago, and with the full support of the lgbtqxyz++ media!
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