Yeah, that's fair, in this sense they obviously mean "internet/modern technology" but it's funny to me that the "take a break from tech" isn't to go for a walk or reflect, but instead it's "Go consume a different form of media!"
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Listen, your game, your rules 100%
But I will say, the Free Parking house rule is why most games of Monopoly take so freaking long. (And if you're fine with that, then that's fine too!). The fees and fines are meant to take money out of the player's pockets and drive them closer to bankruptcy so the dang game CAN end.
Unfortunately, it's a game that just feels bad. You either play as-is and it feels bad to go broke. or you house-rule and the money keeps circulating until someone builds all Hotels and completely obliterates someone when they land on the third and fourth-edge properties
First, it's not a "boardgame." It's a Role Playing Game. It's much more unbounded than a board game and you are actually playing. Not just rolling dice but acting and imagining and adding to the experience. You play your character and you decide how that character acts.
> do we really need to have a trigger-warning session?
You could have one. Generally cover strong NOs and decide on hot-topics that often make people uncomfortable:
racism/slavery, romance/sex, phobias, etc.
Then setup a system to halt if anything new comes up.
People throw around "trigger" and "safe-space" like they're above feeling anything but sometimes it's just being considerate. It's not just about language but situations.
We play D&D to have fun. For some, that means "leaving politics out of it" but for others, those "politics" impact our actual daily lives. To pretend they don't exist or to have to interact with them in a game can be just as un-fun.
> And when does that end? Every time I hang out with my friends should we update our daily list of no-no words first?
Now you're being facetious. You communicate like people. That's it.
If someone was recently mugged in real-life, you probably wouldn't have their character get attacked by a rogue. If someone had arachnophobia, you probably wouldn't drop down the RPG-cliche giant spider. If someone has to deal with real-life racism, you could probably understand why "knife-ears" wouldn't feel fun. OR maybe they're all okay. It's all about opt: opt-in and opt-out.
> oupled with that we are increasingly unable to fluidly deal with differences this creates as they arise.
I think that's a YOU-issue. My friend group is a complex group of people, and yet we find a way to have fun every week with D&D while also respecting all members of the game.
> Technology is natural. A seed is technology.
A seed is not (necessarily) technology.
> like reading a book, watching a film
Those are technology. And each generation has had its fill of panic of "over consumption" of the new technology; see Plato re:writing. Every generation has panicked over books/movies/music/tv/internet/games. Yes, even books. I remember as a kid they encouraged us to read but not TOO much.
They’re so so bad at saying “I don’t know” or “no results”. They’re still sycophants.
> in the Texas panhandle > in the sprawling rural district > in the west Texas district
Only several paragraphs in do we find in a quote the actual location: Canyon ISD.
Then I have to go to maps to find that Canyon is a tiny town (pop ~15k) outside of Amarillo, TX.
I'm FROM Texas and couldn't figure out where they were talking about until halfway through the article.
A stenographer's keyboard is a special kind of chord keyboard for spoken English.
There are other kinds of chord keyboards, but look into those.
For example:
- https://www.charachorder.com/
- https://github.com/davidphilipbarr/Sweep
Related:
- Ad networks have figured out who my closest circle is and has location tracking non-stop.
- I talk to my friends about something "which is taller, space needle or empire state building?"
- Even just one of them searches this. The ad network ties their search to me and ties "empire state -> NY -> NY trips" to me
- I get ads for trips to New York
> Last year, Google committed to invest $2 billion in Anthropic, after previously confirming it had taken a 10% stake in the startup alongside a large cloud contract between the two companies.
And now we're moving more to Typescript on Node...UGH.
It is, but security isn't a "given" anywhere. XSS, SQL Injection, Dependency etc can be done by any language, regardless of how "secure" it claims to be.
The headings are all pretty general (versioning, tooling, scanning, testing) but the contents are Go-specific.
It's a pretty good article IMO and could/should be replicated for other languages as well.
Should say "Please take a moment to read them.
Just like keeping one's house organized, the best thing is to reduce Junk In rather than trying to get Junk Out.
They are and it doesn't matter. You don't go to McD for the ice cream. It's been a running joke for decades how they're always broken.
(at least I'm assuming based on how other ORMs often (not always!) work)
Absolutely and STILL TO THIS DAY.
https://gist.github.com/valbaca/a55cf9cdcb500e203cadc9ef3555...
My wife and I were livid.
The ironic thing is that Checked Exceptions aren't particularly well-loved in Java. For example, Kotlin (which is like Java++) did away with them.
print(f"Unexpected error: {error}")
sys.exit(1)
Is all this doing is making sure the exit code is 1 instead of some other non-zero value?
I'm not seeing how this is any better than just letting the program hard-crash.
(I am asking in earnest. I'm getting back into Python and wanting to know what's generally preferred)