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OP was (at worst) saying that cooking is menial. Not a comment about a person, and not a particularly negative descriptor. The person I replied to then indirectly called him lazy and made an insulting bad-faith assumption about how OP spends his time. The reply is pretty clearly an ad hominem.

All I'm seeing from your comment is insulting OP's desire to not spend time cooking, and shaming it as being lazy. You don't even bother to back up your claim that it's not menial. Is shame really all you have to bring to the conversation?

You should really take a look at FoundryVTT. Its a one-time purchase of $50 if you are willing to self-host it. I've been using it for the past year or so, and I've had almost no issues (none that reading the docs or asking my players to refresh the page didn't fix). The 3rd party support is great, some publishers (Fria Ligan at least but others too) sell modules for their rules systems on Foundry.

Here's a demo: https://demo.foundryvtt.com/join

https://foundryvtt.com/packages/modules

> It's like comparing a car to a plane.

Planes can be impressively fast, but the vast majority of my commute/transportation needs are better served by a car.

These are both VTT software. I don't see a reason why one should be above reproach just because its 3d.

I get it, 3d makes everything harder, but tbh it also makes playing the games harder. I can use random jpegs and hand drawn maps and direct translations of existing tabletop content in Foundry. What are my options for making my own content in TaleSpire? Recreate every map object by object?

I can buy a PDF of The Shady Dragon Inn (published 1983) and copy-paste all of the maps over into Foundry in minutes, or spend as much time making pretty maps as I want. Lets not even get into the incredible modding support

I'm skeptical that anyone wants to de-standardize spelling. Maybe its like the abortion debate. There isn't a pro-abortion side except in the minds of the "pro-life" people. Descriptivists by definition study/report how language is used rather than agitate for any changes so if such people do exist they would be a different kind of prescriptivist.

In that case I'd stick an `if callable` check in if_then_else. But really... ternary is a nice way to draw attention away from simple pieces of code. If you have anything complicated (like functions with side effects) spend the extra 3-4 lines to make it readable

> Even the Duden

Good. The purpose of a dictionary is to record how language is used, not to gatekeep or social engineer what is "proper" language and what isn't.

Linguistic prescriptivism is the purview of bigots and school teachers.

Most of the time when I see python ternary in the wild, it makes the code less readable, not more. Why not just define something like this if you want oneliners?

  def if_then_else(cond, true_case, false_case):
      if cond:
          return true_case
      return false_case

  x = if_then_else(condition, 4, 5)

I think this is the sort of thing that enters the collective consciousness and then gets generalized, but code smells were originally pretty specific anti-patterns that had specific fixes. All from this book if I recall correctly

https://www.amazon.com/Refactoring-Improving-Design-Existing...

If you read 4 paragraphs into that article, you will find out

Funny thing is that the Metro games are based on books by the same name. I tried reading the first one expecting horror and survivalism and action. Instead I got mysticism and philosophy.

Half the book reads like Dante's Inferno. Like its not supposed to be taken literally, but I'm not the right audience to get the references.

> "should our cities be solarpunk or cyberpunk?"

That's such a frustrating false equivalence, and so is the idea that solarpunk is "punk" because its opposing cyberpunk. Cyberpunk was never aspirational, its a dystopian genre. There is aspirational near-future sci-fi, its just not cyberpunk). Its like asking if we would prefer to live in the post-apocalyptic wasteland from Mad Max or in the future utopia of Star Trek.

This is conspiracy theory logic, thinking that the armchair theorist and the subject matter expert are on the same level.

You keep stressing that the plan was preposterous and unreasonable, as if everyone one over there just did whatever they wanted and nobody was coordinating. This was an unprecedented operation, but by that same logic was the first ever heart transplant "preposterous and unreasonable"?

There's a world of difference between picking the best of many risky plans, and shouting over better informed people to advance the plan that makes you look like a hero.

If I remember correctly, in my diver training we were instructed if someone was in need of saving to grab them from the back by the hair and drag them behind you to safety. That way there is minimal chance of the person freaking out and dealing you any damage.

Is there a way to express distaste for racists that doesn't use the word like a slur?

I'm wondering to what extent statements like "racist is a slur" is equivalent to "people frequently express distaste for racists"

> All you have to do is look at how the term is used

By that logic, is "white supremacist" (or racist) a slur? I see it used in just about the same way.

Do you think that "labeling" black women as women is similarly lossy? Or female cancer survivors to pick another example

Do your Muslim friends celebrate Christmas? Do your Jewish friends?

Most non-religious americans are something like Christian Atheists. They don't believe in a god, but their worldview, ethics, and cultural norms are still originating in Christianity.

I really want to like Vivaldi. It's the only browser (afaik) that supports tabs on the side. Right now I use "Tree Style Tabs" on Firefox with some custom CSS to get rid of the original tab bar.

Unfortunately I get a massive delay when fullscreening youtube videos in Vivaldi. The video first maximizes to the left half of my screen, and only then expands to the whole thing. Sadly a dealbreaker. FWIW its a little faster if I have the browser already maximized.

I've made no statement about emacs or evil mode. I was just correcting the user I was responding to about vim having interoperability with the rest of unix

my grep of choice is `ag "searchterm" -G .py` or the like. I don't notice any delay, and I'm specifying the file extension

> They live in their own space, you don't (often) pipe stuff in or out of it.

Well that's not true at least for vim.

: read !FOO

will run the FOO command and read the results back into the current buffer. I usually search my codebase by reading the results of a grep into a temporary buffer and 'gf'ing to the appropriate file

nnoremap is "non-recursive remap" since I think its possible to chain nmaps (`nmap A B, nmap B C` will map A to C)

Check out Back2Warcraft and W3Champions if you haven't yet

Yes. I opened alacritty for the first time, wondered why my greens were showing up as yellow and googled it. This was the first result.

I doubt my comment is going to torpedo anything. But I didn't put down alacritty for "personality" reasons. There are a lot of excellent terminal emulators out there. This github issue wasn't an isolated incident, and if the devs are regularly this hostile there's bound to be lots of issues like this that won't be fixed. Especially since my OS is only nominally supported.

Yes, it can be frustrating when your users don't know as much about your product as you do and ask for help in a vague way. It's unintuitive that a color named green would correspond to the color on the left that I don't think most people would think to check.

It's totally fine to have a policy of not supporting OSX, as long as you communicate it with professionalism or at least civility.

The other dev chiming in at the end with "I've heard only good things about Alacritty's default colorscheme so far" was also frustrating. Saying "well nobody else complained" is an awful reason to dismiss an issue.

I was considering switching to Alacritty earlier this week, but a quick look at some github issues changed my mind. The devs come off super toxic.

Take a look at this guy that got verbal abuse for pointing out the color labeled "green" looks more like banana than lime:

https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/1561

Strike 2/2 was multiple devs responding to OSX issues with "switch operating systems"

> All those C programmers hating on python are probably just bitter they had to waste all that time learning pointers.

1 critical comment about nano, 3 top level comments defending nano from the evil vim users. (at time of reading)