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That description of your process reminds me of this video on consciousness, and how the creator describes how he has no inner monolog, or even conscious thought of some of his actions, and instead it’s like a black box that he can query. Is your experience similar to that?
That sounds similar to this quote:
“It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.” — Edsger Dijkstra, 1975
But there’s been a good deal of programmers who have said that BASIC, and its ease of use and seeing almost instant results is extremely useful to not turn people off learning to code to begin with. Python is functionally the new BASIC in that regard, and while the language itself may not teach you to become an expert programmer, it may have gotten more people in the door than otherwise would have.
But that’s just my 2 cents.
Unfortunately didn’t apply to the creator of Ren & Stimpy.
I don’t see that as any more desirable than a US or Russian CEO doing the same. It’s all wage slavery for the people generating those profits, and it’s all gravy for the CEOs to funnel into offshore accounts. Only funding a worker coop would make it more ethical and desirable, regardless of geographic location/regime, IMHO.
Wouldn’t the surplus profit just go to the CEO of the company? I can’t imagine there’s much difference for the average worker in China between mass manufacturing PC’s for direct sale vs. Mass manufacturing for another brand.
I don’t believe there are many worker coops building PCs, unfortunately.
Matrix is the closest replacement, and XMPP can replicate some functionality too.
Tim Hunkin’s Secret Life of Components did an episode on Relays, which goes over the different types and the ways he uses them. A great series even for a complete novice!
I slightly prefer Joe’s brand of humor, and I think he’s doing well on his own, but the two had great chemistry, and complemented each others style.
A while back I put together a pretty big list of free Linux games, along with their license info. A good amount of them are FPS games, hopefully one of them interests you 🙂
I guess for tactical shooters, Urban Terror might qualify?
The information I’ve seen regarding deep discharge life-cycle for sodium ion is that the latest tech is actually extremely good, at least according to this. I don’t see how the lower voltage is a problem, since for grid situations you’ll have step-up transformers anyway, and the batteries can just be hooked up in series to increase the voltage.
They use abundant materials, will be much cheaper than lithium ion, don’t need to be actively cooled, and massively lessen the risk of rupture and fires.
The low density per unit of weight isn’t relevant for grid storage, so they seem pretty ideal.
Sodium batteries require very little rare earths in comparison to lithium batteries.
Sodium electric batteries, like the type that CATL developed? Or do you mean hot molten salt thermal batteries? Because I think the other poster is referring to the first kind.
Glad to hear you’re enjoying it :)
I mean… It stops at the end of a chapter, but that chapter ends on kind’ve a bombshell, so yes it’s abrupt. But it’s a damn good story up to that point, so you really want to see what happen-
God dangit, It’s Firefly, but without the big damn movie to wrap up the story.
If you’re okay with it probably never continuing, I would still recommend it.
Unfortunately not, it hasn’t been updated in many years now :(
I’ve never installed it myself, I’ve only used it on the instances that offer it, such as my home instance at slrpnk.net.
This was the major plot point of an old web comic I used to read, Mare Internum (warning, attempted suicide on page one). I’m sure the creator is quite happy with this news.
Ah, that’s unfortunate. As an alternative, I have seen some online games name their bots with a random name generator that’s designed to sound somewhat real, like AnnoyingPidgen or WrecklessRaptor. If the voting account naming system was more like that, it would be easier to notice voting patterns/manipulation while still being anonymous.
Ah! got that mixed up, thanks for the correction ^^
He posted this update a few months ago, it seems to be progressing well!