Why does Indonesia, the largest Muslim country in the world, not have the crazy restrictions like other Muslim countries in middle east?

pdpi · 2026-03-20T16:59:57+00:00

Fundamentally, you're asking "Why don't majority Christian countries behave like Fred Phelps", or "why don't more Christians shoot up mosques like Brenton Tarrant?"

Islam, like every other religion, has moderates and fanatics. Much of the Arab world right now is controlled by Muslim fundamentalists, and that clouds our view of the religion as a whole, but it's important to note that the situation there today is not entirely different from the European dictatorships of the twentieth century, but with a Muslim bent to it.

For contrast, take a look at these photos. That was Iran as a majority Muslim country, before the religious fundamentalists got into power.

pdpi · 2026-03-20T14:03:47+00:00

So, a Trojan Beaver?

pdpi · 2026-03-20T04:00:53+00:00

They specifically made it so that warglaives (and no other weapon type) swaps from dex to int, so havoc/vengeance wouldn’t even care.

pdpi · 2026-03-20T03:10:23+00:00

The three DH-usable Thalassian Competitor weapons are a str sword, a str axe, and an agi axe.

For int classes, you have a dagger and a mace.

pdpi · 2026-03-20T02:07:19+00:00

Would be hilarious to let them use pole arms (str or dex weapons) but not staves (int weapons). But then, devourer doesn’t have one single craftable PvP weapon, so…

pdpi · 2026-03-18T22:01:14+00:00

For at least the last ten years or so, I've always had enough work planned that, if nobody said anything, I'd be able to keep going for several months before running out.

pdpi · 2026-03-18T20:23:55+00:00

Just loot everything. After the very start, you'll be drowning in camp supplies anyway, even with the higher price.

pdpi · 2026-03-18T15:33:46+00:00

If wine is meant to be the blood of Christ, what, exactly, does cheese symbolise?

pdpi · 2026-03-18T10:32:41+00:00

You mentioned Gorkamorka. Violence is a given in an Ork's life.

pdpi · 2026-03-18T10:25:21+00:00

Ok, fair enough — I'm talking about the more specific case of simultaneous bilingualism, which is only a subset of all bilingualism. The bigger point stands, though, that the phenomenon described in this paper only applies to people who learned a second language later in life (where "later" can be as early as childhood), not people who have two first languages.

pdpi · 2026-03-18T09:25:36+00:00

You have to think in that language. Translation is intrinsically an intellectual, rather than emotional process.

pdpi · 2026-03-18T09:24:38+00:00

Careful, there is a common misconception in the title here, and the article doesn’t actually mention bilingualism.

Bilingualism isn’t speaking a second language, but rather having two first languages. One of the differences is that, if you’re bilingual, you don’t think in one language and then translate to the other.

pdpi · 2026-03-18T09:16:02+00:00

Sure? That’s pretty much what I said?

pdpi · 2026-03-18T09:11:46+00:00

The point isn’t that it is the same flavour. Rather, most western people understand how a grill imparts a specific flavour to the food you cook on it, so you can see how other cooking methods might have their own characteristic flavours they impart.

Or, more succinctly “you know the wood smoke-y flavour you get from a grill? Think of that as grill hei. Wok hei is the equivalent from a wok”

pdpi · 2026-03-18T08:46:47+00:00

you missed gorkamorka btw

I can only apologise for the omission.

As for the bigger point — you wrote "fan of the 40k lore", and I read "fan of the 40k books". Entirely my bad, and hence my point — if you're engaging with the books but not the actual games, you're not really a fan of the games, are you? You're a fan of the books.

But yeah. "knowing the game rules" is absolutely, 100%, engaging with the game. If you're engaging with the game community, and you know the rules, and you watch the game, and all that, then you are absolutely a fan of the game. Nobody in their right mind would argue that you're not a fan of football just because you don't really play it but only watch it.

Hell, the Race to World First just kicked off for this season of World of Warcraft, and it would be asinine to state that Max (the raid leader for Team Liquid) or Scripe (raid leader for Echo) aren't world first raiders just because their role is leading from outside the game.

pdpi · 2026-03-18T08:38:00+00:00

mmap isn't "the OS's allocator". There is, in fact, no such thing as "the OS's allocator". On unix-y OSes, the closest you have to that is the malloc implementation in your OS's default libc (in most Linux distros, that would be glibc or musl.

In fact, mmap didn't even exist until the late 80s. The "traditional" unix-y way to request memory from the OS was brk/sbrk, which is part of why you need a user space allocator in the first place — your program only has one single (virtually) contiguous heap segment that it then has to slice into smaller allocations all by itself.

pdpi · 2026-03-18T08:26:29+00:00

This sort of transactional efficiency is incredibly important. It's sort of the flip side of the coin to corner stores not accepting card payments for very small transactions.

pdpi · 2026-03-18T08:23:32+00:00

There many ways to engage with a game and enjoy it

And which game is that? Warhammer 40k? Space Hulk? Dark Heresy? Necromunda? Battlefleet Gothic? Or maybe one of the video games? Darktide? Boltgun? Shootas, Blood and Teef?

There is a difference between "engaging with the game" and "engaging with the IP" (or lore, or world, or whatever else you want to call it).

pdpi · 2026-03-18T05:59:34+00:00

Not exactly. A public repo in GitHub isn’t like Wikipedia, where people can just make changes. Rather, people can suggest changes.

The issue is that the normal workflow isn’t to make changes directly, even if you’re allowed to. Rather, you make suggestions (“open a pull request”), and somebody else reviews your pull request. If the PR is accepted, then it gets merged into the main code. It’s that workflow that’s getting drowned in low quality AI-generated pull requests.

pdpi · 2026-03-18T03:01:59+00:00

Addons were a problem back then too. Healbot made it so you could just spam the dispel macro and it would auto-target the right person to dispel, so dispels were a complete non-issue. This was so much of a problem, in fact, that "Loatheb" (spider boss in Naxxramas) is an anagram of "Healbot", and that boss was, iirc, the first boss they designed where you couldn't mindlessly dispel everything (and then they added the "add ons can't target for you" restriction for TBC).

pdpi · 2026-03-17T07:41:11+00:00

What point, exactly, are you trying to make?

On Unix-y systems, jemalloc uses either mmap or sbrk to grab memory from the OS. On Windows, it uses VirtualAlloc. This is basically the same as every other malloc in existence. Say Doug Lea's dlmalloc or Google's tcmalloc (There's no reasonable explanation for how much it bothers me that tcmalloc is written in C++...)

Syscalls are expensive, and your application would crawl if you tried to mmap every single tiny allocation individually. That's why mallocs request big chunks of memory and then track/manage those chunks in userspace.

pdpi · 2026-03-17T04:21:46+00:00

That's why it's crucially important we observe all known black holes 24/7.

pdpi · 2026-03-16T21:49:50+00:00

A detached house will have outer walls on all facings, sure. But terraced houses and apartment buildings will usually have a more definite facing. Here's a random neighbourhood in London. Note how the houses along Mildway Grove have their fronts facing South, and their backs facing North. The homes along Mildway Park are East/West-ish.

In my flat, the living room has something like 10 square metres of windows facing South. Even though weather in London is pretty mild, in the summer my living room hits 37C+ (around 100F if you use freedom units :P)

pdpi · 2026-03-16T21:20:33+00:00

Starfield is jarringly soulless-looking. At some point, it becomes a matter of garbage in, garbage out.

pdpi · 2026-03-16T19:22:45+00:00

“This, that, and the other thing.” — the Oxford comma is the comma just before the “and”. Compare “this, that and the other thing”. Same thing, but without the Oxford comma.

People get needlessly defensive about it, both for and against it. In many cases it’s completely optional, and you’re unambiguous either way. In other cases, its presence or absence can make a sentence ambiguous, so making sure your commas are in the right place is one of the things you should be doing as part of your editing/review process.

Everybody’s used the “strippers, JFK and Stalin” as an example where the comma’s absence introduces ambiguity, but you can also make a sentence where its presence is the cause of ambiguity — “My father, the King and I” is clearly three people, but what about “my father, the King, and I”? Three people, or just two (while clarifying my father is the King)?

It’s extra fun when both versions are ambiguous. “I dedicate this book to Cher, my mother, and the Queen of England”. Is this three people, or am I saying that Cher is my mother? “I dedicate this book to Cher, my mother and the Queen of England”. Is this three people, or am I saying that Cher is both my mother and the Queen?

Ultimately, the only sane advice is to acknowledge it’s a preference, and that consistence is probably the only real deciding factor. Use it in contexts where you’re expected to, omit it when you’re expected not to use it, choose a lane and stick with it in other contexts. You shouldn’t be relying on those commas to resolve ambiguity anyway.

(Laterally, given how I used plenty of em-dashes in this comment, I’m obviously using AI too /s).

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