To be fair, the “change one” part is wrong. Two particles that are quantum entangled maintain the same quantum state when separated. But if you change the quantum state of one it doesn’t propogate. They are just in sync.

Thicker rope would presumably have a higher test value though, and it seems that most people interpret the hempen rope in 5e as being under 800-test.

I would argue that nothing is ever an intrinsic part of one’s identity.

I think there are things society puts a lot of emphasis on, like career or sexual orientation, that are elevated in a way that makes us assume they have to be part of someone’s “identity,” but that’s not some universal law. It’s a societal construct.

I like peanut butter sandwiches. I would never say “I identify as a peanut butter sandwich fan.” But here’s the thing, some people do. There’s somebody out there who’s got 50 different “PB Sandos 4 Life” Tshirts, and has a YouTube channel dedicated to trying all the different brands of PB, and wants to be buried on the JIF plantation. For that guy, peanut butter sandwiches are part of his identity.

And in the same way there are plenty of gay people (who are born that way, to be clear, I’m not arguing being gay is a choice) for whom their sexual orientation are not part of their “identity.” They are unquestionably gay, but don’t participate in the larger gay community, and if you asked them who they are, being gay wouldn’t be in the top 10 things they say about themselves, any more than most straight people would list “heterosexual” in their top 10 things about themselves.

Now, that’s hard in our current societal context, as it puts so much emphasis on who you’re sleeping with in a way that drives people who don’t “fit the mold” to (very reasonably) band together for solidarity and support, but that doesn’t make it intrinsically part of your identity.

All that to say, identity is a tricky thing, and I would argue that it’s far too fluid to say that literally anything is intrinsically part of it.

I do think that any time you hire an intern, the only thing you can judge them on is vibes.

I used to be in charge of an intern program, and the thing is that you can’t really select based on experience or anything, because they don’t really have that. Instead, you end up asking a bunch of personality questions and trying to get a feel for if they’d be a good fit on your team.

Now, do I think “answers the phone” is a good test of that? Probably not. But then again, we used to ask people if they’d rather be a blade of grass or a doorknob, just to see what they’d say.

I guess my point is, if this was for a “real job,” I’d be a little more judgy, but for an internship, I’ve selected people based on wilder things than “did they answer the phone.”

In addition to what everyone else said, property damage is a big part of it as well.

Let’s say you run into a building and knock out a load bearing wall. Or plough through a business or government office. It’s not impossible to rack up a couple million in damages if you crash bad enough.

The biggest thing with auto insurance isn’t covering your car, it’s covering the cost of whatever you hit sueing you.

Your car may only be worth $3,000, but if you hit a pedestrian and they require a dozen surgeries and are wheelchair bound for life, you bet you’re ass you’re getting sued for a few million in medical costs.

In a reasonable country, those medical costs would be free, but since they’re not you need some sort of protection against once accident bankrupting you in civil suits.

Yeah, this one clearly reads as satire. The fact that people think it’s not is wild to me.

Probably cause it’s even a little anti-Russia on lemmy.ml

I mean, seems fair? It’s not like we haven’t seen large scale cyber operations carried out in the past, and not a single one has ever been deemed to rise to being an act of war.

Unless you’re killing power to hospitals or something, cyber effects seem to be fair play in the modern world stage.

You think Russias gonna declare war on NATO because they have some IT systems destroyed, or a bunch of records stolen or deleted or whatever? I really completely fail to imagine anything short of the “killing power to a hospital” example that would cause an escalation, and honestly, I’m not even sure that would.

Russia is happy to do it to other countries. Turnabout seems fair play to me. Especially since they’re doing it while actively committing genocide on a neighboring country.

The IP address of the machine you’re connecting to has probably changed. If the previous had a DHCP lease, that wouldn’t migrate with the new router.

Go on your Windows machine and open up a command prompt. Type in “ipconfig” (no quotes) and validate the machines IP address. It should start with 192 or 10 most likely. Maybe 172.

If it’s the same as it used to be, that’s not the issue. But my bet is that it’s changed.

Sure, many games are tied to various Steam services, but that’s by the choice of the games developer. Steam offers various built in services that game devs can choose to use if they want. It’s not like it’s some kind of requirement.

You might as well complain that game devs use Windows binaries, locking their games to only run on Windows. Sure, I prefer it when they target other platforms, but that’s 1000% not Microsoft’s fault that the dev chose to dev for their platform. I’m not mad at Microsoft for so many games being Windows only. I’m mad at the devs.

And games that build themselves around Steam services are of course going to be tied to Steam. That’s a choice the devs made. If they wanted their game to run without needing the Steam client, they trivially could have built it that way. They just would have had to either reimplement all those Steam features themselves, or done without.

And if people want those Steam features, every store client who wants to run those games would have to implement those features in an interoperable way. It’s easy to say “have interoperability between clients,” but that’s glossing over the potentially thousands of dev hours required to implement all of the features needed. And that’s assuming they could all agree on a spec.

And to your final point about being open source. First, it gives very “any musician who gets paid is a sellout” energy. But more than that, it doesn’t actually solve the problem you have. Even if Steam open sourced their tooling, that doesn’t mean other players in the space could integrate it. Steam has grown organically for the past 30yrs, and trying to extricate the deep inner bits and then graft them on to your own solution isn’t as easy as it sounds.

But they aren’t tied to a store? When you download a game from Steam, it’s just an executable on your box. You could put it on a hard drive and move it wherever you wanted. You don’t have to launch games you bought with Steam through Steam. They aren’t streamed. They are saved locally to your computer.

You can only download it from that store, sure, but that’s not apples to apples. If I buy a game from GameStop, they won’t give me another copy for free, just cause I threw away the copy they gave me. Once you download the game, that’s what they sold you, and it’s notionally your responsibility to keep track of it. Them allowing you to keep downloading new copies forever isn’t strictly necessary, and costs them money every time you do it.

And if you can run the games you downloaded without Steam, all you’re saying is “there should be other places to buy your games.” But there are. Those exist. Less people use them, sure, but what do you propose? Kill Steam because too many people use it to buy their games? Legislate that people are required to shop at other stores?

But this game is getting distribution through GoG and about a half dozen other platforms listed in the article.

Do most people game through steam? Yes. But centralization of the marketplace isn’t necessarily a bad thing. There’s a reason why people complain when they have to use other game stores an launchers. It’s the “I have 50 different streaming services” problem.

If Steam starts abusing that market position, then yes, we should care about that and they should suffer backlash. Which makes the question of “did they do the right thing here,” very much relevant.

I feel like “X should be for the X-people” is maybe not the best phrasing, considering how that tends to play out throughout history.

There is no group activity that you think you would find enjoyment in?

If so, why do you want friends? If you had friends, what would you want to do with them if you hate all group activities?

I’m unconvinced that Israel would completely collapse without support.

And to be clear, the scenario I’m talking about is one where the world steps in and forces Israel to respect Palestinian sovereignty first.

If Russia were to back out of Ukraine and relinquish all captured land to them, and the world was actively keeping them in check, but Ukraine started firing missiles at Moscow anyway, yes, I would say they are wrong to do so.

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Even if you wanted to implement a solution like this, which you shouldn’t, why on earth monitor the MD5 sum instead of just the mtime of the file??? Like, doing a checksum is the least efficient method of checking this possible.

Like, you could do a simple while loop with a find myfile.txt +mmin 1; sleep 30 in it. Adjust numbers to your desired tolerance.

Again, don’t do that. But if you must, definitely don’t do an md5sum for godssake.

While preventable child deaths are obviously terrible, I feel like this could be overextended.

Like, how many child deaths has McDonald’s caused vs guns. I’m too lazy to do the math like the other guy, but I’d presume it’s comparable. (Although I suppose by the time it catches up to them they’re no longer children.)

Idk, you see things like, “leading cause of death in children” and it makes the number seem huge, but it’s less than 100 kids a year. And it looks like around 400/yr die from drowning in swimming pools. So if we really care about the children, we should bad swimming pools? They kill 4x the number of kids than guns.

I’m not saying guns are great. But using child deaths as part of the argument just feels like a great excuse to ban literally anything you just don’t like.

Probably sriracha.