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You are given an opportunity to hard reset our universe (particularly, the Earth). You are also allowed to change one rule about the new universe. What rule would you change?
  • How is "being bad" decided?

    If it's decided internally ("bad" is what you believe is bad), then all the objectivists get a free pass for being assholes. Hitler is a supermodel, etc.

    If it's decided externally (there's an universal definition of "bad"), how far into the future does it propagate? If I rescue from drowning someone who will genocide all the Dutch in the future, when do I go bald?

    That said, beauty pageants would be much funnier, with trolley problems instead of talent competitions.

  • What games popularized certain mechanics?
  • Spacewar! was a F2P PvP game with no microtransactions and no battle pass. Although it's hard to quantify exact player numbers (it precedes Steam charts), for a while it was the most played videogame in the world.

    Its real-time graphics and multiplayer combat were very influential, and widely copied by many other games.

  • Youtube's web UX team is a joke.
  • The TV UI is horrible and has negative development: Less features and more bugs every release.

    Do you want to go to a video's channel? Well, that depends on where you are:

    • Go to Home.

    • Long-press on a video.

    • Press "Go to channel".

    • Go to Subscriptions.

    • Long-press on a video.

    • Fewer options because fuck you.

    • Start the video, press down, up, right, select.

    • Oh, it was a short video? You fell into the trap! Down goes to another video. Go back, select the video again, press right, right, select.

    And that's just one example.

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  • That's how politics work in the US.

    Not really, unfortunately. All these "if you don't vote for A you're voting for B" arguments would be a little more applicable if the US presidential election was a simple majority vote, but anyone with the most basic of US politics knowledge has heard of the Electoral College. Hillary Clinton wasn't elected president in 2016, but not because more people voted for Trump.

    And that's without taking into the account voting suppression. Would you tell someone who can't vote because of racist laws that they are "voting for Trump"?

  • Is there something better than SQL?
  • I like the ideas behind PRQL, although I've never used it in an actual project. It compiles down to SQL but has a clearer model based on pipeline and a much better suntax.

    Malloy is a similar project but I haven't look into it yet.

  • What are your programming hot takes?
  • My hot take: Vi, make and C would have gone the way of COBOL a long time ago if it wasn't for a lot of programmers thinking "my tools are more difficult to use, hence I'm a better programmer".

  • Playing Baldur's Gate 3 With A Controller On The PC - A BG3 Guide
  • Yes, you can manually assign each wheel slot, but when you have a few dozen spells and actions it's really long and boring. I'd like it more if it behaved like the hotbar, with things sorted automatically and space for personal favorites.

  • Playing Baldur's Gate 3 With A Controller On The PC - A BG3 Guide
  • I love playing from my couch with a controller! I work in front of my computer all day and afterwards I really don't want to spend more time there.

    The only problem I've found (besides minor bugs) is that after you go up a few levels the action wheels are a complete unorganized mess. I hope Larian adds some way of auto-arranging them into actions, bonus actions, spells, etc. like the hotbar does.

  • Have they changed how ritual casting works?
  • You can cast a spell tagged as Ritual and it won't use a slot if out of combat, but you need to prepare the spell before. You can change prepared spells at any time outside of combat too.

  • [advice] Hosting Matrix Server & Bridges
  • I run my own Synapse server with bridges to WhatsApp and Telegram, along with a few other services, using Yunohost. I haven't observed any huge resource usage, and I like the centralized management/update. One possible downside is that you won't get the latest versions immediately, the Yunohost maintainers take time to test those. I prefer the stability that gives me but if you want to be on the edge a docker setup will be better.

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