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@thomasfuchs Makes them harder to manipulate I suppose.

@thomasfuchs Yeah. No argument here. But maybe we'll get lucky and it will just fucking *decimate* the population of right-wingers, reducing them to an irrelevant demographic stub?

@thomasfuchs On the somewhat bright side, such as it is, the bulk of fatalities will be among the unvaccinated. Makes me feel bad for the people who can't be jabbed for medical reasons, but those who chose not to when they could deserve whatever happens to them.

He's the Allfather, not the Somefather. #OdinSaysTransRights

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@zx81adventures When you add to that the fact that most fantasy races have an inherent problem of being derived from European folklore, which itself has a lot of problematic racism to it (see also: Goblins and Jewish people, depictions of Orcs and Tartars, etc), and you have a real problem on your hands, one which has now been resolved without forcing anyone to play the game in a way they don't want to.

Reply guy dumbasses don't understand that the only change is that "half X, half human" isn't the only option anymore. Now you can play the child of a goblin and a beholder if it suits your fancy.

They also, IIRC, got rid of racial alignments, and now any character of any species can be of any alignment -- you want to be a chaotic good half-lizard folk-half-illithid ranger in a queer poly thruple with a Warforged who teaches Orc literature and a well-hung dwarf barbarian? That's your business.

D&D belongs to everyone. We have every moral and societal right to play our campaigns the way we want, and the rules are just changing to reflect that fact. Culture war bollocks is driven entirely by capitalist propagandists who gin up outrage from idiots whose reading comprehension is below the level of a grade 6 primary student.

https://boundingintocomics.com/2023/04/10/dungeons-dragons-to-replace-inherently-racist-half-species-system-with-new-children-of-different-humanoid-kinds-mechanic/?fbclid=IwAR3lorq9aUXSx1livY1vWLdKGHnoSRLI3ecL0NUbz-kPBG09OqiDW3ioKIc

@zx81adventures It's not the "half X" that's the problem. It's that the rules only allowed for half-human hybrids.

@zx81adventures The really racist part was that old editions had racial alignments -- that is, sapient non-human species were depicted as "always" of a certain alignment, which is very close to racial stereotyping.

The kernel panic was introduced in an early version of Unix and demonstrated a major difference between the design philosophies of Unix and its predecessor Multics. Multics developer Tom van Vleck recalls a discussion of this change with Unix developer Dennis Ritchie:

"I remarked to Dennis that easily half the code I was writing in Multics was error recovery code. He said, 'We left all that stuff out. If there's an error, we have this routine called panic, and when it is called, the machine crashes, and you holler down the hall, `Hey, reboot it.`'"

(Text from Wikipedia)

@beige_alert @thomasfuchs I'm out of space to add more people to the original post, but I encourage people to suggest good tech YouTuber women's channels.

@thomasfuchs I moved away from paper Magic and into Arena largely because Arena is much cheaper, and I didn't have to deal with shuffle-cheaters (I have a whole sleight-of-hand demo I do to show people why their shuffles are cheating) and the really good fakes that are out now.

@thomasfuchs For non-Magic players, "Revised" was a "fixed" reprint of Unlimited, which was printed in vastly higher quantity, and thus has much lower scarcity value.

A brief list of less problematic #retrocomputing YouTube channels for those who are uncomfortable with the public behaviour of The 8-Bit Guy:

• Techmoan (Mat does more audio than computers, but very retro, and a cool dude)
• Mr. Lurch's things (Jason is a great guy)
• RMC (Neil is also a great dude)
• Retro Recipes (I'll be honest, I find Christian's whole vibe a bit over polished and highly produced, but I also think he puts in a lot of honest effort and really loves retro systems -- plus he was in two Star Wars films)
• Adrian's Digital Basement (Basically the Mr. Rogers of Retrocomputing, I love this dude)
• Usagi Electric (The dude restores vintage mini-computers, how awesome is that?)
• More Fun Making It (Also a cool dude, and his whole vibe is just fun to watch)

The actual public API for the kernel doesn't expose hardware details, it abstracts them. The kernel will tell you how many UARTs you have, and ID them by number, but the public interface is the same whether they're built-in to the CPU (As in the W65C265S) or external (as they'd need to be on a 65C02 or 65C816 system). As long as your program only uses public APIs, it should run unmodified on any platform of the same CPU running the same version of the kernel. That's not new, CP/M did that shit in the 70s, but it's not how Commodore did shit, for example.

@thomasfuchs I actually "talked" with ChatGPT the other day, asking it to generate various common data structures in C99. The code it generated was hardly inspired, but I did step through it all, and it all would work. It definitely won't be writing anything cool and original any time soon, but it does a better job than I would have expected.

@thomasfuchs To be fair, maintaining crap code you didn't write is like 90% of most professional programmer's day to day work. If anything, the AI's code will be blandly functional and have fewer syntax errors.

PsDoom is a Unix process manager in the form of a first person shooter: each monster represents a running process in your system, and when the monster dies, that process is killed.

I am nobody's expert, and I'm no professional, but I would still ask anyone who codes to do two things:

1. Please organize your code in a consistent, logical way. Not necessarily my way, just any way that makes sense and is navigable.

2. PLEASE USE FUCKING VERSION CONTROL.

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Also conservatives: No, not like that!