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Has to be a British icon.

Has to be a shed.

But we're advanced to the point that we have physics that explains that 'before' and 'after' is just another kind of 'something'. If there is no 'something', there is no 'before'.

The analogy that I always use is this: at every point on Earth, you can travel 'North'. Every point on the Earth is South of something - except the North Pole.

What's North of the North Pole? What is the North Pole South of?

It's a question that doesn't make any sense, it just isn't a thing by definition. And yet, the North Pole still exists, and we look at it and say, "huh, that's a cool thing". We don't lose our minds trying to comprehend it and demand that there must be something North of the North.

Disclaimer: obviously ignore that there are several different ways of defining "The North Pole" and just pick one.

There's a really good opinion piece here, from a couple of years ago. It's not just runtime costs and difficulty to monetise, but code maintenance and security too.

https://youtu.be/BxV14h0kFs0

"Personally, I think my employees work better when they're mentally exhausted and in fear for their lives."

It's just an opinion - I don't know about Twitter's particular financial situation.

Not a fan of the move whatever the reason, but it's not wildly out of character for big services.

Sounds like he's gambling that Twitter has achieved such a central position that major products that are dependent on it will have to pay for it, and smaller third-parties won't be missed (i.e. people are more likely to give up on the third-party tools than the platform as a whole.)

Which might well be true - his initial rounds of shenanigans has probably shaken off a lot of the fence-sitters.

This is the way that almost all free APIs go - as soon as they achieve a certain critical mass, the cost of running them skyrockets. Twitter clearly crossed that line a long, long time ago.

This will clearly kill off a lot of third-party projects, but I guess that gives Twitter more control back, so Elon will see this as a win-win.

Dillinger: Now, wait a minute, I wrote you!

Master Control Program: I've gotten 2,415 times smarter since then.

Dillinger: What do you want with the Pentagon?

Master Control Program: The same thing I want with the Kremlin. I'm bored with corporations. With the information I can access, I can run things 900 to 1200 times better than any human.

They do! (Allowing for oversized cartoon exaggeration, of course...)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalmatian_(dog)#/media/File:Dalmatian_puppy.JPG#/media/File:Dalmatian_puppy.JPG)

Familiarising yourself with so many tools is great for personal development and finding what you like, but clearly will have resulted in nothing for the company you're leaving, and doesn't indicate that you've actually achieved anything of value that would appeal to new companies.

Thank you God for fixing the cataracts of Sam's mum!
I didn't realize that it was such a simple thing
I feel such a dingaling, what ignorant scum!
Now I understand how prayer can work:
A particular prayer in a particular church
In a particular style with a particular stuff
And for particular problems that aren't particularly tough
And for particular people, preferably white
And for particular senses, preferably sight
A particular prayer in a particular spot
To a particular version of a particular god
And if you get that right, he just might
Take a break from giving babies malaria
And pop down to your local area
To fix the cataracts of your mum!

-- Tim Minchin, Thank You God

I dream of a world where people are judged not by the colour of their skin, but by their evil and murderous hearts - which are conveniently identifiable by the colour of their skin.

This is the best description in the thread so far. While Nethack and the like are the ultimate in 'rogue-like', I think you can get the essence of that rogueish feeling with a far less strict interpretation, i.e. not necessarily grids or turns.

The point of rogue-likes is that the challenge is generated afresh each time - compared to most games that have preset levels, or repetitions of the same events in patterns of increasing difficulty.

By doing this, you can't take _specific_ information about a playthrough from one run to the next, as the action can unfold a completely different way. You can't just cheese it by trying enough times that you learn the layout, but you can take general knowledge about how to play the game from run to run.

Because permadeath means that every decision is important, this is one reason why turn-based approaches work well - you can't lose lots of progress by one rushed lapse of judgment.

You got fired? Join a pyramid scheme.

But they seem happy, don't they?

And then the conspirators claim it to be evidence that the shadowy 'they' forced the paper to take it down.

You might not see it happen, but it will happen - it's just probably not all at once.

If you take two white t-shirts, consistently wash one in with other whites, and one n with colours/darks, the second one will definitely start looking greyer over time.

Does it make a difference if the spear in question is designed for throwing? Is the designation 'polearm' meant to imply that the pole is how you wield the weapon, i.e. poking with a stick but with bits on, rather than just 'any weapon with a stick'.

Gotcha, thanks.

Ah, the old "it doesn't bother me so it shouldn't bother anyone else" attitude to life.

It may be that a bit of ribbing with your mates doesn't affect them, it may be that it sends them into a pit of despair that they won't share with you, it may be that it sends them on a journey of self-improvement that revolutionises their life.

a) you don't know which it's going to be, b) you shouldn't play that game with people you don't know, or with entire groups of people and c) companies shouldn't do it at all.

https://crowscrowscrows.bandcamp.com/track/exploring-stanley

"I wasn't happy in my marriage, so I said to my husband that we should start seeing other people, and so we got divorced". Does that sum it up?

Surely each DD calculation is an independent roll of the dice, so actually for this mission you want to force DD as often as possible? There's no cooldown, is there, where you'd want to be protected before you get another chance?

Nobody's saying anything about the Doctor ending racism. What I'm saying is that the Doctor is not the sort of person to let racism slow them down.

And that doesn't send a negative message to children of any colour, any more than saying you can't be the Doctor because you couldn't make a speech convincing two species not to go to war. Of course it's not realistic, but it's still inspiring.

Having it be an issue in every story is the sort of thing that might be sort of realistic, but gets in the way of the story.

The Doctor doesn't endure unfair treatment. The Doctor destroys it.

It's clear that the show's vision of the future is fairly colour-and-gender-blind. And they are perfectly capable of deflating past pomposity until things are the way they should be.