Ontario, Canada:

My wife had bad abdominal pains in the evening. She’s had period cramps before, and it wasn’t this. She’s even had ovarian cysts go, which were terrible, but weren’t this. So we went to the hospital. We sat in chairs for probably 5 hours, then got a physical exam by a doctor. They sent us for an ultrasound within the hospital to see if it was an ovarian cyst, but nothing showed on that. That took a few hours. Then we went for a CAT I think it was, also within the hospital, and that showed that it was a swollen appendix. Sat in chairs upstairs, not the entryway, for another hour or so, until the doctor came by and told us that she should probably have that out, but that it wasn’t an imminent emergency and so they’ll keep her overnight in case something happens, give some pain meds, and then have surgery the next morning when the OR opens again proper, because by now it was probably 2am.

So she got a bed upatairs, I went home and slept at home, then met her the next morning back in her room. She did have a roommate in her room, and that roomie sucked, so that’s unfortunate. Then she went for surgery while I watched TV in the waiting room, then she was rolled out and stayed in a recovery room for a few hours while the anaesthesia wore off. The nurse came by and gave us medication to take, along with a prescription for some other meds, and some instructions, and we went on our way. The surgery was laparoscopic, so it only took a week or so to heal, and she was up and shuffling by the end of that first day.

All told, it was probably about 18 hours beginning to end, but that included some sleep in the middle. And, importantly, she didn’t die at any point in that process.

At no point in this process did my money leave my pocket. Money was simply not discussed. When weighing the options of going to the hospital versus staying home, or staying in the hospital overnight versus going home, or having the surgery versus not, or having a laparoscopic surgery versus not, money was never a factor. At all times our collective concern was on the health of my wife.

Her surprise appendicitis didn’t impact our life in any way, besides the one day we spent hanging out at the hospital.

There are two ways to get a doctor faster.

The first is to increase the supply of doctors: more doctors, more nurses, more beds in hospitals, more clinics, more MRI machines. Any government with a public healthcare system can do this at any time by allocating more funds to the public healthcare system, either increasing the taxes people pay, or diverting tax money from something else. If a country isn’t bankrupt and isn’t doing this, it’s a choice.

The second way is to have private clinics that use money as a way to skip triage. To allow wealthy people to pay their way ahead of poor people to the same small supply of doctors. This is the way most people who rail against public healthcare see the solution going, but the part they don’t say out loud is “I want poor people to suffer more so I can suffer less”. Because that’s what that solution is, it’s what it boils down to, but for some reason saying “I want to sell my suffering to the desperate” makes it feel less fun.

You’re going to have to do a lot more to justify the leap from Godel’s Incompleteness and the Halting Problem to “digital is limited, analog is not”, because neither of those things have anything to do with digital processes at all, and in fact both came about before we’d invented digital computers.

To me this comment sounds like when popsci gets ahold of a few sciency words and suddenly decides everything is crystal vibrations universal harmonics string theory quantum tunneling aligning resonance with those around you.

Right, your own thoughts. So I can be sure I’m conscious, but you commenting “I know I’m conscious” on here doesn’t tell me anything about your consciousness. The robot can do that, and does.

I’m not sure if you’re misunderstanding who you’re replying to, or if I’m misunderstanding you in this reply, but I don’t think they’re saying “all gamers are incels who don’t like girls”, I think they’re saying “all the shitty people reacting poorly are the remaining socially inept incel guys”

I don’t remember this chapter of the Obra Dinn…

Right, but what I’m saying is that git doesn’t store authorship information or line-by-line history, no matter how it’s done. Figuring out which line came from where is an algorithm the git blame command does every time you request it, and that algorithm can give different results depending on which options you give the blame command. And so what you’ve found here is a collection of commits that produces a situation the default blame algorithm can follow, without any optional flags, which is neat! Maybe not great for git history, but neat!

I am not aware of this setup, and so I’m musing and winging it, but I think what they’re saying is that if you point at the paper and say “is this a sheet of paper” they’d say yes. And then you point to the crease and say “is this a crease” and they’d say yes, so it has identity, separate from the paper (as in creases and papers are not synonymous), but given that it’s not counted when listing things in the room, it’s also not a thing.

But I think for me it’s not that tricky, because it’s a feature of the paper. Like if there was a coat in the room with buttons, and you asked me what was in the room I wouldn’t say a coat and three buttons, I’d say just a coat. And the coat has three buttons, but those are properties of the coat, not the room. And buttons are something that can stand-alone!

But if I had a sheet of paper with a button placed in the middle of it, but not attached, I wonder would most people say it was a sheet of paper and a button, or a sheet of paper with a button?

And that was after this scene

Interesting. Yeah, sounds like what git blame -C is for, so I’ve never made copies when splitting files, I’ve just moved lines between files naively. But I guess if one’s tools are limited and doesn’t have the ability to -C, then I guess I could respect the hack that is that solution?

I mean, I’m 99% sure git doesn’t store blame or authorship info in the pack files, even as a convenience cache, and just guesses by traversing the patch log with heuristics live when you run blame anyway, so the history mostly doesn’t matter there, but the way you’ve done it does seem to have tricked the heuristics into doing what you want without relying on an option, so that’s neat! It’s an interesting hack, and I like interesting hacks 😛

By the way, if there are down votes, they’re not from me!

Yeah, I’m with you. I mean, git isn’t magic. You “can” squash anything, including a merge commit, by just being at the end result, running git reset <commit you want to be squashed off of> and then running a manual git add and commit there. That’s basically all a squash is.

But what you’ll be left with us a single commit that contains all of the code from the branch you’re squashing and also all the code pulled in from every branch you merged, all written as though it all came from this one commit. And maybe that’s what you want? But it feels like also maybe it’s not?

Right… for sure… but then if you don’t want to squash, then it doesn’t matter you can’t squash a merge commit.

Huh. I have never in my 19 year career using git, ever wanted to copy a file and pretend all of the history of that file is also the history of the new file. I mean, I don’t think I’ve ever even wanted to copy a file? Why are you copying a file?

Like, maybe I’m just too familiar with git to see the forest for the trees, but what the heck are you doing over there? 😅

And just in case it’s useful, a tip is that you can use git blame -C to have the blame algorithm use a heuristic to try and find a “source” line if it was moved, including from another file, during a commit, and then continue following the history of that line, to try and get the real commit where this was written, not just the last time it was moved around.

It really is a testament to the strength of Nintendo’s (and Game Freak’s) brand and characters that they can have so many fans, making so much awesome fan art and content, all while being the absolutely most abusive and toxic to those fans and artists.

Like, most creators and franchises would kill for a community to spring up, or for people to engage with their work outside of their work. They’d consider it free advertising, and in fact they sometimes even pay for contests and things like that to drum up some kind of fan community and momentum.

And then Nintendo is out here hunting momentum and affection wherever they can find it, and it keeps springing up despite that 😛

Yeah, 2 was just 1 again, with all the same jokes but in reverse. But 3 was legitimately different and better, so it saved the whole thing!

Lord of the Rings barely counts, because not only were all three books out and classics before the movies started (obviously), but the three movies were basically worked on at the same time. It’s nuts, but somehow they managed to do it.

So it’s not like they released the first, got crazy hype, and then phoned everyone up and said “electric Boogaloo, you in?”. They’d already shot most of the second and third by the time the first came out, as I recall.

Also I really liked Glass Onion 😛

Yup, basically. Systemd is “the first program” that runs, and then its job is to start all the other programs that make up a modern computer, most of which run in the background and a user will never see. It’s not the only such “init program”, though, and some people are grumpy that it does too much itself, rather than simply starting other programs to do those things.

But unless you’re involved in starting and stopping background processes, you can’t really tell which one you’ve got. Users aren’t “meant” to care which process was the one that started the power management daemon, or whatever.

It wasn’t my first campaign, but it was a game I ran for a group that hasn’t played before, and it was funny how unintuitive a lot of “player actions” can be if you’re not used to it. Like, they didn’t know what they could do?

I had an NPC slip something under the door, and when the players opened the door they could just barely see the NPC nip around a corner at the end of the hall. This was “meant” to be a chase. Instead they were basically like “huh… I wonder who that was. Guess we’ll never know” 😛

Or when one of them talked to a witness of a crime and I described the witness as “eyeing you suspiciously and only barely nodding in response to your greeting” they were like “I don’t think he likes me, I don’t want to disturb him, I’ll leave him alone” 😅

It was all fully my fault, of course, but I was used to playing with much more active and plugged-in players, and fully dropped the ball with players that were a lot more passive, either from lack of experience or just mismatch between players and game genre.

So for them, I think a few railroads would have actually helped them quite a bit. Or if not railroads, at least maybe some bumpers or training wheels until they start to figure out what it means to have agency in a genre story.

Doesn’t really look like an attack to me. He’s just chillin!

Yeah, I 100% guarantee they aren’t thinking of that at all. It’s really clear both from the culture at large, and the contents of the message by “porn addict” they mean “horny often and into sex”, and by “they don’t want you” they mean you aren’t up to the standards of enjoyment they get from the porn they like.