NaibofTabr

There is no paradox.

Tolerance is a social contract.

If you abide by the terms of the contract (e.g. tolerance) then the contract applies to you and you are protected by it.

If you do not abide by the terms of the contract then it is broken, and you are not protected by the contract.

Arch often seems to ignore the fundamental rule:

don’t break userspace

Linus is in the right. Arch developers are frequently in the wrong.

abandon ship

I totally agree on the pacing. The Red Strings Club is a masterclass of storytelling in a video game format.

I think it’s hard to describe as a game to gamers… the actual gameplay is pretty vague, the various minigame activities are almost inconsequential, but taken as a whole it’s a perfect experience.

I really enjoyed both Far games. I never felt like any of the puzzles were large enough to get tedious. When I finished Lone Sails I just wished there had been a longer section of driving the ship… it kind of felt like you never got to really go before there was some interruption that you had to stop and get out for.

Jazzpunk was one of those games that left me wishing there was more of it.

Manifold Garden is just such a perfectly executed atmosphere, it’s hard to do it justice with description - like walking around inside an Escher drawing.

Live for the adventure, not the grind:

Journey (if you play one game on this list it should be this one)

Far: Lone Sails and the sequel Changing Tides

Jazzpunk

Master Reboot

Manifold Garden

Sable

Fract OSC

Chants of Sennar

The Red Strings Club

The Stanley Parable

Rime

Superliminal

Naissancee

Soul Axiom

Contrast

Would this mini pc be a good homeserver

For what purpose?

“Nobody had called me. Nobody had said, ‘You did something wrong, you’re in trouble, you’re on probation.’ I had gotten nothing. Then I get a text message early the next morning saying, ‘Can you talk at noon?’ And I was fired immediately. There was no warning. And I asked, ‘Well, what, you know, what’s the [issue]?’ Nothing. They were just like, ‘Oh, we just want to make some changes.’ They never said why.

Hmm, terminated without cause? isn’t this grounds for a lawsuit?

One of the biggest problems they would have is just pointing their communications equipment in the right direction. The Voyager probes have a complicated guidance system (AACS) which takes input from a three-axis gyroscope and several other reference instruments to keep the 3.7m antenna pointed at Earth. If the antenna goes out of alignment then the radio beam will not hit Earth and will not be received.

The only reason this works is that the Deep Space Network on Earth is actively listening for the signal from the probes, and the people operating it know exactly what direction to point the receiving antennae to get the signal from the probes. If you don’t have very precise targeting you probably won’t get the signal.

Next year Voyager 1 will reach a distance of one light-day from Earth and it’s already a very difficult problem that is only solvable because it was planned for extensively prior to launch, so never mind trying to accomplish this at a distance of hundreds of light-years with no planning.

This ^. You can think about a radio source just like a visible light source. It fades out over distance because the energy emission is spreading out. If there are other light sources that are of similar or greater strength between you and that light, it will be basically impossible to distinguish the one light that you care about from everything else.

It’s way past time.

Though I think rather than try to set some fixed number, it should be something like, “the highest paid employee of a company shall be paid no more than ten times the amount paid to the lowest paid employee of that company.”

So if the CEO receives $1 million / year in total compensation, the entry-level pay for the lowest skilled job is $100k/yr.

This solves both the minimum and maximum wage problem.

Native Americans: “Washington DC is the clearest warning yet of what happens to a society when it fails to control migration”

every game is dark souls

The people doing application review typically have no idea what they’re hiring for and dont bother to try. They just look for candidates that check the boxes.

Slashdot?

Ah… so 40% is a terrifying number. That is a lot of dead people.

One of the commonalities that sticks out in the Fall of Civilizations podcast is the collapse of food production.

umm…

Apparently there’s some bullshit narrative being pushed by Fox that Tim Walz is somehow responsible.