Hume had something like the wise apportion their confidence to the evidence, and Carl Sagan’s extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence can apply. So if those are true the quality and type of data is going to depend on the claim of fact (friend says they bought a dog vs a dragon), and the amount of evidence depends on the claim and your general standard of evidence. If you’re lowering or raising your standards for a specific claim that’s usually going to mean there’s a bias for or against it.

tl;dr 42 pieces of data

Tricorders, cellphones are already partway there they just need more durable, small sensors like a handheld light spectrometer to tell what things are made of and a handheld interferometer to detect gravity

A couple trip highlights I have are drinking with friends watching the sun set on the Arabian Sea in Goa, and hiking around the Grand Canyon with my grandparents after driving across the US with a sibling to get there

sl is a classic command line program for something harmlessly pointless

calibre for digital library software (cataloging books/docs/articles)

Comic book reader, it’s a cbz/CBR comic book archive reader that tries to do the panel/smart auto zoom that used to be a part of comixology until Amazon bought it to kill it as competition to their shitty books app

I suspect this is going to be true of pretty much any publicly accessible social media in general, parental controls built into the app or browser user access controls for censoring, time limits, or keeping them on a family friendly instance seems to be the right move

It would have been around the time of the EverQuest release I got cable Internet, before that it was dial up shared with a frequently used house phone (11 people in the house). Mostly used dial up for web sites like geocities and forums and instant messenger chats (Yahoo, MSN, icq, etc).

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Connecting ads masquerading as posts to bot posts shilling the same crap, got it

It’s a sub problem within the field to try to predict good enough values to default to, search terms like optimizing hyperparameter values minimizing a loss function

Redshift, it changes the brightness/color on the display bluer closer to midday and redder at night. Twilight is a similar app on android.

I’m a lumberjack in Antarctica, the pay is mostly commission based

j’accuse and pamplemousse are pretty good and fun to say

It’s just a tool, like a search engine or a guillotine

The first level of MegaMan x and good springs in fallout: New Vegas are really good examples of how to convey info to the player about how the game works and what you can do without pulling you out of the game itself into a separate tutorial

Yeah having the emotional content from the dream can change short term emotional and intuition reactions even if you recognize there’s no logical, rational reason for it. Best you can do is just be aware of the unfair biases our brains sometimes construct and try not to let it change your behavior.

Why use age instead of a knowledge check instead?

A bunch of scenes in Kentucky route zero, the secret of monkey Island you could do this in game by just wandering around the lava area endlessly, or maniac Mansion: day of the tentacle starting screen is a TV in the distance playing fake late night commercials

And for fake commercials the radio in vampire: the masquerade - bloodlines between the late night DJ Deb of night and the mud slinging political ads.

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Who doesn’t enjoy some good theremin

https://youtu.be/9qYndeST4aw

Less often with movies/TV/books than music for me, but I’ll still tear up to a movie or show sometimes if I don’t feel like I’m being beat over the head by the music pushing a feeling than engaged with the story and characters.