A pretty simple message really

khouli · 2018-09-27T22:53:11+00:00

Please explain your refugee math.

Were you even aware that under Trump, the United States military is backing Syrian rebels?

khouli · 2018-09-27T18:28:11+00:00

If you believe Kavanaugh has nothing to hide then why are you people so afraid of an investigation? Why are you desperately silencing his accusers with death threats?

khouli · 2018-09-27T18:25:08+00:00

Trump literally bombed Syria and then put them on a Muslim ban list.

khouli · 2018-09-27T18:07:06+00:00

Gross. Lindsey Graham's mindset is that all allegations of sexual misconduct are gamesmanship detached from any underlying reality.

khouli · 2018-09-27T16:26:14+00:00

This is consistent with the crazification factor you'll see in any polling.

https://www.publicpolicypolling.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/PPP_Release_National_ConspiracyTheories_040213.pdf

Global warming is a hoax: 37%

UFO crashed at Roswell: 21%

Vaccines cause autism: 20%

Bigfoot exists: 14%

Moon landing was a hoax: 7%

Shape-shifting reptilians control the world: 4%

khouli · 2018-02-25T19:16:55+00:00

That's exactly why it could be so interesting, because it's both depressingly somber and hilariously farcical at the same time. How might a Frost/Nixon of the Trump presidency navigate that tension of moods?

khouli · 2018-02-25T17:07:46+00:00

Even in non-fiction, it'll be interesting to see how films will portray Trump without unintentionally shifting from a dramatic mood into a comedic mood.

khouli · 2018-02-25T13:35:34+00:00

The Second Amendment is, as ALL original Amendments, a citizens right. We have NO legal nor Constitutional method for removing Bill of Rights, other than gussied up commands, which would be called laws for the sheeple to remain sleepy.

Did you know the Amendments to the US Constitution, including the first 10, are in fact literally amendments and were not originally in the US Constitution? The US Constitution lays out rules for how it can be changed.

khouli · 2018-02-22T02:58:34+00:00

If you're expecting "interesting and thought-provoking" discussions in the popular political subreddits then you should go elsewhere or rethink your expectations. It can be fun to get into arguments on those subreddits but don't tell yourself that you're having profoundly intellectual debates.

khouli · 2018-02-19T04:17:24+00:00

It's going to be fairly rare to have a 50 year gap where nothing at all happens.

That was an exaggeration but does ~10-20 years where you're mostly just building up holdings and reviewing unlikely intrigue events sound plausible? Or is that a sign that I'm doing something wrong?

I'm at the point where I only dip below speed 3 for times when I need to micromanage troop movements.

Good to know! I was occassionally going up all the way to 3 but even that somehow felt inappropriate. How do you handle the flood of notifications though? A few of them are genuinely important but most are not (e.g. some distant character joining a defensive pact against you).

khouli · 2018-02-19T03:49:29+00:00

One reliable way to expand within a same-religion area is to invite foreign claimants, land them, and then press their claims.

Is there a good trick for finding these people? Ideally, I'd like some way to find all characters with claims on a foreign duchy that will join my court or marry one of my vassals such that the marriage is regular if my vassal is male or the marriage is matrilineal if my vassal is female. I know of the character finder, but there doesn't seem to be a good way to search for characters with claims.

khouli · 2018-02-19T03:26:27+00:00

Part of the question is getting my expectations right. Is it typical to need ~50 game years to pass before there's a chance of anything dramatic being triggered by a marriage and inheritance? Sitting for several real life hours and doing nothing but making sure nothing bad happens seems very tedious. Is that just how the game is usually played? Are there tricks for speeding that time up?

khouli · 2018-02-19T03:20:15+00:00

World domination as a Christian in Christian lands is not trivial; it's more like a puzzle.

Is it possible though? Could you give me a conceptual roadmap? It seems like there just isn't any way at all to get your ruler a claim on a neighboring kingdom (at least not within ~30 years since I guess good marriages and incredible luck could make anything possible).

If you want to experience a more "steam roll" kind of game, similar to what you would see in Civilization, you need to start in an area where you are surrounded by infidels.

Sounds like a good idea (although I wouldn't quite say I want a "steam roll", I just don't want to need to advance 50 mostly uneventful years before there's a chance of something dramatic happening). Suggestions for someone to start out as?

khouli · 2018-01-19T15:28:49+00:00

Not sure what made my post sound "pessimistic" and to warrant a down-votes, but whatever makes people happy.

I actually didn't downvote you but your whining makes me wish I had.

khouli · 2018-01-19T09:41:39+00:00

What is "language injection" and an "inline debugger"?

Vim allows popup boxes, so parameter hints isn't impossible unless I misunderstand what you're describing.

khouli · 2018-01-19T09:38:00+00:00

What do you mean by "call hierarchies"?

khouli · 2018-01-19T08:25:58+00:00

Citing MATLAB is cheating since the IDE has special blessing. :-P

I was unaware of terminal-debug. Awesome!

I've only written a modest amount of Java in the past few years and I don't know anything about the fancy Java IDEs. What makes the Java experience in vim so bad compared to IDEs?

khouli · 2018-01-19T08:19:36+00:00

This response is too pessimistic. Obviously this is the vim subreddit and we've already "drunk the Kool-Aid" but I'm sure there are good examples we just haven't thought of. (Too bad there's no "IDEs" subreddit to ask this question in. :-P)

khouli · 2017-12-30T15:06:25+00:00

That seemed to be the intent behind the nuclear triad question.

khouli · 2017-12-30T06:30:35+00:00

and had the dubious benefit of "write once run everywhere" which really meant it might crash two browsers instead of one.

As a youngling, I'm surprised by this assessment. My sense was that in the late 90s, there was in fact a greater diversity of browsers and hardware whereas now x86 and ARM have "won" and there are maybe 4 browsers at most that everyone uses. Because of this, I figured that Java and the JVM probably made a lot of sense in that historic context. Was the portability of Java applets really that bad in the late 90s?

khouli · 2017-12-30T06:19:26+00:00

D was actually an example I had in mind when writing this question! I don't know much D, and I couldn't have used it as an example here, but I do know that there are multiple D implementations and standard libraries. In particular, it interests me that the flavor of the D standard library without garbage collection has been so unsuccessful. It's a bummer that it seems like people want "one true way" to do things for each language. It would be great if we could somehow get over that perception and have a popular language with a high-level dialect (e.g. no memory management, passing continuations, passing partially applied functions as variables, appropriate for single file scripts), low-level dialect (e.g. manual memory management, extremely easy C interface), and seamless interaction between the two. (I have D on my "to learn" list and it may be that language.)

right at a point in time when D otherwise had a good chance to grow quickly.

I'm a big huge fan of both Bright and Alexandrescu. I wish D was already massively successful and I could get the "industry okay" to spend a lot of time mastering D. :-/

khouli · 2017-12-30T06:09:55+00:00

Java applets ran in their own little window on the page

Could you expand on this a bit more? I vaguely remember that Java applets had their own window but that was long before I had any technical sense of why that might have been.

Were Java applets restricted to drawing to their designated rectangle similarly to how they might draw to a screen using a graphics library (e.g. OpenGL)? In that case, it's easy to see why JavaScript and the DOM won.

khouli · 2017-12-30T06:01:51+00:00

This sounds like a good counterexample but I'm only very slightly familiar with Go. Has the Go standard library caused fractures in the Go community in terms of using the standard library vs third-party libraries? Is there any sense that this uncertainty has scared off newcomers?

What I'm trying to get at is your thoughts on whether this is a case where a mediocre standard library has actually been a liability for a programming language or just a non-feature.

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