chonglibloodsport
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- Comment on Why is so difficult to organize a strike 7 hours ago:
You clearly have not studied game theory, as you are talking out of your ass. Go pick up a textbook and learn something.
- Comment on Why is so difficult to organize a strike 8 hours ago:
On the contrary, game theory doesn’t assume rationality or irrationality whatsoever. Game theory looks at all possible outcomes and investigates different strategies that lead to those outcomes.
Rational strategies can lead to defection in games like the non-iterated prisoner’s dilemma, and this is a Nash equilibrium. However, the infinite iterated prisoner’s dilemma allows cooperation to emerge even with rational strategies.
The superrational strategy leads to cooperation even in a one-shot gang of prisoner’s dilemma
- Comment on Sony 4 days ago:
I already have more games than I could ever finish in a lifetime — in 10 lifetimes — and they’re all digital, in big folders full of files. If I had those thousands of games in physical form I’d need a library in my house full of shelves to store them all, yet digitally I can carry them all around in my pocket!
- Comment on Why are some Linux community so toxic? 1 week ago:
I think you misunderstood me. I’m not saying that gatekeeping doesn’t exist in Linux communities. It absolutely does, and I wouldn’t quibble if you said Linux was rife with gatekeeping.
What I’m saying is that gatekeeping isn’t unique to Linux in any way. Gatekeeping is everywhere, and I argue that it’s a default social behaviour that arises in communities above a certain size, unless specifically guarded against through community norms.
- Comment on Why are some Linux community so toxic? 1 week ago:
I see that as essentially having a community norm against gatekeeping. It’s not a feature of every community and it needs to be intentionally maintained. Gatekeeping in that light is a kind of Hobbesian state of nature behaviour that is being deliberately policed.
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 1 week ago:
My oven goes to 500F/260C. The previous one I had went to 550F/288C, but it didn’t have convection (unlike my current one).
I actually use 500/260 on my oven quite frequently, using the “convection roast” feature. It’s excellent for roasting veggies and reheating pizza!
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 1 week ago:
Never cook frozen French fries or fish sticks or chicken fingers in your oven? They pretty much always recommend 450F/232C
- Comment on Why are some Linux community so toxic? 1 week ago:
It’s not a Linux thing at all. I have a lot of different hobby interests and I find gatekeeping everywhere. I don’t even think it’s limited to hobbies. Gatekeeping seems to be a natural human social behaviour.
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 1 week ago:
What’s the reason? Doesn’t sound like a good one.
Some of the best chefs around don’t use recipes at all.
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 1 week ago:
Nutritional calories are kilocalories, so you’ll need to multiply by 1000.
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 1 week ago:
At the cost of having a machine that applies stickers to every box, as well as keeping inventory of stickers for C and F.
I don’t think that would save money vs a properly designed supply chain and manufacturing process.
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 1 week ago:
It’s a good thing you only spent 50 euros on your pyrolysis oven. I used to use that feature on my old oven until it was destroyed by it.
I believe the excessive heat from the cleaning cycle rapidly accelerates the ageing of the electronic components on the oven’s main circuit host. Electrolytic capacitors in particular are susceptible to failure from heat exposure.
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 1 week ago:
What oven only goes to 200C? I live in Canada (where we use C for everything except cooking, which we use F for) and pretty much everything I cook in the oven is at 218C or above. 200C isn’t even hot enough to bake frozen French fries properly without drying them out.
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 1 week ago:
Jeff Varasano explains how you can defeat the lock on your self clean oven and gain the ability to use that high temperature for baking pizza. He got so good at baking pizza this way that he opened his own pizza restaurant! He also wrote a book on speedcubing. Interesting guy!
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 1 week ago:
Works great with a thin crust pizza. Not so great for a thick one, especially with lots of toppings.
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting 2 weeks ago:
Selling it to who though? And who gets the money from the sale? Taxes? But rich people already control the government…
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting 2 weeks ago:
What do you mean by forced divestments?
Oh and are you going to hard code these numbers into the law? Because rich people would respond by deflating the currency to the point where the average person makes 10 cents a day and a millionaire is inflation-equivalent to a billionaire today.
- Comment on The best answer to "when did Star Trek get woke?" 2 weeks ago:
Well they’re doing it wrong then. Most TNG episodes were written by freelance writers, not by the show’s main writing staff. The freelance writers sold scripts to the show and the main writing staff would polish them up for production.
A freelance writer could spend years playing around with ideas before finishing a script to send in. The show didn’t care, they had plenty of other spec scripts to choose from.
- Comment on The best answer to "when did Star Trek get woke?" 2 weeks ago:
Not that notable. He got therapy for recurring nightmares and PTSD after his assimilation by the Borg. Dealing with his trauma was the central theme of s4e2 Family. It was some of Patrick Stewart’s best acting in the whole series, right up there with s5e25 The Inner Light.
What the show didn’t do was make his trauma and recovery an ongoing part of the series. That’s not because they wanted him to get over it, it’s because of the episodic nature of the show. For syndication to work, they needed most episodes to be self contained. This dramatically enhanced the show’s rewatchability, as should be the case for all great syndicated shows.
- Comment on WOMEN. 3 weeks ago:
Chess is not segregated by gender. There are women’s tournaments and there are open tournaments. There are no men’s tournaments. Men are way overrepresented at all the open tournaments, but women do compete in all of them.
Women’s representation is increasing at the top levels but it’s a gradual process. Judit Polgar and Hou Yifan (侯逸凡) are so far the only women to reach the top 100 players in the world and regularly compete with success at the top open tournaments.
- Comment on Aerosol 4 weeks ago:
“For regulation” is a pretty weird take, but it is self regulating (in the absence of pollution from humans). When the ozone layer is thin, more UV gets through from the sun. UV from the sun ionizes O2 and splits it apart, creating oxygen free radicals which recombine and create ozone. Thus, less ozone leads to more ozone, hence self-regulation.
- Comment on The Projected Truth 4 weeks ago:
It’s only a lie if there’s intent to deceive. Mistakes are not lies and false memories are not lies.
- Comment on Anon plays Arkham City 5 weeks ago:
Right, though Batman stories rarely depict ordinary people who just happen to commit a single crime. Criminals in that universe are all cackling psychopaths who wander the streets, assaulting, robbing, and murdering anyone they encounter. They’re much more aptly labeled villainous outlaw gangsters than mere criminals.
- Comment on If online services (such as Netflix) only ever raise their prices, does that mean they offer less and less value for money as time passes? 5 weeks ago:
Inflation is a decrease in the value of money itself. If there’s a lot more money around today than there was yesterday, then money is less scarce than it was before. Scarcity is a major contributor to value by the theory of marginal utility:
Suppose you have no first aid kit. Gaining a first aid kit gives you a tremendous amount of value! Now suppose you get a decent first aid kit. Still valuable, but not as much as the first.
Now you suppose you have a thousand first aid kits. What are you going to do with all of them? You can’t possibly use them all yourself! So you might as well give them away or try to sell them.
First aid kits have declining marginal utility. Having way more than one gives you very little value relative to the value you gained from the first one. On the other hand, those first aid kits will have much more value for other people who don’t have one yet. Thus it’s better to distribute first aid kits than to hoard them.
Most things work this way. One of the main exceptions is money itself. The more money you have, the more you can do with it! Of course, at large enough levels of wealth, what you can do for yourself personally (buy food, clothes, shelter, entertainment) shows the same diminishing marginal utility: being able to afford a steak dinner every day is one thing, but nobody is going to eat 10,000 steak dinners every day!
On the other hand, the other use of money is to hold power over others, and there’s no limit to that, unfortunately. The biggest problem is the existence of people who actually want that!
- Comment on NBA Playoffs: West Conf. Finals - May 20, 2026 1 month ago:
SGA agrees with you:
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Not at all. We had a company wide town hall at my office recently and there was a huge debate about AI in the chat during a talk from one of the execs about AI strategy. Most people in the debate were staunchly anti-AI, with only a few developers in favour.
- Comment on Anon tries watching nu-Trek 1 month ago:
Where’s the Nu trek equivalent to Code of Honour?
- Comment on Is there an optimal angle when using a urinal? 1 month ago:
Try going to the bathroom before you’re at the point where your bladder feels like it’s going to explode!
- Comment on My shopping list: Coal 2 months ago:
Loading up on coal at 4am on the first day of BBQ season! Let’s go!
- Comment on Fallout: New Vegas dev says don't expect a remaster, argues Bethesda doesn't have the source code or 'the engineering knowhow' 2 months ago:
Remastering and remaking an existing game is much easier than making a new game that’s actually good. Why do you think so many AAA companies have become obsessed with remakes and remasters? They’ve lost the creative talent to be able to make brand new hit games. And they’re too risk-averse to even try!
If you want new games that are actually good and innovative, your best bet is indie games. Indie games are more innovative and less risk-averse, operating on a sink-or-swim model (many separate indie game devs all competing).
