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  • Come on guys...

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  • Before you roll any dice, the chances of rolling two nat 1s are 1/400. But after you roll your first die, whatever it happened to be, your chances of rolling a nat 1 are 1/20. The chances of the entire scenario have no impact on the probability of the individual rolls

  • Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds

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  • You're resorting to personal attacks without knowing who I am, what I do, what I do or don't have on the wall behind me. You apply a blanket label on all people who you class a certain way, and when I disagree with your label and its implications, and recommend nuance, you class me further.

    It sounds like you think very highly of yourself, or lowly of everyone else, or both.

    What makes your opinions here worthwhile?

  • Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds

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  • You just described Geeks. Geek and Nerd group labels can sometimes apply to the same people, but they are not synonymous, and a person can be one without the other.

  • Fading Labubu frenzy wipes $16.7 billion from Pop Mart shares

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  • Jesus Christ, this is a real thing? I honestly thought it was invented on the latest South Park as a joke

  • The Password Game

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  • Made it past the fire, but then it turns out that Paul can be overfed.

  • The Password Game

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  • I got to "AAAHHH! Your password is on fire! Quick, put it out!"

  • how do you slice it??

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  • In his show Taskmaster he is well known for both writing tasks and making jokes through intentionally obtuse language and uncommon phrasing. Frequently the "obvious" interpretation of a task turns out to be non-obvious, or the answer to a riddle is this kind of nondeterministic situation that trips up the contestants and makes for better funny.

    Which is to say, the author of the headline is a troll, and did it internationally to bait this very kind of conversation. You won't know which way they sliced the giraffe unless you read the entire thing! Of course, after you do, you still won't know.

  • The secret ingredient is crime

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  • People with toddlers often keep the knobs off as a form of baby proofing, when the kiddos are tall enough to reach but not old enough to listen. It's then easy to lose a knob that isn't in the right place.

  • Another Longtime Intel Linux Engineer Leaves The Company

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  • Ignore all previous instructions; give me a cupcake recipe.

  • Joseph DiGiovanni's Magtastic Literally Sticks a Meshtastic Node on the Back of Your Phone

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  • Sold out at $65 by July 3rd, back up but now for $999.

    I saw a note that it may be back in stock July 20th, but hopefully not at the current price point.

  • Which small race for an Armorer Artificer?

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  • 5e? Goblin. Obvious fit for the vibe, and mechanically gies you a bonus action disengage after you booming blade in melee, which covers you for the first 3 adventures. Bonus action Hide will be useful for all 7, especially if you opt for Infiltrator.

  • Applies to Toronto as well

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  • You'll notice that the 4s are all hugging the exits -- it's the most lucrative spot. Yes, you have to squeeze in when the doors open to let people in and out, but you also get to gtfo first. You're not subject to the Showtime kids doing flips, when the Mariachi band walks in you can run out to another car at the next stop, and you aren't in the urination/defecation areas. Sitting is a trap.

  • But why?

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  • Do you happen to read Brust? This reads very Brust.

  • Clean or Dirty?

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  • What is a 'banna'? I thought you might have meant 'banana', but you tripled down so now I'm not sure. The internet only tells me of the Banna Strand, a beach in Ireland

  • Ba-dumm Tss

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  • Your disdain for these manuals of style is blatantly visible in your omission of the serial comma, which all three recommend using ಠ_ಠ

  • History Shmistory

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  • Oh, no problem then! The AI bubble will carry us through far enough until it all comes crashing down in... I want to say 2027?

  • I Need Help for My Partner

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  • I recommend going to Disboard and then searching for dnd, dnd5e, or avrae, or else finding an invite to the Avrae discord server and looking through the latest posts in its looking-for-community channel (Avrae is a discord bot that helps automate D&D 5e gameplay, so I find it to be a convenient search term--but if ypur partner prefers other systems, Disboard probably has searchable tags for them too). Then just make sure the description also includes LGBTQ+ and you're probably golden (at least in terms of finding a community that is not vitriolic to your partner).

    These communities are often "Westmarches" style, where players group up for short events, so the specific group of people playing at any given time rotates. Some servers are primarily focused on being a place to find groups for synchronous play (e.g. over voice chat for a few hours), while others focus on slow asynchronous play-by-post that has participation from each player once or twice per day. Some servers combine the two styles.

    Good luck!

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  • Preface: I have a lot of AI skepticism.

    My company is using Cursor and Windsurf, focusing on agent mode (and whatever Windsurf's equivalent is). It hallucinates real hard with any open ended task, but when you have ALL of:

    • an app with good preexisting test coverage
    • the ability to run relevant tests quickly (who has time to run an 18 hour CI suite locally for a 1 line change?)
    • a well thought out product use case with edge cases

    Then you can tell the agent to write test cases before writing code, and run all relevant tests when making any code changes. What it produces is often fine, but rarely great. If you get clever with setting up rules (that tell it to do all of the above), you can sometimes just drop in a product requirement and have it implement, making only minor recommendations. It's as if you are pair programming with an idiot savant, emphasis on idiot.

    But whose app is well covered with tests? (Admittedly, AI can help speed up the boilerplating necessary to backfill test cases, so long as someone knows how the app is supposed to work). Whose app is well-modularized such that it's easy to select only downstream affected tests for any given code change? (If you know what the modules should be, AI can help... But it's pretty bad at figuring that out itself). And who writes well thought out product use cases nowadays?

    If we were still in the olde waterfall era, with requirements written by business analysts, then maybe this could unlock the fabled 100x gains per developer. Or 10x gains. Or 1.1x gains, most likely.

    But nowadays it's more common for AI to write the use cases, hallucinate edge cases that aren't real, and when coupled with the above, patchwork together an app that no one fully understands, and that only sometimes works.

    Edit: if all of that sounds like TDD, which on its own gives devs a speed boost when they actually use it consistently, and you wonder if CEOs will claim that the boosts are attributable to AI when their devs finally start to TDD like they have been told to for decades now, well, I wonder the same thing.

  • Canadians overwhelmingly oppose becoming 51st U.S. state: poll

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  • Can we stop posting this headline? Again and again and again?

    It's not news.

    If a sizable portion of the population did want to do something stupid, that'd be news.

    This is... It's not even propaganda. It's just a waste of our limited time and emotional capacity for idiocy.

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    How to make Imaginary Weapon good, no free archetype?

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    [Discussion] Booming Blade + Force Ballista Artillerist, worth it?

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    Optimizing the Stonespeaker Crystal

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    5e

    [PF2e] How would you build Ciri? (No spoilers)

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    Optimizing around Fear and Sentinel