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Dalvoron 71 points 6 months ago

Most of the mistakes they have to fix are incorrect version numbering.

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Dalvoron 49 points 10 months ago

Grading on a curve is always absurd to me: it's a cop out for teachers who don't know how to set curriculum/exams properly and demeans the education process.

Should just be

  • here's a list of things you learn in this class
  • you demonstrate understanding and skill over about 60% of that list
  • you get a grade of 60%
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Dalvoron 32 points 8 months ago

In Ireland, being "not too bad" is a mark of considerable wellbeing

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Dalvoron 31 points 8 months ago

Like in that famous idiom, you can lead a horse to radioactive pellets, but you can't make it eat.

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Dalvoron 28 points 8 months ago

Email works (this is a joke, I do not know if this works)

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Dalvoron 28 points 8 months ago

Excellent points, but the cookie banners were a response to the ePrivacy Directive, not GDPR. In fact the banners predate GDPR by about a decade! I know this because I decided to make my own banner that was slightly less annoying about five years before GDPR was a thing.

Funnily enough most of your points are still correct precisely because, as you say, "most people wholly equate GDPR with the cookie banners".

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Dalvoron 21 points a year ago

I can see making some clans like nosferatu or malk part of some dlc as they have so much unique stuff and presumably require a lot of extra development. I don't imagine that is applicable to toreador though. Also no day one dlc please. If it's ready at launch, if should be in the base game

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Dalvoron 19 points 4 months ago

You may not have toetips, but you do have tippy-toes.

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Dalvoron 18 points 4 months ago

Project Hail Mary was practical first. Real sets, real puppet, with digital enhancements. There is a scene that was filmed with loads of LEDs on wires to cover the shot in blinking red lights. I think it pays off hugely and the film is better for it all.

At the moment I think it's an outlier and most films will continue to just film green screens and tennis balls but it might herald the return of practical, maybe even full-scale animatronics! I can only hope.

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Dalvoron 17 points 10 months ago

I took it as meaning birds are currently at 180 from dinosaurs and a further 180 will return them to dinosaur status, completing the full 360.

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Dalvoron 11 points 3 months ago

Not the way Ariselas typed it

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Dalvoron 10 points a month ago

Moral philosophy can be broadly divided into a few categories

Consequentialism - the idea that the morality of an action is determined by its consequences. For example, utilitarianism suggests that moral actions are the ones which produce the most happiness.

Deontology - the idea that there are moral laws, and that moral actions are those that follow the laws.

Virtue ethics - the idea that virtuous actions help us flourish and vicious (from vices) actions hinder us. There is also the concept that virtues exist in the middle ("golden mean") of a scale between two vices, for example bravery is a virtue between the vices of cowardice and recklessness.

Pragmatism - the idea that there can be a moral progression of society and knowledge via study and inquiry. This is not so much a category of its own, but it's compatible with the the main ones mentioned above.

On a personal note, I do not like consequentialism as a moral theory. I lean more towards pragmatic deontology but virtue ethics is also compelling.

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Dalvoron 10 points 7 months ago

Guessing here, but +/- is good for describing them as binary opposites as that system already exists. This is a good thing assuming there are two types of charge/pole which behave in opposite ways (Eg move differently in a field). It's also just good to use numbers so that we can describe the amount of + and the amount of -, which numbers already do. It also allows us to describe neutral as neither + nor -, but 0. Again, we already have a scaffold there for numbers and it's easy to copy it for new things when that makes sense.

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Dalvoron 9 points 6 months ago

That's such a disingenuous presentation of the facts. Of course there is no such thing as truly renewable energy, but there is a difference in kind between a supply of energy that is practically inexhaustible on the timescale of human civilisation (what people mean when they say renewable) and energy produced from a limited fuel supply on earth (non renewable).

Solar (and its byproduct energies wind, hydro, biomass), tidal, geothermal are not in the same category as fission of rare heavy metals.

I say all this as someone pro-nuclear who agrees that we should use it while it is still fissionable.

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Dalvoron 9 points 3 months ago

Ocean I

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Dalvoron 8 points 4 months ago

There was a bus there too and the goose lingered in front of it

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Dalvoron 8 points 10 months ago

I liked him thought he did a good job in WeCrashed because he was playing a weirdo the audience was meant to hate. As always, he brought a certain I-can't-stand-this-man energy to the role

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Dalvoron 7 points 8 months ago

It depends on game and edition. Newer d&d for instance, wisdom is all about senses and willpower. It would apply if the book has bad vibes or some sort of "do not read aloud"/"danger" markings or something. Int would be more appropriate for common sense and knowledge of how to handle possibly cursed items.

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Dalvoron 7 points 15 days ago path: 0 25133606 25133815, hotness: undefined, score: 7, children: 0
Dalvoron 7 points 4 months ago

I really like how rotating the camera works on the track pad - the right track pad works as a right joystick, but crucially has momentum. So I could do a quick swipe on the pad and the camera would continue moving for a moment after. It also allows fine speed control by changing how quickly I swipe. Once I got used to it, I could make very quick and accurate orientation changes. Much better than joystick imo where you have to hold it down, using up your thumb for a second or two while you turn. As a bonus, the track pad also could be used as buttons so your thumb is already in position to get mashing again.

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