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> in ways very stupid simple people can understand

The problem is rarely the ability to understand. It is the ability (or desire) to listen that many lack.


These people have no trouble listening. They're deeply into people like Rogan, Trump, their pastor, RFK etc. and eat up their every word.


They will listen to anyone who tells them what they like to hear. They will not listen to anyone who tells them what they don't like to hear. They shop around for truths they prefer like they're items at Costco.


Somewhere along the line they had to develop preferences which indicates some level of listening.


People’s preferences tend very strongly toward whatever requires the least action on their part. If the problem is with someone else, then you never have to be part of the solution


It’s political preferences, not laziness. People aren’t listening to Rogan or whoever and ignoring the CDC because of laziness. They are doing that because they follow what their social and/or political community thinks and does.

Feels like this whole thread is trying to pin this on individual preferences or whatever. But it’s a social effect, and individual personalities or intelligence have very little to do with it. If you lived in these communities, unless you are neurodivergent, you would be doing the same thing.


>If you lived in these communities, unless you are neurodivergent, you would be doing the same thing.

As someone who grew up in one of these communities, this has not been my experience. Many, many people move away, and for varied reasons. What you're left with are people who stay in economically declining areas and want to blame everyone else for it. It's selection bias, and it is absolutely based on personal choice.


Seconded. My Silhouette is great. I even emailed them and received a copy of the GPGL docs one time. It wasn't full on support, but they were willing to give me a start.

The first thing I programmed was having it draw a hilbert curve and it worked great!


Ooh, did you do a blog article about it perhaps? I think I read it, if so.


It's 14 years old at this point, but here you go: https://www.ohthehugemanatee.net/2011/07/gpgl-reference-cour...


Yep that’s the one. Thank you for it. :-)


Why is that stupid? They did get lucky. They are acknowledging that, had they used that, they would have had problems. And now they will work to be more prepared.

Acknowledging that one still has risks and that luck plays a factor is important.


Who's to say they didn't?

Writing a follow up post is certainly valuable for raising awareness to anyone who had already read the original erroneous article.


You gotta start by typing your password into a comment. Like this: ****.


hunter2

edit: hey that doesnt look like stars to me


Everybody else but you sees the stars, but not you because you are logged in to your account.

To me your message appears as:

    *******

    edit: hey that doesnt look like stars to me


That's why I always set my password as 8 asterisks - that way when my password gets leaked the hackers still think it's encrypted.


Makes sense! Thanks for the tip.


Bash.org salutes you.


I just don't understand why he would tell us how many asterisks he's using, I will try 16 for extra security. You can never be sure these days!

(BTW I love bash.org!)


You can go hunter2 my hunter2-ing hunter2


HOw did you get my password ??? Delete. it immediately. This is your Final warning.

Warm regards,


Al#&291xuijL1


123456

edit: What now?


AMAZING! That's the same combination on my luggage.


your luggage locks have six digits? or is that two locks: 123 and 456?


...just wait for the email, click the link, enter your credit card number, and...


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I feel like saying that is supports AI players, but not having a simple, already hosted example is a disservice. Even tic tac toe, or go fish would be a nice hook to help people understand what it actually delivers.


Go to the projects page on the docs site


I think this is the one, there's quite a few it seems, but not all work: https://boardgame.io/documentation/#/notable_projects


https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/

It's worth clicking through and reading details on each one before you commit. Most of them are quite complete, but some only support a handful of devices or features. You can also get a sense if the control is local (i.e. no internet connection) or cloud based.


Nah. I live in Boston. I strongly prefer public transit, but I'll take driving here over most other cities, any day of the week.

The _road layout_ is awful, but drivers are pretty cooperative on the whole. Certainly more than my years driving in DC, for instance.

Granted, you need to be commmital here: if you put on your turn signal, drivers will generally make space for you to get in - briefly - but you need to be quick to take advantage of the gap. I could see Waymo being too slow to the draw for this, based on what I've seen online.


Importantly - you don't have to know the odds of the coin ahead of time, or which side is more likely. You only need to know that it is consistent.


The odds are important to know because if someone gave you a trick coin that always lands on heads, you will be flipping coins until the end of the universe. And I'm sure you have more important things to do than that.


> you will be flipping coins until the end of the universe

Reminds me of one of my favorite movies, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, which opens with just such a scenario[1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjOqaD5tWB0


Nah, you can put in a rule to stop. It would be better to know ahead of time, but you don't need to.


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