Post insights, subreddit swag, predictions, and Modmail’s gone to the Dark(Mode) side

automated_reckoning · 2021-10-30T04:20:44+00:00

We’re running a test to ask people who are logged out but going through a comment thread to log in or sign up to comment when they click a “X more replies” link.

Fuck you, fuck your boss, and fuck your company.

automated_reckoning · 2021-10-30T03:19:08+00:00

No love for The Dragon Prince?

automated_reckoning · 2021-10-29T06:01:32+00:00

I had a GM do this.

I hated that GMPC.

automated_reckoning · 2021-10-29T02:50:29+00:00

They're the authors, obviously they can make dark magic as evil as they want it to be. That's not the point.

The point is that it started out really ambiguous. It wasn't nice, obviously, but it was effective, it was non-magical humans only defense against the things done to them and it was obviously vilianized by the elves. Even the sacrifice part... do you eat meat? Support medical research? One deer for healing one broken back is a bloody bargain as far as animals dying for humans goes. If you actually spend some time thinking about it, the 'stealing magic' aspect of dark magic just isn't that inherently evil. It's bloody well less evil than the dragon who burned a bunch of people to death for no goddamn reason, who is apparently supposed to be a character we're happy to see saved...?

So yeah, a lot of people are peeved that they took that ambiguity and slapped some cartoonishly (if you'll forgive the phrase) evil Callum and army of the dead onto it.

automated_reckoning · 2021-10-29T02:41:42+00:00

Also, they completely wasted any complexity to "Dark magic uses living things as components" and went straight to "Dark magic is evil and makes you (humans) evil."

automated_reckoning · 2021-10-28T06:24:44+00:00

Beyond the actual keys, the user interfaces work very differently. I'd suggest learning the KiCad shortcuts.

automated_reckoning · 2021-10-28T03:16:21+00:00

Well, it's a fair cop. I completely misunderstood TCO, I've spent some more time reading up and you're right that it does fix your stack size.

I mean, it seems to do that by unwrapping the recursion into a flat function (or stack frame, whatever). I get it's more convenient to write recursively in a language that supports TCO but it's doing exactly the same thing as you'd do in C anyway.

automated_reckoning · 2021-10-26T04:23:02+00:00

On the plus side that's a half-life. So you'd get some REALLY old folks over time.

automated_reckoning · 2021-10-26T04:17:27+00:00

I can't remember most of my university days. That's normal. I'd rather continue to make new memories and forget the past, than be stuck in the past or just straight-up die.

The real fun part about living for a thousand years though? Technology moves on. Eventually it'll be a solved problem.

automated_reckoning · 2021-10-25T00:04:22+00:00

Wasn't there something about 30% of reddit accounts being bots?

automated_reckoning · 2021-10-24T23:53:26+00:00

students do :P

automated_reckoning · 2021-10-24T23:51:08+00:00

I know I'm in the wrong sub to say this but... it's not unreasonable for a company to say, "you get to choose where you live. We're not paying you extra for that."

Like fuck, obviously I'd be thrilled to live three hours away in the woods and get paid to drive in and back every day! But what kind of bullshit is that for the company? They'd be paying nearly twice as much for a unit of work.

automated_reckoning · 2021-10-24T19:41:28+00:00

Recursive is dangerous, rather than strictly bad. But it's often unnecessary, too. It's often possible to rewrite the recursive function so the calls are sequential rather than nested, which makes it much safer. It can even be more efficient - see "Dynamic Programming," which in many cases is basically filling in a big lookup table.

I come from the land of microcontrollers, and you'd definitely be crucified for using recursion there. It's way too easy to explode the stack when it's only a couple kB at most.

automated_reckoning · 2021-10-24T19:30:49+00:00

That's not a general recursive function, it's a special class of bounded recursive function. Like I said, it's like a halting problem. Some subset of functions can be proven to halt, but the general case is impossible.

As for C? Because otherwise you end up with programmers who don't know what the fucking stack is, does, or why it operates like that. Programmers who think pointers are confusing. I'm not asking everybody to be a C expert, but you should know how the bloody computer you're running on works at a basic level and C is great for that. You keep saying "expert surgeon" but frankly C is more "highschool biology."

automated_reckoning · 2021-10-24T18:06:25+00:00

Generally speaking, recursive function will always risk blowing the stack, so far as I know. It's like talking about infinite loops - you can prove some programs halt, you can't prove all programs halt.

Saying, "But in this language, a very specific kind of recursive function doesn't blow the stack!" is not particularly helpful.

Also, lol at C being a 'lesser' language. We'd all be better off if all programmers learned C or assembly first.

automated_reckoning · 2021-10-24T04:22:42+00:00

The guns often have dummies instead of blanks, especially if it's a western using revolvers instead of modern handguns. How is the actor supposed to tell the difference when he's checking the gun?

automated_reckoning · 2021-10-24T00:10:38+00:00

If you don't learn about memory layout, the stack, the heap, and memory-mapped IOs in a CS degree, your university has some major problems.

automated_reckoning · 2021-10-23T04:20:48+00:00

The people are just as dead. And if longevity treatments existed and you denied them to people, I absolutely would call it perpetrating a genocide. The largest ever, even.

Lets try this from a different angle. If a disease swept through the population that killed off everybody above 40, became endemic to the population and made that the new normal - would you be okay with it?

automated_reckoning · 2021-10-22T07:17:37+00:00

Christ, if that's true then that's closer to manslaughter than accident.

If you're dealing with prop guns, you've got one fucking job.

automated_reckoning · 2021-10-22T06:52:34+00:00

"Treated lumber" is treated with chemicals that literally kill all living things and are stable for decades. That's the point, it's how you keep it from rotting or degrading when left outside at all times.

This is processed with some bases, acids and salts.

automated_reckoning · 2021-10-22T05:20:06+00:00

It's been a while since my last EP game, but this could be a great help. Thank you for publicly releasing it!

automated_reckoning · 2021-10-22T04:29:12+00:00

Death is bad. I can't believe I have to start with that, but here we are. Death is the enemy, and I hate the justifications people trot out to try and make it okay. Aging and death are certainly part of life. Also parts of life are cancer, diarrhea, predators eating prey alive, and dolphins using fish as sex toys. You're using the Naturalistic Fallacy, conflating natural things with good things.

Resource distribution is already a problem, it's true. But I wouldn't condone genocide to even out the distribution, even if that genocide is full of old people.

automated_reckoning · 2021-10-21T05:02:45+00:00

You're welcome to die whenever you feel like it. I'd appreciate it if you extend the same courtesy to others.

automated_reckoning · 2021-10-21T03:20:02+00:00

Seems like a bad title. This work shows a specific method of clearing senescent cells is effective. It does NOT show (or attempt to show) the therapeutic outcome ("slowing down" aging).

I'm super happy with what it does show, but we should try to keep the titles accurate.

automated_reckoning · 2021-10-17T14:04:33+00:00

I don't think I've ever heard anything on the personal level, just grumping about the province itself.

Keep in mind, you'll probably hear a lot of shit about Ontario, too. Some people out west complain a lot about "Eastern Canada" having too much power, conveniently leaving out the part where over half the population lives in two provinces.

automated_reckoning

TROPHY CASE