Self-promoting pawn
A neat bit of engineering in this video as the maker designed a 3d-printedd pawn which, upon reaching the final row of the board, transforms into a silhouette that is similar to the queen.
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Play Day of the Tentacle in your browser
They released this game originally in 1993, and back in 2016 they released a remastered version of it on Steam. But it randomly popped into my mind this morning and I found the original online as something for me to play later.
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When I die I want them to clap
@melrobbins Death doula and best-selling author, Alua Arthur says she wants people to clap for her after she takes her final breath 👏 This thought brought me to tears… By the time you’re done listening to this transformative episode of The Mel Robbins Podcast with Alua (@going_with_grace), your mindset on life and death will forever be changed. Listen now! 🎧 “Don’t Learn This Too Late: Make An Authentic Life Now, By Getting Real About The End.” #melrobbins #melrobbinspodcast #lifeanddeath #authenticlife #deathanddying
♬ original sound - Mel Robbins
Beautiful. I want all of this too.
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Welcoming Duke
Earlier this year we said goodbye to Elwood. We knew we would want another big dog in our life, but the wound was fresh.
Well, time has healed our pain, and a friend of ours spotted this handsome boy in need of a forever home. And today, he found it. Ours.
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Comparing today to 1850s
Heather Cox Richardson is a historian. She writes an entry (almost) everyday, recounting the day's big news from her perspective. Today's entry is less about today's happenings, and instead takes the readers back to the 1850s.
I know people are on edge, and there is maybe one last thing I can offer before this election. Every place I stopped, worried people asked me how I have maintained a sense of hope through the past fraught years. The answer—inevitably for me, I suppose—is in our history.
If you had been alive in 1853, you would have thought the elite enslavers had become America's rulers. They were only a small minority of the U.S. population, but by controlling the Democratic Party, they had managed to take control of the Senate, the White House, and the Supreme Court. They used that power to stop the northerners who wanted the government to clear the rivers and harbors of snags, for example, or to fund public colleges for ordinary people, from getting any such legislation through Congress. But at least they could not use the government to spread their system of human enslavement across the country, because the much larger population in the North held control of the House of Representatives.
Then in 1854, with the help of Democratic president Franklin Pierce, elite enslavers pushed the Kansas-Nebraska Act through the House. That law overturned the Missouri Compromise that had kept Black enslavement out of the American West since 1820. Because the Constitution guarantees the protection of property—and enslaved Americans were considered property—the expansion of slavery into those territories would mean the new states there would become slave states. Their representatives would work together with those of the southern slave states to outvote the northern free labor advocates in Congress. Together, they would make enslavement national.
But this is not how the story turned out, she explores what happened as a reminder for his week and what it might portend.
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Reasonable Person Principle
From the Carnegie-Mellon CS department website. It feels older than 2014, but that is the earliest date which Internet Archive Wayback has for this url.
- Everyone will be reasonable.
- Everyone expects everyone else to be reasonable.
- No one is special.
- Do not be offended if someone suggests you are not being reasonable.
Reasonable people think about their needs, and the needs of others, and adjust their behavior to meet the goals of a common good for the community, i.e., expressing what you want to say, but accepting and accommodating the needs of others. Mary Shaw's explanation:
The Reasonable Person Principle is part of the unwritten culture of CMU computer science. It holds that reasonable people strike a suitable balance between their own immediate desires and the good of the community at large.
As applied to bulletin boards, this would include things like observing the explicit or implicit ground rules about subject matter or tone. These vary from one bulletin board to another but usually include sticking to the expected subject matter and refraining from personal attacks. There are exceptions, though. For example, cs.opinion is no-holds barred and often both agressive [sic] and personal.
Not all people share the same model of reasonableness, so disagreements inevitably occur. Under the reasonable person principle, the first thing to do is work it out privately (perhaps in person, since e-mail is known to amplify feelings). Indeed, many people would find it unreasonable to bring in third parties before trying personal discussion.
More generally, the reasonable person principle favors local, unofficial actions over formal administrative ones. It assumes that people will be responsive when reminded of a conflict or asked to re-examine their behavior. It encourages requesting rather than demanding. And it leaves some room for difference of opinion.
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Automated Archives for November, 3rd 2024
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Articles To Read
The following are articles that I saved today. Substance and quality will vary drastically.
Chess For the Day
Record: 3-0-0
Net Elo Change: +13
Games Played
Blog Posts On This Day
- 1 year ago (4 posts)
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