vala @ vala @lemmy.world

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Companies will never be able to stop this,

If they have their way they will. All the tech bros are pushing for trusted computing platforms.

Imagine a world where most/all computers are as locked down as an iPad. That's what they seem to want.

The hoody part adds validity to this story IMO

How did you get into playing?

If you mean the Monty Hall paradox, this is how I've recently been able to understand it.

You start with a 1/3rd chance of being right. That's a 2/3rds chance you are wrong. Your first pick is likely wrong.

The host now must open a losing door. Since you likely already picked a losing door, the host likely only has one option for which door to reveal.

So since chances are best that you first picked a wrong door, then the host picked the other wrong door. Which means the one that hasn't been picked by anyone yet is likely the winning door.

Edit: Monte Carlo paradox is a thing. My bad.

The gambler's fallacy, also known as the Monte Carlo fallacy, occurs when an individual erroneously believes that a certain random event is less likely or more likely to happen based on the outcome of a previous event or series of events.

For this one I like the example: "The surgery fails 9/10 times. The last 9 patients have died. Does that mean you in the clear?"

The whole point is that it's a TAS. This is a whole category of speed running. It would be cheating to submit a TAS as an actual speed run but submitting a TAS as a TAS is clearly not cheating.

Just because there are nearly unlimited resources out there, doesn't mean we won't keep abusing the ones down here.

Ehh it kinda does considering you can get a pretty full compiler tool chain running via termux.

It would be pretty trivial for YouTube to change the hashes at random. Might require a clever caching workaround on their end but it's totally possible to just flip a few bits before serving it.

I wasn't doing anything. You are confusing me with another person.

For the record I'm probably what most would consider "a leftist". I'm absolutely not not a conservative, but also absolutely not a liberal.

Just because someone is talking poorly about liberals doesn't make them a conservative.

There is a whole other side of politics to the left of liberal. For example, socialists, communists anarchists etc.

Thinking liberal="the left" is American propaganda. Liberals are basically centrists.

The irony is that this post itself is political.

SteamOS is a thing. https://store.steampowered.com/steamos

It's a political thing. Signals that you are a nationalist chud.

Use spell check in your code editor and never experience this again.

You can get glasses for like $20 online. The ones at the optometrist are expensive because of insurance.

To a lot of people "serious bills" means credit card debt for shit they didn't need.

This way of thinking is problematic. Freedom of speech is a social contract and hate speech is a violation of that contract.

Imaginary numbers are as real as negative numbers.

IMO the biggest issue with snaps in the sandboxing. Makes so many apps unusable for development.

Yeah I'm also not a fan of discord but tbh nothing super interesting happens on the discord. Most important discussion is on GitHub. I know that's also not open source but it's at least publicly accessible and indexable.

I'd love to see a tic80 community gain some traction on Lemmy.