I feel crypto and web3 is simply a way of decentralizing computation by tying an incentive mechanism to it that has been discredited by people who barely understand it/benefit from discrediting it. Furthermore, I believe that anyone who dismisses it as a get-rich-quick scheme is blind to this utility becuse of their inability to think outside of the hive-mind, doing actual crypto protocols a disservice by conflating them with blatant scam projects, reacting to a paradigm-shifting technology being co-opted by degenerate gamblers.
Crypto is never going to solve the issue of data-in-transit will always have a chance to be intercepted, even if it’s encrypted.
Crypto doesn’t magically make all the internet infrastructure your property. It’s still bits passing through routers and switches that none of us actually have control over.
I think crypto is held back by it’s insistence that it traverses other people’s property and relies on other people’s computations/CPU cycles to exist as a good thing, and not a bad thing. Just personal opinion, anyway.
There was never anything crypto couldn’t do that a database couldn’t reasonably do as well, with the right configs.
Lake Tahoe is a mispronunciation of a native word that kinda means lake. Lake Michigan is literally lake large lake. There’s a lake in the UK called lake semerwater which literally means lake lake lake.
Takedown feels more like a racing game, whereas Paradise’s open world lets you more accustomed with its environment, so the answer varies on what i want to play that time
If you're still donating your content to the Facebook, Twitter and Reddit data stores, then I don't know what to tell you man, you're literally enriching the worst people, who will do the worst things, with your information, your stories, your answers, your comments, your labor, your effort. You are giving yourselves to them. Literally.
They’re already doing that, if only just for search.
Googling my username used to not give any results up until a few months ago… Since I’m on Lemmy you find my comments by throwing my username into a search engine
Being a Mary Sue isn’t about how often you fail / succeed. Your character can win all the time if their victories are entertaining enough (Munchausen), if they are established as being the best in their field (Saitama) or if their wins feel ‘deserved’ (Sherlock Holmes[1]). When they win and the audience thinks ‘ugh, not again’, then you have a Mary Sue. Or if they win at something they should not be good at according to the rest of the story - like Holmes winning a poetry contest or Saitama landing a blow on a mosquito - without any explanation given, you have a Mary Sue.
[1] Yes, I know he fails a couple of times, but again, they’re entertaining, which is the important thing.
Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sherlock is what I think of as an example of turning a good character into a Mary Sue. He’s always pulling things out of his ass that he’s inexplicably been planning all along, or surprise he’s incredible at some random thing that just happens to be crucial at the moment.
Every Sherlock is like that to an extent, but that version was the worst.
Legit, the guy reminds me of my grandfather teaching us punk kids to shoot. Just utterly casual, but with decades of competition and practical shooting experience behind being able to be casual and smooth with whatever gear he had on hand.
We went camping the first time me and my next oldest cousin were expressing an interest. It was air rifles and air pistols that first time. My grandfather sets things up, takes the air pistol, assumes the same stance as this guy on the pic and drops a group so tight it was one small hole. No prep, no thinking, just a lifetime of practice.
I’m all enthusiastic, get my turn, and miss the entire target lol. Not a single pellet hit. But boy, was I imitating my grandfather. I thought so anyway lol.
This isn’t too hard to explain based on everything I know about human behaviour. Your brain has probably just carved a very big pathway in it for all the times you’ve pooped in your own home. You can associate anything that rewards your body with endorphins with anything else that provides a strong memory or reaction. See pavlov
Sartre says you can be angry and furious at the absurd, Camus says to laugh at it. The absurd is the gap between what we expect to happen, and what actually happens.
Many absurdists also believe in a mind-body split (see Nagel’s “What is it like to be a bat?” essay, available for free in pdf format) or that consciousness may be something other than physical and that’s where I tend to disagree with them. In general, the essays tend to be extremely interesting and worth reading even if you disagree. Philosophical literature is usually written so precisely and specifically that it’s unlike other types of reading.
As to anyone, it has happened to me many times over the course of my life, that after having to hold it for too long, the last minutes, seconds, end up a total rush against the time. There’s always this dramatic arc of making it just for the last second.
But I asked myself: if the urgency was merely function of the continuous kidney/bladder function then statistically, why would I almost always make it just by the lastest milisecond, and I would certainly lose the battle if my bathroom was 2 cm further. Clearly this is risky, esp. considering that sometimes things happen like the bathroom happens to be occupied or you can’t find your key or your zipper is stuck or something dumb, robbing you of that critical few seconds.
I’ve learned that to save myself from the unnecessary drama and rush, I can actually sort of convince myself that there is extra, say 10m between me and my bathroom. Just try to “lie” to my body a bit, about how far the right place is, or make up some vague extra steps as necessary to enable truly safe disposal. And it almost always gives me an extra few minutes.
It’s certainly one of those things when the signaling around the body is much more strategic than we would think.
This is one of the reasons I’m glad I don’t have a strong desire to play most games. I’m able to run a couple from Steam and I’ve got an Xbox that I rarely play (unless I find a great game and play a bunch for a while). It’s not like I’m running Linux on my daily driver cause I’m a Mac guy, but it’s one less avenue for MS to pollute my life.
This is false info. Counter Strike works, Hunt: Showdown works. To fix your comment it would look like this:
Linux is great if you don’t play competitive games, which have disastrous “anti cheat functionality”. Anything with any amount of sane anti-cheat will work.
100% the same. Never been a huge gamer but years back I did get very serious into a handful of games over the years. I even developed a fairly popular companion app to TFC to manage class-based preferences, scripts, bindings etc.
But today I just don’t have the interest. I like the occasional retro and sometimes I’ll jump back into any of my 30 or so Guild Wars characters. But every day I find myself being happier and happier with Linux. It just takes some willingness to learn. You can’t be the type that just wants everything to work for you, because those kinds of software just make a thousand decisions on your behalf and now they’re no longer even trying to do what’s best for you.
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