boatswain

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[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 4 points 9 months ago

First time I ever saw in-car GPS was arrive 2003 when I was hitchhiking in Japan. Heading the car just give directions was mind-blowing; it was like being in a William Gibson novel.

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 9 points 9 months ago

At 60mph with a 2 second following distance, you'd need about 176 feet, so you'd want 3 car lengths with 50 foot cars.

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 2 points 9 months ago

Bottlescrews and turnbuckles both have one end threaded in each direction.

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 3 points 9 months ago

Forged in the Dark games are great; I haven't gotten to play Blades, but I've run some Scum & Villainy (which is a space opera setting: think Star Wars meets Firefly), and it's probably my new favorite system

MorkBorg is fun for the aesthetic, but the combat always seems to just drag on, with round after round of damage getting blocked by armor. On the up side, the rounds go really quick.

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 3 points 9 months ago

What you're asking about there seems like it's really: "Is something being knowledge vs belief subjective or objective?"

The answer, just like for "is cereal soup?", is that it's all semantics. It's not like there's some Authority who's created the Platonic Form of Knowledge that Beliefs cannot partake of, and there's a clear delineation between Knowledge and Belief. We're just using these weird shapes, sounds, hand gestures, or whatever else to try to do telepathy and get our thoughts into someone else's head. Like all semantic questions, what this comes down to is: have you chosen the right word to convey your thought? If people seem to not be getting it, try the other one.

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 3 points 9 months ago (6 children)

I'm confused here: Hasn't Red Dead Redemption been on Steam for years?

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub -1 points 10 months ago

Where do you put your SSDs, though? If it's not off-site, it's not a backup.

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 3 points 10 months ago

Halting State was great. It actually took me a couple of chapters to realize it was all 2nd person. That's the book that got me into Stross.

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 3 points 10 months ago

I really enjoyed the first three: they were pretty obviously just a bunch of short stories set in the same universe. The later books where he tried to write actual novels were not great though. He could do great short stories, but IMO wasn't much of a novelist.

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 2 points 10 months ago

I'm in the US, and I bike about 6 miles in to the office; with rush hour traffic, it'd probably take me about that long to drive in. Plus, I get some much needed exercise.

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 4 points 10 months ago

Text of an average book is 100,000 letters;

I'm not sure where you're getting that value. The low end of word count for a novel is 50,000. If we say the average word is only 5 characters, we're looking at a quarter million letters and another 50,000 spaces for a short novel (200-250 pages). Throw in some more for punctuation and formatting, of course. If you're a fan of big epic fantasy/sci-fi you're probably closer to a million words.

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