Slippery_John

Human matchmakers do take success fees sometimes and the business as a whole is widespread and successful. Those services can get expensive though, even at the low end. I would guess that the vast majority of dating app users would not be willing to drop thousands on matchmaking services.

uv has a super power that it doesn't much talk about - seamlessly managing monorepos. I'd been using pants before, but it's such a pain to setup and maintain. uv just kinda works like you'd hope.

The Seattle Aquarium is amazing, you should definitely give it a visit. It's not even that expensive. They have a little tide pool "petting zoo" with all sorts of cool critters with interesting bodies. I moved out of Seattle and I definitely miss the aquarium.

They also do this thing in the summers where they send folks out to the local beaches to educate people about all the stuff you can find there. It's really cool! Going on until the end of July!

Speechify is pretty good. You gotta pay to get the most out of it, but I use it enough to justify it. (Mostly for an egregiously long serial novel.) Sometimes there's jank, but the support and dev teams are super responsive.

Orhan is quite different though - he's a braggart unreliably narrating his own story after most of the events have transpired. You can't believe his reluctance, it's a show he's putting on to make himself look better. The entire story feels like it too, credit to the author.

Murderbot is not that. What you see of them is as genuine as their perspective can be. Murderbot may be snarky, but it doesn't have the same braggadocious air, and I do think that changes the character and story significantly. And if you're a similar kind of neuro-atypical then it can be a refreshing bit of heroic representation.

I will give Sixteen Ways some credit though - at least it ended. I don't particularly like the ending, but it is one. Murderbot falls off hard by the time the series gets to full length novels.

I got hit by some privacy gamma radiation I wanna say 5 or 6 years ago. Did some research and they seemed like a good fit. I really liked the idea of being able write my own filters in script form rather than via some horrid form like what Google had at the time.

I've mostly been happy. There was a bug at one point where the iOS app couldn't delete more than 10 emails at a time, which may still be there. I haven't had to do a purge for a long time so I've not checked.

Otherwise, pretty great. I don't care about having a desktop client - never did with gmail and never have with proton. Aside from the aforementioned bug the iOS app has been good enough. The filtering features worked just like I hoped, and with catchall addressing I've been able to detect a few data breaches, on a few occasions before the company in question did.

VPN works well. I wish I could just pin my favorite connnection on the desktop app since I only ever use the one. I've got it set up on my router as a toggle, but I don't usually want my whole network switching.

I don't use the calendar, I've got a paper calendar instead because I like the art and having it in my face makes me actually look at it.

I also don't use drive. I really don't have much data honestly outside of my media collection which is too big for such storage services, and backed up with the physical media anyway. I pay for iCloud for easy backup and photo storage, and so I just put the handful of docs I need to sync there. And none of that is stuff I'd care much if it leaked. No nudes, no tax documents.

Pass is pretty great. I'd been using LastPass for ages and eventually migrated to BitWarden after being unhappy with the offering for a while. Then recently I switched to Pass since I was already paying for it essentially. I really like the email aliasing feature, since that's something I was already doing manually via catch-alls. My only complaint is that it's not obvious that I can just respond to emails sent to that alias without compromising my actual address. I'd really like for it to be part of the mail UI. With my hand-crafted aliases I always just created a new user whenever I needed to respond, and it'd be great if I didn't have to do that and could just use the same system as protonpass. Because it's so much nicer.

For reference, I'm on a (legacy) Visionary plan that gives me access to everything, which is very similar to the current family plan.

It's not digital only, I have a physical version. Whether or not you can get a card depends on your locality. Nevertheless, I don't understand why it's so much more inconvenient to understand and purchase compared to the 9 euro ticket. With that you could get a paper ticket or buy on app and the rules for what it did were consistent everywhere.

Does the switch even have the capability to support a mictrotransaction focused shell game? The store is incredibly slow and obtuse, where these things rely a lot on smooth, fast transactions to get it over with before people can think too hard.

I wonder if you could get more reliable performance by planning a more centralized location. My book club uses the main jitsi site and it works well all things considered, but it's not perfect by any means. We've got people in several US and EU time zones showing up with varying internet connection qualities, so it's a difficult case.

But hey, it's free. And it hits the most important consideration: it could not be easier to use. That's pretty critical since my club mates don't have much capacity for troubleshooting.

Yeah I typically buy 3 months worth of coffee at a time. I can barely tell the difference with my various pour overs.

You can also save like half the money by making that a hand grinder, and there's fewer parts to break. 30 seconds of mindless spinning really isn't much.

Netflix is doing a bunch of adaptations, which will naturally draw a bunch of renewed interest to the books. They probably wanted to avoid discourse criticizing the books when the new shows came out.

> for die hard DF fans who know all hotkeys inside out there's little actual reason to switch to the Steam version

They made the game so much more playable it's hard to understate. We're not even talking mouse vs keyboard here. They made one of the core mechanics (labor assignment) go from something that essentially required a third party tool to manage to something that is trivial to manage in its vanilla state. Sure it took some adjustment for long-time players and some prefer the algorithms used by those custom tools, but those tools are being made available.

Donations. They have a patreon and have had paypal donations long before that with the occasional donation drive to pump up numbers.

I disagree, though it depends on the circumstances in which you're consuming them. If you're listening while you're doing something that is mentally engaging then of course it will be hard to absorb the information. But I'm not exactly taxing my brain when I'm walking my dog or sitting on the porch drinking coffee.

Python's type hints are definitely an improvement and they're getting better all the time, but they're still frustrating to use at anything approaching the edge. I long for something as elegant and functional as TypeScript.

One hurdle I've stumbled over recently is the question "what is a type?", the answer can be surprising. Unions, for example, are types but not `Type`s. A function that takes an argument of type `Type` will not accept a Union. So if you want to write a function that effectively "casts" a parameter to a specified type, you can't. The best you can do is have an overload that accepts `Type` and does an actual cast, and then another that just turns it into `Any`. This is, in fact, how the standard library types its `cast` function [1]. The argument I've seen for the current behavior is that `Type` describes anything that can be passed to isinstance, but that's not a satisfying answer. Even then, `Union` can be passed to isinstance and still does not work with `Type`. Talk currently is to introduce a new kind of type called `TypeForm` or something to address this, which is certainly an improvement over nothing, but still feels like technical debt.

[1]: https://github.com/python/typeshed/blob/main/stdlib/typing.p...

There are DF overhaul mods that make it scifi. I think the big one is called The Long Night or something like that. DF has steam workshop integration so you might see it there soon

Clanfolk, though it's more medieval than fantasy.

Switch:

- Has a nearly unusable store front where discovery is basically impossible

- Requires you to pay for online matchmaking, while having a worse online user experience than the Xbox360

- Has remarkably fragile joysticks prone to drifting after any decent amount of play

- Has no capability of streaming from my pc

- Doesn't support modding

I would love to live in a world where Nintendo had a modern digital presence, but we just aren't there.

That said, your points aren't wrong. The switch is definitely more ergonomic so if I know a game is on there and I don't care to mod it then that's where I go.

One aspect is that if I go to apple.com on the day of the WWDC keynote, the stream for it will be front and center. If I'm going to the site to shop or access any of the other services there on that day then I'll see it. The same is not true for google.

The idea that you shouldn't do a helpful thing just because it won't entirely solve the problem all by itself nuts. Even assuming that the estimation method used here is entirely without flaw, they estimate a 6% per capita savings. That's not small! Just because there are more impactful things you could do, doesn't mean you shouldn't also do this.

Another variant of this that's no less infuriating is the classic "corporations do most of the polluting, so I'm entirely absolved of responsibility".

As an American, you should be against this. We've already got a perfectly good defensive treaty with them that would compel us to act. Tripwire troops are only necessary if you don't believe the other party would honor the treaty, which is a perfectly reasonable stance for Latvia to have but I'd hope my fellow Americans wouldn't be so grim about that.

Permanently stationing troops there is only a cost burden to the American tax payer. It does advance American imperialism to have Latvia surrender some of their sovereignty to us, but that isn't exactly a noble goal. And certainly it doesn't materially improve the lives of the average American citizen.

> Americans are suddenly much more popular in Europe again

If you're concerned about hearts and minds, more bases is certainly not a good thing. American military personnel tend to be wildly unpopular in the surrounding areas, actively building resentment.

I wouldn't be so sure. Taiwan is different in that they have TSMC which is definitely of extreme strategic interest to NATO.

Cost is almost entirely unrelated to why I prefer to use carry-ons. If it was only a matter of waiting at the destination, I probably would check my bags. But checking a bag comes with the risk that:

- It could get lost

- I could miss a connection for any reason and thus be separated from it

- It could get damaged by airline employees not paid enough to care

- It could be stolen or have items stolen from within

Altogether, these risks are way too high for me. So I have a backpack that's as big as they'll let me carry on and try to never pack more than what fits inside. The only time I'll check a bag is if I'm bringing something that I can't take through security or if I absolutely need to bring a bunch of luggage. In that latter case I keep the most important stuff in my carry-on.

Some people own multiple homes. Some people rent out those second homes. Some turn them into glorified hotels via AirBnB and the like. Some merely sit on them as an investment vehicle or a tax avoidance scheme. These people are leeches on society, artificially increasing housing prices while providing no real value.

> The only "solution" is to create ghettos of human hives which lead to classes of problems on their own.

As a general rule, one can assume that anybody who refers to humans as an infestation or their homes as hives is not a good person. Have the day you deserve.

Is there a good, real comparison of password managers for personal use out there somewhere? I've tried looking in the past and haven't found one that isn't just ads. I've been a long time LastPass user but I'm looking to switch away.

Features I need:

* Cross-platform (iOS, macOS, Windows)

* Easy to use browser plugins (the LastPass safari plugin is awful and non-discoverable via Safari plugin search)

* Autofill in browsers (Safari and Firefox) and mobile (iOS)

* Internet-based sync (I don't really want to manage my own backend)

Nice to haves:

* Account creation detection

* TOTP

* Yubikey support

* XKCD-style password generation for passwords I want a shot at remembering

Yeah. I was having trouble justifying the cost of college and was trying to go for ROTC but couldn't because of medical issues. My dad essentially used the air force as a means to extract himself from generational poverty. We're white, so money was really the only motivation though I think he overall enjoyed his time there (non-combat role).

Honestly, reddit. I moved to Berlin last year and wanted to buy some coffee making equipment. This was still the height of the pandemic, before vaccines were readily available here. So I hit up the local subreddits. And now I have a small list of sites where I can buy both good equipment as well as some great coffee. Of course now I can also go in person if I want to.

There's a great book by Lois McMaster Bujold called Ethan of Athos that somewhat explores this idea expanded to encompass an entire planet. Technically it's part of a series, but it's standalone. It follows an obstetrician from the planet that has to leave to acquire ovarian tissue cultures they need to produce more children.

Nothing in this article justifies the title. Broadly their primary complaints seem to be that Hasbro is selling anything aside from a core rule set (or really anything), and that the founders of TSR were slowly pushed out. These somehow means that art is killed.

The D&D founder weren't gods. If they wanted complete control, they could have not sold their company. Or once they were out of it, they could have filed off the serial numbers and made a new system (like Paizo did years later) having learned how to protect themselves from being pushed out.

The complaint that Hasbro sells things is asinine. Sure the digital dice on D&D Beyond are tacky, but you can just not buy them. The same goes for all the toys and trinkets that they sell on the side, like pins and minis.

I especially don't understand the complaints about the OGL because it seems like exactly what they want. That's what led to Pathfinder, a competing system that Hasbro doesn't control! (Unless they bought out Paizo when I wasn't looking.)

This article fundamentally doesn't demonstrate how capitalism had any marked impact on D&D as an art form. And there are some things they could have talked about that might have landed. For instance, the need to be pushing out new content all the time resulting in lower quality or the inability to fundamentally fix real problems. They could have brought up how 4.0 pulled the rug out from under people with the way more restrictive GSL. Or how in 5.0 the only option to make money off of more than just the SRD is to use a specific site and accept a 50% cut.