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I saw this on Nova once, it is amazing to see it made.

https://ca.pbslearningmedia.org/asset/eng06_vid_incabridge/ is the best link I could find for it.

Same reaction here, I just watched a bunch guys playing with crabs in the kitchen sink to the soundtrack of riotous laughter.

10/10 I saw something real online

I generated a classic chess set based on Nowruz and it generated Hanukkah as the opponent x_x

Great article, except for an unexpected reminder of how "gamedeveloper.com" just totally thrashed the history of "gamasutra.com"; the link in their own article to their own past article is broken.

Finding all my gamasutra.com bookmarks nuked one day with the rebrand still makes me salty.

Rant aside, this is what it tries to link to about 2/3 through the article:

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/how-i-used-eve-online-t...

This strikes me as a pointless refactoring of baking because it mostly serves to make the engineer feel smart.

When engineering is applied to cooking, it usually looks a lot more like Kenji Alt-Lopez and his peers when they refactor a recipe to produce a classic dish without any superstitious steps.

> Did I miss something more damning later in the article?

Yes. The part where the CEO claims that of all the people seeking anonymity that less than 100 of them aren’t criminals o_O

Check out the last discord screenshot.

> Its so easy to put the blame on some amorphous, anonymous abstraction like "Wall Street" because we can feel self-righteous. But things are the way they are because--by and large--we like them that way.

Could it be that the electorate’s power to effect change has become usurped by lobbyists?

No, it is the voters who are wrong.

The Ice Schooner as well, but sadly no wikipedia page for it.

> In this far-future adventure, Captain Arflane leads his crew of the schooner Ice Spirit across the endless seas of ice covering Earth. To any survivors of this brave expedition will go the legendary riches buried beneath the ancient ice . . . the once-great city of New York!

https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Ice_Schooner.html?i...

To chime in further, the battle log would be more legible if it listed the rules that applied.

Eg:

Defender bonus = 2

Shortest word = 2 (*in*, top, sugar)

Attacker word = 5 (*twine*)

Attacker wins (5-4=1)

At least for me I’m always getting ganked and trying to decipher the battle log to see why it didn’t do what I expected.

That being said, thanks it is fun.

I fondly remember SciTE from when I first cut my teeth on desktop automation. I’m glad to see it alive and kicking.

https://www.autoitscript.com/wiki/SciTE4AutoIt3

> The common consensus seems to be, yeah, it’s obviously stolen, what are you going to do about it?

When good sleuthing collides with entrenched forces.

Thanks for the easy steps, they say my data should be removed in 30 days.

They eventually reveal the same conclusion, but with less certainty:

> The answers to the “Why so tall?” and “Why not taller?” questions seem to involve water, as is the case for so much about trees.

> Ultimately, it’s most likely a matter of hydraulics: A tree’s height appears to be limited by the enormous effort needed to lift water through tiny tubes, or xylem — the transport tissue that constitutes most of its mass.

Have you read the later book Living with Complexity?

It is pretty much this topic; how to reconcile complexity and confusion.

He talks a lot about reaching designs of irreducible complexity as a way to mitigate confusion.

For what it’s worth, I’d say that Git is pretty far from irreduciby complex and thus has preventable confusion baked into it.

A lot of money is right! First word I tried is priced in the thousands!

> trash.ing

> Your domain is available!

> Premium name

> 1,625.00 USD

> They see an article that needs correction or a small expansion so they create the account and do the work.

> Their work is immediately reverted by an editor.

My 2 day wikipedia career in a nutshell, I guess I'm not alone.

Are there some poor unfortunate souls out there that actually prefer their water laced with lead?

Is this the next generation of anti-vax dogma? That lead pipes are actually good?

I've given up trying to configure git push the branch I'm on so I type this little dance each time :

    git switch -c foo
    git push 
    > did you mean git push --args-with-branch-name?
    sigh, copy, paste, enter

This tracks for me; I joined Wikipedia after I encountered some juvenile vandalism on a sanitation page. It felt good to actually contribute back.

The next day my edit was reversed my account was blocked, and I was accused of the vandalism I just fixed. I made an appeal to the effect of “no you’re mistaken, look more closely, why would I even do that and come back here?”

Fast forward and some Wikipedian messages me to “cut the guy some slack” and to “let it blow over”.

At that moment I realized I had only been part of Wikipedia for a single day and I already hated it.

I logged out and deleted my account after that.

Reading this article showed me my experience want unique and the arbitration indeed exists to protect editorial regime.

This plot keeps thickening

I'm eager to see how it all unfolds.

What fun links; it’s comforting to see whimsy is still alive and well online.

As a champion of front running trades via payment-for-order-flow in general, and as a key villain in the GameStop saga in particular, surely there’s no shortage of people eager to tell him as much or worse to his face.

> The real items on it are almost all ceremonial calendars and everyone (who isn't a priest) uses the Gregorian calendar, or at least most people know it.

Isn’t this just the “no true scotsman” defense, but for calendars?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

> Exactly my point. The rest of humanity uses year 1 as the epoch.

The rest of humanity uses a variety of reckoning systems:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_era

I’ve heard “dice” for singles: you’ll need to roll one dice here.

I never asked, but I want to believe their internal representation of “1D6” is one-dice-six.

Sorta like reading “1 x 6” as “one _times_ six” instead of “one _time_ six”

Words are fun.

This reads like some crab mentality; since heroic nurses and factory workers can’t work remotely then we should bemoan those who can and do work remotely.

Should we also cancel telehealth programs so those nurses that actually do work remotely don’t become spoiled and entitled?

By your reasoning, YouTube (like Costco) should ask the actual freeloaders to stop instead of imposing ads on every Costco member in a misguided quest to profit on every single free sample.

I’m impressed you saw what should really happen at Costco, but disappointed you could not extrapolate that thinking to the YouTube case.

Must I buy the product at Costco after I’ve tasted the sample or am I just a freeloader?

Am I morally obliged to acknowledge the sponsors for everything I personally don’t purchase?

To whom do I owe patronage when I accept something gratis?

> Why would you test it

Is this a wrong way to get a right answer?

Given that neither of them “came first” in the topic of inventing the alphabet, what does it matter if Hebrew or Phoenician preceded each other?